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The reading room holds an archive dedicated to artists’ printed material and is home to Publish and be Damned's public library.  It provides an important bibliographic resource that all visitors to BR can browse.  The bookshop holds a selection of artists' publications for sale. 

The project space has an ambitious exhibition programme of new art work installed in a highly visible and accessible location and a vigorous programme of talks, events and performance.

The project is driven by its location, dedicated to developing critical art in the natural interstice the platform and incidental footfall of over 4,000 passengers a day provides. This is achieved by rush-hour opening times that attract commuters, and an open door policy maintained 6 days a week.

The emphasis on multiple points of dissemination, via pamphlets and posters published from the site, and the other free material we distribute, as well as on-line activities, and the siting of the archive of artists’ printed material as a public library; a resource to be utilised by both local community and visitors in a working station environment, remain key.

The project has been supported in 2010/11 by an Empty Shop Fund grant from the local government initiative; Arts in Empty Spaces, and an Arts Council England grant. Banner Repeater is one of a series of projects supported by Hackney Council intended to bring empty shops and premises back to life. The projects are financed by central government funding awarded to the Council, and are to provide activities that will benefit Hackney 's residents and visitors.

Banner Repeater has recently been successful in an application for Arts Council England Grants for the Arts funding, for the second year's art programme, and are also supported by the Elephant Trust, the Chelsea Arts Club Trust (2011/12 artist-led space award), and the Italian Cultural Institute.  We are also kindly supported by National Express.

Banner Repeater is a not-for-profit organisation.

Friday 16th May 7-9pm
Please join us for the launch of Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock’s


During the evening of the launch there will be 100 free editions available to take away for free.

 
The project consists of written responses by Terry Atkinson to an organum written by Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock on the subject of how to produce a critical form of exhibition making in the current conditions of the art world. JCHP ask if it is now possible for an artistic practice to side-step, outwit, or otherwise present a productive critical challenge to the current culture of what they call “exhibitionism” in the field of art. The crucial point of contention here is that “exhibitionism”, as they see it, is the principal form of “the economy of visibility” in the art world, where the relations of distribution of art have become the principal form and modus operandi of the relations of production for artistic practice in general.

 
The publication is a compendium of images and writing that documents and examines JCHP’s recent exhibition at Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry. It includes writing from Terry Atkinson, Richard Birkett, Alex Bowen, Michael Hampton, Lynda Morris, Matthew Poole and JCHP, poems and prose from Brecht’s unfinished Messingkauf project and images of the exhibition and events. The publication comprises of a series of posters and two books produced before, during and after the exhibition.

 
In response to this observed condition, JCHP have written an organum consisting of twenty points plus an addendum, which attempts to scientifically, or we might say logically, diagnose and prognosticate on what may still be possible within artistic practice to operate as a critical method that tackles head-on the challenges of contemporary exhibition culture. The fulcrum of all the statements in the organum is the exhibition by JCHP from 24 January to 2 March 2014 presented at Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry, curated by Sadie Kerr and titled “CRITICAL DÉCOR: WHAT WORKS!” Written both before and after this exhibition, JCHP’s organum asks if it is possible to present a partial artwork (i.e. a work that is definitively unfinished), and if so whether this strategy of the withholding of satisfaction of ‘full visibility’ presents a viable critical position vis-à-vis “exhibitionism”.

 
Terry Atkinson’s talk during the exhibition at Lanchester Gallery Projects 27 Feb 2014 titled: Exhibitionism is available below:

http://embed.bambuser.com/broadcast/4396636
Terry Atkinson.  Broadcast live 27th February 2014, from Lanchester Gallery Projects 12.30pm.

Terry Atkinson’s responses pick apart some of the key elements of the JCHP statement, exploring and questioning the tenets of their declarations and descriptions. Atkinson, relating the convergences and divergences of his own critique with that of JCHP’s, continues to explore one of the main focuses of critical attention in his artistic practice, ‘the AGMOAS’ (the Avant-Garde Model of the Artistic Subject) and its relation to what he calls the Corporate Tyranny of contemporary capitalistic crypto-ideology.” (Matthew Poole, Kynastonmcshine).
 
Terry Atkinson founded Art & Language in 1968 with David Bainbridge, Michael Baldwin and Harold Hurrell.

 
Jeffrey Charles Henry Peacock is the collective practice of artists Dave Smith and Thom Winterburn.
 

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We believe that artist-led spaces play an essential role in the vitality and economy of the art world, offering alternative opportunities for emerging and established artists alike, to produce work that might struggle to appear elsewhere.

“…Banner Repeater’s broader endeavour presented far more than an exhibition, and contributions in person and in print by some of the city’s most interesting thinkers (including Paul Mason, Esther Leslie and Nina Power) is testament to the David vs. Goliath thinking of this small space and the goodwill that meets it. London’s larger art institutions would be well advised to sit up and listen, or even better, go horizontal and join forces.”   Isobel Harbison,  Frieze issue 148 Summer 2012.

Please join our membership programme for £25 where you can actively help contribute towards Banner Repeater’s activities and join a growing network of like-minded individuals in our Associate Membership Peer Programme…

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•                 Peer Programme meetings; an opportunity to discuss new work with other members.

•                 Free submission to the Banner Repeater annual open submission exhibition.

•                 Banner Repeater membership card to AMPP 

•                 10% off publishing in the bookshop

•                 10% off all prints in the growing print portfolio.

•                 plus… 7 free tickets to the Banner Repeater Lottery Bonanza!

If you would like to purchase more lottery tickets please add to the membership fee in denominations of £5 and you will be sent your 7 free ticket numbers plus the ones you additionally purchase.

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS PEER PROGRAMME   Annual membership £25  (and 7 free lottery tickets)           

You can help us to continue the Arts Programme, and all the associated events and talks that accompany this, supporting both emerging and more established artists, and! win one of the donated artworks by a truly fantastic selection of artists by buying lottery tickets in our...

BANNER REPEATER LOTTERY BONANZA

To help raise essential funding, several Artists have generously donated an Artwork to our Lottery Bonanza.  Your support will help secure Banner Repeater’s future, and help substantiate our fundraising activities further.

The tickets are £5 each, but better still there are 7 free tickets with annual membership of £25.  If you feel able to support us further, please also buy more tickets (15 tickets £50), and increase your chances of winning one of these artists’ works:

Turner Prize winner 2012 Elizabeth Price

Jarman Award nominee Benedict Drew

Tate Britain 'Art Now' Clunie Reid

Patrick Coyle

John Russell

Plastique Fantastique

Simon Bedwell

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Lottery tickets will be pulled out of the hat on 22nd March at Banner Repeater, where you are are warmly invited to attend and purchase further tickets and other artworks for sale during the fund-raiser.   (If you are unable to attend you will be notified by email if you're number is pulled out of the hat.)

Tickets: each £5

7 free tickets with annual membership (£25)

15 tickets: £50

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We welcome donations of any size and truly value your support. Thanks!

“Another of the beauties of having a gallery in a train station is that, unlike almost any other gallery you’d care to name, the sense of social distance engendered by being in an ‘art gallery’ is significantly eroded. I was watching Louis Henderson’s A Video by Marcel Broodthaers when someone from the platform came in and mistook me for a gallery attendant. She asked me who Broodthaers was and what the film was about. …It was a great experience, not least because she settled in for a while before her train to watch Henderson’s tonally deft meditation on art, geography, failure, and time.”  Light Writing at Banner Repeater review by William Kherbek.