South London Gallery

9 - 12 May 2012 For his first solo project in the UK, French Berlin-based artist Jean-Pascal Flavien presents a new performance, entitled Cinonema, no drama cinema, followed by a three-day film installation of performative projections in the Clore Studio. This new work expands on, and brings together, ideas that the artist has explored in a number of recent projects, specifically no drama house, 2009, a small house he built in the garden of a gallery in Berlin. The house was designed as a space to live in and, in the words of Flavien, "for the experience of positive situations such as working, writing, arranging furniture, inviting people for breakfast, but also reading, sleeping". Cinonema, no drama cinema extends ideas Flavien reflected on in his 2011 performance project, PLAy which brought together debates around performance, film and the functionality of the "house" by producing its own cinema. This new project incorporates a series of micro-films that present an action-based gesture performed inside and outside the house, linking to explorations of the house and its surroundings, projected across the walls of SLG's space and functional furniture. A limited edition poster by the artist will also be incorporated and be part of the installation. Flavien is a French artist, born in Le Mans in 1971 and currently living in Berlin. His practice spans drawing, performance, installation and photography. Cinonema, no drama cinema will be his first solo project in the UK. Recent projects include: night house at daytime, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, 2011; PLAy (performance) HEDAH, Maastricht / Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany, 2011; Two person house, Sao Paulo, Capacete/Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil, 2010; no drama house, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Germany, 2009; Plouf! ,Tate Modern, London, 2009. Supported by Fluxus, the Franco-British Fund for Contemporary Art, and the Institut Français. http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/jean-pascal-flavien

SLG Local is a new long-term project which brings newly commissioned and existing contemporary art works, films, videos and installations from public and private collections to a broad range of social settings in the vicinity of the South London Gallery. www.southlondongallery.org/local SLG Local is sponsored by Bloomberg and supported by the Big Lottery Fund. Map contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2012.

British artist Edward Thomasson graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art last year and was awarded the inaugural South London Gallery and SPACE Graduate Residency which began in October 2011. The residency offers a recent graduate accommodation in the South London Gallery's Outset Artists' Flat, use of a nearby studio courtesy of SPACE and a solo exhibition in the SLG's first floor galleries. For his exhibition, Inside, Thomasson presented new video work and drawings produced during his six month residency at the SLG from October 2011 to March 2012. www.southlondongallery.org/edwardthomasson A catalogue also accompanies the exhibition: http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/film-still-from-inside-edward-thomasson The Nina Stewart Artist's Residency with the South London Gallery and SPACE is funded by The Nina and Roger Stewart Charitable Trust, with additional support from Bloomberg. www.southlondongallery.org/graduateresidency