Sunday 28 December 2014

PALESTINE/ RACISM + ART ARTIST CALL



PALESTINE/ RACISM + ART 

ARTSHOW OPENING TIMES

Opening: Sunday 18th January 5pm - 9pm

FREE ENTRANCE 


LOCATION: BRIXTON MARKET HOUSE, 443 COLDHARBOUR LANE, LONDON SW9 8LN 

FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: 

DONATE TO PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN
http://donate.palestinecampaign.org/

ARTWORK BY 25 DIFFERENT ARTISTS, THANKS TO PALESTINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN 

TALKS ABOUT ART, INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND PALESTINE BY: ZITA HOLBORNE, GIL MUALEM DORON, GABRIELLA IBBA,  PATRIZIA CECCONI, LYDIA COHEN AND ihtgw. THERE WILL BE A Q&A SESSION.

Palestine, Israel, Jerusalem, the so-called Holy Land. There is a central role played by these points in space, time and class, in the Capitalist imagination . It was here that the mythical anti-capitalist act of Jesus overturning the money lenders tables took place. It was here that the Knights Templar and the Ismaili Hashashin Sufis formulated the foundations of modern day Banking system. It is here that prophesy was fulfilled in 1946 with the foundation of Israel, the return of Christ and beginning of the end of the Age of Divinity.

And so the evictions, the bombings, the massacres in and around Gaza, that became a world wide Spectacle last year, serve not only to push humanity back into the age of divinity and into Hell, but also serve as a metaphor for the oppression of the working class in general. The specific racism of the Israeli state against Palestinians has its roots in the anti-Semitism and racism that were exported from Europe, as sell as in extremist Jewish religious supremacy sentiments. It can also be taken as a metaphor for the racism of the British state against former slave colonies in Africa and India and beyond. It can also be taken as a metaphor for the patriarchy along with racism lays the psychic foundations for capitalism.

And so the national struggle of Palestine against Israel is for us manifest wherever we face Capitalism as an occupying force in our lives. In Brixton, the uprisings of the working class 1981, 1985, 1991, 2011 - all point towards the same structure of oppression engendered in Palestine - that of the destructive workers being pitted against the reproductive workers and the productive workers. Revolution must be all or nothing. It is the supercession of all nations, all workers and all ages, beginning in the here and now.

By DAMTP



ARTISTS:
Khaled Alsenan
Caroline Halliday
Lydia Cohen
Gil Mualem Doron
Phoebe Eustance
Sandra Gama
Eldar Gantz
Lewis Garland
Zita Holbourne
Art by Laila Kassab - Gaza
Bjørk Grue Lidin
Julia Maddison
Celia Martin
Ros Meadow
Aliya Nazli
John D Perkins
Dee Sada
Isra Shaheen
Skin Skinner
Joy Stacey
DAMTP
ihtgw

Monday 17 November 2014

Summary of yesterdays Occupy Democracy Creatives meeting

We came up several ideas. One idea everyone can participate in Occupy Democracy; by bringing your own balloons with peace and protest messages. Also to spread the message; balloons can be left around in other areas saying 'Occupy Democracy'. Hope you all can bring some balloons to Occupy Democracy outside Parliament Square between 21st to 23rd November. Please pass this around to other people to bring balloons. Thanks!

Monday 3 November 2014

OCCUPY DEMOCRACY ART



Artist call: artwork needed for Occupy Democracy outside Parliament. Artwork with political conscious needed, performance, banner, or any other relevant artwork. For more information please email: samiagallery@gmail.com ASAP! 


Occupy democracy dates: starts 6pm on Friday 21st November runs till Sunday 23rd November 2014

Please pass information on to anyone interested in being involved.

OCCUPY DEMOCRACY ART FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/1497583310516382/?ref=22&pnref=story

OCCUPY DEMOCRACY EVENT PAGE:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1557704134448588/?pnref=story

* Due to sudden closure of gallery on Henriques Street E1 in September 2014, FREEDOM and FASCISM art show were cancelled. Gallery project continues in different locations, Occupy Democracy, Parliament Square in November 2014, is next location for gallery project. 

Thursday 14 August 2014

GAZA FUNDRAISER PERFORMANCE DAY INVITE




Money raised will go to: individuals in need in Gaza, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition and Medication Aid For Palestinians.

ARTISTS 

Wednesday 23 July 2014

GAZA FUNDRAISER FREE PALESTINE PRESS RELEASE


GAZA FUNDRAISER FREE PALESTINE, artshow launch Friday 1st August 2014 at 6pm, at Samia Gallery, 19 Henriques Street, London E1 1NB. Artshow starts with exhibiting artwork from 29 artists. Artworks presented in various mediums: sculptures, prints, drawings, paintings, videos and performances. Gaza fundraiser event goes on till Sunday 31st August 2014, through artshow duration more artwork will be exhibited and more performances will take place. Money raised will go to: individuals in need in Gaza, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Stop the War Coalition and Medication Aid For Palestinians.

LYDIA COHEN 

We’re not putting our energy into creating an anti-Israel event. This is a humanitarian cause. Over 600 people are dead.

