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LondonTHE REAL WORLD: CONTEMPORARY BUT OVERLOOKED
7pm
This session looks at alternative art ecologies, and how artists might situate and critically develop their practice outside the conventional art system.
Speakers include curator Mark Pilkington and artist Cathy Ward.
tickets £3
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LondonHRAIR SARKISSIAN ARTIST TALK
Artist Talk Sep 10, 2010 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Current resident artist Hrair Sarkissian (Syria) uses traditional documentary photographic techniques to highlight the paradox between the beauty and constancy of natural and urban landscapes and the social and historical realities that they conceal.
Hrair Sarkissian has shown his work internationally, including, most recently, Disorientation II - The Rise & Fall of Arab Cities (Abu Dhabi, 2010), the 11th Istanbul Biennal (2009) and the State Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, Greece, 2008). He currently lives and works in Amsterdam.
Free event, limited seats available, rsvp required. Please email rsvp@delfinafoundation.com
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RegionsA CONVERSATION IN MANY PARTS LISA LE FEUVRE & E SCHMITZ
Seminar/Symposium Sep 11, 2010 1:00pm - 3:00pm
The second and closing discussion organised around our current exhibition Unrealised Potential is part of the series A Conversation in Many Parts, initiated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Edgar Schmitz as a mode for considering how intellectual work at the intersection of art and politics can be tested in public. Lisa Le Feuvre (curator and writer) and Edgar Schmitz (artist) invite Sam Ely and Lynn Harris to join them for this nomadic seminar that seeks to think through the productive potential of conceptual work, the role of miscommunication and the question of realisation.
FREE, Booking required
Book online: www.cornerhouse.org
By phone: 0161 200 1500
CORNERHOUSE BE GLAD FOR THE SONG HAS NO END FESTIVAL OF ARTIST MUSIC
Performance Sep 11, 2010 to 12:00am
Live music, film screenings, events and stalls set across three uniquely constructed stages at the venue in the Cambridgeshire countryside.
Tickets cost £15, under 12s free. Tickets including coach travel from London and Cambridge are also available.
For further information on the festival, details of places to stay, transport, and to book tickets visit: www.wysingartscentre.org/news/201/ + 44 1954 718 881
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LondonLONDON HISTORIES - CULTURE LINE PANEL DISCUSSION
Panel Discussion 7pm
Samuel Johnson once said “By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show”. A panel of well-known writers and historians will discuss the way the capital has evolved over the centuries to absorb cultures and peoples from all over the globe. How did London’s myriad small areas acquire their distinct and fascinating characters?
This event celebrates the launch of CultureLine – a partnership between 10 museums and galleries, including Whitechapel Gallery, along the newly-opened London Overground East London Line.
www.cultureline.org.uk
tickets £5
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London18@108: NAKED TWO EVENINGS OF ARTIST TALKS
Artist Talk Sep 15 - Oct 13, 2010 to 12:00am
15 September:Benson, Duncan, Ferrand-Scott
13 October: Edwards, Harley, Hart
6.30 - 8.30 pm FREE
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LondonBOOK LAUNCH & TALK: INTOART
7pm
Intoart is an art collective that includes people with a learning disability. For this event they revisit their Whitechapel Gallery exhibition. Contributors to their latest book present live and recorded conversations followed by a discussion.
Free
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RegionsCALL FOR PAPERS: KISS KISS KILL KILL
Sep 18 - 19, 2010 9:00am - 5:00pm
Call for papers:
Coinciding with the Kiss Kiss Kill Kill exhibition, this 2-day, parallel strand symposium aims to bring together international scholars, critics, collectors, graphic artists and cinephiles to explore the issues surrounding the European poster art and the European spy film between 1950-1985.
In collaboration with the UH Arts and the Hertfordshire Film Consortium, the conference will explore the relationship between poster art, graphic design and espionage cinema during the Cold War, while providing an interdisciplinary forum for the development and appreciation of cult film, literature and the applied arts.
The proposed analysis of graphic art, poster design and rare film will include a consideration of themes such as film archiving, marketing, European aesthetics, international audience reception, genre and state politics.
The symposium will also host rare film screenings and special guest appearances. Films secured for screening will include:
Danger Route (GB Holt 1968)
This screening of a rare 16mm print of Seth Holt’s magnificent low budget spy thriller made by Amicus will also include Q&A with leading actor, Richard Johnson (TBC)
Se tutte le donne del mondo aka Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die (Levin & Maiuri IT 1966)
We are proud to present this ‘Holy Grail’ classic Italian Eurospy title from a Tarantino-sought-after, super-rare 16mm print from the US.
