01 Aug PerformanceFlare-Up Live Join us for a celebratory series of performances, spanning poetry, film, music and readings, which draw on the themes of our current group exhibition Flare-Up. Artists and CCA's Residents groups will contribute diverse explorations of embodiment – crip, sick, disabled, mad, trans, racialised and medicalised – through fiction, comedy and
04 Aug–18 Aug Online EventIllegibility for all Featuring: Seo Hye Lee, Louise Hickman, Jordan Lord, Morisha Moodley, Finnegan Shannon and Paula Stuttman.
18 Jul Family WorkshopFlare Up Stay and Play This summer at Goldsmiths CCA, parents, carers and families are invited to get creative and explore our current exhibition, Flare-Up.
01 Jun TalkBen Kinmont: Artist talk on the occasion of Rooms Of Neighbours Rooms of Neighbours is an exhibition installed across 12 households on Clifton Crescent, Peckham. Taking inspiration from Jan Hoet's landmark exhibition Chambres d'amis (Ghent, 1986), the project pairs each household with an artist, who collaborated with residents to install a work either in their home or in communal space. Artists were chosen
21 Jul Online EventInterventions in Flaring Up: Curatorial Practice, Disability Studies, and Critical Dialogue Join Flare Up curators, Natasha Hoare and Mariana Lemos, alongside Amanda Cachia and Lisa Slominski, co-editors of forthcoming book series Critical Studies in Art, Disability & Access (Manchester University Press), for a discussion of curatorial practice, disability studies, access, and cultural production.
05 Aug Flare-Up Relaxed Viewing Flare-Up will open an hour early on the first Wednesday of each month to prioritise the experience of those who may wish to visit the exhibition with certain adjustments.
01 Jul Flare-Up Relaxed Viewing Flare-Up will open an hour early on the first Wednesday of each month to prioritise the experience of those who may wish to visit the exhibition with certain adjustments.
03 Jun Flare-Up Relaxed Viewing Flare-Up will open an hour early on the first Wednesday of each month to prioritise the experience of those who may wish to visit the exhibition with certain adjustments.
15 Aug PerformanceFreestylers Join the Freestylers for a live session of dance and improvisation. Freestylers are a group of neurodivergent artists who have longstanding creative relationships built on care, support and trust. They believe that everyone in the group is powerful, and are passionate about finding ways to break down conventional power structures and share
30 Jun PerformanceFreestylers Join the Freestylers for a live session of dance and improvisation. Freestylers are a group of neurodivergent artists who have longstanding creative relationships built on care, support and trust. They believe that everyone in the group is powerful, and are passionate about finding ways to break down conventional power structures and share
27 Jun TourBSL Tour of Flare-Up with Martin Glover Join Martin Glover for a British Sign Language tour of Flare-Up. The exhibition brings together UK-based and international visual artists whose work engages with the poetics and aesthetics of illness, disability, neurodivergence and Deafness.
26 Jun TourFlare-Up Tour with Dan Glass (ACT UP London) Join Dan Glass for a tour of our current exhibition Flare-Up. Glass is an activist for AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). He is also an award-winning human rights activist, performer, presenter and writer. Glass will offer readings of the art works included in the exhibition through the lens of his practice, anchored by the work of Derek
22 Jul WorkshopTrans+ Pride Sign Making Ahead of London Trans+ Pride 2026 on Saturday 25 July, we are providing a space for our community to make signs showing support and love for our trans siblings.
20 May OpeningFlare-Up Join us for the opening event of our group exhibition Flare-Up. This event is free and everyone is welcome.
17 Mar Book Launch‘What Did The Deep Sea Say?’ by Marion Coutts, in conversation with Lauren Elkin Join us for the launch of Marion Coutts’ new book, What Did The Deep Sea Say? (2026). Held in parallel with Christina Mackie’s exhibition, Material Reality, What Did The Deep Sea Say? charts similar terrain in its thinking through art, geology and the precarity of life at the edge.
05 Mar TalkMaterialisms: Contemporary Sculpture Panel Discussion Participants: Emii Alrai, Sophie Mei Birkin and Chris Fite-Wassilak
21 Feb–22 Feb WorkshopYou’re a real brick Drop in and join Mark for a weekend of brick making. Smash through your screens with a light hearted object heavy with meaning. Using recycled paper, card, and some watered down PVA glue - make a seemingly simple form - and learn or rediscover papier-mâché!
24 Mar Screening, TalkPTTV Screening Event and Talk by Amy Tobin A special screening of two programmes that Paper Tiger Television made in the early to mid-1990s, Sisterhood™: Hyping the Female Market (1993) and Twist Barbie: Lynn Spigel Dreams of a Plastic Feminism (1994). These programmes respectively address different issues for feminism, from its corporate co-option to the possibilities of a feminist
08 Mar TourBSL Tour of Material Reality with Martin Glover Join Martin Glover for a British Sign Language tour of Christina Mackie’s exhibition Material Reality.
17 Feb Screening, TalkArchie Singham and the Non-Aligned Movement: PTTV Screening Event and Talk by Vijay Prashad A special screening of two programmes that Paper Tiger Television made with Archie Singham, an esteemed professor of political science and committed intellectual closely associated with national liberation movements. The screening will be preceded by a live video introduction by renowned historian, editor, and journalist, Vijay Prashad, who will
05 Feb TalkDeeDee Halleck and Sylvia Harvey in Conversation This is an incredibly rare opportunity to hear two pioneering figures – DeeDee Halleck, founder of PTTV, and Sylvia Harvey, author of the crucial book May 68 and Film Culture (1978) – discuss radical television, in Europe and the United States, during the 1970s and 1980s.
02 Feb Screening, TalkSigns & Meaning in the Supermarket: PTTV Screening Event and Talk with Judith Williamson and Nicolas Helm-Grovas A special screening of Judith Williamson Consumes Passionately in Southern California (1987), followed by a conversation with Williamson, author of Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising (1978), Consuming Passions: The Dynamics of Popular Culture (1986) and Deadline at Dawn: Film Criticism 1980-1990 (1993), and writer and
12 Feb TourChristina Mackie / Materiality and Process Join Technical Art Historian Dr Pia Gottschaller, for an evening tour of Christina Mackie’s exhibition, offering a perspective that resonates closely with Mackie’s material-led practice. Working across sculpture and painting, Mackie approaches materiality in ways that are at once instinctive and rigorously scientific, attentive to process,
29 Jan OpeningChristina Mackie and Paper Tiger Television Join us for the opening of Material Reality by Christina Mackie, and It's 8:30. Do you know where your brains are? by Paper Tiger Television, on Thursday 29 January, 6–9pm.
03 Dec Speculative Choreographies: Screening Event co-curated by Sine Screen Speculative Choreographies is a screening event co-curated with London-based ESEA screening organisation Sine Screen, held as part of Lawrence Lek’s exhibition Life Before Automation.
12 Nov TalkListening Session & Talk: Andrea Zarza Canova with Raheel Khan This in-conversation and listening session with artist Raheel Khan and curator Andrea Zarza Canova extended their ongoing discussions around sound and sonic histories relating to cultures and communities. The event provided an opportunity to unpack Khan's practice, particularly as connected to the exhibition Memory Police, on view at Goldsmiths
07 Nov PerformanceGRAIN Presents: Theodora Laird, Caius Williams, Billy Steiger & Guests To accompany Raheel Khan’s exhibition Memory Police, GRAIN presented an evening of performances from Theodora Laird, Caius Williams, Billy Steiger and guests at the Great Hall, Goldsmiths, University of London.
23 Oct OpeningEpisode 15: Raheel Khan Join us to celebrate the opening of Raheel Khan's exhibition, Memory Police (24 Oct–14 Dec 2025).
