International Residency Artists present an Open Studio and Events
26th March 2009 - 29th March 2009
Preview: Thursday 26 March 2009, 6.30-8.30pm
Open studio continues: 27-29 March 2009, 12-6pm

A Panel Discussion curated by Shaina Anand: Saturday 28 March, 3-5pm

Currently participating in Gasworks’ international residency programme artists Shaina Anand (India), Laureana Toledo (Mexico) and Cinthia Marcelle (Brazil) mark the culmination of their three month residencies with an open studio and events.

Shaina Anand is a filmmaker, artist, and media activist, whose work has explored ideas of localised media distribution in urban situations. During her residency at Gasworks Anand has been researching the activities of critical media practitioners and organisations who have been active since the practice's perceived heyday in the early 1990s. Through her research, Anand aims to explore the differing conditions and changing outlooks that have either enabled practitioners to continue their projects, or have caused them to alter their practices radically. Alongside her open studio, Anand will invite guest speakers to join her in presenting the development of this research. Anand is the 2008 recipient of the charles Wallace India Trust.

With a background in photography, Laureana Toledo's practice has developed to incorporate various media, chosen for their aptness to a specific concept or theme of the work. Laureana is inspired by transient moments of the everyday, speculating on how such phenomena can gain new forms of visual presentation. Her work often involves systematic and repetitive interventions into different media (texts, books, photographs etc.) to re-code their existing narratives. Toledo has used her residency at Gasworks as an open opportunity to respond to her new context. Cinthia Marcelle's residency is the result of a partnership between Gasworks and TrAIN (University of the Arts Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation).

Cinthia Marcelle's work in video and photography documents the effects her slight interventions have on the usual order of things. Her actions, often conceived as useless or absurd repetitions, create situations that confront our notions of conventional behaviour by introducing often humorous coincidences and connections. Marcelle has used her residency period at Gasworks and the support of TrAIN to develop a body of new work developed for a solo exhibition at Camberwell College of Arts. The exhibition will open on Friday 27 March (3-5pm) and continues to Friday 24 April 2009.

Established firmly in the London contemporary art scene, Gasworks' residency programme provides non-UK based artists with the opportunity to work in London, developing projects or conducting research benefiting from London's resources. Complementing their residency is Gasworks’ dynamic programme of exhibitions, education and outreach projects, and events.

Gasworks
155 Vauxhall Street
London SE11 5RH

Tel: 020 7587 5202
info@gasworks.org.uk
www.gasworks.org.uk

Tube: Vauxhall, Oval
Bus: 2, 36, 88, 133, 159, 185, 436

Admission is free
Gasworks' ground floor, including the exhibition space has full wheelchair access. We regret that other studios are only accessible by stairs.