PRE-APOCALYPSE
TheLondonMine is a constantly evolving Live Sculptural Installation.
It is part of a group of pieces created by Artist Designer Adam Ge-Saelis.
Each piece is part of a whole. The whole is Circul. Circul is a unique Ecosytem of Live Installations and Sybiotic Working Spaces.
TheLondonMine is partly named because of the maximum use of urban resources which have been 'Mined'.
Urban Mining is the gathering, processing, developing then using, in original form, or by extracting the best parts of these resources for second use.
Most would call these resources waste or rubbish but on mass these are raw materials.
Urban Miners see the obvious potential and how these throwaways can be used immediately or in the future.
The Installation has been created with 99% Mined materials.
Its design, evolving configurations of rooms and corridors create a constantly changing morphed reality, where space and time intersect or disipate as one moves throught it.
Its long connecting tunnel like corridoor with its wooden beamed ceilings and unique lighting installation symbolises and imagines a Mine.
Items that were once on their way to landfill or the incinerator have been become the artists raw materials and are given a new meaning.
TheLondonMine is also personally sybolic to how the artist has had to 'dig deep', setting up his initial studio 25 years ago this year from being homeless and living in a van, after the collapse of a business. It is also inspired by a 'Vision' of sorts and multiple repeat dreams over many years.
These repeat dreams show a post apocalyptic landscape and those living in it.
Every few weeks new individual pieces of Art work will appear in the space.
Some will ask attendees to collaborate with immediately or in the future.
They will become physically interactive and will challenge ones perception of what is art or how art is made and why.
All curated pieces will be made and produced with mined materials or reused and discarded old art.
Exhibits & exhibitions can dissapear from view using hidden storage areas to create vast open spaces that allow the space to quickly morph. TheLondonMine can be transformed into a Giant Working Studio or Production Line.
Connected 'Prop-Stores' contains thousands of pre-used and discarded items, from film / theatre sets, reclamation, furniture, textiles, vintage clothing, books, crafts & art that has been collected over the last 25 years. It could be seen as a 'Museum of Recycling', it is a vast collection.
This is open to the public by appointment and on our open days and evenings.
Items are are available as prop-hire for film, theatre and events and some for sale.
TheLondonMine is available for private hire for workshops, events & as a shoot location & is run 'Not for Profit'. Profits made will go towards a Disaster Zone Rebuild charity & Homeless charities.
Ge-Saelis is a promoter of Non-Toxic paints and Art Materials, and encourages other Artists to rethink their processes and practices by using products that existed before the rise of Petro Chemicals. A linked project,
'I We Create', is also at the same site, and provides 60 spaces for other artists.
A once yearly exhibition, (in planning), will highlight advances in recycling, biophilic projects and environmental challenges and provide innovative new ideas and educational resources that can reduce the carbon foot print of us all.
It will highlight the waste in society, of people, products, and how we treat the planet and its resources.
Get in touch, we would love to hear your ideas and how they would fit into our set up or for props sale and hire.
APOLOGIES TO ALL.
WE ARE STILL PARTIALLY SHUT FOR MORE ROOF REPAIRS.
PLEASE EMAIL US AND WE WILL SEND A DIRECT INVITE FOR WHEN WE ARE FULLY OPEN AGAIN.
WE ARE AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE ENQUIRIES
FROM 2PM-6PM WEDNESDAYS-SUNDAYS
PLEASE CALL 0208 671 0011.
WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AGAIN SOON
Mostly Sundays but some Saturdays 12-6.
Thursday & Friday evenings TBA.
Film Props & Vintage Furniture, Art, Amazing Soup, Hot Alcoholic Drinks.
'Drum', a constantly expanding Lighting Installation, created during the last days of December and through into January will open soon.
'The WoodYard Stage'. another installation is also construction and will open fully in the spring.
This is part if the artists studio workshop that will be transformed into a Stage on various days and evenings a month, for Theatre, Spoken Word, Opera and other musical performances.
Please get in touch if interested in being involved in any way.
LEAVE AN EMAIL WITH YOUR DETAILS.
WE WILL GET BACK TO YOU FOR OUR OPEN DAYS AND PRIVATE VIEWS.
Carbon-Negative. Fully Circular & Zero Waste.
Photo : Broken but Beautiful.
Copr. A.Ge-Saelis