05 Nov PerformanceAvatars: Alex Quicho and Günseli Yalcinkaya This evening event featured lecture performances by writer and theorist Alex Quicho and writer and researcher Günseli Yalcinkaya on the subject of virtual avatars and online identities. Held as a parallel event to CCA’s exhibition Life Before Automation by Lawrence Lek, the event drew on the artists’ use of nonhuman characters in his work to
26 Sep TourGoldsmiths Welcome Week Guided Tour Guided Tour for Goldsmiths Freshers and International Students.
12 Dec TalkOn Gaming and Virtual Media: Erika Balsom, Jamie Sutcliffe and Lawrence Lek in conversation To mark the closing of Lawrence Lek’s exhibition Life Before Automation, Erika Balsom and Jamie Sutcliffe will be in conversation with Lawrence Lek about the intersection of cinematic conventions, video games, and virtual media in his work.
25 Sep OpeningLife Before Automation Join us for the opening of the largest UK institutional exhibition to date of London-based artist Lawrence Lek (b.1982, DE).
09 Oct TalkNøtel and other fictions: Steve Goodman (Kode9) in conversation with Lawrence Lek Lek’s exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA includes the work Nøtel (2018-), a multimedia installation for a fictional luxury hotel brand, which began as an audio-visual performance from the track of the same name from Steve Goodman’s (Kode9) album Nothing (2014). This event provided an opportunity to hear both artists discuss the nature of their work
01 Oct TalkSuhail Malik in conversation with Lawrence Lek, moderated by Orit Gat This was a presentation by theorist Suhail Malik (Goldsmiths, University of London) building on Lawrence Lek’s critical formulation of ‘Sinofuturism’, and the ‘Farsight’ corporation. The latter is a recurring character in Lek’s work and a speculative AI art entity whose transformation plots speculative futures from our technological and
30 Aug Family WorkshopSummer Holiday Stay and Play This summer at Goldsmiths CCA, parents, carers, and families are invited to strut their stuff on the runway and participate in a summer themed T-shirt making workshop, inspired by our recent exhibition Milly Thompson: My Body Temperature is Feeling Good.
24 Jul WorkshopTrans+ Pride Banner Making Workshop Ahead of London Trans+ Pride 2025 on Sat 26 Jul, we are hosting a banner making workshop; in celebration of Pride's roots in protest and to bring together and provide space for our community, as well as show support and love for our trans siblings.
25 Jun TourExhibition Reading: Nadine Droste on Sophie Podolski Curator Nadine Droste, whose long-term research engages with Podolski's visual and written work, led a tour of Sophie Podolski's exhibition. She particularly examined Podolski's queer aesthetics, her position on the fluidity of the boundaries of the body and identity, and readings of the work from the context of today. The event was an opportunity
12 Jul PerformanceSophie Seita: plastic lip slot machine Seita's performance plastic lip slot machine will respond to the 'drawing-writing' or graphic poetry of Belgian artist Sophie Podolski, currently on show at Goldsmiths CCA, and explore a shared interest in both artists' practices of new forms of embodying text or 'reading' the illegible.
13 Jul PerformanceTender Threads CCA Resident group Threadbare Collective will present a night of performance, poetry and essay reading by poets and writers local to Deptford and New Cross. Exploring the themes of soft spaces, tactics of care, realms of fantasy and dreamscapes.
20 Jul PerformanceBLOSSOM Young Mums Poetry Showcase A poetry showcase curated by Yasmin Ali in collaboration with BLOSSOM, a Lewisham based young mums group. The event offers a platform for mothers to perform their own poetry, as well as a supportive and intimate space to express their experiences of motherhood and share their stories. Taking place as part of CCA’s Deptford X Fringe programme.
19 Jul PerformanceAlchemy: Music and Poetry Join CCA Residents Alchemy collective for an afternoon of transformative music and poetry.
20 Jul PerformanceUnbecoming Chorus A day of reading, writing, and performance in three acts, featuring performance by Alice Gale-Feeny and readings from selected writers.
26 Jul WorkshopArchive Fictioning This event by CCA Resident Silkworm Collective will use local archival material to build fictional characters. Responding to written prompts, participants will discuss, draw and write to create their character. Together we will reflect on the spaces we inhabit and the hidden histories behind them, envisioning whose footsteps we follow and how the
29 Jul WorkshopSocial Dream Drawing Join CCA Resident group Silkworm Collective to explore dreams and memory through a collaborative drawing exercise. Thinking about the importance of dreams as a form of internal storytelling, this event will offer time and space to reflect, play and engage with your own dreams through the visual language of drawing.
27 Jul PerformanceSchool of Cvntolgy – Graduation Party This day-long reading event will feature 15 writers from the School of Cvntology, the writing school TISSUE started with Camp Trans – a camping festival inspired by radicals in communion.
18 Jun TalkSick Notes: Anne Boyer This is an evening dedicated to Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet Anne Boyer and her blistering memoir, The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness (2019). In her keynote lecture, Boyer discussed the book, which reflects on her experience of breast cancer while deconstructing the gendered, capitalistic regimes that shape cancer treatment and
12 Jun TalkPleasure as a Radical Act: Panel Discussion with Emma Kay, Alison Jones and Sally O’Reilly This is a panel discussion between artists Emma Kay, and Alison Jones chaired by Sally O’Reilly; close friends and collaborators of Milly Thompson, whose exhibition is on view at Goldsmiths CCA.
13 Jul–27 Jul ProgrammeDeptford X Fringe A programme of Deptford X Fringe events by Goldsmiths CCA Residents, running 13—27 Jul 2025.
22 Jul WorkshopAngry Women, Wild Bodies This workshop invites participants to share honest and real experiences of what it is to be woman in 2025. Led by visual artist Annie Frost Nicholson, you are asked to bring an object to the workshop that tells a story about your experience in this world. This could be a story that is, as yet, untold, one that may break a taboo or invoke shame or
10 Jun TalkIn Conversation: Joëlle de La Casinière and Caroline Dumalin Artist Joëlle de La Casinière and curator Caroline Dumalin (Belgian Pavillion, Venice Biennale, 2026) came in conversation, as part Wisdom Should be Sung, an exhibition of the work of Sophie Podolski.
03 May Family WorkshopStay and Play Join us for this exhibition season's Stay and Play family workshop!
04 Jun OpeningSophie Podolski and Milly Thompson Join us for the opening of Sophie Podolski and Milly Thompson's exhibitions, featuring a reading of Podolski's 'graphic poems' by Donna Marcus Duke at 7.30pm.
30 Apr TalkIn Conversation: Eunjo Lee and Zaiba Jabbar + Live Sonic Performance and Screening Eunjo Lee, and curator Zaiba Jabbar, explored Eunjo's latest work Before the Shadow Taught The Sun, currently on show at Goldsmiths CCA. They discussed the potentiality of digital media for world building and narrativising pressing contemporary issues such as our relationship to the natural world, and broader universal themes of cycles of
01 May Book LaunchMichael Archer: Composition Writer Michael Archer and artist Steph Farmer came in conversation for the launch of Michael's book Composition (Ilex, 2023).
20 Mar OpeningEpisode 14: Eunjo Lee Join us for the opening preview of Eunjo Lee's exhibition Before the Shadow Taught the Sun. Eunjo Lee (b.1996, South Korea) is the latest artist to take part in CCA’s ongoing commissioning series Episodes. All welcome! More info here.
27 Mar So, So, So: A Poetry Night Bringing together the poetry of Katie O' Pray, Meej Douglas, and Oluwaseun Olayiwola – contemporary voices whose work similarly grapples with the body’s limitations, transformations, and expressive potential – So, So, So: A poetry night, is a live reading event celebrating Galli’s exploration of corporeality in her solo exhibition, So,
11 Mar Book LaunchAlternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionalization Join us for a talk and book launch of Anna Colin’s Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionalization (Sternberg Press and Villa Arson, 2025). The author will introduce the book and her research, and will be joined in a conversation with curator Cindy Sissokho.
