"SLG has worked outside of its walls for many years, and mutually established social and cultural relations with the neighbouring Sceaux Gardens estate. In our opinion, terms like ‘outreach’ or ‘off-site’ don’t describe the relationship so well." (Public Works proposal text)
Today’s Extension was a public mapping tool to name, and point at the many locations where South London Gallery’s (SLG) program manifests itself - away from the main gallery space - and including playgrounds, private flats, nearby schoolrooms and the space for community activities. The mapping happened live during the exhibition, collecting individual and collective memories of SLG social as well as physical reach.
Part of Beyond These Walls, an international group show of specially commissioned work prompting fresh perspectives on the SLG’s physical and non-physical architecture.
This is the setting of 'Today’s Extension' - it occupies one corner of the SLG garden and sits amongst trees and birdsong, somewhere between the half-built new extension, the windows of Camberwell College of Art, and a line of bungalows belonging to Sceaux Gardens estate. The structure is made of 2 x 2 pieces of wood and unfolds itself into a kind of pergola with different hanging elements, tables, seats or platforms.
Blue signposts hang off the structure, and SLG staff record their daily movements into Sceaux Gardens estate on these signs: for example, ‘Lauren, Street Training Meeting, 2.30. In the Residents and Tenants hall.’ The signs point in the direction in which the events took place.
This is the setting of 'Today’s Extension' - it occupies one corner of the SLG garden and sits amongst trees and birdsong, somewhere between the half-built new extension, the windows of Camberwell College of Art, and a line of bungalows belonging to Sceaux Gardens estate. The structure is made of 2 x 2 pieces of wood and unfolds itself into a kind of pergola with different hanging elements, tables, seats or platforms.
Blue signposts hang off the structure, and SLG staff record their daily movements into Sceaux Gardens estate on these signs: for example, ‘Lauren, Street Training Meeting, 2.30. In the Residents and Tenants hall.’ The signs point in the direction in which the events took place.