This Way Out of England: Gallery House in Retrospect
9 February to 26 March '17
Gallery House was one of London’s most influential and extraordinary art spaces in the 1970s, directed by Sigi Krauss with assistant director Rosetta Brooks. For only sixteen months in 1972-73, in a vacant mansion provided by the German government next to the German Institute in South Kensington, Gallery House hosted exhibitions, residencies, performances and events as well as pioneering ‘expanded cinema’ and much new film and video work. For many of the featured artists Gallery House would prove a formative experience.
Gallery House favoured heterogeneity, colliding the multiplicity of forms and styles co-existing at the time, from performance and experimental cinema to cybernetic, social and conceptual practices. Ultimately, the radical nature of Gallery House’s programme led to its abrupt and contested closure by the German Institute.
This Way Out of England seeks to emulate the spirit of Gallery House by inviting a number of artists to rethink their original interventions in the space. The episodic nature of this project acknowledges the impossibility of framing what was an ephemeral experiment. The project is curated by Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury.
4–26 March, Final Weekend
Saturday 25 March:
John Latham, Object Lectures, live performances, written while Latham was based at Gallery House and not performed since 1973, curated by Gareth Bell-Jones
Sunday 26 March:
Screening of Resistance (1976) by Ken McMullen. McMullen’s work was included in both the film and video programmes of A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain at Gallery House. Resistance includes experimental performances by Stuart Brisley and Marc Camille Chaimowicz.
Finissage discussion with Maya Balcïoglu, Stuart Brisley, Michael Newman and Sanja Perovic
Raven Row
56 Artillery Lane
London E1 7LS