05 Apr WorkshopCollaborative Storytelling with Artbox Join artists Violet and Mark for a workshop on collaborative storytelling. During the session we will explore Galli’s extensive drawing practice and joyously cut into sketchbooks, to create collaborative comic books using shape, colour and image. As a group, we will respond to motifs within Galli’s work as a starting point to tell our own
26 Feb TalkChaos, Sorting, Chaos, Sorting: with Kyla McDonald Join us for an exploration of Galli's work by art historian and curator Kyla McDonald, whose research has explored Galli's relationship to the 1970s art scene of Berlin, position within the debates around neo-expressionism and painting as a medium, mid-career outlier status, and reassessment of her work in the past decade. McDonald will respond to
06 Mar WorkshopReading Galli: Dance Psychotherapy with artist Grace Schwindt Join artist Grace Schwindt in a reading of Galli's work through the framework of dance psychotherapy. The event will use the choreographic quality of Galli's large-scale paintings as a starting point for movements that connect with the memories stored in our bodies. Schwindt's research has led her to explore movement therapy techniques as tools
13 Feb PerformanceMagnus Westwell: Caught Caught is a new performance by artist Magnus Westwell, devised in response to Galli’s exhibition. Westwell combines choreography and musical performance to create sonically layered ethereal environments in which the body moves through emotional states to the point of catharsis. Drawing direct points of influence from Galli’s figurative works -
05 Dec Secrecy and Exposure: Poetry Event Featuring: Fintan Calpin, Hasti, Donna Marcus Duke and D Mortimer.
14 Nov TalkDr Larne Abse Gogarty w/ Laila Majid & Louis Blue Newby The conversation between artists Laila Majid & Louis Blue Newby and Dr Larne Abse Gogarty (Associate Professor and Head of History and Theory of Art at the Slade School of Fine Art) explored the duo's new series of works for their exhibition Inner Heat, at CCA. The six drawings that make up the series Contact, are central to the exhibition.
26 Oct Family WorkshopAutumn Holiday Stay and Play Autumn Holiday Stay and Play for parents, carers and children to brighten October by making harvest paper lanterns. Families had the option to bring along any foraged natural materials on their travel to the gallery for a personal touch to decorating their autumnal creations. This event was free to attend, and open to all.
31 Oct ScreeningScreening: Rumba Rules, New Genealogies (2020) Special screening event of Rumba Rules, New Genealogies (2020), produced by Twenty Nine Studio and directed by David N. Bernatchez and Sammy Baloji with the coll. of Kiripi Katembo Siku. 107 minutes.
12 Nov Talk“A Capricious Sinuosity”: Congolese Trajectories of the Cold War In this talk, Pedro Monaville (History, McGill University) was screened live within the context of Sammy Baloji's exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA, discussing his ongoing collaboration with Baloji which builds on their shared interest for thinking the world from the Congo. The talk revisited the different threads and historical contexts addressed by
29 Oct TalkProfessor Johan Lagae, Dissecting Congo’s spatial palimpsests Notes on mobilising the ‘colonial archive’ and walking the field in a conversation between art and architectural history.
09 Jan Exhibition tour by Dr Becca Voelcker Join Dr Becca Voelcker for a special evening viewing and tour of Sammy Baloji’s solo exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA.
28 Nov Screening Event: Machini, Tales from the source and Tongo Saa (Rising up at night) Join us for a special screening of three films produced by Twenty Nine Studio.
21 Nov TalkLecture by Johnny Leya on Traumnovelle’s installation Congolisation Johnny Leya presented a talk reflecting on Brussels-based architecture studio Traumnovelle’s groundbreaking installation Congolisation (2023).
03 Oct TalkSammy Baloji in conversation with Dr Mark Sealy To mark the opening of Sammy Baloji’s solo exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA, a discussion was held between the artist and Dr Mark Sealy, Executive Director of Autograph and Professor, Photography, Rights and Representation at University Arts London, London College of Communication. They discussed the development of Baloji’s practice and some of the
07 Nov OpeningEpisode 13: Laila Majid & Louis Blue Newby, Inner Heat Opening preview of Episode 13: Laila Majid & Louis Blue Newby, Inner Heat.
06 Feb OpeningGalli Join us for the opening preview of the exhibition So, So, So, the first UK solo exhibition of artist Galli (b.1944, Germany). Spanning painting, books, collages, and drawings, the exhibition includes works from across her decades long practice. Galli’s work is a powerful current position on corporeality in a fractious and violent age that
23 Jul Pride is a Protest: Trans+ Pride Sign Making Goldsmiths CCA and Aimless Gallery, a not-for-profit, political, queer, slow fashion latex brand, have collaborated ahead of Trans+ Pride 2024 to host a sign making workshop; in celebration of Pride's roots in protest and to bring together our community, as well as show support and love for our trans siblings.
20 May Weaving Workshop Join us for the opportunity to learn some tapestry weaving skills on a DIY frame loom. The workshop will be led by tapestry weaver Sarah Kelly, who lives and works in South-East London.
14 Apr Spring Holiday Stay and Play Spring Holiday Stay and Play for parents, carers, and children to weave and work together. They were given a guided tour of our past exhibition, Matt Connors: Finding Aid. They were able to create simple looms from foraged sticks to make woven yarn tapestries, and incorporated other materials such as beads, ribbons, and pom poms. Refreshments
11 Apr OpeningEpisode 12: Mark Corfield-Moore Join us for the opening preview of Episode 12: Mark Corfield-Moore, We Speak Chicken
14 Mar Melting Point We are thrilled to present Melting Point, an evening of sonic exploration happening in conversation with Matt Connors’ upcoming exhibition at the Goldsmiths CCA. Join us on Thursday March 14th, from 5-9pm for performances by James Creed, Mosquito Farm, Mathew Follis, Zhao Jiajing.
07 Mar OpeningMatt Connors Join us for the opening preview of the exhibition Matt Connors: Finding Aid.
17 Dec Weekend, WorkshopStay and Play Join us for our Winter Holiday Stay and Play session as part of the Karrabing Film Collective exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA. For this workshop, children will be provided with materials to create miniature festive trees, which they will then be able to decorate. Parents and Carers will be given a tour of Karrabing Film Collective's exhibition,
11 Jan WorkshopWith Ends in Mind Death and dying are ever-present. We live through an era of mass extinction, reverberating with grief of colonial violence, capitalist extraction, environmental destruction and climate catastrophe. How can we learn from holistic palliative care practices to bring our personal experiences of loss to planetary care?
10 Jan Book LaunchIntellectual Property by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo With Aea Varfis-van Warmelo, Oluwaseun (Seun) Olayiwola, Amy McCauley, Orit Gat and Will Harris.
09 Nov ScreeningThe Vampire, The Ghost, and the Zombie Join us for the screening night featuring films that critique colonial legacies, capitalism, and environmental degradation through the genre of horror. Films will be screened by Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer and Oba, Riar Rizaldi, and the Karrabing Film Collective.
22 Nov WorkshopCome Closer; Now Go Away A writing workshop by Labeja Kodua and Lara Haworth exploring narrative and emotional positioning in relation to architecture, memory and the works of Esteban Jefferson.
