Pavilion

Pavilion Our projects engage broadly with culture and society. Pavilion collaborates with artists, curators and thinkers to research, realise and programme.

Pavilion (est. 1983) is a visual arts organisation that produces and presents new work by contemporary artists and supports the development of regional artists. The commissioning process is a unique, distinctive and dialogical one. It operates as a rolling series of multi-textured explorations. Each new commission is dealt with on its own terms as are a set of contiguous exhibitions, events, acts

of publishing and interaction. We aim to identify, open up, nurture and illuminate resonant critical practices in meaningful and stimulating ways, places and times. The work that we produce feeds back into our process and the evolution of the programme and organisation. Audience engagement is integral to the process and is folded into it. We draw on the particular local context as well as working with external and international influences and discourses.

I LOVE LIFEI AM ILLI LOVE LIFE SPELLS ILLI LOVE LIFEThank you to Clare Charnley and Geoff Clout for sharing the latest e...
04/02/2025

I LOVE LIFE
I AM ILL
I LOVE LIFE SPELLS ILL
I LOVE LIFE

Thank you to Clare Charnley and Geoff Clout for sharing the latest edit of their new sort-of documentary at last week’s AMIN meeting, The Great Escape via Wilko or Pete Parr’s last artwork.

Our next meeting is Wed 19 Feb, 6-8PM. You can join in-person in Leeds city centre, or online via Zoom. DM for more info 💭

Image: Still from The Great Escape via Wilko or Pete Parr’s last artwork, Clare Charnley & Geoff Clout, 2025

Last week, we visited our friends as we prepare to provide technical and installation support for their 2025 exhibition...
12/12/2024

Last week, we visited our friends as we prepare to provide technical and installation support for their 2025 exhibition programme. This builds on our existing work with the festival, managing their film transport, DCP production, and projection. We also worked with this year to deliver the London festival’s film transport, as well as their ambitious national tour.

These technical services expand the ways we support artists and organisations presenting film and video, whilst helping us sustain our own programme of activities in a pressured cultural economy.

From an exhibition perspective these include DCP production & print transport, media encoding, projection and installation support in theatrical and non-standard screening contexts.

If you have a project that could benefit from our support and expertise, get in touch via [email protected]

↑ Here are some pics from our time in Berwick during the 2024 festival.

On Wednesday evening, Marta Dyczkowska and James Thompson joined our AMIN meeting and shared their work currently on dis...
29/11/2024

On Wednesday evening, Marta Dyczkowska and James Thompson joined our AMIN meeting and shared their work currently on display at ‘Is This What We Have Left?’ at Hyde Park Art Club. The exhibition explores the physical and social transformations experienced by cities following the closure of cultural and artist-led spaces. Thank you to everyone who attended.

Pavilion’s Artists’ Moving Image Network (AMIN) is a critical forum for artists, programmers, and anyone interested in artists’ moving image to share or test work, support others in developing their ideas, and stay connected to moving image practices. We meet every three weeks in our Mabgate studio to watch and discuss work by group members in relation to contemporary and historical practices internationally. You can also join meetings online via Zoom.

For our last session of the year (Wed 18 Dec) we will be joined by artists and . If you’re interested in attending or would like to learn more, send us a DM.

Image: A Tale of Two Houses, Marta Dyczkowska, 2024

Earlier this year we acquired a high-fidelity Meyer speaker system, recovered from a decommissioned public sound and lig...
26/11/2024

Earlier this year we acquired a high-fidelity Meyer speaker system, recovered from a decommissioned public sound and light installation by artist Hans Peter Kuhn that occupied Neville Street, Leeds, from 2009 to 2022.

The powerful and high quality equipment is available for cultural and community use in West Yorkshire at a very low cost through Pavilion, alongside cables, stands and accessories. Get in touch if you would like to make use of it for your project: [email protected]

Here are some examples of the Community Speaker System in use across the the year:

(1) Listening to D’Angelo. Hearing Voodoo – Part 1: “Africa Is My Descent” with Edward George & Dhanveer Singh Brar at the | Feb 2024
= Performance-lecture, using 4 x UPJ-1P’s and 2 x M1D-Sub (4.2)

(2) A Light & Sound Transit (restaged) by Hans Peter Kuhn, organised by MAAP at Sable Studios | May 2024
= Multi-channel sound installation, using a row of 8 x UPJ-1P’s and 2 x M1D-Sub (8.2).

