19 September 2019
A response to George Clark’s exhibition Double Ghosts, from Taipei based arts-collective lololol (Sheryl Cheung & Xia Lin).
Run Time
90 mins
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The Gymnasium is part of Ravensdowne Barracks. Built in the early 18th century to the design of the distinguished architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, the Barracks was among the first in England to be purpose built.
Thank you to English Heritage for allowing us the use of their spaces for exhibition venues.
A large open-plan gallery space within the heritage building, the Berwick-upon-Tweed Barracks. This gallery hosts exhibitions and local creative projects. This venue is step-free and it has an accessible toilet in an outhouse building within the Barracks. Volunteers will be available during opening hours and guide dogs are warmly welcomed.
The entrance door is accessed only via the footpath through a non-automated gate on Parade. Once through the gate, the venue is on the right, via the footpath and up an incline. The venue is through the double doors.
Room Description: A large open-plan gallery with white walls, a tall white ceiling, white ceiling beams and dark wooden floor. There will be a big screen on the far end of the room and it will be dark.
Doorways: There are two doorways, the main entrance and a side doorway to the courtyard where the outhouse toilet are. Both are step-free wide double doors. All doors in this venue are non-automated.
Seating: Hard benches.
Temperature: Unheated and quite cold.
There are two gendered toilets and one accessible toilet in the courtyard in an outhouse building, accessible through the venue’s side double doors. The accessible toilet is a widened toilet with grab bars and lowered features and a non-automated door with push bar inside.
Lighting: Dark with most light coming from the open door and projection.
Flooring: Dark wooden floorboards with some white and yellow painted gym hall lines.
Sound: Ambient echoey sound.
Patterns: The wooden floorboards with contrasting painted gym hall lines. The ceiling structure, beams and light rig create a criss cross of geometric patterns although with little contrast as they are mostly white and silver. Outside in the courtyard the floor stones create a grid pattern.
Smell: Woody musty old buildings scent
There is no food and drink available at this venue.
Emergency Evacuation is out of either of the double doors at the main entrance or side entrance to the grass outside. Both are step-free.
The Gymnasium Gallery, The Barracks, 18 Parade, Berwick-upon-Tweed TD15 1DF
A response to George Clark’s exhibition Double Ghosts, from Taipei based arts-collective lololol (Sheryl Cheung & Xia Lin).
‘Double Ghosts’ is a multi-part exhibition which traverses the Pacific drawing on historical fragments, traces and ghosts from the coasts of Chile to a mountain cemetery in Taiwan. Exploring the status and potential of unrealised and fragmented histories, the exhibition draws together 35mm film, sound recordings, script fragments, photography and archival material filmed and gathered in Chile, France and Taiwan.
‘Double Ghosts’ was commissioned by Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in partnership with Berwick Visual Arts
Join Berwick Visual Arts Artist in Residence Lucy Clout to celebrate the opening of her BFMAF 2018 exhibition, Solvent Magazine. Refreshments and merriment aplenty.
Lucy Clout presents a new body of work titled Solvent Magazine, including sculptural and video pieces made during her six-month residency with Berwick Visual Arts and BFMAF. An assemblage of parts that brings together research around close readings of bodies— diagnostic narratives, pleasure and ambiguity are used as ways to think about knowledge, evidence and queer reproduction.
Part-waiting room, part-publishing house, Solvent Magazine presents: a £23.00 USB microscope camera, the story of a temp’s discretion, a new design for privacy screen glass which mimics the saliva of a person with secure attachment style, two piss coloured Perspex doors and a layer of plastic to keep out distractions.
Once in the XX Century is a gallery-based exploration of the oeuvre of Lithuanian filmmaker Deimantas Narkevičius. The works included in the exhibition are:
