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BOOKS x OUTHOUSE
to celebrate BOOKS pop-up at the outhouse shop, we would like to invite you to a series of events organise by BOOKS at outhouse:
Friday 14th August: 6.30
BOOKS Presents: READINGS Actually feat. Ron Seal, Dorothy Spencer & Matthias Connor
Tuesday 25th August 7.00
BOOKS Presents: BOOK LAUNCH
Project sitnaltA: Afterlives
Tuesday 8th September 6.30
BOOKS Presents: BOOK LAUNCH
FONT PRO: THE IRREDUCIBLE PRACTICE OF ROBERT SCHENK
all the rage
by sukhy hullait18 - 31.08
All The Rage is an ongoing photographic project by Sukhy Hullait, made over more than 20 years in Peckham and East Dulwich, South London. Across two decades, Sukhy has returned to the streets, paying attention to the people and places that might otherwise disappear from view. It is a love letter to a community and to an area shaped by continual change.
drowned annihilation
by jamie lee and emily stapleton-jefferis4-20.09
opening night: 3.09 / 6-9pm
outhouse gallery is pleased to present a new interactive art installation by Jamie Lee and Emily Stapleton-Jefferis. This exhibition marks their second together as collaborators following We are All Lichens Now and expands their research into interactivity, sound design and ceramics to form new works that treat London’s deep ecological past as signal of what is to come. In addition to site-specific experimentation this exhibition draws on science fiction tropes from, notably The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
Drowned Annihilation like Lichen is the combination of two things in reciprocity, sharing resources and site. Lichens embody a queer ecology, being part algae and part fungi they defy traditional scientific categorisation; having shifted from individual, to dyad, to ecosystem. This new exhibition attempts to move the collaboration on, propelled into the frantic future, combining the spheres of technology and ecology to create a more entangled and nuanced relationship between their work and practices in an intimate setting.
Emily’s artworks sculpted from clay, itself the softened residue of weathered rock, show different forms of Lichen on a macro scale. For Drowned Annihilation however, they take on a more primordial shapelessness, appearing as an unintelligible tangle of worms or panel of listening ears. Jamie’s sound piece fills the small, narrow space and seems to bring the writhing mass of worms to life, featuring field recordings taken from the earth of the surrounding park, bringing into the gallery the sounds of organisms that lurk beneath our feet. Also within the show London clay covers the floor, forcing the audience to tread carefully around the central open plinth that bubbles and spills intermittently a viscous, murky liquid.
Following the hottest summer in living memory, where London’s real climate creeps ever closer to that of Ballard’s fictional London, Drowned Annihilation represents a turning backwards of ecological clocks, where time beats like a drum.
a longing swell(s)
by ted tinkler25.09 - 11.10
opening night: 24.09 / 6-9pm
A longing swell(s) uses tangible objects to reimagine the (hi)story of the Shetlandic wadmaal* taxcloth. After hours of touch and labour, the taxcloth was suspended in rocky clefts in the sea - in the intertidal zone. Drawing from fragmented archival references, A longing swell(s) questions: how can we imagine our liberated futures into being?
This exhibition presents a new body of work by Ted Tinkler at outhouse gallery. The tactile knitted-lace is a physical process of research, whilst the found ceramic fragments are objects offered as an archive in themselves. They are an expansive embodiment of land justice and trans liberation.
A longing swell(s) is an intimate telling of stories …historic, ephemeral, and imagined. Stories that reside amongst the swell of the tide: the in-between, the permeable and plural, the fluid boundaries.
*a wool cloth used as a form of payment until the mid 1700s. The precise making methods are unrecorded.
The exhibition also includes collaborations with Jeong Lee, Kitt Glover, and Arts for Dementia participants. Invitations to create new works that delve into queer ecology, tactile processes, and lace shadows.
Poster design by Esther McManus.
knitting circle
Join Ranti and Ted for a knitting circle on Saturday 26th September at 2pm. It will be an informal gathering - sharing our love of knitting amongst great company - all are welcome.
Please bring your own knitting, whatever project you have on the go!
Reserve you free place here
lace printing
Lace printing workshop on Sunday 4th October from 2pm-3:30pm. Using handmade linocut blocks of knitted-lace patterns, you will piece together your own lace artwork and represent it, on paper, through this tactile form of printmaking.
Book your free place here