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Reprise

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REPRISE

A project by Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska
on the occasion of Independence an exhibition at the South London Gallery
1st June â€“ 3rd August 2003

Souvenir Pamphlet

Price 20p
A SUMMARY OF THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH LONDON ART GALLERY, LIBRARY AND LECTURE HALL
-From its Foundation in 1868-

Addressed to the council of the South London Fine Art Gallery January 4th 1893

The Institution now being a quarter of a century old, and Mr Westlake and myself being the only members familiar with this history as a whole, it seemed worthwhile to recount a summary of its history, especially as many people still think it is supported by ratepayers through the County Council.

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One Guinea

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Chalmers Bequest a project by Elizabeth Price

End Date

7 Jan 2003

Start Date

5 Dec 2002

Location

Hackney Museum: London

Body

One Guinea for the Collection Attendant

We were invited by artist Elizabeth Price to enact Clause Six of the Chalmers Bequest, contained within the Will of Alexander Chalmers.

Elizabeth Price has been working since December 2000 to re-enact each of the clauses contained within the Bequest.

At 5.30 pm on Thursday 12th December 2002 the collection attendant in exchange for the guinea, took the opportunity to share his knowledge of the collection with visitors.

And in keeping with the spirit of the collection –it consists of paintings, sculptures, objects of virtue, souvenirs, mantle-piece decoration and jumble sale trophies - mixed the anecdotal with the factual, the intimate with the official and the contemporary with the historical.

Alexander Henry Chalmers, died in April 1927 aged 78. Buried next to his wife in Abney Park Cemetery, he worked for forty years as a ledger clerk in the Provident Clerks Company in the City of London. On his death his will left money for his family, but not his brother, various hospitals, the bellringer at the Old Church in Stoke Newington, for a church organ, the Lifeboat fund and other charitable trusts, but most importantly of all to care for and continue his collection.

Chalmers wanted to found the nucleus of a public museum in Stoke Newington, as other great men –like Hans Sloane at the British Museum- had done before him; to turn his personal taste into public culture. He bequeathed his life-long collection and money for its continuance to the local authority.

Chalmers collected ‘to mimic the joy afforded him by our great National Treasury of Art’ but his collection was humble, feeble even; limited by lack of funds and even more so by lack of education.

What remains is the ghost of ambition, and evidence of a terrible longing. A longing shared with other collections and collectors, to be remembered after death and live on as a public good.

At the end of the project, the remnants of the Chalmers Bequest returned to the sleep of permanent storage.

Reprise

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part of Independence, commissioned by curator Chris Hammonds

End Date

3 Aug 2003

Start Date

3 Jun 2003

Location

South London Gallery: London

Body

Reprise was part of Independence, a celebratory exhibition at the South London Gallery, marking the devolution of the Gallery from Local Authority management.

Reprise was presented by the director Margot Heller at the opening party on the 1st June 2003.

On our behalf, Margot read a speech that we found through our research in the Gallery archives. The speech was first delivered in 1893 by the founder [the Gallery began in 1868] and director William Rossiter to the Gallery Council. Rossiter was fighting to retain the independence of the Gallery by keeping it out of Local Authority control, he was fearful of swapping one form of indebtedness, inherent in financial support - from private donation to public subsidy- for another .

Rossiter lost the battle to keep the Gallery independent.

108 years later, and although the direction of the Gallery's movement is reversed - from public subsidy to a 'mixed' economy - the forms of indebtedness remain the same; the struggle for independence is being uncannily replayed, in reverse.

Reprise
A souvenir pamphlet, with annotated text of the speech delivered by both directors
ISBN 1 898 461 244
Price 20p

Published by the South London Gallery and millimeter.org

Available from the gallery

Welcome

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Commissioned by Adam Budak and Marta Tarabula to coincide with the international conference on contemporary curatorial practice, Polyphony of Voices in Krakow.

End Date

23 Oct 2002

Start Date

21 Oct 2002

Location

Galeria Zderzak, Krakow Poland

Body

Galeria Zderzak is one of the first ‘commercial’ galleries to grow outside of the state funded system of patronage in Poland. While researching the gallery through its archives, we found video evidence that the director Marta Tarabula had been welcoming visitors and introducing artists at every exhibition opening since 1985.

We edited every welcome together, and this video loop played for the duration of the project; endlessly introducing artists, and welcoming each visitor.

At the projects inauguration, we in turn were introduced and thanked, and the audience welcomed by Marta.

Welcome makes explicit the exchange of obligations between a gallerist, the artist invited to exhibit, and an audience. Although in this instance, we declined the invitation of being promoted by the gallery, and instead Welcome uses the opportunity to assist gallery Zderzak through representing the gallerist Marta Tarabula.

The Polyphony of Voices international conference organized by the Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery in Kraków focused on the problematics of contemporary curatorial practices. One of the conceits of the conference was that each panel made from international curators, would be curated by artists. With contributions from Elmgreen & Dragset, Marysia Lewandowska/Neil Cummings, Andrea Fraser, Azorro Group, Christian Jankowski and Mariola Brillowska.

Andre Fraser's remarks on the conference

Andre Breton

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Andre Breton
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The Ice Trade

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This text appeared in the exhibition catalogue and is released under a Creative Commons: Attribution ShareAlike v2.5 License

The Ice Trade exhibitionâ€™s title references a nineteenth century trade of ice that occurred between Northern Europe, Northern America and the sub-continent, prior to the development of refrigeration.

Curated by Kim Dhillon and Matt Packer for Chelsea Space

The ice trade, that is the trade in huge cubes of ice hewn from the frozen lakes of North America or Scandinavia and shipped to warmer climes, exists somewhere between brute fact and fairytale.

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