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TrAIN & CCW Graduate School Open Lecture, Dr Ethel Brooks
Romani (Gypsy) women and children interned in the Rivesaltes transit camp. France, spring 1942. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of J. Levy
TrAIN & CCW Graduate School Open Lecture | Dr Ethel Brooks |
Digging Through the Rubble: Romani Women’s Holocaust Testimony and What it Tells us about History
Weds 25th January, 17:15 – 19:00
Lecture Theatre – Chelsea College of Art & Design
16 John Islip Street
London
SW1P 4JU
(Atterbury Street entrance)
This event is free and open to all
Places are strictly limited
RSVP to n.tatchell@arts.ac.uk
How can we “see” a visual archive of genocide? What are the possibilities –and limits—of testimonial narratives and oral histories as they circulate visually? Is there a possibility for a counter-narrative that tells us something new, on the one hand, and disrupts hegemonic representations of the Holocaust, on the other?
This paper is part of a larger project that is attempting to excavate a longue-duree Romani history of the city. In it, I will focus on Romani women’s testimony found in the Visual History Archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education to explore that which is often left untold in what Walter Benjamin has described as the “rubble-heap” that lies at the feet of the “Angel of History.” Through an attention to testimony and the witness’s refusals, disputes, contention with interviewers expectations and questions, how do we –as viewers, and perhaps consumers, of testimony— take up the claims, the quest for recognition and the potential for disruption of our accepted understandings that are the challenges of the production and circulation of testimony?
Dr Ethel Brooks: Fullbright Visiting Distinguished Chair (in partnership with the Tate Gallery)
This event is free and open to all but places are limited so please RSVP to the TrAIN Administrator, Nick (n.tatchell@arts.ac.uk).
Posted on 23 January 2012
TrAIN Open Lecture | Jonathan Harris |
TrAIN Open Lecture | Jonathan Harris |
THE UTOPIAN GLOBALISTS: ARTISTS OF WORLDWIDE REVOLUTION 1919-2009
Weds 2nd November, 17:15 – 19:00
Lecture Theatre – Chelsea College of Art and Design
16 John Islip Street
London
SW1P 4JU
(Atterbury Street entrance)
This event is free and open to all
Places are strictly limited – RSVP to e.pitkin@arts.ac.uk
Jonathan Harris has a BA in Art History from the University of Sussex and a PhD from what is now Middlesex University. He has taught at Leeds, Keele, and Liverpool universities, and lectured widely around the world, especially in the US, Australia and Europe. He is Professor in Global Art & Design Studies, and Director of the Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design and Media, at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. His most recent publication is ‘Globalization and Contemporary Art’ (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and he is author or editor of more than a dozen other books. The ‘Utopian Globalists: Artists of Worldwide Revolution, 1919-2009′ is due from Wiley-Blackwell in 2012.
This lecture considers a less traced lineage in twentieth century art: artists and groups of artists who explicitly set out ‘utopian global’ and globalizing themes and values in their work, attempting to align themselves with both organized and diffuse movements for radical social change in the world, in the wake of the Russian Revolution and then the turbulent waters of the Cold War. The lecture will set out both the theoretical-historical parameters of this narrative – stretching from Tatlin and the Constructivists to Christo and Jeanne-Claude in the 1990s – as well as sketch in some of the detail forming the material and ideal values of the artists upon which the book is focussed.
Places are strictly limited; RSVP to e.pitkin@arts.ac.uk
For more information please visit: www.transnational.org.uk
Posted on 19 October 2011
TrAIN Open Lecture | José Roca |
Photo by Guillermo Santos
Essays in geopoetics: The notion of territory critically redefined from the perspective of artistic practice.
