FEBRUARY/MARCH 2006
Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London, SE11 6AY
Greenwich Degree Zero: Events
Thursday 9 March, 6.30pm
Artistsı talk: Rod Dickinson
and Tom McCarthy
Free, booking advisable
Dickinson and McCarthy discuss their collaboration in the
light of previous individual projects. The event will
include a short reading from Remainder by
the author, a documentary excerpt from the Waco
Re-enactment and a guided tour by the artists of the
current installation.
Rod Dickinson's work explores belief systems and
social control. Previous art projects have included a
live recreation of the psychological warfare programme
used by the FBI at Waco in 1993 (ICA, London, 2004) and
an exact simulation of Stanley Milgram's infamous 1961
'Obedience to Authority' psychology experiment (Centre
for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, 2002). Dickinson has also
exhibited widely overseas, including: Witte de With,
Rotterdam, Netherlands (2005); Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
(2004); ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image),
Melbourne, Australia (2004).
Tom McCarthy is the author of a novel, Remainder
(Metronome Press, 2005), which deals with trauma and
re-enactment, which was recently published to high
acclaim. His forthcoming non-fiction work Tintin
and the Secret of Literature is published by Granta
in July 2006. He is also known for the reports,
manifestos and media interventions he has made as General
Secretary of the International Necronautical Society
(INS), a semi-fictitious avant-garde organisation.
The evening will also see the launch of their new
signed limited edition print, specially commissioned
for Beaconsfield. Launch price £20. For
details see: www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk/editions
Thursday 23 March, 6.30pm
Commentary: Steve Rushton
Free, booking advisable
Steve Rushton will discusses the relationship between
early documentary news footage and re-enactment.
Steve Rushton is a writer, editor and filmmaker
based in London and Rotterdam. Recent publications
include Experience, Memory, Re-enactment (2005); The
Milgram Re-enactment Essays on Rod Dickinsonıs
Re-enactment of Stanley Milgramıs Obedience to Authority
Experiment (2003); Hurts So Good (2003).
As part of the artistsı group everything Editorial
he initiated and co-edited everything Magazine
(1992-2002). His films include: The Milgram
Re-enactment (with Rod Dickinson, 2002); The Blue
Studio (2002); Kaplan (2002); The Circles
(2001). Steve Rushton was a guest lecturer at the
Piet Zwart Zwart Institute for the lecture series Experience,
Memory, Re-enactment in 2004.
Friday 7 April, 7pm
Society (necronautical)
£5 entry (includes £1 annual membership fee)
"We the First committee of the International
Necronautical Society declare the following:- 1. ~That
death is a type of space, which we intend to map, enter,
colonise and, eventually. inhabitŠ"
Beaconsfield's Society is a concept as well as an
artistıs club both an interactive art project and a
social event. The Society formula is "good food,
good wine, good conversation". The basic Society
structure is uniquely ignited on each occasion by the
participating artists and transformed into whatever they
want the event to be. For 7 April, The International
Necronautical Sociey (INS) makes seven Degree Zero
propositions in the spirit of a nineteenth century
Anarchist club. A Society membership event.
To book places or for more information, please contact
the gallery on T: 020 75826465 or E: mail@beaconsfield.ltd.uk
Greenwich Degree Zero
Rod Dickinson and Tom McCarthy
a Beaconsfield Commission
22 February - 30 April 2006
Wednesday - Sunday 12-6pm
Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London, SE11 6AY
Tel: 020 7582 6465
www.beaconsfield.ltd.uk
