Commission 6 – Peckham Space Opening Exhibition 

12 June - 30 June 2010

Peckham Space launches its new venue with specially-commissioned works by Freee and Southwark.TV, an events programme by Ana Laura López de la Torre and a recent work by Clegg & Guttmann. 

Ana Laura López de la Torre has been commissioned by Peckham Space to work with Harris Academy Peckham on a project addressing the theme of neighbours.  We are currently in discussion with the school about the public viewing of the resulting film entitled 'The Interior of the School is also my Exterior'. 

Harris Academy Peckham and Peckham Space are working together on projects which aim to bring artists together with students from the Academy in order to develop creative activities and ambitions.

As part of her commission for Peckham Space, Ana Laura López de la Torre has invited neighbouring organisations to put on talks, screenings, walks and performances in and around our new venue.  Please visit our public programme page for details of this events programme, Neighbours.

For more information, please contact us on: 020 7358 9645 or info@peckhamspace.com

The artists collective Freee invited shops and companies near to Peckham Space to imagine what their businesses would be like in a Peckham of the future.  Inspired by the visions that poet William Blake experienced on Peckham Rye, Freee composed The Peckham Pledge, a symbolic gesture towards an imagined future for local business to sign. A selection of four free Peckham Pledge postcards showing the pledge text and the shops signing them will be available to the public as free artworks for the duration of the exhibition.

Clegg & Guttmann’s interactive sculpture Continuous Drawing/Exquisite Corpse (2006) is a wooden pentagonal column, painted as a blackboard, with five horizontally revolving layers. Up to five people, each standing in front of one of the faces, can use chalk to draw a human figure which, as the layers are turned, exchange sections of their anatomies, assuming different forms and identities. This turns the exercise into a version of the Surrealist game ‘The Exquisite Corpse’.

Southwark.TV have been producing community television for seven years and for the opening of Peckham Space they will present some short films made in collaboration with Year 10 students from Harris Academy, Peckham.

Commission 6, Peckham Space, heralds the beginning of a new arts venue for London with a programme of location-specific projects connecting art, people and place through creative experience.