Signs of Life 

Location: Colliers Wood, London
Dates: 15/16 November 2008, 11am to 6pm

Maps will be available from an information point situated outside Colliers Wood Underground Station and they will also be available to download on the weekend of the event.

Performance Tour: 15 November 2008, 3pm
meet outside Colliers Wood Underground Station (Northern Line)


Sixteen artists, a tour guide and a scriptwriter respond to unusual and overlooked outdoor spaces in South London. The artists dissect, re-arrange and re-imagine disused and contested spaces creating thought-provoking interventions, hidden installations and humorous performances amongst the suburban fabric of Colliers Wood. The artists take another look from a variety of vantage points at this quiet London area, home to Europe's largest supermarket, William Morris' Textile Mills and dominated by 'London's worst building, 2006'.

Come along at 3pm on the Saturday to follow a tour guide like no other around the artworks and uncover the mystery of Colliers Wood. What happens when a bridge goes nowhere and chunks start falling off the tower of doom?

Signs of Life emerged out of a dialogue (Three Weeks) between artists Pippa Koszerek and John O'Hare. It is the first project to involve artists from Final Intervention, a recently formed UK-wide network of early and mid career artists and curators interested in exploring overlooked and derelict spaces. Considering what constitutes a disused site they have both chosen spaces in their respective environments, South London and Liverpool that offer very different perspectives on notions of 'final' and 'Intervention' taking the mystery of each location as a point of departure.

This project involves artists from a number of networks including: Final Intervention, Post and Wolstenholme Projects.