Project Boondock is a new platform for collaboration, which aims to help develop new work in live art and performance through a series of practical workshops. Workshops are directed towards devising and experimentation, to facilitate collaboration and generate new material.

The term ‘Boondock’ has its roots in the Tagalog word ‘Bundok’ meaning ‘Mountain.’ Boondocks are also defined as areas of dense wilderness. The project works on this principle of exploring new environments and creative territory.

Project Boondock is inviting artists from a range of disciplines to join:
writers, performers, musicians, designers, puppeteers, theatre-makers, visual artists, film-makers…all are welcome!

The First workshops will be held on Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th September at The Pigeon Wing in South Bermondsey.

More info can be found on our blog:
http://projectboondock.wordpress.com/

If you have a passion for collaboration or an idea that needs developing we would love to hear from you. To get involved please email: projectboondock@gmail.com

This is new, it’s a growing collection of texts and PDF publications by artists. Some are related to projects with The Pigeon Wing, some are especially for the occasion. You can download them for free HERE.

SATURDAY 19 November 2011 | 2pm – 5pm | Free
Strange Attractor (featuring Anthony Kelly, Danny McCarthy, Irene Murphy, Mick O’Shea and David Stalling), will perform a three-hour improvisational sound performance; an experiment with technology and combined media to explore creative possibilities resulting in an experience that offers multiple points of entry for the audience.

More info:
http://www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/soundfjord-strange-attractor

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=320595781289829

The Pigeon Wing will be at the South London Gallery featured in October’s Conch, a critical discussion on Wednesday 19th of October at 7PM. The Pigeon Wing will be presenting Ruth Beale, with a written contribution by Rebecca Bligh (an extended version of which is available HERE). All are welcome, please RSVP  naomi@southlondongallery.co.uk

Join us this Saturday 15th of October for  the closing of Matt Lewis’ current Racing Pigeon project. At 7.30pm there will be a performance by Tom Slater and Tom Parkinson of the score that Matt Lewis has developed from the GPS data collected from his racing pigeon voyages.

Closing event 7-9pm October 15th. Free event.

More info here–>
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=300522299962484
Or here –>
http://www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/tumble-by-matt-lewis

The publication from Five Storey Projects’ recent exhibition at The Pigeon Wing is now available to download. This publication includes contributions by Una Hamilton-Helle, Rory Rowan, Patrick Coyle and Ann Hare, Mikko Kuorinki, Matthew MacKisack, Martijn in’t Veld, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Sarah Jury, Ellie Grieg, Angus Cameron, Ana Balona de Oliveira and Am Nuden Da. Designed by Thomas Bush.

Follow this link to download

To celebrate the closing of Five Storey Projects ‘For Inclusion in the Syllabi’ and the launch of the downloadable pfd of the exhibited publication we’ll be having some drinks in the space this Friday the 30th 6-9pm. All Welcome.

We Can Elude Control is a free event at Peckham’s Bold Tenancies Carpark roof sculpture park& bar. This event on 21/08/11 invoves 3 artist from The Pigeon Wing as well as  Mark Fell (SND, Mego Editions), Mick Harris (Scorn/Napalm Death), Shelley Parker,  Alex Thomas,  Vasco Alves & Louie Rice and Emily Whitebread.

Through both a local and international focus it celebrates new strategies within sonic performance, reflecting on noise, texture and tonality, the legacy of minimalism and the evolving relationship between old and new media. Curated by Paul Purgas

Info Here> http://boldtendencies.com/events

Available to download online here http://cs.anendlesssupply.co.uk and to pick up in London at Galerie 8.

‘Countersituation’ is the title of an ongoing series of weekly published pages, initiated by An Endless Supply with Adam Smythe. Each issue is a double-sided sheet of new writing, simultaneously printed and distributed in short-runs and available online as a PDF.