(4) Wharf Chambers Pride Party | August 2023 & 2024
= Outdoor sound system, using 4 x UPJ-1P’s and 2 x M1D-Sub (4.2)

(3) A Chapeltown Sharing with Lens Lab at Leeds Caribbean and African Centre | November 2024
= Artist talk, using 2 x UPJ-1P’s

This initiative is made possible by Sue Ball’s (MAAP) determination. A new website, with more information on the system is imminent.

This evening! A second screening of Kasper Feyrer’s new film, Memory Picture Palace House, presented alongside a selecti...
04/11/2024

This evening! A second screening of Kasper Feyrer’s new film, Memory Picture Palace House, presented alongside a selection of the artist’s previous works, including the first UK screening of O’on (2023).

The accompanying programme explores Feyrer use of 16mm camera as an “extension of the human sensorium,” creating films that serve as “devices through which one can feel time and mirror perception, expanding one’s embodied experience of the world.”

Films will be projected both digitally and on 16mm, with readings interspersed between selected works.

Pay What You Can tickers via the link in our bio.

6-8PM at the 📽️

Images:
1. Escape Scenes, Kasper Feyrer, 2014
2. Irregular Time Signatures, Kasper Feyrer, 2011
3. Consider the Belvedere, Kasper Feyrer & Tamara Henderson, 2015,
4. Memory Picture Palace House, Kasper Feyrer, 2024

This Sunday evening, we present the first in a series of screening events in collaboration with Out Else; an irregular p...
30/09/2024

This Sunday evening, we present the first in a series of screening events in collaboration with Out Else; an irregular poetry and performance night set up by Alex Marsh and Tom Crompton. There will be voice and moving image. There will be a book table and all sorts. Pay What You Can tickets via the link in our bio!

💬 SUN 6 OCT, 6PM
Pavilion & Out Else present:
Portraits

A showcase of poets, writers and artists from across the Pennines as they present their responses to a series of short, silent moving image works curated by Pavilion. The theme of the night is portraits, an enduring mode of experimental film.

Films
– Polterabend (Hen Night), Friedl vom Gröller (2009, digital video)
– Silent Conversations, Eva Giolo (2023, digital video)
– Heads, Peter Gidal (1969, 16mm)
+ more

Poets
– Mau Baiocco
– Bonnie Hancell
– Dale Holmes
– Roy Claire Potter

More info & access details on our website.

Images
Left, Polterabend (Hen Night), Friedl vom Gröller, 2009
Right, Silent Conversations, Eva Giolo, 2023

In June we moved to our new studio in Hope House, a beautiful building owned and run by MAP Charity. We are one of sever...
17/09/2024

In June we moved to our new studio in Hope House, a beautiful building owned and run by MAP Charity.

We are one of several artists and small business’ that operate out of the building, which importantly is also home to MAP’s creative education work with young people who are at risk of permanent exclusion from mainstream education, and to , their regular night whose proceeds go straight back into the charity.

Plans have been submitted to build a a 5-storey block of 310 flats right alongside Hope House. The very real risk of noise complaints puts Cosmic Slop in jeopardy – which in turn means MAP would lose a crucial source of funding for its education work.

Leeds’ rampant redevelopment is ridding the city of cultural space at an alarming rate, and those in control are not acting with care.

The fact that MAP were able to buy Hope House is nothing short of a miracle, and it is vital that their work, and this building, is protected.

Please follow the link in our bio to sign MAP’s petition and write a letter of support.

In June we moved to our new studio in Hope House, a beautiful building owned and run by MAP Charity. We are one of sever...
17/09/2024

In June we moved to our new studio in Hope House, a beautiful building owned and run by MAP Charity.

We are one of several artists and small business’ that operate out of the building, which importantly is also home to MAP’s creative education work with young people who are at risk of permanent exclusion from mainstream education, and to , their regular night whose proceeds go straight back into the charity.

Plans have been submitted to build a a 5-storey block of 310 flats right alongside Hope House. The very real risk of noise complaints puts Cosmic Slop in jeopardy – which in turn means MAP would lose a crucial source of funding for its education work.

