The 4 x m2 gallery opened on the Rootstien Hopkins Parade Ground this week with ‘Double Negative’ an installation by artist Ken Wilder; connecting all four windows, he utilises the unique architecture of the pavilion to create a complex structure with glimpses into the pavilion interior.

The 4 x m2 gallery is an extentions of the m2 gallery in Peckham. The Peckham gallery is a 24 hour window gallery at the front of Quay 2c Architects’ studio in Peckham which has been running since 2003.

The pavilion, designed by Quay2c Architects, is made of as much recycled material as possible and was constructed in conjunction with Chelsea’s MA Interior & Spatial Design students.

4 x m2 gallery pavilion facts:
Gallery; m2 Gallery, Peckham ; www.m2gallery.com
Design: Quay2c Architects ; www.quay2c.com
Structural Engineer: Martin Cooper Associates ; www.engcooper.com
Construction: Quay2c with MA Interior & Spatial Design students at CCAD under the direction of Course
Director Ken Wilder

Location: Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Atterbury Street, (Opposite the Entry to Tate Britain) London SW1P 4JU ; www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk

Art group Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann are looking for collaborators to assist with the planning, production and build of a large-scale public artwork.

As part of the Chelsea Programme project ‘If Not, Then What?’ (curated by Cecilia Wee), CL&M will be producing a temporary pavilion come battlement which will occupy the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art and Design from 1-13 March 2011.

The structure will be the headquarters and centrepiece for a range of workshops, discussions, direct actions and other forms of resistance against the political and social upheaval that exists in Britain today.

This would be an excellent opportunity to experience a live build from early planning stages to its final execution along with opportunities for creative input into the process.

As well as enthusiasm and an interest in inputting into a live creative project, applicants should have a good working knowledge or willingness to learn basic structural woodwork and other construction techniques as well as a host of other manual and creative activities. The project will involve designing and fabricating structure for the RHPG and will involve working independently and in groups. The construction will be taking place over a 3 day period (1-3 March 2011).

We would ideally like each helper to participate for 3 half days or more during the construction period, as well as attending a brief introduction session on Monday 21 February from 17.00 – 19.00.

If you are interested in being involved, send a short statement of interest including information about your skills and experience to clandmeu@gmail.com by Friday 4 February.

For more information about If Not, Then What? visit – http://cltad.arts.ac.uk/users/chelseaprogblog/

For more information about Charlesworth, Lewandowski & Mann visit – www.clandm.eu

photo by Richard Eason

photo by Richard Eason

photo by Richard Eason

photo by Richard Eason

photo by Richard Eason

During the first week of October, Chelsea played host to an extraordinary interactive live art event in connection with Late at Tate, which saw the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground turn into a digital playground.

Congregation, developed by media artists KMA, Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler, was a large-scale outdoor installation which invited visitors to respond to the choreography of light and sound, taking part in the world’s first ever ballet designed, choreographed and composed entirely of passers-by.

photo by Richard Eason

KMA’s work creates large, immersive, sometimes networked ‘digital playgrounds’, in which distinctions between audiences and performers disappear. The resulting social engagements reaffirm the urban community through embodied, rather than verbal discourse.

Despite the rain, staff, students, local residents and passers by all turned up to take part in the interactive display which was projected via a live stream to the walls of Tate Britain.

photo by Richard Eason

photo by Richard Eason

photo by Richard Eason

photo by Richard Eason

photo by Richard Eason

photo by Richard Eason

 You can read more about the artists here: www.kma.co.uk
KMA are represented by Vivienne Gaskin Cultural Management Ltd.

The pavilion is located at the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground which is opposite to the Tate Britain on Atterbury Street, SW1. It was part of this year’s Chelsea College Undergraduate summer show and will feature in the London Festival of Architecture 2010.

Chelsea Xpo Pavilion Project is directed by Cyril Shing, Senior Lecturer of BA Interior Spatial Design (ISD) in collaboration with Yiching Liu (Platform 2 Tutor), Daniel Piker (Visiting Tutor) and Platform 2 final year students. The pavilion marks the achievements of Platform 2’s idea of digital creativity and addresses issues of sustainability through consideration of the use of materials and the development fabrication processes.

Story about the Pavilion – A talk about the making of the pavilion.
Time: 12:30pm everyday until 25 June, 14:30 on 26 June
Location: In front of the pavilion

Critical Practice would like to invite you to Parade. This landmark event will explore the diverse, contested and vital conceptions of being in public and will take place in the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art and Design as part of the CCW Graduate School programme of events. Set in a bespoke structure designed by Ola Wasilkowska and Michal Piasecki, with a host of international contributors including staff and students from across the Graduate School. Parade will challenge the lazy, institutionalised model of knowledge transfer. Our modes of assembly, our forms of address and the knowledge we share will be intimately bound.

