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An exploration of how it may be possible using sound to transpose and overlay the experience of one place onto another. 3pm-6pm 6th – 8th January 2017 Sound installation artists Timothy Crowley and Kate Ogley collaborate on a 3-day residency. They will be creating a series of sound installation from recordings taken along the river Danube in Slovakia. The residency will investigate how these two realms interact and how one transforms the experience of the other.
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NEGOTIATION BETWEEN MADNESS AND SANITY- Crypt Residency 2017
Negotiation between Madness and Sanity, by Zeynep Dagli A collective experiment unleashing the most primitive and urgent. If there’s one expression at once liberating and annihilating in the face of shock and pain, fear and surprise it must be the scream. Can it be said that a scream is an attempt for a negotiation between what we call madness and sanity? Remember the image of Augustine from Charcot’s iconic photography of hysteria patients in 1878 in Salpêtrière women’s hospital in…
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MINOTAUR MAZE
Enter the world of the Minotaur in this site responsive interactive installation that takes you on a minor tour through a maze of mythic resurrections and fantastical treasures. Combining performance, painting, video and the unexpected prepare to venture into the unknown. No one person’s odyssey through this maze will be the same. Participating Artists include: Amy Cochrane Bella Lordwarf Bianca Beckles Rose Boudicca Collins Can Sayinli & Jørgen E Ekvoll Catherine Scutts Drew Forrest Hoad Emily Morey Eugenie Rose Abbott…
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Artists Residency 2018: Luis Elvira
14-18 February 2018 Open daily 11-6pm As a migrant artist space is often a problem and in addition a subject of reflection. When I moved to London I used to walk through the streets trying to find a solution for my big paintings. Then I realized that this city is a city of migrants, movement and constant change. People move constantly leaving behind their trace but also their belongings…. Those objects as doors, furniture, domestic appliances are not only a…
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The Crypt Residency 2018: Loosing, Seeking and Finding
25 February – 1 March 2018 Open 1-4pm daily Nettie Edwards: Loosing, Seeking and Finding Over the last 20 years, I’ve been researching the lives of a family of artists who lived in the Parish of St. Pancras during the 18th and 19th centuries. For the duration of my residency, I’ll bring some of their stories to the Crypt: utilising photography, video and sound to discover lost or hidden narratives. I have invited musician and sound artist Matt Brock to…
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WRITERS IN RESIDENCE- CRYPT RESIDENCY 2018
Yasmin Chopin, Non fiction writer focusing on home, place, interior space. I will be joined by writers:- Lily Ann Green Coleman (31 July – 4 August) and Alison Walsh (1-3 August) We will open to the public from 4-5pm each day.
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The Crypt Residency 2020: Pietro Bardini
The Crypt Residency 10-13 January 2020 Pietro Bardini The residency will be open to the public: Friday 10 Jan: 4-7pm Saturday 11 Jan: 1-5pm Sunday 12 Jan: 1-5pm Monday 13: 12-3pm with Listening sessions from 6:30pm This residency is an exploration of the gallery’s acoustic architecture and aims to investigate how sounds affect the perception of space. Pietro will be developing a site-specific multi-channel composition exploiting the natural silences and reverberations of the crypt. Several satellite speakers will be placed…
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The Crypt Residency 2020: Gavin Osborn
The Crypt Residency 16-19 January 2020 Gavin Osborn The residency will be open to the public: Thursday 16th Jan: 4-7pm (informal performance 6pm) Friday 17th Jan: 11-1, 2-6pm (informal performance 5pm) Saturday 18th Jan: 11-1, 2-6pm (informal performance 5pm) Sunday 19th Jan: 12-4pm (informal performance 3pm) This residency uses sound, text, performance & mixed materials to explore the space & fabric of the Crypt & the stories & histories it contains. Installation & performance elements will accumulate & change throughout…
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Before Nothing – Crypt February Residency 2020
29 February – 1 March 2020 Opening times: 12-6pm (3 slots) The research residency explores the concepts of observing vs gazing when compared to being seen. The artist is there to be seen and while making work, writing, creating, preparing, thinking, emotionally reacting or simply staying. The residency is divided into 2-hour slots: 90 min of “a silently observed artist” followed by 30 min of pause and interaction with the viewers. This work-in-progress is part of the artist’s research and questionnaires…
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Art Grotto – Crypt Residency March 2020
THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED Following the Government announcements regarding coronavirus social distancing (16 March) we have closed the Crypt Gallery until further notice. We will post updates with regard to future events and opening times as the situation develops. For inquiries please email info@cryptgallery.org 18-20 March 2020 Open 2-6pm daily Private View Event (details below): Friday 20 March 2020 7-9pm The weird, the fantastical, the beautiful, the strange….. Robert George Sanders invites you into his world of sketched…
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