Bulletin
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Announcement
Fashioning Diasporas – International Conference
15 and 16 May 2009.
This major international conference brings together some of the most exciting thinkers on fashion, culture
and identity to explore the relationship of diaspora communities, objects and spaces to the processes of
clothing production and consumption in historical and contemporary world cultures. The conference is
part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded Fashioning Diaspora Space project.
£50 for two days, £25 for one day, concessions available
To book, call +44 (0)20 7942 2211Tuesday 12 May, 2009
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Introduction
Open Seminar - 14 may
The New Archive Documenting Visual Art from Latin America.
TrAIN member Isobel Whitelegg, TrAIN visting fellow Moacir dos Anjos and TrAIN associate Guy Brett will present papers at this open seminar about Visual art in Latin America at the Royal College of Art. The title of Isobel’s paper is “Reading the archives of an unseen biennial: Sao Paulo 1973”. Guy will talk about: “Efficacy and Institution” and Moacir discusses: “In the absence of anything else, the archive. Notes on the work of Rosangela Renno”.
The seminar will take place on Thursday 14 May from 2-7pm in lecture theatre 1.
The address of the RCA is Kensington Gore, SW7 2EU.Please visit the Royal College of Art website for more details.
Tuesday 12 May, 2009
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Report
New TrAIN Reader
In this year’s University of the Arts London promotion round, the TrAIN Research Centre had another success. TrAIN Senior Research Fellow, Carol Tulloch, was promoted to Reader. Last year two core members, Michael Asbury and Yuko Kikuchi, were promoted to Reader, and TrAIN has now four Readers, all promoted while they were at TrAIN. Congratulations to Carol!
Tuesday 31 March, 2009
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Opportunity
Call for papers - Transnational Latin American Art
Transnational Latin American Art
International Research Forum for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars
University of Texas at Austin, 6-7 November 2009 (ACES Building 2.302, Avaya Auditorium)
In collaboration with the University of the Arts London (TrAIN) & the University of EssexCall for Paper Proposals: Deadline May 5 2009
Viewing the history of Latin American art in terms of reception, contact and collaboration is
an emergent paradigm exemplified by recent exhibitions, publications, and research projects.
An International Research Forum on Transnational Latin America aims to create opportunities for emerging researchers to join experienced scholars in interrogating this area
of research and its implications.Addressing art from 1950 to the present day, the forum concerns intra Latin American exchanges, as well as encounters between Latin America and Europe and the USA; it will
explore contacts between individual artists and critics, the movements, groups and institutions and wider geopolitical and cultural contexts that have supported and provoked them, and the particular forms of art and its reception that transnational exchanges have generated.For more information please contact Ian Dudley (idudle@essex.ac.uk), AHRC Project Support Officer, Meeting Margins at the University of Essex
Monday 23 March, 2009
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Introduction
Exhibitions and the World at Large
On Friday 3 April 2009 Afterall and TrAIN will present ‘Exhibitions and the World at Large’, a public symposium at Tate Britain, London, examining the contemporary art exhibition in a global context. The symposium will consider three case studies from 1989, a pivotal year for both art and politics: ‘Magiciens de la Terre’ at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, ‘The Other Story’ at the Hayward Gallery, London, and the third Bienal de La Habana. The event will open with a keynote presentation by Sarat Maharaj and other speakers will include Thomas Boutoux, Jean Fisher, Cuauhtémoc Medina and Gerardo Mosquera.
Please visit the Tate Britain website for more details.
Thursday 19 February, 2009
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Announcement
Cinthia Marcelle at Gasworks and TrAIN
TrAIN/Gasworks artist in residence Cinthia Marcelle is developing a new installation for the Foyer Space of Camberwell College of Arts. This will be brought together with existing video work in an exhibition opening on Friday 27th March. Marcelle’s practice extends from drawing and collage to city-scale interventions. She often uses video to capture a poetic, formal perspective of the events that she orchestrates. Through different media Marcelle’s work assembles connections or creates meaningful coincidences; she uses both form and humor to exaggerate links that could occur by accident or association in everyday life, and this interest in synchronicity is explored in the ongoing series entitled Unus Mundus (“One World”).
