Late At Tate Britain
Beyond Apocalypse

Friday 4 November 2011 / 18.30–21.30

Sean Dower, a member of Chelsea’s Fine Art staff, will feature in this month’s Late at Tate event in a piece with Richard Wilson.

Taking inspiration from the current John Martin: Apocalypse exhibition, this event will explore apocalyptic visions from a contemporary viewpoint.

Encounter performances from Richard Strange’s CABARET APOCALYPTICA and live interventions from Bag of Blood (Sean Dower and Richard Wilson) and Kelly Dearsley, Bonfire Madigan Shive and witness DJ sets from Gavin Turk, spoken word from Kate Tempest, and talks and screenings curated by Tate Collective.

Late at Tate events and entry to the Collection Displays is free. Charges apply to special exhibitions.

For More details please see:   http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/lateattatebritain/25030.htm

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On the Friday 11 November, UAL students will take over the British Museum, the UK’s biggest tourist attraction and second largest Museum in the world, for one exciting night only.

Coordinated by UAL Platform, a programme from the University’s Student Union designed to provide students with exciting opportunities all over London,  all UAL students had the chance to submit a project proposal for the event earlier this year.

Out of the 25 projects chosen – workshops, activities, performances, installations all inspired by Grayson Perry’s work and in particular his current exhibition at the Museum, The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman – Chelsea students have come up with some brilliant projects.

Ray Brazier, a second year BA Fine Artist, will be presenting a hands-on workshop in the Craft Fair section on the night – juxtaposing Grayson Perry’s penchant for alter egos and the Museum’s ancient Egyptian artefacts by teaching people how to make transvestite mummy dolls.

The BA Textile course is also presenting a project in the craft fair – teaching people the skill of pom pom making and getting them to hang them on the ‘pom pom tree’ in the middle of the Museum’s Great Court.

Moving into the surrounding galleries of the Museum, Jessica Piddock, studying for a PG Diploma & MA in Fine Art, will be creating ‘Dreamscape’ in room 4 -  an interactive installation where visitors can write their dreams and wishes on paper and add them to the undulating waves of the paper sea of wishes.

Also, wandering you around the galleries you may encounter BA Fine Art students William Phong-Ly and Neba Khodyer’s Modern Pilgrimage. Taking the themes of traditional religious pilgrimages from Perry’s exhibition, the pair have curated a pilgrimage around the museum in which you can dress in authentic pilgrim clothing and make a badge as a souvenir of the journey.

The event is completely free and alongside the projects from LCC students there will be a whole host of other activities going on – including a bar, a silent disco and a 2-for-1 student ticket offer to see the Grayson Perry exhibition.

More details can be found on the UAL Platform, on Facebook and on Twitter using the #graysonperrylate hash tag.

Thursday 3rd November 2012 – Room E201, Chelsea College of Art and Design

We are really keen to find out what current students think of our prospectus, and whether or not we should be producing a printed prospectus at all. We are holding a series of focus groups led by an independent external researcher asking questions such as where you looked for course information, what information you think a prospectus should contain and how it should look.

If you’d like to give your views please contact Laura at l.lanceley@chelsea.arts.ac.uk to sign up for one of the sessions below.

10.30 – 11.30 am : 1st year BA Fine Art UK/EU students
12.00 – 1.00pm : Postgraduate students
2.00 – 3.00pm : 1st year International BA students (any course)
3.30 – 4.30pm : 1st year BA Design UK/EU students (GDC, Textiles, ISD, FdA)

In return we’ll give you £15 work of vouchers to spend in the College Art Shop.

Laura Lanceley
l.lanceley@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
020 7514 7780

Discounts for Chelsea students and volunteering opportunities available for this event in Camden on Sunday 30 October :

Sunday 30 October, 2pm to 11pm, inc. sunset procession £15.50 adv. (Chelsea and Goldsmiths students £10 adv)
Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, NW1 7AY

Tickets and information halloweenmusicfair.co.uk
If you’re interested in volunteering with decorations or event organising contact zoecoleman@gmail.com

Join us for a spectacular autumn music fair. Expect sets from Lulu and the Lampshades, North Sea Radio Orchestra and many more folk-inspired acts in the Victorian surrounds of Cecil Sharp House, the HQ of the English Folk Dance Society in the heart of Camden.

Among the stags-heads and walled gardens of this unique venue, take in three stages featuring a psychedelic mixture of aural treats. Ethiopian desert sounds from Krar Collective, British folk tunes from the Urban Folk Quartet, chamber pop from the famed North Sea Radio Orchestra and the nation’s finest up and coming artists, including Lulu and the Lampshades and Jonnie Common.

