Banner Repeater is an artist led reading room and project space, founded by Ami Clarke in 2009, situated on Platform 1, Hackney Downs railway station, London E8 1LA.
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.
Banner Repeater is a not-for-profit organisation and has been supported by the ESF Hackney Council, as well as the Arts Council England, the Elephant Trust, the Chelsea Arts Club Trust (2011/12 artist-led space award), and the Italian Cultural Institute.
opening hours:
8 - 10am, 4 - 7pm tues - thurs
8 - 6pm fri
12 - 6pm sat
12 - 6pm sun (during exhibitions)
address:
Banner Repeater
Platform 1
Hackney Downs Railway Station
Dalston Lane
E8 1LA
The Diagram
Sat, 30/10/2010 - 13:28 — Banner RepeaterLAST WEEKEND!
The diagram.
2nd - 31st October
The diagram is not a representation of something else, it is the thing itself (1) .
The diagram has the capacity to represent a wide variety of information, such as text, illustration, graphic techniques, notation, and music scores, indicating temporality. A variety of different methods of representation, all of which draw attention to a correlatory affect that occurs in the comprehension of the multiple representations of information; a knowledge of the other circumstances which one does not see. The contextual arrangements allow for a sophisticated inter-relational complexity to develop.
Users of diagrams, unlike viewers, are functional components inseperable from the system in which they are imbricated................ this is not a fixed subjectivity, but a component in a dynamic system of meaning (2).
Claire Nichols' Empty Gallery Interviews figure the moment of intermission cast by the empty gallery space.
A series of live in-public conversation is staged with exhibitors inside a host of vacant gallery spaces, which trace the artist's imminent response to or within each site prior to the installation of their exhibition.
The Interviewer's Notebook employs drawing as a diagrammatic tool through which to test the relation between language and the visual, in a process of making. An accumulative infrastructure of lines and text develop the temporal and architectural significance of The Empty Gallery Interviews as both proposition and performative action.
Charbel Ackerman's Island Block is an interactive architectural model of the Greater London Council building built in 1973 at the roundabout between Westminster Bridge, St Thomas' Hospital, Waterloo Station and County Hall. The floors of the model plan chest hold drawers full of images, documents and interviews with the architects, and may be consulted by the viewer.
The hexagonal office block was intended to house 1,500 council staff, but after the abolition of the GLC in 1986, stood empty for two decades until its demolition in 2007.
The model produced to present the architects vision prior to building, acts as a sarcophagus to its architectural legacy and short-lived history.
Patrick Coyle's two-part work 'holding this objecty', has a device-like quality, comprised of a small spiral of yellow sandpaper, and a letter outlining how best to display the work, and documentation of previous exhibitions. The letter will be available in the reading room to take away, and the artist was resident at Banner Repeater on the 16th of October, for a re-making of the objecty.
(1) NETZ. Reviel. The Shaping of Deduction.
(2) BENDER John, MARRINAN Michael, The Culture of Diagram.
address:
Banner Repeater
Platform 1
Hackney Downs Network Rail
Dalston Lane
E8 1LA