Leeds’ rampant redevelopment is ridding the city of cultural space at an alarming rate, and those in control are not acting with care.

The fact that MAP were able to buy Hope House is nothing short of a miracle, and it is vital that their work, and this building, is protected.

Please follow the link in our bio to sign MAP’s petition and write a letter of support.

Join us for a very special Pavilion Presents screening at the , featuring work from two of our Artists’ Moving Image Net...
23/08/2024

Join us for a very special Pavilion Presents screening at the , featuring work from two of our Artists’ Moving Image Network (AMIN) associates …

🔍 MON 2 SEP, 6.30-7.30PM
I could hear her voice in the distance, but I had no idea what she was saying.

A short programme of artists’ films featuring a new performance by Amelia Crouch in dialogue with video works by Clare Charnley and James Richards, and 16mm films by Emily Wardill.

Made across two decades, the works share an interest in voice and the limitations of language. They explore ideas such as re-voicing words and memories that are not our own, the subjectivity inherent in various forms of observation – psychological, social, medical, and performative – and the distortion of human experience through technology and words.

- Pay What You Can tickets via the link in our bio!
- More info & access details on our website.

Images:
1 & 4 Basking in what feels like “An Ocean of Grace” ..., Emily Wardill, 2006
2 & 6 I Asked If I Could Blink, Amelia Crouch, 2024
3 Radio at Night, James Richards, 2015
5 Speech Work (China), Clare Charnley, 2010/2024

A still from L-RC5-TS, a 45-minute edit of a new diary film shared at our last AMIN meeting by , applying the principles...
29/07/2024

A still from L-RC5-TS, a 45-minute edit of a new diary film shared at our last AMIN meeting by , applying the principles of in-camera editing to digital video.

At our next scheduled meeting on Wednesday 14 August, we will be programming work for an outdoor screening event: two works by Warren Sonbert presented on 16mm on ’s Night Vision screen—a temporary outdoor cinema in the beer garden. More details will follow shortly.

Our regular AMIN sessions will recommence on Wednesday 4 September, from 6-8 PM. DM for info on how to join.

Images:
1. Still from L-RC5-TS, Douglas Dixon-Barker, 2024
2. Still from Whiplash, Warren Sonbert, 1995

This afternoon (29 May) – from 4pm – at Sable Studio, Leeds …… Pavilion are assisting with an 8-channel restaging of ‘A ...
29/05/2024

This afternoon (29 May) – from 4pm – at Sable Studio, Leeds …

… Pavilion are assisting with an 8-channel restaging of ‘A Light and Sound Transit’ – a major public sound installation by artist Hans Peter Kuhn that occupied Neville Street, Leeds, from 2009 to 2022.

The temporary setup uses the high-fidelity Meyer Sound loudspeakers that were recovered from the original work when it was decommissioned last year.

Pushing against a prevailing economy of waste and obsolescence, this equipment is now available for cultural and community use in West Yorkshire at very low cost through Pavilion.

The afternoon unfolds as follows:

16:00–18:00: Come and listen to the work and chat with Hans Peter Kuhn

18:00–19:30: Informal panel discussion with Hans Peter Kuhn (Artist), Irena Bauman (Lead Architect), Sue Ball (MAAP, Artist Liaison & Interpretation) – led by Chaired by Kersten Glandien (Director, Sound Art Brighton).

19:30–20:00: Drinks with pay bar

Free
Link to full details and booking info in biog

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Community Speaker System
Full details on accessing the equipment for cultural and community use will be available next month. In the meantime, direct any enquiries to: [email protected]

Over the last few weeks we’ve continued our work with Canadian artist Kasper Feyrer on a new 16mm film commission that w...
07/05/2024

Over the last few weeks we’ve continued our work with Canadian artist Kasper Feyrer on a new 16mm film commission that will premiere this Autumn.

A collectively composed poem, built from the thoughtful words of , .culver, and form part of the film’s soundtrack.

These are fragments from our last meeting, where individual contributions started to come together into an expanding collective whole.

Kasper’s film orbits the recently refurbished Hyde Park Picture House, connecting it to apparitions of the city’s filmic past.

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