South Kiosk

07/07/2023

After eleven years South Kiosk is closing its gallery space.

As a space and not an institution, we never expected to exist across a duration, but by placing emphasis on friendship and trust (both with each other and with the community) we have survived for over ten years. As the team continue with their individual artistic and curatorial practices, we hope the possibilities that emerge from these simple conditions continue to flourish.

South Kiosk was founded in 2012 as an artist run space. Over the past eleven years, the space has adopted an approach that has foregrounded the provision of production support for artists to facilitate the development of work. Many of these projects have gone on to manifest through diverse exhibition, performance, event, and workshop formats at South Kiosk and beyond. In the tradition of an artist run space, South Kiosk has always been defined not by any one curatorial position but through a tone of voice that is an assemblage of those artist projects. As we today announce the closure of our London space, this archive of projects will be revisited across our socials and in a forthcoming publication.

Existing outside the logics of the institution to support emerging artists, spaces such as South Kiosk are fast disappearing. We are grateful to have been located in Copeland Park and Peckham since 2016, amongst a community of people who have to the end been supportive and collaborative.

Our deepest gratitude and thanks to all of you for your support over these years.

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Images 1 - a group of people gather outside a red brick warehouse building with a blue shutter for the opening of Sam Williams and Hollie Miller’s - And In The Soil, There Be Mirrors

Image 2 - an installation view of Indications of Guilt, pt.1. Maud Craigie.

Image 3 - installation view of At Once It Dreams In Multiple Tenses: Sun Park and Peter Glasgow

Image 4 - Exhibition detail of Shaun C Badham’s work Haven as part of A Street Loud With Echoes.

Image 5 - Dave Charlesworth performing as part of A Hand Is Dealt.

Image 6 - Exhibition detail of Rhea Storr’s solo show Through a Shimmering Prism, We Made a Way.

07/07/2023

07/07/2023

21/03/2023

Throw back to the opening event of Other Rooms, Other Voices by James Bulley and which was hosted by South Kiosk back in January.

Thank you everyone for coming and showing your support - we look forward to more off-site projects and events in the coming year!

Other Rooms, Other Voices was an immersive film-sound artwork exploring an expanded form of portraiture. It featured ten residents of Sanford Housing Co-operative in Lewisham, the oldest purpose built housing co-operative in the United Kingdom.

Created in 2022, the work employed point-cloud scanning and ambisonic sound recording to investigate the relationship between the human, the more-than-human, and the built environment.

Other Rooms, Other Voices was a co-commission by the , , and . We Are Lewisham was presented by Lewisham Council and the Albany as part of the Mayor’s London Borough of Culture 2022.

Photography:

Producer: Matthew Cook
On-site assistant:
Graphic Design:
Systems Designer:
SIML Engineer: Nicky Donald
Studio assistant: Josef Kašpar

29/01/2023

Last chance to see!
INSOMNIA by is closing today…

Curated by
Public Programme online by .international
Graphics by
Supported by
Production by

‘Don’t Breathe’

Dibond print, vinyl
100 x 65.5 cm

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ID: A figure in the distance, piercing through the darkness that surrounds us.

The figure is far away - through two open sets of doors in the centre of our line of sight, at the end of a series of empty rooms.

The room we're in is domestic but dark. Plants, a computer, and a table are just visible in the gloomy night; concrete pillars in the greenish gloam outside the window on the right. The black static inside this room is subtly charged.

And all that way away, through the empty rooms and their long shiny wooden floor, a spangling gold light from a source unknown shines on the figure. They’re dressed in black, standing tall with their body facing the left, where the golden light is radiating from, where we can’t see, but turning their hooded head slightly towards us. Their arms hang, not without tension, at their sides, and one of their hands is glowing with such a bright light, it glows in a stream across the floor towards us.

We can't distinguish their face, but we know they're about to look at us. A promise or a threat, something is about to happen. We will be seen. Our presence is known.

