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Tuesday 31 January, 2012

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Neoconcrete Experience

Neoconcrete Experience | 11 Dec 2009 – 30 Jan 2010

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Neoconcrete art movement, this exhibition focused on the principle platform for the dissemination of Neoconcrete concepts and critique between the late 1950s and the early 1960s: the Sunday supplement of the Jornal do Brasil newspaper. The exhibition highlighted how not only the content put also the layout of the supplement were radically changed by the contributions from avant-garde artists, poets, designers and art critics.

Although increasingly referred to at an international level, particularly through the recognition of artists such as Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark and Lygia Pape, the Neoconcrete movement itself still remains relatively unknown and often misunderstood. This exhibition was therefore timely as it unveiled a central driving force in the contemporaneous local dissemination and the depth and breadth of the discourse generated by the Neoconcrete group.

In addition to the renowned ‘Manifesto Neoconcreto’ (March 1959) and the ‘Theory of the Non-Object’ (December 1959), research undertaken in the archives of the Jornal do Brasil has uncovered other, lesser-known articles and reviews, reproductions of which were on display for the first time in Britain. While the exhibition focused on the graphic re-structuring of the newspaper following the Neoconcrete intervention, a facsimile has been produced offering English translations of a selection of pages containing reviews and critical comments on the activities of the movement, such as the I Exposição de Arte Neoconcreta (1st Neoconcrete Art Exhibition) which included artists Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Amilcar de Castro, Franz Weissmann, Reynaldo Jardim, Theon Spanudis and Ferreira Gullar, all signatories of the Manifesto.

The exhibition also included a documentary by Katia Maciel in which artists recalled the ‘Neoconcrete Experience’ and further contextualise the significance and the controversial nature of the movement.

Visit the Gallery 32 website for more details.

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Monday 30 January, 2012

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TrAIN Open Lecture

PLACES ARE GOING FAST! MAKE SURE YOU RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW!

Remembering Hélio Oiticica’s 1992 Retrospective

Weds 8th February, 17:15 – 19:00
Lecture Theatre – Chelsea College of Art & Design
16 John Islip Street
London
SW1P 4JU
(Atterbury Street entrance)

In 1992 a major retrospective exhibition of the work of Hélio Oiticica was organised collaboratively by a team of scholars, curators and artists in partnership with Projeto Hélio Oiticica, the Witte de With, centre for contemporary art in Rotterdam and Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris. The exhibition would travel for the following two years around major institutions in Europe and the United States and can be said to have significantly contributed towards the posthumous international recognition that the artist now holds.

Chris Dercon, director of Witte de With at the time and current Director of Tate Modern together with Guy Brett, independent scholar, curator and organiser of Oiticica’s Whitechapel ‘Experience’ in 1969, will discuss their personal involvement in the curation of Oiticica’s 1992 retrospective and reflect how, over the last 20 years, international perceptions on the artist have developed.

The event will be chaired by Michael Asbury who has written extensively on Oiticica and Brazilian modern and contemporary art and whose PhD (UAL 2003) is entitled Hélio Oiticica: politics and ambivalence in Brazilian modern art.

This event is free and open to all but places are limited so please RSVP to the TrAIN Administrator,
Nick Tatchell: (n.tatchell@arts.ac.uk).

Monday 30 January, 2012

News

TrAIN Announcement- Helena Capkova Appointed Assistant Professor (Jokyo) at Waseda University, Tokyo.

Helena Capkova, who has submitted her thesis in October 2011, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Art History at the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo. Waseda is regarded by many as one of the two top private universities in Japan.

TrAIN Members would like to offer their congratulations and best wishes to Helena as she starts work in her new position.

Wednesday 18 January, 2012

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Jose Roca at the TATE

Some of you may remember that Jose Roca was our first speaker of 2010.

Follow the link to find out what he is doing now…

http://www.tate.org.uk/about/pressoffice/pressreleases/2012/25358.htm

Tuesday 17 January, 2012

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Michael Asbury Seminar: Lygia Pape at The Serpentine Gallery

28th January, The Serpentine Gallery, 15:00.

Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars for the public. This winter prominent artists, poets, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the Lygia Pape exhibition and the Neo-Concrete movement.

For more information please see the website:

http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2011/10/saturday_seminars_michael_asbury.html

Monday 16 January, 2012

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Student Conference Update

Conference Programme Now Available.

Check out the Student Conference Programme in the TrAIN Dirary 1st March!

Monday 16 January, 2012

Introduction

Katharina Dubno | 2012 TrAIN-KSB Artist in Residence |

Katharina Dubno | 2012 TrAIN-KSB Artist in Residence |

Let me first wish you all a very Happy New Year!

TrAIN kicks off the year by introducing our new Artist in Residence, Katharina Dubno. Information about Katharina’s work can be found in the ‘Directory’ section of the website.

Katharina will be attending and participating in TrAIN events so please introduce yourself and give her a warm TrAIN welcome.

Best wishes to you all and I hope to see you soon!

Nick.

Katharina’s Website: www.katharinadubno.de

Monday 09 January, 2012

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TrAIN & CCW Graduate School Open Lecture | Dr Ethel Brooks | 25th January 2012

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
Open Lecture
Wednesday 25 January 2012, 17:15 to 19:00

Fullbright Visiting Distinguished Chair (in partnership with the Tate Gallery)

Digging Through the Rubble: Romani Women’s Holocaust Testimony and What it Tells us about History

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?

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).

Friday 06 January, 2012