TrAIN

Events

• Chin-tao Wu in conversation

  Conversation

  Monday 27 October 2008, 17:30 to 19:00
  

  Chin-tao Wu is one of the liveliest and brightest writers on contemporary art and its institutions. Following her first book, the acclaimed Privatising culture: corporate art intervention since the 1980s (Verso 2002 and numerous translations - ‘Buy this book’ Louise Bourgeois), she is now turning her attention to globalisation with ‘Worlds apart’, Third text, 21:6, 2007, and ‘Occupation by absence, preoccupation with presence’, Journal of visual culture, 6:3, 2007 and papers such as ‘Catwalks and artworks: showing and selling on the global stage’.

  Chin-tao Wu is Research Fellow at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

  Central Saint Martins, Southampton Row, Cochrane 203A (in the Research Office section)

• Cildo Meireles Occasion (2005/2008)

  Exhibition Opening

  Tuesday 21 October 2008, 19:00 to 21:00
  

  Occasion consists of two separate chambers, separated by mirrored glass. One chamber is empty and the other contains a bowl filled with banknotes. Visitors to this room are presented with the money – but at the same time are aware of three mirrored surfaces surrounding them and possibly concealing viewers. The title of the work comes from the Brazilian expression ‘a ocasião faz o ladrão’ (the occasion makes the thief). The behaviour of visitors to either part of the installation is conditioned by surveillance; this temporary construction will establish a relationship to one of the famous former occupants of its site: Millbank prison – which was itself built according to a panoptical design in order to offer its guards a view of every inmate.

  Curated by Michael Asbury, TrAIN, University of the Arts London

  In conjunction with the Cildo Meireles retrospective at Tate Modern

  Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art & Design

• Cildo Meireles

  Discussion

  Tuesday 21 October 2008, 17:15 to 19:00
  

  Discussion with the artist, Cildo Meireles, chaired by Michael Asbury, and with other participants including Guy Brett, co-curator of Meireles’ Tate Modern retrospective and Moacir dos Anjos, independent curator and contributor to its accompanying publication.

  Part of the TrAIN Open series. All welcome.

  Lecture Theatre, Chelsea College of Art & Design