Danger Diabolik (IT/FR Bava, 1968), 5th October 7pm, The Weston Auditorium
Possibly the coolest film ever made, a fabulous mash up of master criminal, super-spy and psychedelic genres, horror maestro Mario Bava set the benchmark for the cool sixties flick.
(N.B. Final list of films to be confirmed.)
Keynote speakers (TBC) include:
Matt Blake (author, The Eurospy Guide 2004)
Xavier Mendik (director, The Cult Film Archive, Brunel University)
Sim Branaghan (author, The British Film Poster BFI)
Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):
• Genre and the International Spy Film
• Espionage state propaganda during the Cold War
• Global themes of espionage
• The Eurospy Auteur
• European Genre Factory of the Cold War Years
• Graphic Design and the Spy Film Poster
• The power of co-production in Europe
• Mainstream vs. Indie Spy film
• The Kitsch and the Bombastic in Cold War Film and Poster Design
• Utopian imagery in Eastern Bloc filmmaking and posters
• Jet-setting and exotica
• Political and historical perspectives on the Eurospy experience
• The European-ness of Eurospy
• Supermen and Superwomen – archetypes in the Spy genre.
• ‘Trash Aesthetics’ of the Spy Film
Visit the project website for further information: www.kisskisskillkill.co.uk
Abstracts (200-300 words) for twenty-minute papers should be submitted as an email attachment to d.elliott@herts.ac.uk by 25 June 2010.
Presenters will be notified of acceptance by 20th July 2010.
For more information contact:
Darren Elliott-Smith (Film Education Coordinator)
d.elliott@herts.ac.uk
Tel: 01707 28 5949
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LondonFAILURE WITH LISA LE FEUVRE
Curators Talk 2pm
Curator and Lecturer Lisa Le Feuvre discusses the art of failure and its lure for artists, critics and theorists, marking the launch of the latest anthology in the Documents of Contemporary Art series.
Free
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY BANJOS AT DAWN 1: FOR AND AGAINST THE INTERVIEW
4pm
The interview – an invaluable historical tool or a perpetuation of the cult of celebrity? The first in a series of dueling debates sees Gilda Williams and Julian Stallabrass take up opposing positions, while Sally O’Reilly ensures etiquette is observed.
In association with Art Monthly
tickets £7
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LondonJOHN WALLBANK: ARTIST'S TALK
Artist Talk Oct 1, 2010 6:30pm - 7:30pm
John Wallbank discusses his practice and the works in the exhibition
Free
STANDPOINT GALLERY RegionsABANDON NORMAL DEVICES
Oct 1 - 7, 2010 to 12:00am
Cornerhouse is proud to be producing this instalment of Abandon Normal Devices, presenting an exhilarating programme and new commissions featuring participatory, public realm and online projects with artists including Gillian Wearing, The Sancho Plan, Lawrence Malstaff and xtine burroughs, to name a few.
Abandon Normal Devices (AND) is an annual festival of new cinema and digital culture in the North West, taking place in Liverpool and Manchester on alternate years, with an extended programme in Cumbria, Lancashire and Cheshire.
This festival is a collaboration between Cornerhouse, FACT and folly. AND is part of WE PLAY, the Northwest cultural legacy project for the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
For details visit: www.andfestival.org.uk
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LondonTALKING ART : AN EVENING WITH DAVID BAILEY
Artist Talk Oct 04, 2010 6:30pm
David Bailey will give an illustrated talk discussing his forthcoming exhibiiton of sculpture and photography.
Renowned as one of the world’s most illustrious photographers, Bailey’s forthcoming exhibition will shock viewers as he presents a dark and rugged collection of cast silver and bronze sculptures alongside a body of new photographs, which will underline the stark contrast between the two mediums and emphasise his versatility as an artist. The show will explore the idea that image-makers should not be confined to one discipline, as Bailey insists, “I’m not saying I’m a sculptor, I just make images. I don’t take photographs, I make them. And now I’m making something else.”
In this exhibition, Bailey strips away conventional beauty, and instead focuses on the skull that lies beneath the perfect skin once captured by his camera. Skulls were an obvious choice of subject matter for Bailey. Over the years he has assembled an impressive collection including the craniums of a gorilla, a hippo, and even a tiger that he extracted himself from an old moth eaten head. “The skull is nature’s sculpture” he says. “The old ones get this lovely patina.”