Have your tarot read, tuck into a hog roast and hot spiced cider or join the costumed sunset procession from Primrose Hill. Into the night DJs from Heavenly Records, BBC 6 Music’s Freakier Zone and Django Django  will whip the halls into a frenzy with their pick of seasonal sounds.

Haroon Mirza, Stage Fright, 2009. Mixed media and 4 channel video. Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery

Camden Arts Centre is currently showing an exhibition of new works by MA Fine Art graduate Haroon Mirza.

Haroon Mirza: I saw square triangle sine

07 October 2011 – 08 January 2012
Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London, NW3 6DG

For his new installation madefor Gallery 3, Mirza brings together a number of instruments traditionally associated with bands including a keyboard, drum kit and synthesisers fused with turntables, LED lighting, lamps and radios in order to create a minimal audio composition.

Using an eclectic range of objects and elements including used furniture, outdated electric appliances, electronic materials, light and the appropriated work of other artists, Mirza creates complex audio installations which investigate the moment where noise becomes music.

Haroon Mirza graduated from Chelsea’s MA Fine Art in 2007 and is now represented by London’s Lisson Gallery. He has a number of solo exhibitions including Lisson Gallery, London (2011); The Last Tape, VIVID, Birmingham; Anthemoessa, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin and A-Foundation, Liverpool (all 2010) and has been shown in numerous group shows both nationally and internationally. Most recently his work has been shown as part of ILLUMInations, 54th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Italy (2011) where he won the prestigious Silver Lion Award and The British Art Show 7 (2010/11). He won the Northern Art Prize in 2010. You can read more about his current exhibition here.

http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions/?id=101182

I Am Not Here To Entertain You

Curated by Karl Weill

At the Bun House, 96 Peckham High Street, London, SE15 5ED

On Friday, 28^th October 2011, 7-9pm

Featuring..

Chelsea MA Fine Art alumni Vanessa Mitter, Leo Koivistoinen, James Gardiner, Phill Wilson-Perkin, O. B. De Alessi , BA Fine Art graduate Jack Catling, Chelsea staff member Alec Dunnachie plus artists Lennie Lee, Nicola Ruben Montini, Doireann Ni Ghrioghair and Samantha Taylor.

 jIn September 1968,  Karl Weill stated:

What is the performative tactic if it is not a calculated assault on the audience? It is forbidden to forbid. I want you to imagine, for a moment, an audience who are not entertained. I am walking backwards. Ennui. The slow rustling of a paper bag. Talking. A man swears. The crowd breaks out in laughter. Voices heckling……the audience falls silent. A fear of engulfment precedes attack. The shouting then begins. Intervention. All the while, my back is turned.[1]

A review of the exhibition in FAD art can be found here: http://www.fadwebsite.com/2011/11/12/review-i-am-not-here-to-entertain-you-live-art-performance-at-the-bun-house/

[1] Chronologie de l’Art, Issue 29, Autumn 1968

Acme Studios invites you to come along to their Deptford studios to meet this year’s Acme Graduate Award winners during an open event on Friday 28^th October, from 6-9pm.

Among this year’s four winners is Chelsea graduate Anna Moderato and Camberwell graduate Josie Cockram.

Acme’s four graduate awards provide a recent graduate with year-long rent-free studios and bursaries. The studios are permanently located in purpose-designed award studios in Childers Street, Deptford. The adjoining spaces naturally promote peer support, as well as professional input from galleries and through mentoring and studio visits. These awards have been carefully developed with Acme’s partners to provide a valuable and effective bridge between college and professional practice.

Join them for drinks and meet the new graduates in their studios:

Anna Moderato Chelsea Studio Award 2011/12 in partnership with Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts and Chelsea Arts Club Trust. http://www.acme.org.uk/chelseastudioaward.php

Luke McCreadie – The Adrian Carruthers Award in partnership with Slade School of Art, University College London. www.acme.org.uk/adriancarruthers.php

Josie Cockram – The Camberwell Studio Award in partnership with Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts. www.acme.org.uk/camberwellstudioaward.php

Joss Cole – The Chadwell Award in partnership with Andrew Post & Mary Aylmer and Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts. www.acme.org.uk/chadwellaward.php

Luke McCreadie – The Adrian Carruthers Award in partnership with Slade School of Art, University College London. www.acme.org.uk/adriancarruthers.php

CCW (Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Colleges of Art and Design) AMII Film Fund and Screening

Date: Thursday 27 October, 16.00

Venue: Wimbledon Space – Wimbledon College of Art

After the success of funding 10 new artists films and having them premier at South London gallery, CCW AMII film fund will be available to all students across CCW.

We are inviting applications for up to £500 to make a new, single screen moving image work. Applications are invited from individuals and groups, but those projects with an emphasis on cross college, cross discipline and/or cross year work will be looked upon more generously.

