DEPTFORD X
24 September - 3 October 2010
London's foremost contemporary visual arts festival
Deptford X exists to promote the best contemporary visual art and celebrate that art with the widest possible audience. It is an arts event born of Deptford’s creative community and based on a belief in the limitless potential of the area.
NEWS
Dear Participants
The Albany artist in residence, Anna Pickering, is running regular Friday afternoon Art Tai Chi classes.
The sessions take place every Friday from 10 September to 1 October from 1-2pm.
For more information, or to book your space please email admin@deptfordx.org
The X Challenge
Take part in the Deptford X Challenege and you could win £50!
Just click here to enter
Deptford X Takes to the Streets
Artwork created by Mark Titchner with original photography has been placed on 3 refuse trucks, doing the rounds in Deptford.
Keeps your eyes open!
2010 marks a new direction for Deptford X.
This is the first time we have contracted a lead artist to develop the theme for the festival.
The idea was to contract a lead artist who would develop a statement of intent that would permeate throughout Deptford X.
We also wanted to contract someone with a connection to the area and would give a clear statement as to our artistic aims. We also wanted someone with an appreciation of art in the public realm.
In short we wanted to work with Mark Titchner and were fortunate that he wanted to work with us too.
His statement of intent is below and is referenced throughout the programme.
We hope you enjoy Deptford X 2010 and look forward to meeting you.
Matthew Couper, Project Director, Deptford X
Statement of intent for 2010 by Mark Titchner
Grand and spectacular, ephemeral or concealed, art qualified and created by daily life.
An incongruous video on the CCTV monitors at the Job Centre, strange sounds on the PA system at the station, a message chalked on a wall, glimpsed and forgotten, flushed by the rain. It doesn't matter what ‘it’ happens to be, but ‘it’ is experienced and ‘it’ is lived.
Daily discoveries uncovered by chance encounters on busy streets.
Not art but everyday life.
Get up, go to work, come home, get up, go work, come home but with an added element, something that wasn't there the day before, something that actually makes you think about all this routine, this place we live and call life. Ridiculous, odd, generous, pretentious and maybe a bit stupid but something that reminds us that real life is not elsewhere. It's here.
Charity no: 1087490 / Company no: 04133414
