Waiting Around Residency 23
Waiting around is a new artists residency program taking place at the Old Waiting Room in Peckham Rye station. It is a place for 6 artists and designers to explore the concept of what it means to wait.
We often see waiting with negative connotations - an inconvenience - something we try to avoid but in these chaotic times where we very seldom take our time to stop, maybe there is a way to reframe waiting as a gift in time. A pause for reflection, A forced moment to stop.
The Old waiting room is a beautiful building - it represents a moment captured in time within the heritage and history of the architecture. It was Built in 1865 by the architect Charles Henry Driver.
Since platform re-ordering in the 1960s much of the interior was bricked up and disused. In 2007 a campaign was launched to access the Grade II listed building and open it up to creative arts projects and celebrate its existence.
Each artist is encouraged to respond to the building's architecture in their response to the brief, being inspired by their surroundings and encompassing their creativity, ideas and work seamlessly into the space.
This artist residency was a week long and culminated in an experimental show of the ideas. The artists are not bound to create a final outcome, it is more a chance to explore, research and develop and of course to work within such a beautiful space.
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Waiting around is a new artists residency program taking place at the Old Waiting Room in Peckham Rye station. It is a place for 6 artists and designers to explore the concept of what it means to wait.
We often see waiting with negative connotations - an inconvenience - something we try to avoid but in these chaotic times where we very seldom take our time to stop, maybe there is a way to reframe waiting as a gift in time. A pause for reflection, A forced moment to stop.
The Old waiting room is a beautiful building - it represents a moment captured in time within the heritage and history of the architecture. It was Built in 1865 by the architect Charles Henry Driver.
Since platform re-ordering in the 1960s much of the interior was bricked up and disused. In 2007 a campaign was launched to access the Grade II listed building and open it up to creative arts projects and celebrate its existence.
Each artist is encouraged to respond to the building's architecture in their response to the brief, being inspired by their surroundings and encompassing their creativity, ideas and work seamlessly into the space.
This artist residency was a week long and culminated in an experimental show of the ideas. The artists are not bound to create a final outcome, it is more a chance to explore, research and develop and of course to work within such a beautiful space.
Featured Artists:
Co-curated by embw
Xiyao Chen worldsworldworlds.xyz
Anna Schlimm
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Josh Woolford
joshwoolford.co.uk
Shupin Liu
shupinliu.com
Peggy Yu
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