Tuesday 03 February, 2009
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Introduction
Criteria of Beauty at Aqffin Gallery
Does beauty matter?
“Japanese beauty” – What is it?
What do Soetsu Yanagi’s ‘Criteria of Beauty’ mean to Japanese artists that are based in the UK?A Closing Party will be held at the Aqffin Gallery on Thursday 5th February, 7-9pm. Come to see the art works of exquisite beauty and refresh yourself with some beer and Japanese snacks. Then, you can stroll around the East End and enjoy the late openings in other galleries – because it is First Thursday – the day to see art at night in this part of London. Please visit the First Thursdays website for more details.
Thursday 29 January, 2009
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Announcement
Karolin Meunier at TrAIN
Karolin Meunier has recently arrived in London as the third Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral Artist-in-Residence at TrAIN. Meunier will be in the UK for six months between January and June 2009, where she will research and develop new work, in her studio at ACAVA London and via participation in TrAIN research seminars and events.
The German artist and writer studied Fine Art and Literature in Mainz and at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. From 2007 to 2008 she was attending the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht as a Researcher in Fine Art.
Meunier’s works often revolve around the question how the ‘self’ is constructed and how it stands in relation to other persons within different situations of communication.
The semi-scientific gesture of Meunier’s diagram videos serve to connect writing, speaking, temporality and the moving image. In Auto Description Model (2007), the communication between two people is sketched out step by step, including subjective assumptions and projections that become more and more complex through the engaging, thought-provoking, and amusing lecture format.Monday 12 January, 2009
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Opportunity
TrAIN Scholss Balmoral Student Residency
In collaboration with Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral Germany, TrAIN is offering a four-week student artist-in-residence award. The award includes a private studio and accommodation at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral. Founded in 1995, this is an established centre for international artists-in-residence, situated close to Bad Ems, an ancient spa town in the German Rhineland.
The TrAIN-Schloss Balmoral Residency will culminate in an Open Studio, and aims to offer a supportive environment with opportunities for discussion and development. It is open to applications from practice-based students currently enrolled for a research degree in any UAL College. Dates for the residency are 9th March – 6th April 2009. The deadline is Monday 2nd February 2009.
For further information and an application form please use the Contact area of this website.
Monday 12 January, 2009
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Announcement
Nicolas Robbio - Indirections [2 December 2008 - 15 January 2009]
TrAIN Core Member Isobel Whitelegg is curating the exhibition ‘Indirections’ (2/12/08-15/01/09) at the Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Nicolás Robbio’s work begins in an intimate observation of everyday things: common objects, situations, and systems. Attentive to the limits of what is close at hand, he produces a sensitive economy of images. Closely observed details are subtracted, and outlined by drawing onto or cutting into paper and other found materials. These elements are isolated or re-combined to occupy spaces of varying scale and dimension: from individual drawings to notebooks and rooms. They are overlaid between sheets of paper or glass; constructed as new three-dimensional objects, and drawn, incised, or projected on walls.
Consistently precise, deceptively simple, this method of representation is an intricate synthesis; it brings together diagrammatic outline, illusion and the material qualities of things. The effect is to underline the interstice between reality and representation and also to see the commonplace taken apart and re-assembled from elemental parts and qualities. By careful handling, selection and re-configuration, our objects of general knowledge are re-placed as carriers of personal memory and collective meaning.
Over the past four years, one of the ways in which Robbio’s work has developed is via focused individual exhibitions and his show for the PCCA Nicosia forms a part of this sequence. Each is approached as a specific project, and becomes in itself a composite work in which previously made works are brought into a new relationship with those created in situ. Across varying media, a clear process of thought emerges. From wall drawings to the subtle placement of objects, drawings and projections, each element suggests an intimate yet indirect relationship to others, to the space that it occupies, and to the situation from which it draws.
Curator, Isobel Whitelegg, TrAIN Research Fellow, University of the Arts London
Friday 28 November, 2008
