Origination
An ongoing investigation into genealogy, migration and environment, in collaboration with Rebecca Beinart.
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This summer, Origination comes to Brixton, with a residency at Brixton Market, and an exhibition at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning.
Residency in Brixton Market:
Throughout May we had have a stall on Popes Road, Brixton Market, offering memory collection and archiving services. This was an opportunity to exchange stories about ancestors, journeys and the places that shape us with people who live in the area and use the market. All contributors received a jar of Darling Salt Pans Memory Preservation Salts, hand-harvested from the artists' ancestral salt pans in South Africa.
Exhibition at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning: 16 June - 5 August
The exhibition features new works made in response to the Brixton Market residency, drawing on Brixton's rich history of migration. Also on show are installation, film and photographic works made during the artists 2010 residency in Cape Town, South Africa.
198 Railton Road, SE24 OJT www.198.org.uk
Gallery opening times: Monday to Friday 11am-5pm
Also open Saturday 30th July 11am-5pm
23 June 6-8pm: Talk and discussion exploring transaction, exchange and migration.
With John Newling (Artist and Professor, Nottingham Trent University) and Paul Basu (Reader in Material Culture and Museum Studies, UCL).
at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, 198 Railton Road, SE24 OJT www.198.org.uk
FREE, booking required
29 July 6-9pm: LAST FRIDAY event at 198 - late opening at the gallery and an opportunity to meet the artists.
FREE
30 July 6-8pm: Dinner Party: A performance featuring rites and recipes from the artists' research.
Brockwell Park Community Greenhouse, Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, Brixton.
£10. Limited spaces, booking essential.
To book for all events, please contact 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning tel: +44(0)207 978 8309
e-mail: info@198.org.uk
This project is supported by funding from the Arts Council England, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning and by the UCL Public Engagement Unit under the Beacons for Public Engagement programme - funded by the UK funding councils, Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust.
Works from 2010 exhibition in Hull
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Though I Have Missed You So Very Much - A Walking Tour of Hull
Work made as part of a residency at Greatmore Studios, Cape Town, and the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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Don't Look Back
Offerre (Still)
Starter Culture
Transferre
Research work
Expandable Letter: A letter exchange between Katy and Rebecca Beinart in a hand-sewn packet which can expand and change shape as contents are added.
The letter investigates the artists responses to identity, culture and family history.
Starter Culture: An action producing a starter culture for bread from grapes harvested from
the artists parental home. Katy and Rebecca are each producing the culture, which they will feed
and take with them on their journey to South Africa. The work plays with the idea of transposing
cultures from place to place, and of taking a part of home with you as you migrate. The work also
relates to the Jewish tradition of taking bread across the threshold of a new home.
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Map, Ovada Gallery |
Installation, Botanic Gardens |
April-June 2008: exhibition at OVADA Gallery and installation located at the Botanic Gardens, Oxford as part of GIFT, a group show by members of The Ideas Exchange
Archive on OVADA website
Supported by Arts Council England, European Association for Jewish Culture and Oxford City Council