I’m of Israeli decent – my father is an Israeli Jew. I wanted to know the truth earlier this year I went to the West Bank. For me the best way to understand something is to see for oneself. People had got in touch with me through Facebook, one in particular, Abed, who was from Gaza now living in exile in Egypt as it was too dangerous for him to stay in Gaza. He left his family there. During the latest attack he had been told his family’s home had been bombed and they had fled. He is now not able to get hold of them not knowing whether they are alive or dead. This kind of situation is not something we can’t even comprehend. I felt helpless – what could we do? It was Abed feeling that they are fighting this alone with no support that we thought of creating a dialogue between people in Gaza and the gallery.

This isn’t just a charity event passing funds onto a faceless charity, it’s us directly helping, showing we are here and we care for the cause and want to support these people in rebuilding their lives. For us this is about support.


SAMIA MALIK 

I've not been to Palestine or Israel. I support various humanitarian issues, Palestine has been one of them for many years. I'm a Muslim, and I'm not anti Israel. I'm against Israel's criminal attacks on Palestine, who has no: army, air force and navy. 

I cannot explain the pain every time I hear another persons killed in Palestine. I don't have the words to describe, to not truly understand the pain suffered by people killed or injured in this massacre, and the pain suffered by their families. Only thing I can seem to do is: pray, share news, and go to demonstrations. But none of this seems to be enough, I feel like a failure each time I hear a child, women and man is killed. 

Thank you Lydia Cohen, for coming up with idea to fund raise in gallery for Palestinians. I'm familiar with several good charities raising funds for Palestine, to end a 66 year siege by Israel, who also are supported by other powerful governments such as UK. Palestine can sure do with another fund raise event. I sincerely hope that every penny raised will go towards freeing Palestine forever.


ARTIST LIST:
Phil America, Shaheen Ahmed, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Vanya Balogh, Nadia Ballen, Frank Black, Bill Cilbery, Lydia Cohen, ihtgw Continent, Ashley Scott Fitzgerald, Glenn Fitzy Fitzpatrick, Laura Gabe, Eldar Gantz, Maria Teresa Gavazzi, Max Gimson, Nikki Hare, Dannielle Hodson , Marie Holyhead, Hülya Küpçüoğlu, Andie Macario, Julia Maddison, Paul Matosic, Katie McDougall, Safeena Razzaq, Rebecca Scott, Megan Schwartz, Martin Sexton, Barrie Sharpe , Andrew Stys, Roman Taher, David Turner,
Mark Woods, Hassan Vawda, Markrobla 




FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/1474714002767886/?ref=br_tf

Sunday 13 July 2014

GAZA FUND RAISER FREE PALESTINE WITH LYDIA COHEN

We're organising in gallery Gaza fund raiser with Lydia Cohen.

We're looking for: ideas, artwork, contribution, performances etc. Artwork submission sizes: A5, A4, A3. A2. Small scale sculptures can also be submitted. Please email: samiagallery@gmail.com. 

Fund raiser launch date Thursday 31st July 2014, event runs for a month. Artwork submission deadline for launch Sunday 27th July 2014. More artwork can be submitted till Friday 15th August 2014.

Money raised will be donated to indigenous civilians of Gaza. The aim is not to send funds we raise directly to charities, and organisations but directly to people in need. So we are in touch with their progress and developments.






FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1474714002767886/?ref=notif&notif_t=plan_edited

Tuesday 24 June 2014

FREEDOM ARTWORK SUBMISSION CALL



FREEDOM Art Show starts at Samia Gallery in September 2014 (exact date to confirmed). Please submit art work size A5/ A4 /A3, we're open to video and sculptures. Please email artwork to samiagallery@gmail.com. Artwork call goes on till late August 2014, and no costs to submit artwork. 

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/332770553538603/?context=create&ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=49

SAY NO TO FACISM ARTWORK SUBMISSION CALL




SAY NO TO FASCISM Art Show starts at Samia Gallery in September 2014 (exact date to confirmed). Please submit art work size A5/ A4 /A3, we're open to video and sculptures. Please email artwork to samiagallery@gmail.com. Artwork call goes on till late August 2014, and no costs to submit artwork. 

FABOOK EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/323881897777062/?context=create&ref=1&source=49

Friday 20 June 2014

Private View, curated by Li Li Ren


Private View

1st July - 18th July 2014
Private View: 30th June 2014, 6-9pm
Curated by Li Li Ren
Artists including: Stephen Hall, Nu Li, Lou-Atessa Marcellin, Li Li Ren, Sam Tierney, Julia Varela

At: Samia Gallery, 19 Henriques Street E1 1NB 

In our time everybody feels himself under surveillance. We know that we are exhibited, exposed to the gaze of the others. Our private sphere is permanently invaded, controlled by the state and private institutions. And the visual regime under which we live is an asymmetrical one: we do not see the others watching us because the means of visual control are mostly hidden from our eyes. Thus, this regime is different from the panoptical regime as it was described by Foucault, e.g. as the regime under which we could see the subject of power that saw us. The question is: how to react to this asymmetrical visual regime? One way is to defend one’s private space. But this strategy is obviously ineffective. The second way is to manipulate one’s own image in a conscious way – to create this image by showing more than the other wants to see, and to invent what one shows.
  --------- Boris Groys

