BEACONS
Beacons (2017-Present) is the overarching name of artist-lead exhibitions & projects happening sporadically, collaboratively, as and when, organised by Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton.
The title was taken from a tumblr post by Jesse Darling ‘A letter to a friend’ - “…if theres any kind of community for a person like me they are all out there distributed across time and space. And that resonated a lot for me, and it seems to resonate with what you’re saying here. This person explained that the things I make in the world will operate as beacons and the people w whom I am kin, twin, common - they’ll find me that way, like ships in a storm”
To mark the class of 2022 Royal Academy Schools degree show I compiled a 44 minute archive of fragmented audio from our lecture & talk programme 2018-2022. Opening up the private space of the lecture room, each classmate chose an artist talk, lecture or seminar that has stayed with them. What results is a meandering collection of thoughts, propositions & sounds.
With thanks to the artists & lecturers permission.
Image courtesy of Hannah Lister.
Timestamp playlist, & list of selections - Listen here
Time :
00.00: Helen Mirra
01.15: Marie de Brugerolle
02.48: Phyllida Barlow
04.12: Wolfgang Tillmans
09.09: Frank B Wilderson III
16.24: Esther Leslie
20.41: Phyllida Barlow
22.07: Frank B Wilderson III
26.56: Nina Trivedi / Atlanta Season 2
28.33: Charlie Fox
29.31: Wolfgang Tillmans
31:56: Federico Campagna
38:07: Amelia Groom
43:39: The End (Brian Griffiths - Final Crit)
Sofía Clausse:
Helen Mirra on Imi Knoebel’s Raum 19 at Dia:Chelsea. (Sound of blocks moved)
Screened as part of RA students Matthew Peers & Oliver Tirré artist film series, 14th March 2022
Nicola Gunnarsson:
Marie de Brugerolle’s Lecture ‘POST PERFORMANCE FUTURE: AN INCHOATE RESEARCH 2012-2020’, 15th June 2020
Pascal Sender
Phyllida Barlow Online Studio Visit Q&A, 8th March 2021
Hannah Lister & Matthew Peers:
Wolfgang Tillmans, Online Studio Visit Q&A, Monday 25th January 2021
Andrew Maughan:
‘Florida man’ Atlanta, Ep.1 Season 2, from Nina Trivedi and Jennifer Martin Lecture & TEETH film screening, 14th February 2022
Kobby Adi & Emmanuel Awuni:
Frank B Wilderson III’s lecture ‘Social Death and Narrative Aporia: Stories of Absence Are Not Stories Loss’, 25th October 2021
James Lomax:
Esther Leslie’s lecture ‘Eventually Dust’ 4th May 2020
Millie Layton:
Charlie Fox, Artist Talk, 4th Oct 2019
Luke Samuel:
Federico Campagna’s Lecture ‘Prophetic Culture’, 18th May 2020
Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton:
Amelia Groom’s Lecture ‘‘A Portion of a Fragment’: Beverly Buchanan’s Sculptural Ruinations.’, 17th May 2021
Beacons; Pharos
Beacons: Pharos, Flare & Signs was an exhibition programme at Caustic Coastal, Salford, December 14, 2017- April 21, 2018
Supported by Arts Council England & Islington Mill, with thanks to Dean Brierley.
Artists; Maria Gondek, Jesse Darling, Rebecca Ackroyd & Mary Hurrell.
Left: Jesse Darling, (2016) Right: Maria Gondek, ‘Organ’, (2017)
Left: Rebecca Ackroyd, ‘Guarded Hopes Haunted Dreams’,(2017) Right: Jesse Darling, ‘Embaressed Billboard’, (2016).
Beacons; Flare
Artists; Jenkin Van Zyl, Amshu Chukki, Tai Shani, Liv Fontaine // Left: Jenkin van Zyl, ‘Occasional feel-good’, (2018) Installation view.
Left: Amshu Chukki, 'The Tour', Two Channel Video, (2017).
Left: Liv Fontaine, COLD WHORE CRISIS (Medusa), COLD WHORE CRISIS (narcisus), (2018). Right: Liv Fontaine, COLD WHORE CRISIS, Performance.
PRESS: Corridor8 Review.
Beacons; Signs
Artists; Verity Birt, Anna Hughes, Nicola Singh, Dominique White and Bones Tan Jones.
Left: Bones Tan Jones, ‘Where is Una Jynxx’, (2018). Right: Nicola Singh, ‘I see this feel, in a shape of a smile’, (2018)
Left: Anna Hughes. Right: Verity Birt, ‘Deformation attends her’, Installation & film, (2017-18)
Left & Right: Dominique White, ‘J.O.Y (the last signal)’, (2018).
PRESS: Corridor8 Review, Salford Star.
Left: Tai Shani, ‘I Am Paradise’, film (2017) & Jenkin Van Zyl, installation.
Left: Mary Hurrell, installation view after performance. Right: Sunset outside Caustic Coastal, Oldfield Road.
PRESS: Frieze.