19th October, 17:15 – 19:00
Lecture Theatre – Chelsea College of Art and Design
16 John Islip Street
London
SW1P 4JU
(Atterbury Street entrance)
This event is free and open to all
Places are strictly limited – RSVP to e.pitkin@arts.ac.uk
José Roca (Barranquilla, 1962) is a Colombian curator working out of Bogotá and Philadelphia. For a decade he managed the arts program at the Banco de la República in Bogotá, establishing it as one of the most respected institutions in the Latin American circuit. Roca was a co-curator of the I Poly/graphic Triennial in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2004); the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2006); the Encuentro de Medellín MDE07 (2007); and of the Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala (2010), and was the Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia’s international Triennial celebrating print in contemporary art, among many other exhibitions and events. Roca served on the awards jury for the 52nd Venice Biennial (2007). He is currently chief curator of the 8 Bienal do Mercosul, scheduled to open in September 2011 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
http://joseroca1962.wordpress.com/
Essays on Geopoetics: the 8 Mercosul Biennial
The curatorial project for the 8th iteration of the Mercosul biennial, which takes place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, departed from simple questions: is it possible to conceive a large art biennial in which the model is not primarily exhibitionary? Can or should a biennial create or consolidate local infrastructure? Who is the real public for a third-world biennial? Using the notion of nation both as a thematic framework and as a strategy for curatorial action, the project aimed to answer through seven distinct components. Reflecting on territory and its critical redefinition from an artistic viewpoint, the 8th Biennial wanted to show alternatives to the conventional idea of nation and discuss activist cartographies, the relationships between political and geographical conditions, routes of circulation and exchange of symbolic capital, citizenship in non-urban areas, the political status of fictional nations and the relationship between art, travel and colonisation.
Posted on 10 October 2011
Conference: Travelling Lines: Drawing as an Itinerant Practice
Conference: Travelling Lines: Drawing as an Itinerant Practice
Travelling Lines brings together scholars, artists, curators and collectors to create an international forum to consider three key themes: itinerant modes of drawing by Latin America based artists that prioritise investigation and exploration; how the nomadic practices of artists necessitate conceptual and low-key strategies associated with drawing, an especially portable medium; and how itinerant and other modes of drawing circulate within the transnational circuits of the globalised art world. Focusing on one medium, speakers address how visual languages participate in, depend on, and travel across local as well as global territories.
22 September, 5 – 8pm, Drawing Room, 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street, London SE1 5TE:
– Tanya Barson: a curator’s tour of the exhibition
– Christian Rattemeyer: curating, collecting and displaying drawing
– Debate: Christian Rattemeyer, Kate Brindley, Candida Gertler and Catherine Petitgas discuss the curating and collecting of drawing, examining the contexts of the museum, the independent gallery, university collections, the international biennale, and the private collection.
23 September, 9am – 5.45pm, Lecture Theatre, Chelsea College of Art and Design, John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU:
– Key-note lecture by Moacir dos Anjos
– Ellen Gallagher in conversation with Tanya Barson
– Artists’ conversations with Brigida Baltar, Tony Cruz, Andre Komatsu, Mateo Lopez, Gilda Mantilla & Raimond Chaves, Nicolas Paris and Ishmael Randall Weeks
– Debates with Tanya Barson, Pablo León de la Barra, Catherine Lampert, Katharine Stout, Grant Watson and Isobel Whitelegg
For bookings please visit https://estore.arts.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&prodid=39&deptid=178&catid=3
Prices:
Day 1 Concession (Student/UAL or Drawing Room Staff): £5
Day 1 Full Price: £7
Day 2 Concession: £8
Day 2 Full Price: £10
Day 1 and 2 Concession: £11
Day 1 and 2 Full Price: £15
Travelling Lines coincides with the exhibition at the Drawing Room entitled The Peripatetic School: Itinerant drawing from Latin America, curated by Tanya Barson. For the exhibition see http://www.drawingroom.org.uk/
Posted on 8 August 2011
The Fine Line Between Art & Design?
CCW DESIGN LECTURE SERIES in collaboration with TrAIN Research Centre:
Michael Marriott
‘The Fine Line Between Art & Design? (Donald Judd Can’t Make Chairs)’
MONDAY 9 May 2011
MAIN LECTURE THEATRE AT CAMBERWELL COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN 3.30PM
This is a new lecture series on Monday evenings. The series is created as part of the design courses at CCW in conjunction with TrAIN, primarily for graduate students who are studying Design and Design History across CCW. Lectures will address critical issues and research methodologies that are currently being debated in the field of Design. Speakers will be invited widely from design historians, theorists and practitioners
Open lecture – All welcome
Michael Marriott has been working as a designer since leaving the Royal College of Art in 1993. Although trained as a furniture designer, his practice is particularly broad in scope, embracing the design of exhibitions and installations on one hand furniture and products on the other. He is also often involved with many other peripheral activities; teaching, writing, curating, collating, etc. In all his varied practice there is a common core though, which is a search for the elemental nature of the thing in hand. Marriott won the Jerwood Furniture Prize in 1999. His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. His list of clients includes Established & Sons, Möve, SCP, Inflate, twentytwentyone, British Council, Design Museum, Arts Council of England. Marriott has taught and lectured at many institutions in the UK and abroad. He is currently senior tutor / Design Products at the Royal College of Art.