Tickets cost £6.50 and are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
To book go to: wwwkingsplace.co.uk or Tel: 020 7520 1490
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LondonTREVOR APPLESON IN CONVERSATION
Artist Talk Oct 6, 2010 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Stanley Picker Gallery
Exploring Muybridge’s influence on contemporary arts practitioners.
www.MuybridgeinKingston.com
Limited seating - to reserve a FREE place please call 020 8417 4073
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LondonDRAWING. LITHUANIA PRIVATE VIEW
Oct 14, 2010 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Contemporary artist in the middle of society haunted by the history and collective memory
by invitation only
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LondonFUTURE BEAUTY: 30 YEARS OF JAPANESE FASHION
Oct 15, 2010 - Feb 6, 2011 11:00am - 8:00pm
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion is the first exhibition in Europe to comprehensively survey avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the early 1980s to the present. Curated by the eminent Japanese fashion historian Akiko Fukai, Director of the Kyoto Costume Institute, the exhibition explores the unique sensibility of Japanese design, and its sense of beauty embodied in clothing.
Japanese fashion made an enormous impact on the world fashion scene in the late 20th century and designers such as Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto redefined the very basis of fashion. Their works will be shown alongside Kawakubo’s protégé, the techno-couturier Junya Watanabe, together with the acclaimed Jun Takahashi, and the new generation of radical designers including Tao Kurihara, Fumito Ganryu, Matohu, Akira Naka and Mintdesigns.
£8 online/£10 on the door
For further booking details visit www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=10771
BARBICAN ART GALLERY & THE CURVE DAMIÁN ORTEGA
Oct 15, 2010 - Jan 23, 2011 to 12:00am
The next commission in The Curve will be an ambitious installation by acclaimed Mexican artist Damián Ortega. For 31 days Ortega has set himself the challenge of creating a new sculpture over 24 hours. Each sculpture will be inspired by an item culled from the newspaper of that day: whether a news story, a photograph, or a graphic. Over the calendar month the works will accumulate in the gallery to become both a sculptural chronicle of a particular period of time – and a dynamic reinterpretation of the notion of an art commission.
Damián Ortega is one of the leading sculptors of his generation. His Barbican commission follows important solo shows at ICA Boston (2009) and Centre Pompidou (2008), White Cube (2007) and Tate Modern (2005). He began his career as a political cartoonist before he turned to art, and the development of his characteristically ‘mischievous process of transformation and dysfunction’.
Damián Ortega was born in 1967 in Mexico City and currently works and lives in Berlin, Germany.
Free admission
BARBICAN ART GALLERY & THE CURVE COMMA: EXHIBITION TALK
Artist Talk Oct 15, 2010 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Artists Adrian Paci and Julien Bismuth in conversation with curators Sacha Craddock and Vanessa Desclaux
Free. To book, please send an email to gallery@bloomberg.net
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LondonTALKING ART : WILLIAM PYE WATER SCULPTURES
Artist Talk Nov 01, 2010 6:30pm
William Pye will give an illustrated talk discussing his forthcoming exhibiton of sculpture.
In association with Pangolin London and Osbourne Samuel.
Master manipulator of water and technically brilliant sculptor, William Pye, will have his first major solo exhibition in September at two of London’s prestigious galleries: Pangolin London and Osbourne Samuel. The exhibition offers a much anticipated overview of Pye’s work and includes his well-known water pieces as well as a series of previously unseen bronzes which highlight Pye’s skill as a sculptor of both the miniature and the monumental.
Tickets cost £6.50 and are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
To book go to: wwwkingsplace.co.uk or Tel: 020 7520 1490
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RegionsARTIST TALK: JAMIE SHOVLIN
Artist Talk Nov 12, 2010 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Jamie Shovlin talks about his exhibition Hiker Meat at Grand Union with collaborators Euan Rodger and Mike Harte.
Free
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LondonTALKING ART : ANN CHRISTOPHER
Artist Talk Nov 22, 2010 6:30pm
Royal Academician, Ann Christopher is a well known sculptor whose elegant and intricate works seem to evade gravity to rise gracefully into space. Taking her inspiration from a wide range of sources, including both ancient standing stones and soaring skyscrapers on an urban skyline, Christopher’s work is recognisable for its intimate attention to detail and surface texture.
Despite their subtle surfaces and slender forms, Christopher’s sculptures in bronze, steel or silver have great strength and presence and her delicate works on paper also have immense impact, regardless of their fragile nature. It is this remarkable ability to carefully balance both power and grace that sets her aside from the bolder, more brutal principles of the avant-garde sculptors of the 1960’s that initially inspired Christopher such as Richard Serra and Eduardo Chillida .
This exhibition at Pangolin London focuses on a brand new body of work in a variety of media and is Christopher’s first major solo show in London since her exhibition at the Royal Academy. Christopher’s public and private commissions can be found across the globe and her work is held in numerous public collections.
Tickets cost £6.50 and are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
To book go to: wwwkingsplace.co.uk or Tel: 020 7520 1490
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LondonTALKING ART : CHRISTMAS SHOW
Curators Talk Dec 20, 2010 6:30pm
Tickets cost £6.50 and are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
To book go to: wwwkingsplace.co.uk or Tel: 020 7520 1490
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