Friday 21 May – Launch event 5pm —7pm
Bring things to share in our Pot-Luck of snacks, while Eileen Simpson & Ben White of the Open Music Archive play music from the commons.

Saturday 22 May – A day of consecutive Barcamps 10am — 6pm
These open, participatory workshop-events will explore publicness,
past, present and future. Come and contribute.

Sunday 23 May – Market of Ideas 2pm — 6pm
These open, participatory workshop-events will explore publicness,
past, present and future. Come and contribute.

Stall holders include: Abundant Amelia (designers: Dallas Pierce Quintero), Larisa Blazic and startx, Malgorzata Bochenska / Salon 101, Chelsea MA Interior Spatial Design students, Musashino Art University (Tokyo), Geoff Cox and Rui Guerra, Ian Drysdale and ThinkPublic, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Joanna Erbel, FLAG, Angela Hodgson Teall, The KNOT Team, Owen Hatherley, Brandon Labelle, Wojtek Kosma and Dwayne Browne, Michal Kozlowski, Ewa Majewska, Lidka Makowska, microsillons, Krzysztof Nawratek, The People Speak, Satelite Project of Politicised Practice Research Group, Dr Malcolm Quinn, Mike Ricketts, Anatomy of the Street (Levente Polyak and Eszter Steierhoffer), Eileen Simpson & Ben White of the Open Music Archive, George Shire, Dr Dan Smith, Bogna Swiatkowska / Bec Zmiana, TangentProjects, Textile Environment Design (TED), Wojtek Kosma and Dwayne Browne, Chris Wainwright and Cape Farwell, Joanna Warsza and Nuno Sacramento and many more besides.

Parade is at:The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU.

Critical Practice is a cluster of artists, researchers and academics and students and is hosted by the CCW Graduate School.

Read more about this event on the Critical Practice website.

Watch the development on the Parade Flickr page.

Visit the updated Borderline website for videos from the recent symposium, The 28th State: European Borders in an Age of Anxiety at Tate Britain.

On the website you can also see video footage of the Black Pig City Masonic Circus project – including video from the ‘secret workshop’ run with Chelsea students and the performance / private view on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground.

You will also find information about the forthcoming Solidarity Camp! in April 2010.

Borderline aims to engage with ideas around the social and political realities (and possibilities) of Europe, borders and nationhood through art, dialogue and text.

As ever, we welcome comments, provocations and information sharing! Log in to have your say.

www.borderlineproject.org.uk

Chelsea’s Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground has won an award in the Best Design Under One Hectare category at this year’s Landscape Institute Awards. The Parade Ground was designed by Planet Earth.

The Landscape Institute Awards are presented to encourage and recognise outstanding examples of work by landscape architects. The Awards aim to bring greater awareness of the best contributions from Landscape Institute members in creating an improved environment.
 
The Landscape Institute is the professional body and regulator for landscape architecture. Under its Royal Charter the Landscape Institute is charged with protecting, conserving and enhancing the natural and built environment for the benefit of the public.

Find out more about the awards here.

Photo – Light Lab.

Black Pig City Masonic Circus
Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art & Design

Exhibition runs from 17th – 25th October: 10am – 5pm (weekdays), 10am – 4pm (weekends)

For the first Borderline commission, Italian collective Black Pig City have been running a workshop with a group of UAL students. The result of this process – ‘The Phenomenal Manifestation of the Black Pig’ – a performative event / Private View is on Friday 16th October. All welcome!

www.borderlineproject.org.uk

The 28th State: European Borders in an Age of Anxiety
Tate Britain
Saturday 24th October 2009
‘The 28th State,’ seeks to explore how cultural practitioners in Europe are engaging with the idea of borders – both literally and metaphorically. What is the role of art in framing visions of contemporary / future Europe? How are practitioners engaging with the idea of borders when much of contemporary practice is peripatetic? What do terms like ‘cross-cultural’ or ‘trans-national’ mean now? How do Diasporic experiences affect the Europe we are creating?

‘The 28th State ‘ is a practice –based symposium, placing artistic practice at the heart of the discussion, featuring speakers from across the EU.

Tickets £25/£15

To book, please visit http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/19662.htm

Forthcoming projects include a commission form Paula Rouch and Ines Amado and much more…

Borderline is funded by Chelsea Programme and Arts Council England. ‘The 28th State’ is also kindly supported by City Inn Westminster.

Didn’t get a ticket to last night’s Burberry show that took place on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art and Design? Maybe next year! In the meantime take a look at this video, which captures the event perfectly.

Watch the Burberry Prorsum SS10 Womenswear show live online TONIGHT!

From 6.30 pm – Burberry Live