30 Nov TourExhibition Tour: Jayden Ali Join Architect Jayden Ali for a special evening viewing and tour of Esteban Jefferson's exhibition May 25th, 2020. Ali was the co-curator of the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, which aimed to shift the collective gaze to centre on how Britain’s diasporic communities – through their active occupation of the spaces
14 Jan WorkshopFootnotes on a Timeline: Feminist Duration Reading Group x Karrabing Film Collective PLEASE NOTE THE DATE FOR THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED TO SUN 14 JAN.
06 Oct TalkElizabeth Povinelli In Conversation with Kathryn Yusoff Drawing on the central figure of the Zombie, Karrabing Collective member, Elizabeth Povinelli, discusses the collective's work in reference to the undead quality of settler colonialism, and the refusal of dividing lines, such as between the dead and undead, within indigenous culture. Povinelli will be in conversation with author and
06 Oct EXHIBITION OPENINGS Join us for the opening of our exhibitions with Esteban Jefferson and Karrabing Film Collective. All are welcome!
03 Sep TourExhibition Reading w/ Emily Steer Marking the closing day of CCA's exhibition Unruly Bodies, this walkthrough will draw on writer and psychotherapist Emily Steer's experience of working in a therapeutic setting, exploring the physical manifestation of trauma within the body. With this in mind, her talk will consider the potential release of trauma available when the body
03 Aug TalkRendering Alternatives Held as part of the programme for Kara Chin’s exhibition Concerned Dogs, this conversation between Angela YT Chan and Avery Delany will unpack both the emancipatory capacity of digital storytelling and its problematic entwinement with capitalist structures.
23 Jul FAMILY WORKSHOPS: STAY AND PLAY Join us for our Stay and Play session as part of Goldsmiths CCA's exhibition, Unruly Bodies.
28 Jul OpeningEPISODE 10: KARA CHIN OPENING! Join us for the opening of Episode 10: Kara Chin, Concerned Dogs.
13 Jul GASHTRAYS WORKSHOP Join us for an evening of taboo-busting sex-ed and ceramics led by Gashtrays. During the workshop you'll be taught ceramics techniques for making your very own Gashtray (as well as other anatomical creations), whilst we talk frankly about the sexual myths and misconceptions that haunt us.
01 Jul ALCHEMY PROJECT Join us for an evening of performances from members of Alchemy who will be responding directly to the CCA's exhibition Unruly Bodies. As part of the collective’s recent work, a selection of newly written songs and spoken word pieces have been devised by local 13–18 year-olds, with each responding to particular works.
18 Jul Book LaunchART MONSTERS: LAUREN ELKIN Join us for the launch of Art Monsters, featuring a Q&A between writer Lauren Elkin and Juliet Jacques (writer and filmmaker). For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies - what is their language, and what are
06 Jul SPECULATIVE BODIES Speculative Bodies is an evening of screenings and performances held as part of the exhibition Unruly Bodies. The event proposes that the body is not a unified whole, or opposed to nature. Works included excavate myth and archive to enact speculative figures that reach through history, trouble categories of the ‘human’, and unseat normativity.
25 May SPATIAL LISTENING: PERFORMANCE INTERVENTION This sonic performance is the culminating event in Spatial Listening, a one-day series of listening events presented by Alex De Little at Goldsmiths CCA.
25 May SPATIAL LISTENING As a response to Pilvi Takala's solo exhibition On Discomfort at Goldsmiths CCA and its playful negotiation of invisible social codes of conduct, Alex De Little presents Spatial Listening.
25 May SPATIAL LISTENING: WORKSHOP This workshop is part of Spatial Listening, a one-day series of listening events presented by Alex De Little at Goldsmiths CCA.
23 May TalkEXCESS FORCE Moderated by Jennifer Fleetwood (Goldsmiths College), a panel including Dr Koshka Duff (Author, Abolish the Police, Lecturer, Nottingham University), Thomas Marriott (Designer and Researcher, Goldsmiths College), and Dr Nikhaela Wicks (University of Kent), will focus on the use of excess force and other forms of violence that can typify
19 Apr PAST EVENTARTIST TALK: PILVI TAKALA Join us for a discussion between artist Pilvi Takala and Ali Eisa (Lloyd Corporation) on the development of her work, with a focus on her latest installation, Close Watch.
30 Mar Book Launch, PAST EVENTAfter Institutions by Karen Archey Join us for a talk and book launch of Karen Archey's latest publication After Institutions at the CCA.
28 Jan WorkshopRuggeri X Germ Join a textiles workshop at CCA that explores methods of customising vintage clothing to create pieces that express individual identity, and as a sustainable fashion choice. Bring your own item of clothing for customisation with hand embroidery. The workshop is led by Mary Ciach, founder of the Germ label; a textile design led brand focusing on
07 Feb TalkPanel Discussion: Transgression in Art and Fashion Participants: Beca Lipscombe (Atelier EB), Dr Catherine Rossi (Canterbury School of Architecture and Design) + Rottingdean Bazaar (James Theseus Buck and Luke Brooks). Moderated by Sarah McCrory, (Director Goldsmiths CCA)
12 Jan TourEBUN SODIPO – ARTIST TOUR Join artist Ebun Sodipo for a special tour of the exhibition at the CCA. She will reflect on the various historical figures and cultural fragments that make up this new work, and talk about her upcoming projects.
17 Nov Behavioural Garments: A Cabaret Performers: Charlie Wood (MC), Amazí, Hollie Miller, Joseph Bond, Mab George Sanders, Moina Moin, Paola Estrella, Pea B.ordep, Symoné, Wet Mess.
04 Nov OpeningCinzia Ruggeri Join us to celebrate the opening of Cinzia says..., the first major retrospective of artist and fashion designer Cinzia Ruggeri (1942–2019), a unique figure of Italian postmodernism who moved freely across artistic disciplines. Her life and versatile practice were driven by a desire to redefine the form and function of elements of everyday life.
14 Oct CCA Residents, PerformanceAmbient Jam Collective with Roland Carline The magical, funny, profound and healing Ambient Jam Collective arrive at the CCA with artist Roland Carline. Expect the unexpected with an immersive multi-sensory happening by a vibrant community of differently abled people and artists.
16 Oct PerformanceTrevor Mathison: Sonic Intervention by Ain Bailey, Aniruddha Das, Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart with Carib Rokka. This sonic intervention by Ain Bailey, Aniruddha Das, Trevor Mathison and Gary Stewart with Carib Rokka responds to Mathison’s exhibition From Signal to Decay: Volume 1 (13 Aug–16 Oct 2022), a presentation comprising sound installation, drawings, and video.
12 Nov–13 Nov Artist Citizens Jury UPDATE: See the schedule of witnesses and connect to the Goldsmiths You Tube Live Stream Channel below.
07 Oct PerformanceSonic Intervention by Trevor Mathison This sonic intervention by Trevor Mathison responds to and extends his solo exhibition, From Signal to Decay: Volume 1 (13 Aug–16 Oct 2022), a presentation comprising sound installation, drawings, and video. This event is free but booking is required.
27 Oct Book LaunchA Time of One’s Own: histories of feminism in contemporary art: Catherine Grant in conversation with Laura Guy To celebrate the publication of Catherine Grant’s book A Time of One’s Own: histories of feminism in contemporary art, published by Duke University Press, she will be in conversation with the writer and curator Laura Guy. Together they will explore some of the key themes of the book, examining how contemporary feminist artists are turning to
20 Oct Screening, TalkCurating, Protest & Colonialism: Film Screening & Discussion Work by British artists has referenced historical links between the Northern Irish and Black American civil rights movements. This seminar will focus on how contemporary curating can frame such connections, beginning with a screening of Helen Cammock’s film The Long Note (2018), before presentations by and discussions with Clare Carolin, Bill
15 Oct PerformanceHadi Fallahpisheh: House Animals A new, choreographed performance entitled House Animals will take place within Hadi Fallahpisheh’s exhibition on the final weekend. The artist’s cat, mouse and dog characters will be embodied by dancers, with gentle reference to Merce Cunningham and other modern choreographers. This event is free but booking via link below is required.
