Press Release Art-itecture and the New Willesden Green. 9th June 2014
As part of this years celebrations for the 30th
Birthday of Brent Artist’s Resource (BAR) is hosting a series of events on Art
and Architecture to coincide with The London Architecture Festival. This timely Art-itecture programme celebrates
the acclaimed regeneration of Willesden Green and brings together Artists and
Architects in a combined exhibition at The BAR Gallery together with a series
of curated events, supported by
Pop Up Wonderland's live music and digital art evenings.
The programme will illustrate the Art form of
Architecture. The current re development of Willesden Green has been led by
Beth Kay on behalf of Brent’s Regeneration and investments team and The
Art-itecture programme will showcase presentations from all the main
organizations involved.
The
theme of this new project is a perfect mirror to local developments on the
community skyline. Anyone going down Willesden High road can’t fail to notice
that Brent’s brand new flag-ship building The New Willesden Green Cultural
Centre is rising over the horizon. The old Electric House building previously a
1930’s landmark on the corner of Willesden Lane and Walm Lane has been
demolished making way for a mixed housing and commercial development; a new
Electric House.
Co-organisers Architect in the making Marcella
Leone and local artist Sally Buchanan first collaborated together in the
memorable inter-active art and performance project in the space re designed and
curated by Marcella entitled “What would
you do in this________? “ at Electric House (March 2013.)
Queens Parade is part of the New Windows on
Willesden Green Project that aimed at reviving and improving Willesden High
Road, bringing positive change to the area.
This was The Mayor’s Outer London Fund project delivered by the
Architecture Foundation for Brent Council and Design for London in
collaboration with Meanwhile Space and Blue Consulting. In 2012 it won the
prestigious National Regeneration and Renewal award for boosting High Street
vitality.
Brent Artists Resource has supported local
artists since 1984. It was founded by 4 artists including Sue Whitmore and John
Blandy (the current chairman). BAR occupied
the popular gallery in the old Willesden Library site for over 12 years and was
nominated one of the top community galleries in London by the BBC in 2011. The
galley vacated this space in April last year to make way for the re-development
of the site. The BAR Gallery was able to move side ways initially into the
ground floor of the local Community Creative Hub at Electric House and then
into the current temporary gallery space at 4-5 Queen’s Parade. The Library Lab
Scheme, the brainchild of Architecture 00 was piloted by Joanna Steele at the
old Willesden Library Centre and provided the blue print for the current BAR
Lab offering workshops and lectures and a pop up co-working space aimed at
accelerating local entrepreneurship in the Brent Community. This has all been made
possible with the kind support of Brent Council.
Programme details:
The London Festival of Architecture / The ART-ITECTURE Programme
BAR (Brent Artists
Resource):
ART-ITECTURE Exhibition
Friday 20th June – Friday
4th July 2014
BAR Gallery / LAB Unit 4
– 5 Queens Parade, Walm Lane NW2 5HT
Open Wednesday – Saturday 10 am – 6 pm,
Private View Friday 20 June 7 – 10 pm
Entry: Free
Event Website: http:// www.brentartistsresource.org.uk
The ART-ITECTURE
Exhibition presents Architecture as an invisible form and showcases selected
works in a cross section of creative mediums, digital mapping to life size
installation, detailed illustrations to tableau vivants sets.
What isn't Architecture?
We walk down streets filled with
buildings, structures that reach out to skylines. We live in spaces made of
beams and jambs. We watch Architecture clones in films and Dystopian cities in
games. We photograph and illustrate across billboards. Design, build temporary
installations and sets to permanent structures and buildings. We watch and
film, photograph and sculpt, talk and design, illustrate and advertise,
Architecture.
To accompany the Private view, BAR
presents live 3D Mapping and Pop Up Wonderland's presents Soundscapes, a night
of ambient, electronic music and generative animation (Unit 8, 8 – 11 pm)
A Pop-up Wonderland
Wonderland
Showcase Presents: Soundscapes
A night of live music, Ambient, electronic beats
and generative animation.
Friday 20th June 8-11pm
A Pop-up Wonderland, Vintage Store+ Art Gallery, 8
Queens Parade, Walm Lane NW2 5HT
Pipe
Dreams (Magic+Dreams) Live
DJs Nova
(Ultimae) DJ set
Phiorio
(Metroline Limited) DJ set
Visuals
by Stefano Terranova.
Entry:
Free
BAR (Brent Artists
Resource) :
Installation
and Architecture, Art-nic Talks + Tea
Saturday 21st June 2 – 4
pm
BAR Gallery / LAB Unit 4
– 5 Queens Parade, Walm Lane NW2 5HT
Talks will be followed by a public Q +
A session and tea and cake to close.