27/01/2023

LAST FEW DAYS to see INSOMNIA by

‘A Minute, Or Millenia’, currently installed at South Kiosk

Acrylic lightbox, metal frame
62 x 86.5 cm

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Exhibition dates: 02.12.22 – 29.01.23, Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm

Curated by
Public Programme online by .international
Graphics by
Supported by
Production by

ID: A lightbox on a white wall in a darkish space, a white curtain next to it on the left. A grainy, analogue, landscape image is on the lightbox. Glowing, lit from inside. A cascade of ghostly white fabric folds appear from surrounding darkness. They gently flow underneath gentle turquoise water. Is this anti-gravity? Slow-flowing water facing us upright? Are we looking from above? Or are we inside it?

Ripples shine in soft lines, like rays lazily stroking sand at the bottom of the ocean.

Outside our immediate view, darkness encroaches at the edges. Who knows how far that darkness stretches.

And then, at first not noticed, a blurry dark thing that is much closer to us, just shows a bump of itself at the right. It is an unknown presence.

25/01/2023

THIS SATURDAY - closing event of INSOMNIA by Leah Clements!

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28.1.23 Saturday, 5pm
CLOSING EVENT WITH LEAH CLEMENTS & MARIANA LEMOS
Exhibition tour at South Kiosk. Join artist Leah Clements and curator Mariana Lemos for a celebration of INSOMNIA and all our collaborators and partners.





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Curated by Mariana Marinho de Lemos]
Public Programme online by .international
Graphics by
Supported by
Production by

This is also last week to see INSOMNIA - open to public Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm, till Sunday 29th of January.

ID: A dark grey image with a blurry orangish thing at the centre and lime green text, reads 'Insomnia' at the top, 'Leah Clements' at the bottom and in the middle it gives the details for the event. It reads: '28.1.23 Saturday, 5pm, Closing event with Leah Clements and Mariana Lemos, Exhibition tour at South Kiosk.'

19/01/2023

INSOMNIA by closes on the 29th of January.

‘I Stayed Away So Long’ by Leah Clements

Dibond print, vinyl

65.5 x 100 cm

From INSOMNIA
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Exhibition open until 29.01.23, Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm

Link in bio for full details on the programme and access

Curated by
Public Programme online by .international
Graphics by
Supported by
Production by

ID: A slightly open door directly in our path - but we’d have to walk across a room to get to it.

The dark room we’re in is almost empty. On the left the closest wall to us, facing us, also has a door - but it’s closed and doesn’t hold the same allure as the one straight in front of us. The close wall ends abruptly, giving way to the rest of the room beyond it. The far corner, just in from the right, is slightly lit with yellowish greenish blocks which pool together at the corner’s crease to form a straight line. A simple steel sink here catches some of its highlights.

In between these parts of the room, in the middle of the far wall, in the middle of our view, that alluring door is only just ajar, emitting a violet glowing jet of light from the innards of the room it guards. We don’t know what’s in there, but there is a slither of a shape at the edge of the door, an elbow shape at an elbow height.

17/01/2023

THIS SATURDAY! 3-5pm
TOUCHING INSOMNIA: A SENSORIAL EXPLORATION WITH ANDY SHIPLEY -
a workshop exploring the exhibition at South Kiosk, part of Public Programme of current show, curated by .

Booking link in our Bio.

Creatures that have evolved in liminal spaces; plants that are most visible and scented at twilight; beings that live by the moon cycle are evoked in this session. Visually impaired facilitator, Andy Shipley will guide us through different sensorial zones to explore the smells, tastes, sights and sounds of nature that exist at the borders between realms.

Andy Shipley has been visually impaired for much of his life. He has channelled this experience into his work seeking to change popular attitudes and perceptions about disability, specifically visual impairment. Andy works with individuals and groups to enable them to re-establish relationships with their non-visual senses, which are often suppressed and neglected by the ocular-centric nature of our modern society.

Andy’s workshop will take participants into a multi-sensory exploration of liminal existence: Life spent at the edge of a sensory threshold, between different realms.