12 Aug Opening, PerformanceOpenings of two new exhibitions Join us this Friday, 12 Aug, 6–9pm, to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions at Goldsmiths CCA: Trevor Mathison's From Signal to Decay: Volume 1 and Hadi Fallahpisheh's As Free As Birds.
02 Sep Trevor Mathison: Sonic Intervention by Aniruddha Das This sonic intervention by experimental electronic musician and sound artist Aniruddha Das responds to Trevor Mathison’s exhibition From Signal to Decay: Volume 1 (13 Aug–16 Oct 2022), a presentation comprising sound installation, drawings, and video.
16 Sep Ain Bailey and Trevor Mathison in conversation + Record Launch Ain Bailey and Trevor Mathison will be in conversation.
09 Sep Trevor Mathison: Sonic Intervention by Gary Stewart This sonic intervention by interdisciplinary artist Gary Stewart responds to Trevor Mathison’s exhibition From Signal to Decay: Volume 1 (13 Aug–16 Oct 2022), a presentation comprising sound installation, drawings, and video.
25 Aug Trevor Mathison: Sonic Intervention by Kate Shortt This sonic intervention by musician Kate Shortt responds to Trevor Mathison’s exhibition From Signal to Decay: Volume 1 (13 Aug–16 Oct 2022), a presentation comprising sound installation, drawings, and video.
30 Jul Tour, WorkshopSteph Huang: Food Walk in Deptford Market Join artist Steph Huang and sociologist Alex Rhys-Taylor on a walk and workshop exploring the food and commerce of South East London. The walk will connect Goldsmiths CCA to Deptford Market, a centuries-old street market. Participants will be given a set of tasks related to food, and will be asked to find as many of the items on the list as
24 Jul PerformanceFreya Dooley Goldsmiths CCA is excited to announce a performance by Freya Dooley, who has been commissioned to respond to Virginia Overton’s current exhibition, Animal Magnetism. For this sprawling sound-based performance, Dooley will work with and against Overton’s architectural and sculptural works in the basement of the CCA building.
23 Jul CCA Residents, PerformanceAmbient Jam Collective: Liberty Festival 2022 Please join the magical, funny, profound and healing Ambient Jam Collective for their performance as part of the Liberty Festival 2022!
07 Jul CCA ResidentsFloor Five Collective: Film Night Please join Five Floor Collective on the 7th of July, 6—9 pm, for their first screening of moving images from five POC practitioners, whose works centre around speculation; destabilising notions of imposed reality, race, gender; and recalling lost histories. Popcorn provided too!
18 Jun TourAudio Description Tour: Virginia Overton Join audio describer Caroline Dawson who will be presenting an audio description tour of three artworks in the CCA exhibition of Virginia Overton, Animal Magnetism, each followed by discussion.
27 May CCA Residents, PerformanceAmbient Jam Collective with Roland Carline The magical, funny, profound and healing Ambient Jam Collective arrive at the CCA with artist Roland Carline. Expect the unexpected with an immersive multi-sensory happening by a vibrant community of differently abled people and artists.
16 May CPD, Online EventEmbedding Contemporary Art in the Curriculum If you’re a teacher or educator wondering how to talk about contemporary art with young learners, join Trish Scott, Engagement Curator at the CCA, Neil Walton, Subject Leader for PGCE Art & Design at Goldsmiths, and artists Leap then Look for some suggestions.
11 May Teachers Preview of Virginia Overton’s exhibition at the CCA Join us for a preview of Virginia Overton’s new exhibition Animal Magnetism specifically for teachers and educators. Find out more about bringing a class to visit or connecting with work you’re doing in the classroom.
10 Apr CCA Residents, WorkshopLife Drawing Workshop ‘Sez’re’s Becoming’: Floor Five Collective CCA residents Floor Five Collective is inviting you to join the Life Drawing workshop entitled, Sez’re’s Becoming, this Sunday, 10 April, curated in collaboration with artist Florent Venet (they/them).Florent Venet is a French artist and costume designer based in London. They studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, where they received the
02 Apr TourAudio Description Tour: Testament Goldsmiths CCA is excited to welcome audio describer Caroline Dawson who will be presenting an audio description tour of three artworks in the current Goldsmiths CCA exhibition, Testament, each followed by discussion.
01 Apr PerformanceSam Keogh Performance: Testament Finissage Untitled, Sam Keogh, performance with plaster, mica, food colouring, tarp and found liquid, dims variable, duration variable. Sam Keogh's performance will take place during a finissage/closing event for the Testament exhibition, from 6–9pm. Booking not required – just turn up.
31 Mar TalkPetrified History, Toxic Nostalgia Join us for a panel discussion on memory, melancholia, monuments and mythology, featuring four of the artists exhibited in Testament: Roger Hiorns, Elizabeth Price, Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees (Lloyd Corporation), chaired by Gary Younge. Each artist will discuss their proposals for the exhibition, which question the permanent visibility of
27 Mar PerformanceSERAFINE1369 Performance SERAFINE1369 will present a durational performance outside the entrance to the CCA on the penultimate Sunday of Testament. Centred on and around their rock sculpture for the exhibition, the work will be thinking about how environments form bodies and bodies form environments (the bodies of objects, humans, planets...) and the 'becoming monument'
17 Mar Performance, TalkScott King – The Debrist Manifesto Scott King and Goldsmiths CCA present ‘The Debrist Manifesto’.
14 Mar CPD, Online EventEmbedding Contemporary Art in the Curriculum If you’re a teacher or educator wondering how to talk about contemporary art with young learners, join Trish Scott, Engagement Curator at the CCA, Kerry Gibson, Head of Curriculum at Thomas Tallis Secondary School, Isabelle de Tscharner Vischer, Teacher of Art and Design, and Neil Walton, Subject Leader for PGCE Art & Design at Goldsmiths,
23 Feb Drawn Out: Pandemic Comics Live Reading Drawn Out is a free online live reading event facilitated by Rachael House, an artist who published a book of the drawings she made over the course of the first year of Covid-19 pandemic titled Resistance Sustenance Protection.
18 Feb CCA Residents, PerformanceAmbient Jam Collective with Roland Carline The magical, funny, profound and healing Ambient Jam Collective arrive at the CCA with artist Roland Carline. Expect the unexpected with an immersive multi-sensory happening by a vibrant community of differently abled people and artists.
13 Feb CCA Residents, WorkshopAll Spice: Collaborative Cook Book! Workshop/Session 1 The Floor Five collective, residents at Goldsmiths CCA, cordially invite you to attend a collaborative workshop this Sunday, February 13th, from 12:30-2:30pm. This workshop is intended as the first in a series of sessions which involve working collaboratively to contribute to a continuously growing cookbook archive entitled 'All Spice'.
22 Nov CPD, Online EventEmbedding Contemporary Art in the Curriculum If you’re a teacher or educator wondering how to talk about contemporary art with young learners, join Neil Walton, Subject Leader for PGCE Art & Design at Goldsmiths, Trish Scott, Engagement Curator at the CCA, artist Meera Chauda and secondary school art teacher Vicki Radcliffe for some suggestions.
11 Nov Online EventI Didn’t Go To Work Today…I Don’t Think I’ll Go Tomorrow Panelists: Avery Gordon, Amelia Groom, Gavin Mueller, and Esther Leslie (Moderator)
29 Oct TalkTour with Professor Josh Cohen: Sated Soldier, Sated Peasant, Sated Scribe Join Professor Josh Cohen for a special tour of Sam Keogh's exhibition Sated Soldier, Sated Peasant, Sated Scribe. Cohen will bring his perspective to bear on Keogh's work, speaking from his research and practice in cultural theory, literature, and psychoanalysis.