Designed by a small collective of MFA students (Mali Abbiss Phillips, Hans Diernberger, JL Murtagh and Rehana Zaman) this is the most successful new take on a grad show catalog that I have seen. It’s really just a journal printed on the occasion of the 2011 grad show. Made by Ditto and with contributions including Vito Acconci, Dara Birnbaum, Gilbert and George, Dr Raimi Gbadamosi and Cory Arcangel among many more the publication out does its classic utility excellently. Amazing double back to back folding design too! Email rehenazaman@yahoo.com or mali.purkayastha@gmail.com to buy now or for nor info.

Macaca mulattaPR

Check it out here:

http://vimeo.com/23855367

Justin Berry is releasing 20 limited edition stickers into the 2o special editions of Aspidistra Issue 2, which will be for sale at the launch at NewGallery London, Pelican House, 92 Peckham Road on Wednesday the 8th of June 6-9pm. Come along and pick one up!

http://cargocollective.com/aspidistra

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=211784272176509

Black Hole Sun by Justin Berry 2011

Opening this Saturday as Part of the Beck’s Fusion Summer Guestlist.

For full details of the exhibition click here

To find out more about the Beck’s Fusion Summer Guestlist, including competitions and exclusive content, visit their Facebook page.

Anyone who enjoyed Bennett Williamson at Catch bar last week can enjoy tracks from his weekly radio spot live from NYC’s  HERE Thursdays 8am – 11am on WFMU. You’ll also find an archive of tracks from all has passed shows.

http://wfmu.org/playlists/bf

This summer we’ve teamed up with Beck’s to be part of their Summer Guestlist which will be showcasing art and music events all across London and Manchester.  You can find out more on their Facebook page or Website.

Max Swinton films were included in our  MINIPLEX cinema in Deptford X last year. Now Max is working on a new film, here is a link if you want a sneak preview:

http://vimeo.com/21595736

The Deptford Art Map is now the South London Art Map and it covers all of south london. Every last Friday of the month is a SLAM Friday when you can be sure to find lots going on in the South London Area. See more here: http://www.southlondonartmap.com/.

Here is just a hint of what Joseph Popper and Gareth Lloyd are working on for their installment of no i in art.

AR Tests

http://jpglprojects.com/2011/02/10/ar-tests/

Come to Tate Britain this Friday between 6.30- 9:30 pm to see two of our artists from 2010 performing at Late at Tate.  Look out for Tom Richards: Disturbance in the Ether at 7pm and 8:30pm in gallery T7 and Tamarin Norwood: Musica Practica, which will be performed in several galleries over the evening.

Full info at the Tate website

See you there!

Happy new year! The Pigeon Wing will begin its 2011 program in February.

Soon to hit The Pigeon Wing in Sept/Oct 2011, Art-Bus is currently cruising Miami, www.art-bus.com/Miami2010.html thanks to Raul Martinez. Check it out.

If you would like to get involved and join our team, now is the chance, we are looking for an intern. If it’s you, please apply by THIS WEDNESDAY.

Exhibition and Projects Intern

The Pigeon Wing is looking to hire one or two interns to be involved with the general administration of the project space, as well as helping  with installing projects. We ask for 2 + days per week, flexible days between Wed – Sunday.

The team is very small, you will be working closely with the three founders of the project space on a range of tasks.

General administration tasks will include press archiving, documentation of events, research on possible funders and also research on future projects, proof reading and upkeep of our artists info and mailing list data bases. You will also update our online presence and reply to general inquiries, keep up with exhibitions listing deadlines and look for new opportunities to promote the space.
Installation will involve helping with the prep and hanging and construction of exhibitions, de – installing exhibitions and supporting artists to install their work.

If you have interest in only installing and exhibitions prep or only administration, please state that in your application.

This is a South London based position and a voluntary one, we are looking for a close London based candidate as we can not support your travel at this time.

Please email your CV and covering letter to sarah@thepigeonwing.co.uk
Please outline in your cover letter why you are interested in this internship and what experience you have, with examples of when you have used relevant skills

DEAD LINE MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY 17TH. Interviews will be the weekend 19- 22nd.