The group exhibition Private View  explores whether privacy as we used to understand it has ceased to exist in today's world of total surveillance. 
Groys' analysis proposes an interesting alternative to the protection of privacy namely a contrived self-revelation. Confessional culture from reality tv to social media sees users competing for the traumatic exposure of the disgusting private revelation - confirming our worst suspicions. If our own private lives are not interesting enough we had better spice them up to be worthy of consumption, resulting in a proliferation of self exaggeration,  self dramatisation and acting out.
Private view stands at the shifting boundary between private and public, toying with the real or the manufactured/ manipulated. It questions the authenticity of our so called private lives, presents us with often incompatible or self contradictory privacies simultaneously.

Facebook event page: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/658932760850302/?context=create&ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=49

Friday 13 June 2014

THE KIDS

The Kids Art Show at Samia Gallery May 2014. Many thanks to Vanya Balogh for coming up with the idea and organaising it all. Huge thanks to all 60 + kids age up to 10 years for participating in artshow, and thank you to all parents too.

























Monday 9 June 2014

AFFORDABLE ART MARKET

Affordable Art Market starts on Tuesday 10th June 2014 runs till July 2014. We're inviting more artist to be part of the Affordable Art Market. If you have any artwork or merchandise you want to sell in Affordable Art Market please send artwork images to email: samiagallery@gmail.com.



AFFORDABLE ART MARKET IS ONGOING FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. OPENING TIMES: 

TUESDAY TO FRIDAY 12PM - 6PM 


SUNDAY 3PM - 6PM 
(for occasional changes in gallery opening hours please lookout for facebook or twitter updates).

Facebook events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/691408774227757/?context=create&ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=49

ARTISTS:

Vanya Balogh
Maria Teresa Gavazzi
John Stephens
Andrew Stys
Anne Sophie Trindade

MORE TO CONFIRMED 

Sunday 8 June 2014

FEMINIST SHOP

Feminist Shop starts on Tuesday 10th June 2014 runs till July 2014. Feminist Shop is the idea of Fans of Feminism, and running at Samia Gallery as a collaborative project. We have various artists works in Feminist Shop, and we're inviting more artist to be part of Feminist Shop. If you have any feminist artwork or merchandise you want to sell in Feminist Shop send artwork images to email: samiagallery@gmail.com.


ARTISTS:

Ingrid Berthon-Moine
Ihtgw Continent
Sadie Hennessy
Rekha Sameer
Karen Savage
Rebecca Scott
Seana Wilson


MORE TO BE CONFIRMED

FEMINIST SHOP IS ONGOING FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. OPENING TIMES: 

TUESDAY TO FRIDAY 12PM - 6PM 
SUNDAY 3PM - 6PM 
(for occasional changes in gallery opening hours please lookout for facebook or twitter updates). 

Facebook events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1498885850325232/?context=create&ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=49

Saturday 7 June 2014

SHOP/ GALLERY FOR RENT BETWEEN JULY - SEPTEMBER 2014


Location: Just off Commercial Road and 5 minutes away from Bricklane and Aldgate East tube station.

Shop gallery space details: good lighting, excellent shop window. This space, location is good for pop up shops/ exhibitions and events.

Size of space: 5m x 4m 

Prices: from £50 per day/ £300 per week (negotiable)

Safety and security: metal shutter included in shop front.

For more information email: samiagallery@gmail.com


Thursday 29 May 2014

SAMIA GALLERY PROJECT 0.1


SAMIA GALLERY PROJECT 0.1

Gallery Manifesto

Samia Gallery's ethos, retraction to current system of the art industry. This includes supporting movements related to; non-patriarchy, creativity that does not exploit: men, women, children and animals.

Samia Malik, some of my main concerns are: war, climate change, consumerism, education and female exploitation. Since starting gallery in December 2013 with a friend, gallery's functioned as an artists run space. Names of a few art shows we organaised: Stop the war, The Kids, Sexism, Day job and Fashion is fake. Below link to previous gallery blog: http://indraandsamia.blogspot.co.uk/

Through recent partnership changes, decisions; gallery names now changed to Samia Gallery. Gallery proceeds as a communal, democratic artists run space. We're inviting people from all areas of creative mediums to contribute and participate in gallery. One of the main aims of the gallery is to continue running regular innovative, and progressive art exhibitions. 

To join participants need to contribute £4 a month. This contribution includes opportunities to participate in Samia Gallery to:

- Curate art shows
- Do performances 
- Organise meetings/ talks/ crits/ events
- Opportunities to participate in other group shows in gallery 
- We would also encourage participants to collaboratively curate artshows in gallery
- We are open to other suggestions 
* Also any donation contributions will help to develop, sustain Samia Gallery, an independent artists run space.  

To join Samia Gallery as a contributor and participant please email: samiagallery@gmail.com

For donation contribution please press link below:

Tuesday 27 May 2014