Bold Tendencies 2013
Date uploaded: June 24, 2013
Bold Tendencies 2013
30th June - 30th September
Wednesday - Sunday, 11am - 11pm
Bold Tendencies, Peckham's non-profit summertime commissioning project is BACK! Held on the top four floors of a disused multi-storey car park in Peckham, South London, Bold Tendencies is dedicated to supporting the vision of artists and actively engaging audiences.
Join the Private View on Saturday 29th June, 5-9pm for a preview of the works. Bold Tendencies will then be starting the season will a full days opening on Sun 30th June, 11am-11pm.
Founded in 2007, Bold Tendencies is free to visit, welcoming over 60,000 visitors in 2012, from local residents to international tourists. Press feedback has been universally positive, and leading figures from the art world have offered their praise.
Each year Bold Tendencies commissions site specific art. For 2013, the Bold Tendencies commissions will take the form of a fully integrated and overlapping programme of fixed works, experience based works and clusters of related happenings. The nature of this will be inter-disciplinary, befitting recent significant and current developments with an expanded definition of sculpture.
The 2013 project, curated by Joe Balfour, features new site-specific commissions by Nina Beier (b. Aarhus, Denmark, 1975), Nicholas Brooks (b. London, UK, 1975 ), Steven Claydon (b. London, UK 1969), Benedict Drew (b. Kyneton, Australia, 1977), Cecile B Evans (b. Cleveland, USA 1983), Grand George (b. London, UK 2013), Piotr Lakomy (b. Gorzow Wlkp, Poland, 1983), Jimmy Merris (b. London, UK, 1983), Ruth Proctor (b. Scunthorpe, UK, 1980) and Total Vitality (Leslie Kulesh (b. Illinois, USA 1982) & Laura McLean-Ferris (b. Kingston, NY, USA, 1982)).
The 2013 Architecture Programme includes a new Dining Room by Mike Levitt (b. Liverpool, UK 1985) and Derek Jarman's Garden for Peckham, a collaboration with Keith Collins and Dan Bristow/Propagating Dan (b. Bangor, Wales, 1982). Practice Architecture's Franks Cafe and Auditorium return.