Wednesday 6th of October 2010
1 – 3 pm & 4 – 6pm

Charlie Wooley’s neu! Radio at [space]
129—131 MARE STREET
LONDON E8 3RH

WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION/PRESENTATION/DISCUSSION/PERFORMANCE/READING/LISTENING/SINGING/PLAYING
Ruth Beale and Sarah Jury offer artists from The Pigeon Wing plus more, the microphone.

Matt Lewis, Emma Leach, Tamarin Norwood, Bella Szyszkowska, Julia Calver, Nicole Bachmann, Jill Magi, Helen Kaplinsky, David Berridge, Hyun Jin Cho, Rachel Lois Clapham + more to be confirmed

Full program available here
www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/charlie-wooleys-neu-radio

LISTEN HERE!
http://radio.spacestudios.org.uk/

Sunday saw the end of WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION, which was a day ceremoniously adorned with performances and Readings: Karen Di Franco’s CONCRETE RADIO, Rachel Lois Clapham a NEARLY INVISIBLE EDIBLE INTERVENTION, prepared by Magda Fabianczyk, Julia Calver, Helen Kaplinsky/ Hammam Aldouri, Tamarin Norwood, Press Free Press, Matt Dalby and James Davies.

All the above is available to enjoy forever on out ustream channel here> http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9981226

Sarah Jury is working with Ruth Beale to produce a radio show for Charlie Woolleys radio at [space] this Wednesday (6th). More info coming soon but we can say the following:

Matt Lewis, Emma Leach, Spartacus Chetwynd, Tamarin Norwood, Bella Szyszkowska, Julia Calver, Nicole Bachmann, Jill Magi, Helen Kaplinsky, David Berridge…..

http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/events/charlie-woolleys-radio-show

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BTW: You can catch our events on our ustream channel: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-pigeon-wing

Timings of the MINIPLEX cinema film screening are now available here: www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/miniplex.

While the arts can possibly sustain a ten percent funding cut, the 25-30% cuts that the government is currently considering would result in the closure of many smaller arts organizations and would also have a crippling effect on the functioning of the country’s leading arts venues.

Signing this petition takes seconds, do it here > www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-the-arts.html

The Fictional Pixel – Steve Claydon
A Necessary Music – Beartice Gibson
Traveling Fields – Inger Lise Hansen
Point, Line, Plane – Simon Payne
A Week in the News: 7 Places We Think We Know, 7 News Stories We Think We Understand - Grace Nidiritu
Heliocentric - Semiconductor
Without you – Tai Rosener
The Curious – Sally O’really
An Island – Luca Bolognesi
The Turning – Matthew Macisick
Voyage of Nonsuch – Ruth Beale & Karen Mirza
Men With No Names – Justin Berry
Ballet De Suez – Ian Parkin
Pay Attention – Giles Ripley

Go to www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/miniplex for more info.

Artists to be included in The Pigeon Wing Miniplex Cinema, Deptford X 2010:

Sally O’Reilly/ Ruth Beale/ Karen Mirza/ Justin Berry/ Matthew MacKisack/ Luca Bolognesi/ Ian Parkin/ Steve Clayton/ Beartrice Gibson/ Inger Lise Hansen/ Simon Payne/ Max Swinton/ Giles Ripley/+more to be announced

See HERE (http://www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/miniplex) for an up to date list of artists and films as it is collated, as well as the time table of screenings.

This weekend, from Fri 13th – Sun 15th of Aug, The Pigeon Wing Library will be available at our neighboring Auto Italia’s Yes Way festival. A music festival featuring young, alternative and emerging music selected by Upset the Rhythm, as well as a merch shop and a publications area, which is where you will find us!

In ceremony of the closing of our current exhibition, The Pigeon Wing is pleased to present Alex Thomas and Tom Richards in Conversations with Machines: An Intervention with Ode to the Appliance at 7pm on the 5th of August.