20 Oct Online EventOlivia Sterling and Charlie Billingham in-conversation Join artists Olivia Sterling and Charlie Billingham in a discussion about their respective practices. They trace histories of cartoons and illustrations that have informed their work, particularly looking at the depiction of the human body within these traditions, and the use of physical comedy, satire, and the grotesque to counter established and
15 Oct PerformanceSam Keogh Performance Sculptures become props and collage becomes backdrop as Keogh unfolds a story about eating a pig in Stansted airport.
09 Oct PerformanceUnfolding In response to Eugenio Dittborn’s exhibition Airmail Paintings, Unfolding brings together performances by artists working across multiple diasporas, from Hong Kong to Angola, India and Istanbul.
08 Oct PerformanceEverybody with me, always Freestylers present ‘Everybody with me, always’, 2021-2022
01 Oct PerformanceEverybody with me, always Freestylers present ‘Everybody with me, always’, 2021-2022
29 Sep PerformanceSam Keogh Performance Sculptures become props and collage becomes backdrop as Keogh unfolds a story about eating a pig in Stansted airport.
25 Sep PerformanceSam Keogh Performance Sculptures become props and collage becomes backdrop as Keogh unfolds a story about eating a pig in Stansted airport.
24 Sep PerformanceEverybody with me, always Freestylers present ‘Everybody with me, always’, 2021-2022
23 Sep WorkshopOlivia Sterling: Life Drawing with Precious Opera and Lydia Petit Join Olivia Sterling, Precious Opera and Lydia Petit for an evening of life drawing and conversation exploring narratives around female bodies in the context of Sterling’s exhibition Really Rough Scrubbing Brush.
22 Sep Sam Keogh Performance Sculptures become props and collage becomes backdrop as Keogh unfolds a story about eating a pig in Stansted airport.
17 Sep Sam Keogh Performance Sculptures become props and collage becomes backdrop as Keogh unfolds a story about eating a pig in Stansted airport.
16 Jul Online EventWe Stopped Taking Photos: with Ariel Goldberg and Yazan Khalili A workshop, hosted with the Bard College, NYC, that takes as its focus a recent text 'We Stopped Taking Photos' by Ariel Goldberg and Yazan Khalili, originally published on e-flux. This work is an experiment in art form as text, and an extension of art projects. It examines the ethical complexities of the medium of photography, exploring its
15 Jul Online EventBlack Ecologies: Imani Jacqueline Brown How do we rupture the continuum of Extractivism,
27 Jun TourBSL Tour: Mohamed Bourouissa Join Martin Glover for a British Sign Language (BSL) introduction to Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art and a tour of Mohamed Bourouissa’s exhibition. Stay for an optional social chat and refreshments afterwards.
22 Jun–04 Jul Online EventFilm Programme: Regroundings To view the films click on the 'Regroundings Chat' button and scroll down through the groups' conversations.
17 Jun Online EventResistance/Confrontation: Olga Smith, with Stephanie Bailey Through the double focus on the themes of resistance and confrontation, this talk delineates the volatile dynamics underpinning Mohamed Bourouissa’s art. It draws on a wide range of Bourouissa’s projects spanning photography, moving image and installation to show how these works intersect with symbolic, spatial and political constructions of
14 Jun CPD, Online EventEmbedding Contemporary Art in the Curriculum: Anti-Racism If you’re a teacher or educator wondering how to approach contemporary art and talk about it with learners in the classroom, join us for a focused session exploring connections between contemporary art and anti-racism. This session is hosted by Goldsmiths CCA in collaboration with South London Gallery (SLG) and Mountview where, alongside brief
13 Jun WorkshopFamily Workshop: Watch Me Flower Watch Me Flower is a free workshop for families inspired by Mohamed Bourouissa’s artwork Brutal Family Roots.
12 Jun TourFamily Workshop: Fledgling Twitchers Have you got what it takes to become a master bird watcher? Join amateur artist and bird watcher (or ‘twitcher’ as they like to be called), Nick Granata, on a family field trip from Goldsmiths CCA to Folkestone Gardens in Deptford. We’ll be making our own noccies (binoculars, that is!) and head off on the Any Bird Aloud birdbox trail along
10 Jun Online EventArtist Talk: Alvaro Barrington & Mohamed Bourouissa Join artists Alvaro Barrington and Mohamed Bourouissa in a conversation that tracks their respective practices. Long-standing friends, their discussion will revolve around shared approaches to making artworks that deal with identity, belonging, migration, and power, with an aesthetics that channels art history through lived experience.
07 Jun CPD, TourTeacher’s exhibition tour: Mohamed Bourouissa If you are a teacher based in London and would like to come to a special opening of Mohamed Bourouissa: HARa!!!!!!hAaaRAAAAA!!!!!hHAaA!!! to see the show and discuss opportunities for your students with the CCA's Education Team, join us on the 7th June for a tour and refreshments.
22 Mar CPD, Online EventEmbedding Contemporary Art in the Curriculum – Mohamed Bourouissa If you're a teacher or educator wondering how to talk about contemporary art with young learners, join Neil Walton, Subject Leader for PGCE Art & Design at Goldsmiths, Trish Scott, Engagement Curator at the CCA and secondary school art teacher Nuno Reis Moreira for some suggestions.
25 Feb Online EventOctavia Collective x Goldsmiths CCA: Creativity in Solitude, A Reading Join Octavia Collective members, Amina Jama, Rachel Long and Sarah Lasoye for a special reading of work created in solitude; an intimate showcase and celebration of new work written over the past year. The readings will be followed by an audience-inclusive discussion of what it is to write now, in and despite the current moment.
14 Dec CPD, Online EventEmbedding Contemporary Art in the Curriculum PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A REPEAT OF THE FREE CPD SESSION WE RAN ON THE 26 NOV, WHICH WE ARE RUNNING AGAIN DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND. IF YOU MISSED JOINING US ON THE 26 NOV OR COULDN'T GET A TICKET PLEASE SIGN UP VIA THE TICKETS LINK BELOW.
02 Dec Online EventKerry Tribe: Critical Mass screening and in-conversation with Tony Cokes Kerry Tribe’s video work Critical Mass (2013, 25 minutes) will be available to view from 18:00 on Tuesday 1st December until 18:00 Wednesday 2nd December on the Channel section of the CCA website.
26 Nov CPD, Online EventEmbedding Contemporary Art in the Curriculum If you’re a teacher or educator wondering how to approach contemporary art and how to talk about it with young learners in the classroom, join Trish Scott, CCA’s Engagement Curator, and Neil Walton, subject leader for PGCE Art and Design at Goldsmiths, for a session which provides some suggestions.
19 Nov Online EventIn Conversation: Emma Cousin + Claire-Louise Bennett Join artist Emma Cousin and writer Claire-Louise Bennett as they explore Cousin's exhibition New Dirt, examining dirt and digging for its relation to life cycles, loss, exhaustion, and ideas of being present. For both, language is a system to simultaneously be pushed to breaking point and luxuriated in. Everyday objects float free to become
15 Nov–06 Dec Online EventThe Times are Urgent: Let’s Slow Things Down We are currently living in transversal times - everything we have thought to know about the world is shifting rapidly. The luxury of ‘time’ has been flipped on its axis and many of us feel a collective resistance from the categories and definitions we have known up to this point. How do we navigate this awkward space?
