The Assembly was organised by The Deep Field Project in partnership with Arts Catalyst, non-profit contemporary arts organisation that commissions and produces transdisciplinary art and research. The event brought together artists, academics, activists and human rights experts to collectively explore the politics of extraction across the globe and the role that its operations play on […]
Art and Society
Test Sites Assembly. 2018
Organised and led by Arts Catalyst with Nicola Triscott and Neal White at University of Westminster. Together with artists, scientists and thinkers interested in re-imagining social, artistic and scientific research as a bottom-up community-led approach, particularly in relation to planetary health, the day explored the complex, interdependent relationship between the health of the planet and […]
Earth Lab. 2017
Earth Lab : An Investigation of Earth as a Laboratory. 30 September 2017 Coordinated by Neal White and John Beck, and led by independent curator Dr Rob La Frenais, this colloquium brought together International artists, inventors and thinkers who re-imagine Earth, sea and sky from a bottom-up, post-anthropocenic position, in a wide-ranging, broad-brushstroke survey of […]
REBEL MUSIC: Sound Systems Culture The Story of Blues Parties in Southampton
This exhibition recognises the impact that Jamaican music has had on culture and explores its past, present and future, with special focus on the untold story of the Southampton Blues Parties of the 70s and 80s. Join us for a free evening of celebration and affirmation with an exhibition preview, a film screening of ‘Bass […]
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Cultural Icons: Remaking a popular pottery tradition
Cultural Icons takes inspiration from the history and tradition of the Staffordshire flatback, once produced by most of the potteries in the region. Such objects reflected the interests of ordinary people in Victorian England, their subjects including famous entertainers, politicians, royalty and religious themes. For this project, curator Tessa Peters assisted by artist Christie Brown invited […]
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Invisible Men – An anthology from the Westminster Menswear Archive
Drawing exclusively from the Westminster Menswear Archive this exhibition explores the invisibility of menswear due to its intrinsic design language that concentrates on the reiterations of archetypal garments intended for specific functional, technical or military use. It will illustrate how designers have disrupted this through minimal, yet significant modifications to produce outcomes that both replicate […]
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Street Directory
Before it was a gallery, Filet was a butchers and a bike shop. It used to be a house next to a carpenters, and before that a tailors. There was a vicarage to its left and later on a library to its right. The shops around it have been bakers, dressmakers, bookies, a wool shop, […]
Hyphen
Hyphen is an exhibition of research-in-practice by PhD candidates and alumni at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (CREAM) and the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) at University of Westminster. What possible worlds can be discovered in the interstices between research and creation? What modes of knowing and un-knowing are activated in […]
Sankofa Whispers: Remembering, Reflecting and Reframing
Sankofa Whispers: Remembering, Reflecting and Reframing Screenings of contemporary films works that explore African Diasporic memory practices and knowledges, from the artists Barby Asante, Halima Haruna, Onyeka Igwe, Nuotama Bodomo, Jennifer Martin and Rhea Storr. Followed by a discussion with Barby Asante, Filmmaker, curator and DJ Rabz Lansiquot and Filmmaker, researcher and educator, Judah […]
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Marking the Line: Ceramics and Architecture
MARKING THE LINE: CERAMICS AND ARCHITECTURE LOCATION | Sir John Soane’s Museum, London DATE | 8 March – 27 April 2013 Artists celebrate the classical and the contemporary at Sir John Soane’s Museum In an exciting project, four leading ceramic artists have created works inspired by Sir John Soane’s house and collections, which challenge where […]