Arcadia_Missa
Unit 6 Bellenden Road,
London
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Arcadia Missa is an Artist's Studios and Gallery in Peckham, South East London.
Arcadia_Missa collectively creates publications and exhibitions via curatorial and collaborative processes in the Arcadia Missa gallery, seeking experimental presentation and discussion of contemporaneous work. The gallery is also a project space to host selected events by other groups and individuals.
Arcadia Missa Gallery seeks to experiment with, and present questions to, the socio-political role of visual culture. Focusing on investigatory practices, the gallery will encourage critique and conversation between the ‘viewer’ and their relationship to social and cultural forms.
Arcadia Missa launched its gallery with a view to build and sustain these relationships and questions arising in contemporary culture and communication, through exhibitions, events, journal and seminar programme structured around various contemporary themes (set biannually and centered around our everyday lives). The programme is organised according to each theme, in order to formalise debates around the art presented and inevitable exchange between art and spectator. We are searching for a more active/responsive viewing, and an elevation of exchange as mutual learning, rather than a didactic or passive viewing experience.
“We want to create and continue a space that reflects and gives definition to our experience of contemporary culture, where we can at the same time work through and be aware of how we attempt to keep this project responsive and vital in this context.â€Â
The journal will act as a consolidation of this exchange and will further interrogate the discussions arising from the exhibitions and seminars, also allowing us to create the gallery’s history on our own terms. This tangible documentation of the ephemeral acts of the gallery not only enforces self-reflexivity and can be a reference for audience, and the gallery, but also through this can be a tool for the evolution of the gallery as a participatory space.
Arcadia Missa is run by Rozsa Farkas and Tom Clark.
info@arcadiamissa.com
www.arcadiamissa.com
http://arcadiamissa.tumblr.com/
Unit 6, Bellenden Rd Business Centre
SE15 4RF
Related projects/press
http://www.cocatopia.blogspot.com/
http://www.supralimen.wordpress.com/
http://10thflr.wordpress.com/2010/10/
http://www.geiab.org/GEIAB_DEUX/index.php?lang=eng&revue=showit&rn=2&article_id
http://fillmybox.tumblr.com/post/841229808/we-would-like-to-thanks-all-the-500-guests-who
http://newsevents.arts.ac.uk/event/the-a-course-an-inquiry/
http://friezefoundation.org/commissions/detail/luckypdf/
http://www.artslondonnews.co.uk/20101025-studio-space-open-peckham
http://www.cultamap.com/Cultazine/Home.html
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art358487