12 Nov Online EventIn Conversation: Lindsey Mendick + Heather Phillipson Join Lindsey Mendick and Heather Phillipson in an exploration of Mendick’s new commission Are You Going to Destroy Me? - an extension of their ongoing conversation. Mendick’s work often draws on the autobiographical, spinning personal stories into fantastical immersive environments populated with objects and sculptures whose materiality and
05 Nov CPD, Online Event#FridayFact briefing with artist Holly Graham If you’re a teacher or educator join us online at 4:30pm on November 5th to hear from artist Holly Graham about her new video work and creative resource #FridayFact. We will also be joined by Emma Webster, Curriculum Lead at Prendergast Primary School, who will provide some insights from having tested the programme, and some FAQs from children
29 Oct Online EventHalloween In Conversation: Hardeep Pandhal and Leila Taylor To coincide with his exhibition Ensorcelled English: Prestige Repellent Hardeep Pandhal invites writer and designer Leila Taylor to share and discuss her research on the gothic in Black culture, horror, and the aesthetics of melancholy. Stemming from different entry points, they will discuss key aspects of their practices, identifying and
14 Oct Online EventBruce Jenkins Lecture on Hollis Frampton, with Lisa Zaher Noted Frampton scholar Bruce Jenkins will speak about the relationship of Frampton’s photographic work to his overall artistic practice. Following the lecture, Jenkins will be joined for an in conversation event with Lisa Zaher.
30 Sep Online EventSophie Barber + Rosie Cooper Join Sophie Barber and Rosie Cooper (Head of Exhibitions, De La Warr Pavilion) for a conversation about Barber's new paintings for Goldsmiths CCA. Cooper has been a supporter of Barber's practice for some time, and the talk will revolve around the development of her work, her drawing on the Sussex coast and its wildlife as an inspiration, and
15 Oct Online EventADSVMVS ABSVMVS: Lecture by Rachel Moore, with Genevieve Yue. Drawing on Hollis Frampton’s allusive writings on what he referred to as ‘the camera arts’, Rachel Moore will give a talk that addresses his 1982 series of photographs, ADSVMVS ABSVMVS. Following the lecture, Moore will be joined for an in conversation event with Genevieve Yue.
23 Sep TalkSalvaged Rhythms: Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom + Sophie Williamson Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom discusses his new commission and practice with curator and writer Sophie Williamson. An extension of their ongoing dialogue, this online event provides an opportunity to explore Boakye-Yiadom’s use of drums and improvised music within his multimedia installations, and how his works shuttles between function and aesthetic
24 Jun WorkshopTension Film: Online Writing Workshop This online workshop responds to Nabokov’s notion of the tension film of “the now”, an idea which evokes the fragility of the present moment and our susceptibility to the seductive past, and brings it into conversation with Elizabeth Freeman’s work on queer temporalities. Participants will be invited to experiment with writing on the
29 Apr TourPOSTPONED – Michelle Williams Gamaker Join artist Michelle Williams Gamaker for a tour of the exhibition in which she will consider the works in light of her own practice, which deploys ‘fictional activism' as a methodology where marginalised characters return as brown protagonists to challenge the fictional injustices to which they have been historically consigned. Reading objects
25 Mar TalkPOSTPONED – Experiments with Time PARTICIPANTS: Dr Ele Carpenter (Reader in Curating, Goldsmiths College and Associate Curator, Arts Catalyst), Professor Margaret Iversen (Emeritus Professor, School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex), Dr Amy Tooth Murphy (Lecturer in Oral History, Royal Holloway, University of London), moderated by Professor Josh Cohen (Professor
13 Mar–19 Apr Covid-19 Due to the Covid-19 situation, and with respect to social distancing measures, we have decided to cancel or postpone our events programme. Filmed events or new dates will be announced soon, and kept up to date on Facebook.
08 Mar FREE FAMILY WORKSHOP: #Ooh0 Talk and distort How might it feel to be an object? Artist Lucy Steggals led a workshop to play with materials that magnify, reflect and distort. In the workshops participants made objects that talked and went on a fun and unique journey around CCA’s exhibition ‘Transparent Things’. This event was open to all and particularly suitable for families with
29 Feb PerformanceAs If As If was a series of performances that expand on the exhibition Transparent Things’ premise of fiction as methodology. As if 'this' or 'that', was an exercise of 'fictioning' that created propositions to confront the status quo. Fiction can be applied as a tool of world-making towards highlighting the often invisible, yet extant, structures
26 Feb PerformanceParrhesiades: Eva Gold Perv City Act 3 of Eva Gold’s multi-platform parrhesiades project, Perv City. Perv City was an exhibition in three acts: It told the story of a TV news reporter and an anonymous man who begins to contact her online. As the relationship unfolds across the three platforms, power dynamics begin to shift, raising questions about agency, vulnerability and
22 Feb OpeningTransparent Things The opening of Transparent Things, a group exhibition featuring artists Nairy Baghramian, Carlotta Bailly-Borg, Becky Beasley, Gareth Cadwallader, Nina Canell, Michael Dean, Theaster Gates, David Hammons, Marie Lund, Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Overton, Lucy Skaer, Renee So and Kerry Tribe.
14 Jan PerformanceAlchemy X Tony Cokes How does music express or create collective cultural identity? Participants in the Alchemy Project - young musicians and music producers from Lewisham schools who meet regularly at Goldsmiths - based their term’s activities around our exhibition If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol. 1. Their responses to the ways in which artist Tony Cokes
09 Jan Talk4 LIVE WORKS DISCUSSION Participants: Roland Carline, Rebecca Swift (Entelechy Arts) and Rachel Gileda.
08 Jan PerformanceHorse For the final week of his project Roland Carline developed a large puppet performance entitled ‘Horse’. These performances acted as an experimental interim between old work and new, made in light of recent political events, pitching absurdity and laughter against frustration and powerlessness.
23 Nov PerformanceThe Secret Life of Bees The Secret Life of Bees were two musical performances with Meet Me at the Albany and the Rachel Macmillan Nursery, both based in Deptford. Carline had worked with Sacha Thomas and Rachel Gildea to create a 20-minute song, movement and spoken word performance based on the life of bees with flamboyant costume and props.
21 Nov PerformanceDeptford Freestylers Deptford Freestylers is a series of inclusive freestyle dance sessions, set up by Rachel Gildea, Francis Majekodunmi and Roland Carline. The group meet weekly at Deptford X and create a space for any age, any body and any style. They share music, look for new ways to engage with performance and learn from each other.
20 Nov PerformanceAmbient Jam collective with Roland Carline A series of live performances with Entelechy Arts, Ambient Jam Collective relocated to Goldsmiths CCA for three sessions, where performers interacted with ‘loose parts’ and sculptural elements which were developed for them by Carline.
16 Nov PerformanceBossy Bossy was a combination of live and pre-recorded work co-created by Francis Majekodunmi and Roland Carline as part of an ongoing collaborative process, incorporating live dance with character improvisations in a series of homemade sets. The events pivot on the pair’s desire to build a friendship based on a shared sense of humour and a love of
30 Oct TourContagions of Affect Dr Diana Omigie, Goldsmiths Lecturer in Psychology, gave a tour of the Tony Cokes exhibition exploring how the affective qualities of scores in his videos are explored from a neuroscientific perspective. Omigie’s research aims to refine our understanding of the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying music-induced emotion and pleasure. She
29 Oct TalkBook Launch: Scott King & Fraser Muggeridge Scott King and Fraser Muggeridge's informal discussion of their practices and work on the publication Tony Cokes – If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol. 1-3. Both speakers have worked for years across the fields of art, graphic design and music, and were joined CCA Director Sarah McCrory in dialogue concerning the translations, slippages and
08 Oct TalkPolicing Blackness: Music and Visual Culture Participants: Dr Monique Charles, Gaika, Last Yearz Interesting Negro, Dr Anamik Saha, Dr Dhanveer Singh Brar.
