Victor Burgin, 'Now and Then', in discussion with Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury

Victor Burgin, 'Now and Then', in discussion with Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury Friday 3 March 2017 Burgin will consider his participation in 'A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain' at Gallery House not as a history to be exhumed but as a place in the past from which to view the present. For more information please visit our website: www.ravenrow.org --- Presented as part of the exhibition 'This Way Out of England: Gallery House in Retrospect' at Raven Row 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.