In Ode to the Appliance, the viewers are reduced to spectators watching machine on machine conversations. Embodied through sonification, the sculptures’ interactions speak to a phenomenological agency existing outside of the human. Conversations with Machines brings the dialogue back to man/machine paradigm by focusing on the musicality of the pieces. As such, Richards and Thomas will take control and offer a different dimension to the works’ sonification.

PSFK’s interview Tom Richards.  His current show at The Pigeon Wing is open till 6th of Aug.
“Two principles rule digital culture: speed and convergence (ease of utility). Simultaneously, we often find ourselves frustrated by the most mundane errors in technology because they thwart efficiency — the very reason we use them. Tom Richards is a sculptor working with sound and technology. His latest show Ode to the Appliance, opening at The Pigeon Wing in London this Friday, focuses on the errors that are inherent in technology to expose the inadequacy of our reliance on machines”.

www.psfk.com/2010/07/ode-to-the-appliance-against-convergence-culture-and-the-speed-of-technology.html

Read Bill Abdale’s interview with PSFK here, where he talks about his practice with appropriation and his recent work in FLIP IT & REVERSE IT at The Pigeon Wing last month.

www.psfk.com/2010/07/memory-loss-in-a-copy-and-paste-zeitgeist.html

TPW has been invited to set up a mini cinema at Deptford X 2010. For the 25-26th of Sept and the 1-3rd of Oct we will be putting together a full programme of emerging artists film, in collaboration with LUX who we are collaborating with to select films in rely to Mark Titchners statement for Deptford X this year. The programme will be announced here.

Images from Isobel’s performance on Saturday night ( 2am uk time) via Ustream.

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Thanks to everyone who came to see us at Camberwell Green this weekend and FoodFace for orchestrating such a entertaining day.

Our latest show FLIP IT & REVERSE IT is now open to the public 12 – 5

Wednesday – Saturday.

Coming soon…

The physical (im)possibility of jumping over The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.

Isobel’s show is opening this weekend at the Happy Collaborationists in Chicago.

Opening Saturday, 26 June 2010
6 – 10pm
Performance 8pm

Please visit Happy Collaborationists for more details

Following the ethos of the ‘penny university’ coffee houses of the 18thC and their non precious and generous dissemination of knowledge via mutual reading and conversation, The Pigeon Wing will be holding a reading table this Saturday the 26^th at Camberwell Arts Festival. With aims to provoke open critical discussion between visitors, the table is to be laden with pamphlets and limited run publications by a range of theoretical and visual artists listed here:

Open between 11 am – 4 pm all are welcome to join us. Also at the green on Saturday are Foodface’s Travel Solutions, which are tours around Camberwell Green in the medium of sound-scapes, maps, one on one artist led tours, performances and poetry.

http://www.camberwellarts.org.uk/2010/foodface-travel-solutions
http://www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/camberwell-arts-fest

This launches the new library, which will reside at The Pigeon Wing as an open resoure and for distribution of a selection of the most interesting artists made publications. Contact Sarah@thepigeonwing.co.uk for further details.

The Pigeon Wing will be selling limited edition artist made publications by Stuart Morrison, Ralph Dorey, Ruth Beale, An Endless Supply, 20 x 20, Fanzine and Aspidistra at Cor Blimey’s art jumble sale this Saturday the 19th. We will be there from 12 – 6pm. Also available will be some artist-made-consumables.