28 Sep TalkArtist Talk: Tony Cokes & Kodwo Eshun To mark the opening of If UR Reading This It's 2 Late: Vol. 1, Tony Cokes discussed his work with Kodwo Eshun (Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London and co-founder of The Otolith Group). Eshun features directly in the exhibition as part of a new commission produced specifically for the CCA, which quotes his 'Mark
28 Sep OpeningTony Cokes Opening of If UR Reading This It's 2 Late: Vol.1, an exhibition by Tony Cokes featuring work from 1990 onwards, and including two new commissions.
08 Aug TalkExposure: Olivia Sudjic As the first year of exhibition-making drew to a close, Goldsmiths CCA paused to reflect on a number of women artists’ practices we hosted and the contemporary feminist discourses we engaged in. Within this context we invited writer Olivia Sudjic to read from her book Exposure (2018), in which she explores the trope of anxiety within female
24 Jul TalkPoetics of Sound Corey Hayman and CCA's curator Natasha Hoare had an informal discussion of the concepts and preoccupations that inform Hayman's practice, and her installation at the CCA, Plastic Sounds of Dark Matter.
16 Jul OpeningCorey Hayman The opening of a new commission by artist Corey Hayman. Hayman's practice formulates connections between multifarious material to explore the matrix of afro-pessimism, the ‘hauntology of blackness’, progress and capitalism; culminating in an examination of the problematics which arise at the cross between representation and
11 Jul ScreeningPlayback: Community Video in South London Connecting the spirit of Jef Cornelis: TV Works 1960s-80s to the local area of the CCA, this screening event drew connections between Cornelis' direct and hands-on use of newly available portable video technology with the production of videos by activists and community groups based in and around South London in the 1970s.
04 Jul TalkArtist Talk: Issy Wood Issy Wood read passages from her new publication published on the occasion of her solo exhibition All The Rage at Goldsmiths CCA. The book collected texts from her blog, committothedish.co.uk; ranging from surreal fragments and prose poems, to confessional streams of consciousness. For Wood the two practices of painting and writing weave
29 Jun OpeningJef Cornelis & Issy Wood The summer party celebrating the opening of two exhibitions, Jef Cornelis TV Works 1960s - 80s and Issy Wood All The Rage. Jef Cornelis (1941-2018) was a Belgian Director who, over the course of a decade-long career, has made a unique archive of exhibition histories shown through the format of the television documentary. Presented alongside
27 May ScreeningHairy Who & The Chicago Imagists To mark the close of How Chicago!, and in response to popular demand, we again screened the documentary, Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists; the first film to tell the wild, woolly, utterly irreverent story of the Chicago Imagists.
26 May PerformanceAdam Christensen Artist Adam Christensen presented a new work drawing on the legacy of disco culture in 70s New York, specifically its forms of sociality, free and independent distribution of music, and our nostalgic and melancholic reconstruction of it in the present. He transformed the Daskalopoulos Gallery, CCA’s distinctive tank exhibition space, through a
04 May PerformanceAdam Christensen Artist Adam Christensen presented a new work drawing on the legacy of disco culture in 70s New York, specifically its forms of sociality, free and independent distribution of music, and our nostalgic and melancholic reconstruction of it in the present. He transformed the Daskalopoulos Gallery, CCA’s distinctive tank exhibition space, through a
11 Apr Music, TalkListening Session: Body of Sound WITH: Rose Dagul (Musician / Lecturer in Popular Music, Goldsmiths), Haseeb Iqbal (Poet / DJ) and Ifeoma Orjiekwe (Artist).
06 Apr WorkshopA Curriculum for the Non-Unified Self PARTICIPANTS: Zinzi Minott (Dancer / Artist), Stevphen Shukaitis (Cultural Theorist & Publisher), Fiona James (Artist)
04 Apr ScreeningHairy Who & The Chicago Imagists Documentary Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists is the first film to tell the wild, woolly, utterly irreverent story of the Chicago Imagists. Over forty interviews with the artists and a prominent group of critics, curators, collectors, and contemporary artists are featured, intertwined with a wealth of re-discovered archival footage and photographs. It
23 Mar WorkshopRed Mustard and Yellow Lipstick: A Making Workshop for Families Artist, animator and cartoonist Ben Connors explored the collaborative drawing game, Exquisite Corpse. Working on different sections of the body, children were invited to make a life-size Plexiglas figure, responding to the bold, weird and wonderful world of the Chicago Imagists.
16 Mar TalkHow Chicago! Artist Talk with Sarah Canright, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson and Suellen Rocca Imagist artists Sarah Canright, Art Green, Suellen Rocca and Gladys Nilsson discussed the genesis of the Imagist movement, the provocation posed by Chicago and its vernacular cultures in an informal Q&A with the curators of the exhibition, Sarah McCrory (Director, Goldsmiths CCA) and Rosie Cooper (Head of Exhibitions, De La Warr Pavilion).
15 Mar–26 May ScreeningFilm Cycle: The Banana Man, the Tattooed Lady, and other stories… Running in parallel to How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s, the three-part cycle of film screenings aimed to convey the Imagist spirit, the city that inspired them, and the lasting influence they had on artists that came after, such as Mike Kelley.
15 Dec TalkArtist Talk: Oisín Byrne with Gary Farrelly Long term collaborators Oisín Byrne and Gary Farrelly discussed their feature-length film GLUE (2017), which was on show at Goldsmiths CCA.
05 Dec TourThe Feminist Archive, with Dr Althea Greenan Dr Althea Greenan gave a tour of archival items drawn from the Womens’ Art Library (WAL), which were on show as part of Goldsmiths CCA's exhibition of work by Alexis Hunter.
04 Dec TalkShattered: Contemporary perspectives on second wave feminism and its art forms Speakers: Dr Angela Dimitrakaki (Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Edinburgh), Dr Catherine Grant (Lecturer in Critical Studies in Art, Goldsmiths), Marlene Smith (Artist, and Curator, The Public).
06 Oct PerformanceIvor Cutler Performances A reading of Ivor Cutler’s poems by Michael White and Ellen McAteer.
23 Sep PAST EVENTLoud Bodies: Participation Loud Bodies was a weekend of participatory events, sonic performances, and a panel discussion, where visitors were invited to unpack some of Mika Rottenberg’s critical themes, usually wrapped in a thick mantle of absurd – and often sensory – metaphors.
22 Sep PAST EVENTLoud Bodies: Sonic performances Loud Bodies was a weekend of participatory events, sonic performances, and a panel discussion, where visitors were invited to unpack some of Mika Rottenberg’s critical themes, usually wrapped in a thick mantle of absurd – and often sensory – metaphors.
22 Sep PAST EVENTLoud Bodies: Panel Discussion With: Helena Reckitt, Molly Arthurs and Siobhán McGuirk.
22 Sep–23 Sep PAST EVENTLoud Bodies Loud Bodies was a weekend of participatory events, sonic performances, and a panel discussion, where visitors were invited to engage with some of Mika Rottenberg’s critical themes; those wrapped in a thick mantle of absurd and often sensory metaphors, through discussion, performance and a workshop.
19 Sep Architecture and Instituting Assemble’s Adam Willis and Paloma Strelitz in conversation with Olly Wainwright.
16 Sep WorkshopAtchooo! Foley Workshop for Families Sound artist, composer and arts broadcaster Fari Bradley (Resonance FM) explored the art of foley by drawing on Mika Rottenberg’s masterful use of foley sound effects throughout her films. The interactive session introduced children and adults to producing sound effects through manipulating objects.
13 Sep TalkAbsurd Cosmos With: Jennifer Higgie, Editor, Frieze; Dr. Chantal Faust, Royal College of Art; Hardeep Pandhal, artist; Bedwyr Williams, artist.
