As part of the project Disclosures, Gasworks is launching its new Reading Area. Disclosures started as a two-day seminar, residencies and commissions in March 2008, and continues with various events and projects.
The Reading Area is composed of the Disclosures Library, Pipeline and selected publications reflecting upon Gasworks’ past, current and future programmes of activities. All are available for browsing during gallery opening hours.
The Disclosures Library originated as a research archive informing the seminar and was shared onsite in reading and screening spaces during April-May 2008. It has constantly expanded since its inception and has now been relocated to the lobby area as a permanent resource. The library gives visitors access to printed, film and audio material themed around issues of openness and connecting fields encompassing critical media and visual art practice, social history studies and urban sociology.
The catalogue can be viewed online, with many texts available as links. Content is added on a regular basis, and is organised according to four different but overlapping categories:
FROM THE GROUND UP
The lived, embodied and situated realities of networked information culture, resistance to globalisation, activism in the network era, relations between land and information enclosure.
THE POLITICS OF INFORMATION AND ITS FORMS
The politics of organising forms of information and its cultural corollaries; corporate ownership, file sharing, intellectual property; enclosure of information; regulatory, political, corporate, governmental instrumentalisation and control of information.
NEW AND NON AUTHORSHIP
The diffused author, platforms for collaboration in networked media.
ART, NEW MEDIA AND THEIR INSTITUTIONS
Cultural institutions’ responses/co-optation; transfer of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) into cultural operation; labour conditions and art world precarity.
The Disclosures Library is edited by Anna Colin (Exhibitions Curator) and Mia Jankowicz (formerly Residencies Curator at Gasworks) and is coordinated by Christine Takengny (Curatorial Assistant). More texts relating to projects beyond Disclosures at Gasworks are also available through Pipeline.
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155 Vauxhall Street
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Gasworks’ ground floor has full wheelchair access
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The ICA is now Free
From September 1, entry to our galleries and Bar Café before 11pm is free to the public.
The ICA is delighted to announce that from 1 September 2008 it will no longer be charging a day admission charge. You can now access a wide range of innovative arts, ideas and culture on the Mall for free.
This change to admission policy extends to all exhibitions and the ICA Bar Café before 11pm but not to ticketed events in the cinemas, theatre and Nash and Brandon Rooms. It has been made possible through the continued and generous support of ICA Members and Westminster Council. As we move into our 61st year we are taking an inclusive and embracing direction to bring together new artists and new audiences.
The first exhibition to benefit from this significant and historic step, is the ICA Auction Exhibition, a finale to the ICA’s 60th anniversary celebrations showcasing works generously donated from 36 of the most important and influential artists from the ICA’s history.
Other unmissable free highlights from the ICA’s September programme include Nobel Textiles, a brilliant week of exhibitions and events where five Nobel-winning scientists have been paired with five textile designers to extraordinary effect.
And with no entry charge until 11pm each evening, everyone is free to indulge in café culture with attractive food and cocktail menus at the ICA Bar Café, a stylish haven in the bustle of central London.
Going free: FAQ
Why Now?
Before 2008, because of our location on the Mall, we were bound to a complex licensing agreement which meant that we had to charge a day admission fee. Following the recent changes to licensing laws, the authority for the licence was transferred to Westminster City Council and the ICA is extremely grateful that they have now granted us permission to vary the terms of our license so that admission charge now only applies after 11pm.
What does this mean for visitors?
This means that all visitors have free entrance to all public spaces of the ICA including unlimited access to exhibitions and the café/bar area before 11pm. Admission charges only apply to ticketed events in the cinemas, theatre and Nash and Brandon Rooms.
What does this mean for members?
In addition to receiving the usual benefits including advance notice of events via e-mails, advance bulletin delivery to door, priority and discount booking on tickets and in the bookshop, free entrance at all times, private views and other special events, ICA members will now receive the additional benefit of a 10% discount at the ICA Bar Café as a special thank you for supporting us.
How can you afford to go free?
Our Members, funders and sponsors, including Westminster Council and Arts Council England have generously supported us in taking this step.
