Daybreak: an RCA Fine Art Research Exhibition
For the first time, practice-based MPhil and PhD researchers in the School of Fine Art have come together to create an off-site project encompassing an exhibition, live events and research symposium. Over 40 research students have worked closely with each other, staff from the School with curatorial expertise, and outside professionals to programme four days of exhibitions and events.
From 29 June to 2 July 2017, Daybreak will take place at three different sites in Peckham, making public the vast range of ideas, approaches and practices that represent current contemporary fine art research.
On Thursday 29 June, the audience is invited to attend live performances and screenings at ‘Asylum’, a chapel on Asylum Road. Whether versions of existing works or new manifestations, the works presented will become temporal and temporary in this new context, forming a dialogue with each other. This will be followed by a promenade through Peckham to AMP, a gallery space, to see artworks and performances, then on to a larger exhibition at Safehouses, two heavily dilapidated Victorian houses that serve as exhibition spaces.
On Friday 30 June from 4.30–7.30pm students will host The Theatre of Reading and Speaking, a discursive event designed to be bring their research to a wider audience. This round-table event will delve into reading and speaking as assemblages of enunciation, examining the potential of voice as a phenomenon that touches listening bodies.