Other forthcoming lectures are:
7 March – Carol Tulloch (TrAIN-UAL/V&A)
21 March – Tomoko Azumi (Designer, t.n.a. design studio)
28 March – Saif Osmani (Spatial designer/artist/architecture curator)
Email Kate Pelling, k.pelling@arts.ac.uk with any questions
www.transnational.org.uk
Posted on 5 May 2011
TrAIN Open Lecture – THE KITCHEN: MEMORY AND FOOD CULTURES
RSVP to TrAIN Administrator: e.pitkin@arts.ac.uk | for more information please visit: www.transnational.org.uk
TrAIN Open Lecture
THE KITCHEN: MEMORY AND FOOD CULTURES
Dr. MICHAEL MCMILLAN, introduced by CAROL TULLOCH |
18th May, 17:15 – 19:00
Lecture Theatre – Chelsea College of Art and Design, SW1P 4JU (Atterbury Street entrance)
This event is free and open to all, but places are limited, so please RSVP to e.pitkin@arts.ac.uk
The kitchen in the domestic interior is where cooking and sometimes eating is done and sometimes the informal social centre of the home. Embodied in the material culture of the migrant kitchen of Caribbean families are memories of dishes, tastes, cooking techniques, methods and shopping practices have been constructed and enacted as part of a Black British food culture. The dialectics of how this cultural boundary was constructed includes the entertainment and the containment of cultural difference in terms of cultural diversity, but also a resistance to a hegemonic English food culture.
But the emergence of a Caribbean food culture in the UK also maps the inter-generational shifts and negotiations in terms of how the second generation Black British young person identified with or disavowed the food culture of their parents. And food, dishes, tastes, cooking methods and eating habits could be a source of tension between parents wanting to give their children rice and peas and their children wanting fish and chips for instance.
Childhood experiences of food culture have a significant impact on us as adults in shaping our food identities and our earliest memories can be triggered by touch, taste and smell. Consequently, the relationship between food and identity is also contextually mediated by the interplay of sensory, emotional and cognitive experiences.
Michael McMillan is a writer, playwright, and artist-curator of Vincentian migrant parentage. Recent plays include: a new translation of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Sezuan set in Jamaica 1980 (2010), Babel Junction (2006) & Master Juba (2006).
His critically acclaimed installation/exhibition The West Indian Front Room (Geffrye Museum 2005-06) led to the BBC4 documentary Tales from the Front Room, and interactive website www.thefrontroom.org.uk/, as well as international commissions in Holland and the Caribbean. His recent publication is The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home (Black Dog Publishing 2009).
Other installations/exhibitions include: The Beauty Shop (198 Contemporary Arts & Learning 2008) and he was lead designer/co-curator of The Southall Story (South Bank Centre 2010). He is Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the London College of Communication (University of the Arts, London) and was recently awarded a practice based Doctor of Arts from Middlesex University.
RSVP to TrAIN Administrator: e.pitkin@arts.ac.uk | for more information please visit: www.transnational.org.uk
Posted on 14 April 2011
Tomoko Azumi: CCW Lecture Series
CCW DESIGN LECTURE SERIES in collaboration with TrAIN Research Centre:
Tomoko Azumi (Designer, t.n.a. design studio)
MONDAY 21 MARCH 2011
LECTURE THEATRE AT CHELSEA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN 6.00 pm
This is a new lecture series on Monday evenings. The series is created as part of the design courses at CCW in conjunction with TrAIN, primarily for graduate students who are studying Design and Design History across CCW. Lectures will address critical issues and research methodologies that are currently being debated in the field of Design. Speakers will be invited widely from design historians, theorists and practitioners.
Open lecture – All welcome
Posted on 15 March 2011
TrAIN Conversations: PITIKA NTULI
TrAIN Conversations
SCENT OF INVISIBLE FOOTPRINT: PITIKA NTULI
Thursday 17th March, 17:00 – 19:00
Research Seminar Room, Lethaby Building: Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Southampton Row
This event is free and open to all, but places are limited so please RSVP to e.pitkin@arts.ac.uk
Posted on 11 March 2011
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