Performance

Elefest is special because it celebrates one of the most maligned and misunderstood areas of London, we created Elefest to celebrate the cultural and creative diversity of the area and the people who live in it. – Rob Wray, director Elefest A free festival which has been held annually since 2003, based in multiple [...]

From estate agents to squatters, from support workers to oligarchs, we are all united in a race to get a place. But who can afford to go the distance? Luckily Sam’s got a chance to make a change, to make things better somehow. Sam’s going to tell us the answer. He just doesn’t know [...]

Elephant and Castle, Snape Maltings 21 June 2007. A project commissioned by Aldeburgh Music which took place during Aldeburgh Festival in June 2007 was directed by Tim Hopkins and devised for the stage by Pippa Nissen. An opera set in Elephant and Castle, a series of seven sets and backdrops was devised as a roaming performance across the Suffolk [...]

Memory and Place at Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre, 19th March 2016. Image credit: The People's Bureau. Siobhan Davies Dance, Entelechy Arts and The People’s Bureau together with local day centres and community groups in Southwark collaborated to create a durational dance piece performed at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre on [...]

Networked Migrations, CRiSPA. Creative Research into Sound Practice is a research laboratory based at London College of Communication led by co-directors Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle. The lab produces symposia, publications, exhibitions and events focused within sound art practice and discourse. Thematic avenues include Voice and Language, Sound and Environment, Listening Practices and Sonic [...]

Frontiers. Rights: Off/Modern. FRONTIERS will represent a culture-clash, the gallery being as it is sandwiched between the wealth and prosperity of the city centre and monolithic council estates of the area. – Off/Modern Corsica Studios invited South East London arts collective Off/Modern to curate a group show at the roaming arts space [...]

Off/Modern at Corsica Studios. Image rights: Off/Modern. Our first monthly event was at Corsica Studios and it’s been there ever since. It acts as a platform for artists to showcase their work outside of college crits or the hyper-competitive gallery system and provides an unpretentious and fun environment for people to interact [...]

Photo credit: Toby Keane. The Paperworks was a meanwhile space for arts and music, in operation for the summer of 2014 and July 2015, an open-air yard off of Newington Causeway. Primarily used as a daytime venue hosting house, techno and disco DJs, it was run and managed by nearby Corsica Studios.

Performance, Designed Elements. Photo by Gorm Ashurst. Designed Elements was a durational dance piece performed at the temporary arts and music venue, The Paperworks, located off of Newington Causeway. The performance was the result of dance workshops and iterative choreography led by dancer and choreographer Charlotte Spencer and landscape designer Anoushka Feiler with participants aged 14-21. [...]

Cover, A Feminist Space Is... A Feminist Space Is... exhibition was held at the The Feminist Library in 2014. A zine produced by Feminist Graphic Arts documents the show and artwork, bringing together work by international artists and collectives including Allison Kotsig, Emma Shula, Jessica Scott, Kamila Wasilkowska, Louise Evans, Luana Venuti, Melita Matovic Fligler, Otilia Martin, Patricia Prieto Blanco, Sara Kelly, SQUID, Susana Mata, Ursula Hart. [...]