Camden Art Centre’s Volunteer Front of House Assistants presented the second ‘Test Bed’ exhibition in collaboration with Kingsgate Workshops Trust
The Kilburn Grand Tour was an interactive exhibition that focused on artistic exploration and community involvement. Featuring works by Camden Art Centre Volunteers Deborah Farr, Cornelia Marland, Evy Jokhova, Suits Meso, Helene Latey, Lara Smithson and Asako Taki, the works were not only inside Kingsgate Gallery but in unusual off-site spaces around Kilburn. The project aimed to engage the public in an artist-led investigation into the history, community and environment of Kilburn.
The exhibition continued to evolve over the month of October. Asako Taki’s blog project, begun in May 2012, reflects her encounters with the people of Kilburn. Deborah Farr installed a glow-in-the-dark mural in the Iverson Road arches, while the collective Kilburn-Mapping-Project continued to grow within the gallery, through the help of our visitors. Also inside Kingsgate, Suits Meso’s flag-and-sound installation was displayed alongside a performance-wall drawing by Evy Jokhova. Alongside, Jokhova was making a short film that followed one day in Kilburn for 50 years using archival documents and footage filmed by herself. Helene Latey’s guerilla planting along the hidden trail of the old Kilburn River contained a mix of perennial native plants, the full extent of the flowering of these plants taking place from the following spring and re-emerging in years to come.
The Kilburn Grand Tour aimed to support and encourage the establishment of co-operative links between art and public and private organisations in the local area. Its artistic insights and explorations are based on the community involvement of Kilburn residents and visitors with an interest in the history and development of Kilburn. Thus, this exhibition hoped to promote Kilburn as an area in which to live, to work, to study and as an interesting place to visit and discover.
Keep up to date with the project here