Public Programme is presented together with .international

ACCESS:
The workshop will use all senses: touch, taste, smell, and sound being the main focuses. Wheelchair access to the space is available via a ramp, there is a wheelchair accessible toilet in the building a few doors down from the gallery. Seating will be available throughout. Full access info for the gallery and exhibition on the South Kiosk website. Any further questions please contact [email protected]

ID: A dark grey image with a blurry orangish thing at the centre and pink text, reads 'Insomnia' at the top, 'Leah Clements' at the bottom and in the middle it gives the details for the event. It reads: 21.1.23, Saturday, 3-5pm, Touching Insomnia: a sensorial exploration with Andy Shipley, A workshop exploring the exhibition through various senses at South Kiosk.

16/01/2023

Re-post from
INSOMNIA is reviewed as a Critic’s Pick in 🤩

Thank you !

INSOMNIA is open this Thursday-Sunday 12-6pm
Exhibition dates: 02.12.22 – 29.01.23
Link in bio for full details on the programme and access

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ID: A screenshot of artforum’s website on the review page. The image is a photo of a section of the exhibition where a long white transparent curtain on the left lets through a little blue daylight, with a shady space on the right and a lightbox on the wall in front of us, far away enough to be out of reach. On it is a glowing, fuzzy, abstract rippling surface.

16/01/2023

Tune in this Wednesday to watch and  talk about INSOMNIA, Jamila’s work and a recent trip to Cape Town, and all things art and disability.

OUTSIDE TIME, ANOTHER PLACE: LEAH CLEMENTS & JAMILA PROWSE MUTUAL INTERVIEW
Streaming on Wednesday (18th) from 7pm
Event online hosted by .international (link in bio)

In this recorded video conversation between artist, writer, and researcher Jamila Prowse and artist Leah Clements, the pair draw out themes in each others’ work, and find overlaps in their practices: both forged in the ‘other place’ of crip time.

Jamila Prowse is an artist, writer and researcher who works across moving image and textiles to consider methodologies for visualising mixed-race identity and the lived experience of disability. She is drawn to stitch-making and patchwork as a tactile form of processing complex family histories and mapping disability journeys and moving image as a site of self-archiving and autoethnography. Presently, Jamila is an artist on UAL Decolonising Institute's 20/20 programme, where she will be in residence in the National Disability Art Collection and Archive from 2022-23, making a responsive work to their collection exploring the lived experience of disabled artists. This marks her ongoing exploration into ways of processing and expressing disability through art making.

ACCESS:
This video will be BSL interpreted and have captions. The speakers will self-describe and describe any visual information throughout. After streaming, the video will be available to be watched at home in your own time.

 

ID: A dark grey image with a blurry orangish thing at the centre and orange text, reads 'Insomnia' at the top, 'Leah Clements' at the bottom and in the middle it gives the details for the event. It reads: 18.1.23, Wednesday, 7pm, Outside of Time, Another Place: Leah Clements & Jamila Prowse mutual interview.

11/01/2023

THIS SATURDAY!
TALK: Sleep & Psychology with Prof Alice Gregory at
14 January at 5pm

This event is part of the Public Programme for the exhibition INSOMNIA – an exhibition of photographs by artist , currently at South Kiosk.
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We sleep nightly and spend about a third of our lives dedicated to this state. However, defining it is tricky and explaining why we do it is even more so. In this presentation, Alice Gregory will provide a sleep 101 – answering some of the most fundamental questions related to sleep including ‘what is sleep?’; ‘why do we sleep?’ and ‘what happens when it goes wrong?’

Please follow the link in bio to submit questions about sleep to Alice!

There is a visit the exhibition scheduled for before the talk, the meeting point is at 3.30 at Copleston Centre to walk to the exhibition together and back.

The Copleston Centre has been working with the diverse communities of Peckham and beyond for more than 40 years delivering a range of community services, activities and events.

Alice Gregory is a Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has contributed to several diverse research areas, including the longitudinal associations between sleep and psychopathology, behavioural genetics, sleep paralysis and exploding head syndrome. She has provided information about sleep to both the Department for Education and the Department of Health and regularly contributes articles to the media (having had work published/ mentioned in the Guardian, BBC Focus, GQ UK, Sud Ouest, Slate Fr, Independent).

ACCESS
The Copleston Centre is fully accessible to wheelchair users. The talk will have BSL interpretation. Please DM for more access information.

The talk is open to all.

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