Please come along to the launch event of the film fund on Thursday 27 October at Wimbledon College of Art, where we will present a selection of films from graduate students and some of the funded films. Film makers will be there a long with a panel. Along with the screening and launch will we have a discussion about curating and presenting moving image work in the gallery context.

Those applications selected will receive funding, production support, mentoring and their work publicly exhibited at South London Gallery.

Anyone wishing to enter is advised to attend the launch event, for more information please visit:

www.ccwartistmovingimage.wordpress.com

Deadline for submissions: Friday 16 December

Clash and Converge II

Private View: Wednesday 23 November

Venue: Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts

Last year CCW AMII were invited to hold an exhibition at Camberwell Space which took the temperature of the moving image work being made across the three colleges, This year we are going to do the same. All work submitted will be shown, we will show anything from tests and experiments, first tries to finished pieces, all we ask is that it is no longer than 3 minutes, is a .mov file so it can be included on a showreel and is clearly labelled with name or work, artist, length, contact details and technical specifications.

Deadline for submissions: Friday 11 November

Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ)* present the  CCW Graduate School Writing Prize

All CCW students are invited to submit a 1500 word review of any current moving image art exhibition, screening, conference or publication, originating in the UK or abroad. The review should propose a central idea or thesis argued through a discussion of the work or book under review.

The best article will be published in the Reviews Section of MIRAJ and the winner will receive a prize of £500 to be presented at the launch of the journal in the New Year.

Submissions will be judged by a panel including Professor David Garcia, Dean of CCW Graduate School and Enterprise Development and Pryle Behrman, Reviews editor of MIRAJ.

Please send all submissions as attachments to: miraj@arts.ac.uk

Deadline for submissions: 5 January 2012

*MIRAJ is the first peer-reviewed publication devoted to artists’ film and video and its contexts. It is published twice a year in print by Intellect Books in collaboration with the CCW Graduate School, UAL. MIRAJ offers a wide reaching international forum for debates surrounding all forms of artists’ moving image and media artworks. The journal is supported by an AHRC Network.

www.movingimagenetwork.co.uk

TH.I.W.H by Gloria Zein

A cross-section of a two tonne bronze bell and a sculpture inspired by the dark history of Chelsea College of Art and Design are the joint winners of this year’s CASS PRIZE for emerging artists.

The £10,000 prize was established in 2010 by the Cass Sculpture Foundation, Cass Art and University of the Arts London. It is awarded this year to Aaron McPeake and Gloria Zein, both graduating postgraduate students at Chelsea. Their work will be exhibited in the College’s Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground before going on display as works for sale at the Cass Sculpture Foundation at Goodwood in mid November.

Some Cuts Resonate by Aaron McPeake

Aaron’s work, entitled Some Cuts Resonate, was inspired by cuts to arts funding. The sliced bronze bell will be hung alongside a soft mallet, inviting passers by to strike it to produce a sound similar to a large church bell crossed with a plate gong. It will hang in one of the Parade Ground’s archways, which will act as a loudspeaker, and the sound produced will resonate for well over a minute – perhaps signalling opposition to funding cuts, though Aaron does not want to prescribe viewers’ response to the installation.

The bell was cast in bronze at the world famous Whitechapel Bell Foundry, using the same techniques used for casting church bells and Big Ben.  Aaron says:

“It’s very important to me to create works that are interactive, especially since listening is as relevant as looking when it comes to understanding. This gets right away from the ‘do not touch’ signs you see in so many galleries; this piece isn’t complete until people do touch, play and experiment with it.”

Chelsea College’s history as the site of the notorious London prison Millbank Penitentiary, completed in 1821, inspired TH.I.W.H. (This Is What Happened), the work of joint winner Gloria Zein. The 3.1 meter high tent-like sculpture creates a confined, inaccessible space. Half brightly coloured and half dark, it reflects the history and changes of the area and cities in general. Gloria comments:

“There is a sense of absurdity that an arts school was installed on the site of a former prison – as the latter can enhance criminal careers and the art college can foster artistic careers.”

Up until 1868 everyone sentenced to transportation was processed through Millbank, and the theme of passage and movement is also replicated in the two 3.5 meter I-beams on which the sculpture sits.

Mark Cass, Managing Director of Cass Art and Trustee of the Cass Sculpture Foundation, says:

“The CASS PRIZE seeks to celebrate creative excellence. This year the standard of entries was so high we decided to award two prizes. Altogether the submissions were an incredibly diverse selection of new and vibrant contemporary sculpture. Ultimately our winners, Gloria Zein and Aaron McPeake, were chosen for the high technical and creative calibre of their proposals.”

Cass Art will be hosting an evening talk by the winning artists at its flagship store in Islington, London on Tuesday18 October, www.cassart.co.uk.