22 Nov 1pm– BSL Tour of Being Poetic Ruins Life with Martin Glover Join Martin Glover for a British Sign Language tour of Evelyn Taocheng Wang's exhibition, Being Poetic Ruins Life. The exhibition offers a comprehensive presentation of Wang’s practice to date, bringing together new commissions and significant works across painting, ink on paper, handscrolls, garments, silk paintings, installation, video and
27 Jun 1pm– BSL 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 3pm– Flare-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
08 Mar 1pm– BSL Tour of Material Reality with Martin Glover Join Martin Glover for a British Sign Language tour of Christina Mackie’s exhibition Material Reality.
12 Feb 7pm– Christina 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,
26 Sep 3pm– Goldsmiths Welcome Week Guided Tour Guided Tour for Goldsmiths Freshers and International Students.
25 Jun 1pm– Exhibition 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
30 Nov 6pm– Exhibition 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
03 Sep 1pm– Exhibition 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
12 Jan 7pm– EBUN 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.
30 Jul 2pm– Steph 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
18 Jun 11am– Audio 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.
02 Apr 11am– Audio 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.
27 Jun 1pm– BSL 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.
12 Jun 10.30am– Family 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
07 Jun 4pm– Teacher’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.
29 Apr 1.30pm– POSTPONED – 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
30 Oct 1.30pm– Contagions 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
05 Dec 2pm– The 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.
