Deptford as a Vector

Bambopink
Throughout the festival, times TBC
Various locations
Art and design collective, Bambopink, presents a visualisation of the energy and vibrancy entering Deptford, and the transformation it undergoes as it filters through the town.  From the edges of Deptford, shards of colour will disappear into the ground, re-emerging at its centre, forming a metaphor for the growth of culture and the communities this affects

 

Deptford |Tributes

Amanda Egbe and Rastko Novakovic
24th September to 27th September and 1st October to 4th October, 12-5pm
25th September, 12-8pm
APT Yard, 6 Creekside, SE8
Navigating the rivers Ravensbourne, Quaggy, and Pool, from Deptford Creek to Caesar’s Well, Amanda Egbe and Rastko Novakovic pay tribute to the industries, peoples and ways of life on the river with an experimental moving image installation.  The audience is invited into an immersive environment where the surrounding landscape and the detritus of the riverbed envelop the film.

www.deptfordtributes.co.uk
www.bashta.co.uk 

 

House of Cards

Karin Ludmann
Friday 25 to Sunday 27 September, Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 October, to

 

Journey of Colours

Bridget Lycett-Smith with children from St James Hatcham Primary School
Throughout the festival
Deptford train station, Deptford High Street, SE8
Inspired by their own impressions of Deptford, 30 Year 5 students have created a site-specific stained glass effect installation for the platform windows at Deptford train station, using sign-writers self-adhesive vinyl.  When back-lit (natural or artificial light) this material produces vibrant colours seen from the platforms, trains and the high street below.  The ideas and imagery in the installation have been created by the young participants both individually and in groups, working on each stage of the project as artists undertaking a public art commission.  Participants have been responding to different parts of Deptford that they visited on a sensory walk of the area, including a park, the High Street market and The Albany.

Knit or Die

Sally Spinks
Throughout the festival
Deptford Train Station / Johnny's DIY / Birds Nest Pub
Urban graffiti is often attributed to a linguistic form created to develop a sense of community in a chaotic post-modern world.  Sally Spinks’ knitted graffiti art represents a bringing together of Deptford’s trading past and its modern urban vibrancy.

  

The Lost Property Office

Bernadette Russell
Friday 25 to Sunday 27 September, Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 October, to , plus an evening presentation at (except Thursday 1 October)
Unit A101, Faircharm Trading Estate, 8 Creekside, London SE8 4
Do we lose things because we didn’t want them?  Do we forget things because we desire to revisit the place we left them?  What happens if we lose our inhibitions?  Our hopes?  Our hearts?  Visit Gretel’s collection of ordinary and magical lost things, and hear her story.
There is limited space available for the evening presentation - PLEASE BOOK IN ADVANCE BY CALLING: 07815 719 997 or emailing: lostproperty2009@live.co.uk

  

P3PY'S Motor

Artmongers
Throughout the festival
Pepy's Estate (next to Deptford Primary School), SE8
New puzzling collaboration work by Artmongers with young people from the Estate.
A trompe l'oeil digital mural well worth the treck. 

Good Life, 2009

Phil Ashcroft
Throughout the festival
billboard site, Goldsmiths College, SE14 (Opposite the Venue)
With his interest in our rapidly changing 21st century landscape, how new urban planning developments and their architectural promise of a new utopia sits starkly in contrast to the present sites, Phil Ashcroft has created a new site-specific work that relates to the changing local architectural landscape of Deptford and New Cross. 

 

Re-silicone Deptford X 2009

Lucy Fergus
 Deptford Project Space
Re-silicone will enhance, embellish and celebrate the street marketl, completely transforming and wrapping a market stall with bright orange industrial rubber off-cuts from the iconic and quintessentially British east London hairbrush manufacturer Mason Pearson.

Nominated for the Deptford X Award

Redo Pakistan

Other Asias
Friday 25 to Sunday 27 September, Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 October, to
Deptford Project Space & Old Police Station
 Other Asias, a Pan-Asian contemporary art collective based in London, presents a staged press symposium and newspaper stall, forming the second part of its nomadic project.  Other Asias looks at how Pakistan has shifted geographically, politically and intellectually by temporary governments, unstable rulers, natural hazards, and the political super powers, asking: what would a Pakistan, reconstructed in 2009, look like?  Free newspapers are given away daily.

www.otherasias.com

 

Scape Boat (Winner of the Deptford X Award, sponsored by South London Business)

Patrick Hackett
25th to 27thSeptember and 1st to 4th October, 1 till 5pm 
Laban
Sick of being in a financial crisis and waiting for the recession to bottom out, Hackett is trying to get some perspective on how the financial system works and where all the money went. 

www.patrickhackett.co.uk

SE13

Sally Hogarth
Tuesday 25 to Thursday 27 September, Tuesday 1 to Friday 4 October, to
Deptford Project Space, 121-123 Deptford High Street, SE8
SE13 is a video work centred around the idea that certain people in a community come to be as much landmarks as the buildings and sculptures.  The work produces a portrait of individuals through the descriptions of them by others in their community, along with their reactions to these descriptions.

 

Stuck on Deptford

Esther Yarnold with children from Addey and Stanhope secondary school
Throughout the festival
Various locations
20 Year 10 GCSE art students have explored the local area and its history through kirigami (a variation of origami where the artist is allowed to make small cuts in the paper) and paper sculpture, drawing and photography.  Using mapping and connections between places and people as their starting points, the young artists have created strong graphical work from the complex visual and conceptual elements of Deptford, influenced by research into street art and pattern design.  The work will create an identity for Deptford X, through small and large-scale vinyl stickers designed as a wayfinding trail, and as a means of identifying participating venues. 

Better and Worse Solutions

Zoe Schoenherr / Ruth Caig 
25th Sept - 4 Oct; 12noon -6pm
Private View: Friday 25th Sept, 6-11pm 
Old Police Station, 114 Amersham Vale, SE14
This installation playfully transforms the full height of the existing emergency exit stairs of the Old Police Station whilst bridging the gap between public and private.  In the tradition of redevelopment it draws inspiration from Deptford’s urban environment - elaborating, expanding and distorting forms and structures.

Tagworts

Pink Posse
Throughout the festival
Various locations
In a celebration of the wild city, Pink Posse has identified weeds in Deptford and are tagging them with their Latin and English names.  Photographs of Tagwort sites can be seen here.

To Love or Not To Love

Artmongers
Throughout the festival
Deptford Reach, Speedwell Street, SE8
Stupidly uplifting work by Artmongers for the homeless drop-in centre, Deptford Reach.
A large scale mural appealing to our most childish sensibilities to strike a hopeful cord.

 

Wall of Sound

Jan Hendrickse and Ellie Rees with children from Tidemill and Myatt Garden primary schools
Friday 25 to Sunday 27 September, Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 October, to
Deptford Project Space, 121-123 Deptford High Street, SE8
Artists Jan Hendrickse and Ellie Rees have collaborated with around 60 students from Tidemill (Year 6) and Myatt Garden (Year 5) schools on an ethnographic portrait of present day Deptford.  The students have been working as artist/researchers engaged in collecting, recording, interviewing and discussing as well as imaginative and intuitive responses to their environment.  The work does not aspire to offer an objective or historical portrayal, but rather a record of the process of discovery.  The installation comprises found objects, photographs, interviews, soundscapes and maps which resulted from the investigation.  Surprising and often moving interviews with local people are mixed with location recordings, words of advice and mysterious sounds collected by the children.  The sound installation consists of hidden listening points in the Deptford Project Space, which can be accessed by plugging in headphones (headphones are provided).