Bulletin 2012
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TrAIN Open Lecture | Jacopo Crivelli Visconti | JUST THE WALKING: DRIFTING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE FROM THE ‘60S UNTIL TODAY
TrAIN Open Lecture | Jacopo Crivelli Visconti |
JUST THE WALKING: DRIFTING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE
FROM THE ‘60S UNTIL TODAYWeds 7th March 2012, 17:15 - 19:00
Lecture Theatre - Chelsea College of Art and Design
This event is free and open to all
Places are strictly limited
RSVP to [email protected]Since the end of the 1960s, the act of drifting, walking or strolling gradually established itself as a complex and fascinating artistic practice, which, in the course of the last four decades, underwent significant changes, thus maintaining its basic premises. The emphasis on the physical act, instead than on the creation of an object; the (utopian) will to turn that very act into the beginning of a transformation of both the artistic milieu and society as a whole; the contradictory nature of the photographic or video documentation that often results from the action; the recreation of a space for narrative in contemporary art: these are some of the issues, intrinsically related to the idea of the drifting, that will be touched upon in this lecture.
Monday 27 February, 2012
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Announcement
TrAIN/Gasworks Artist 2012
TrAIN is pleased to announce Sean Lynch as the TrAIN/Gasworks Artist in Residence for 2012.
More information coming soon!
Friday 24 February, 2012
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TrAIN on Twitter
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Nick.
Friday 17 February, 2012
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Carol Tulloch at International Fashion Showcase | British Council |
As part of the International Fashion Showcase the British Council is delighted to host the work of emerging designers from Botswana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
This exhibition has been curated by Carol Tulloch in collaboration with the fashion industry representatives from these countries and the Botswana, Nigerian and Sierra Leone High Commissions.
Access to view the exhibition is by appointment only from 15.00—16.00 on the following dates:
Please register a place by sending an email to [email protected] British Council 10 Spring Gardens London SW1A 2BN
15, 17 to 22, 24, 27, 29 February and 2 March 2012The inaugural International Fashion Showcase takes place during London Fashion Week in February 2012, with 19 embassies and cultural institutes across London opening their doors to display the work of over 80 international emerging designers. The collections of some of the most innovative, emerging fashion designers from around the world will be open to the public as well as international press and buyers to explore fashion week.
The first project the British Council and the British Fashion Council have collaborated on, this new showcase is part of the Fashion 2012 Cultural Programme and has been developed to celebrate the year of the Olympics and Paralympics and honour its values of international respect, excellence, equality and friendship. Countries participating in this showcase include Australia, Belgium, Botswana, Caribbean, China, Croatia, Estonia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Sierra Leone, United States and Uzbekistan.
Each country has been asked to present a selection of emerging designers whom they feel most represents the future of fashion in their region. Sarah Mower MBE, BFC Ambassador for Emerging Talent and Contributing Editor to US Vogue, will chair an advisory panel that will judge each piece of work, with an award given to the country that presents the best emerging fashion talent showcase. This will be announced on Sunday 19th February, during London Fashion Week.Monday 13 February, 2012
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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.
Download Neoconcrete Experience
Monday 30 January, 2012
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TrAIN Open Lecture
PLACES ARE GOING FAST! MAKE SURE YOU RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW!
TrAIN Open Lecture | Guy Brett and Chris Dercon (Director of Tate Modern)
with Michael Asbury |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: ([email protected]).Monday 30 January, 2012
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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