Entry: Free
Event website: http://www.brentartistsresource.org.uk
Is Installation Art or Architecture?
In collaboration with a team of
specialists, The Art-nic Talks explore the theme of Installation Art in
relation to space : this is dependant on Architecture in structure and form and
works within space constraints, just like Architecture.
Speakers include;
Elle Reynolds, Head of Centre at
Istituto Marangoni ISC / previously Course Director at Central Saint Martin's,
presents ' Framed '.
Dr Jolanta Jagiello, Director of Art Going
Places, presents ' Public Art Exhibitions in Unusual Spaces '.
Vaclav Bayer ARBS, Interior Architect
and Sculptor, presents ' Architecture and Form '.
Zofia Trafas, Exhibitions curator at
The Architecture Foundation.
BAR (Brent Artists
Resource) :
Walk, Talk and
Draw Willesden Green (Tour)
Sunday 22nd June, 11 -
1pm
Meeting Point: BAR Gallery / LAB Unit 4 – 5 Queens
Parade, Walm Lane NW2 5HT
Entry: Free
Event website: http:// www.brentartistsresource.org.uk
A colourised tour of Willesden Green's historical
landmarks, reminiscent of the early 1900's picture postcards. Sketch on the spot sessions following the
High Road from The Spotted Dog (1893 ) to The Victorian Police Station ( 1865
), The Old Willesden Library ( 1894 ) and St Andrews the Apostles Parish
(1887), ending at The Queensbury Pub, recently saved from demolition by Brent
Council's Planning Committee. With commentary from local historians, the tour
presents a look at the past, present and future regeneration of the area.
BAR (Brent Artists
Resource):
NW London
Regeneration Talks in Association with Brent Council
Wednesday 25th July, 7 -
10pm
BAR Gallery / LAB Unit 4 – 5 Queens Parade, Walm
Lane NW2 5HT
Entry: Free
Event website: http:// www.brentartistsresource.org.uk
A discussion panel with speakers leading change in
the Brent Regeneration programme.
In particular Beth Kay, Regeneration Manager,
Investment Team from Brent Council presents Willesden Green - the current plans
in action. There will be talks with specialists / developers / contractors and
architects involved in the ongoing project New Windows on Willesden Green and
Queens Parade (Diana Grisales for Meanwhile Space / Peter Paddon for Blue
Consulting / Willesden Town Team and David Foster speaking for Network Housing
Group and the new mixed use development at
Electric House and John Murray on behalf of Galliford Try the
contractors for the new Willesden
Cultural Centre.)
The evening will culminate with the screening of a short
film about Electric House, an example of temporary arts use and followed by a public Q + A session.
BAR (Brent Artists
Resources):
ART-ITECTURE
Social evening and Film Shorts
Thursday 26th June, 7 –
10 pm
BAR Gallery / LAB Unit 4
– 5 Queens Parade, Walm Lane NW2 5HT
Entry: Free
To accompany the ART-ITECTURE
Exhibition, the screening features the digital facet of ART-ITECTURE ( n ),
cross section of : Art ( n ) The field of creative self expression +
Architecture ( n ) The design and construction of buildings. Social Shorts
explores the experiential ground of Cinema, Art and Architecture with a
selection of short films from industry professionals with the background sound
of popcorn crackle.
“Architecture exists, like cinema, in
the dimension of time and movement. One conceives and reads a building in terms
of sequences.” - Kester Tauttenbury, 'Echo and Narcissus,' Architectural
Design, Architecture & Film, London, 1994.
BAR (Brent Artists
Resource)
A Closing Party
Friday 4th July
7 – 11pm
BAR Gallery / LAB Unit 4 –
5 Queens Parade, Walm Lane NW2 5HT
A closing party will
present a line up of surprise acts from the Art-itecture participants on the
theme of Willesden’s Urban Framework Today and will celebrate the end of the
Art-itecture Programme. Critics will be invited to present their review on the
overall project.
Entry: Free
A Pop-up Wonderland
Wonderland
Showcase Presents: Re-imagining Willesden
A night of video installations and live performance
Friday 4th July 8-11pm
A Pop-up Wonderland, Vintage Store+ Art Gallery, 8
Queens Parade, Walm Lane NW2 5HT
Entry:
Free
Jockel Liess- Generative
sound and video installation
Lania Narjee – Photography
Layla Wiseman – Live
performance
Nic Wassell- Video installation
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