‘JumbleJumble’ & ‘Open Studio’s
18th – 20th June
Cor Blimey Arts
C101 Faircharm Trading Estate, 8-12
Creekside, Deptford, London SE8 3DX

The East London line is now running week days 7am – 8pm, get off at Surrey Quays, 8 mins walk from us. From the 23 of may there will be a full service on this line.

www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/East-London-Web.pdf

This week Holly from the web site Art Licks came to interview Alastair and me for the space of the month section for May. You can read the interview here:

http://www.artlicks.com/featured-space

Late opening at The Pigeon Wing

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MicroPerformance evening at agency at the Agency, where The Pigeon Wing present Ashley Whitfield

MicroPerformance presents the agency exhibition events programme in a single evening:
a drawing workshop with Bram Thomas Arnold , a new performance; Tongue Tied with Lee Campbell, a recital, by Adam de la Cour with Neil Luck, a publication; Enchantee Monsieur Umbrella….; with The Ladies of The Press *, a film screening; After Party Party by Sophie Michael and Revati Mann, in conversation with Laura Mugridge and Katy Schutte, a gallery talk with norn, a seminar with Ashley Whitfield, presented by The Pigeon Wing, a reading from the archives by Laura Wilson in conversation with a bricklayer and a special appearance from Adrian Lee who will deflect illicit intent through the production of an aura of angst.

After party at The Old Police Station

More info available here

We’re brewing up a show for July that addresses the use of samples in video and the parallel use of identity usurpation in performance and sculpture; working with artists who build their own aesthetic and identity from or heavily referencing someone else’s.

Fabian G. Tabiban is getting involved with selecting some films for this show. He has recently been working on things such as THIS.

< Stuart Morrison, from the series Love Royal. See more of Stuarts work HERE. Justin Berry is also great and will be involved, see more on him HERE

Visit The Pigeon Wing at: agency@the Agency, 10th April-15th May 2010, Preview Friday 9th April, 6-9pm, Special Event with microPerformance April 30th, 6-9pm coinciding with Deptford last Fridays.

www.theagency.co.uk

More info here

In November The Pigeon Wing has invited in Noëmi Lakmaier, who will be producing exhibition We’ve Never Had It So Good. This exhibition will feature over 100 international artists, some invited and some from an open call. Email us or Noemi if you are interested in being involved.

www.noemilakmair.co.uk

In September The Pigeon Wing will be presenting: VerySmallKitchen which is David Berridge’s project. For this The Pigeon Wing will become an ART WRITING FIELD STATION. Take a look at www.verysmallkitchen.com.

Read the interview HERE at www.wooloo.org/blog

You can now find The Pigeon Wing on the Deptford Art Map, where there is soon to be a special little map just for us. No more getting lost for our visitors. We’ll let you know when its fully up and running.

Visit www.deptfordartmap.com to find us and lots of other worth while spaces to see while you’re in the area.

An exhibition of collaborative curatorial and critical practice as collective, as gallery, as event, as writing, performed.

Presenting Norn, The Pigeon Wing, Ledge projects and more

The gallery space will be given over as a pop-up space to artist/curators and collective art initiatives, which have established identities in their own right. Rather than to fix a definition of what these cross-over practitioners are or are not, the exhibition seeks to unravel the boundaries and meanings of artist- curator- collective, artist-run space, performer and to open up the possibilities of an event or events leading to an unspecified outcome which is only determined by the start and end date of the exhibition.

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Interview with Val Magarian.

Painter – Animator – Teacher – Multi-time Utah State Fair ‘Non Look Alike Twin’ Champion.

Click here to view the interview.

Some time on April 2010 The Pigeon Wing will be please to be full of An Endless Supply. More details will follow soon.

An Endless Supply was formed in Birmingham in 2009 by Robin Kirkham and Harry Blackett. It is a monthly open submissions zine for the production of new art and writing. It is currently printed in two colours with a Riso GR2710 purchased on eBay, and distributed for free nationwide.

www.anendlesssupply.co.uk

www.harryblackett.co.uk

Interview with Justin Berry

“Justin Berry is a New York based artist who I first met whilst exhibiting at NEXT Art Fair in May 2009. As well as being a practising artist, he also runs The Waymaker Gallery , a fictional gallery located in the fictional town of Yorkton, New Caladon. He is also a master at ordering dim sum.”

Click here to view the interview.

2010 Brings an updated website.

We will be adding our upcoming Exhibitons and Projects over the next few months as things are confirmed.