CCW Graduate School

MRes Arts Practice Symposium 2012

‘Art and Design Research: Where Do I Start?’

Wednesday 25 January 2012, 10.00am to 1pm

Green Room, Chelsea College of Art and Design
16 John Islip Street, London  SW1P 4JU

Keynote Speaker: Dr Sophia Lycouris, Reader and Director of Graduate Research School, Edinburgh College of Art

MRes Arts Practice students presenting are:

Sophia Demetrious   

Katie Elliott                           

Jinah Lee                   

Emily Ludolf             

Lydia Parusol                       

Sharon Phelps                      

Shabnam Ranjbar    

Loredana Todor                  

Helen Turner

All welcome. Please rsvp to Paul Moore p.moore@arts.ac.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.

Professor Neil Cummings will be working with the Arnolfini Gallery during the course of this year to develop a series of self-portraits of the gallery using information from their archive, in celebration of the gallery’s 50^th anniversary.

The project launches on February 18^th February 2011

Talk: Self-portrait on Sunday 20 February 4pm Free
Join artist Neil Cummings, Arnolfini’s curator Nav Haq and archivist Julian Warren in a discussion at the launch of this anniversary project.

The Apparatus is s year long project running throughout 2011 to mark Arnolfini’s 50^th anniversary. This series of exhibitions and events will focus on the conditions of the art world today, particularly its system of belief and valuation, its role within society, and its relationship to the wider political economy. The Apparatus is about the ‘making of’ artists, of artworks, of institutions, and of cultural infrastructure.

http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/

Wednesday 26^th January 2011

7.00-8.30pm at the Clore Studio, South London Gallery

 Cooperations/Incorporations/Cooptations: Carmen Moersch

As the culmination of a six week project working with students from the University of the Arts London, Carmen Moersch will develop an open-format talk to explore the role of audience in relation to contemporary art making and meaning.

Carmen Moersch has been organizing projects and conducting research into the relationship of arts and education since 1994 and is the Director of the Institute for Art Education at Zurich University of the Arts. She guided the research carried out as part of Documenta 12’s Education, a series of interventions, events and publications which explored tensions between public sphere and institution, artist and audience, service provision and critical practice.

This event has been organized in partnership with Dr Isobel Whitelegg, Course Director of the MA Curating at the CCW Graduate School, University of the Arts London.

‘Why artists make prints: Contemporary approaches to printmaking’
A lecture by Professor Paul Coldwell – An event at the Multiplied Arts Fair

Sunday 17th October 2010 – 6pm (doors open at 5.30pm)
Christie’s – 85 Old Brompton Road, London, SW7 3LD
Limited places – Please rsvp to multipliedartfair@christies.com

In this lecture Paul Coldwell considers some of the myths and misunderstandings about prints and looks at some of the ways in which artists today are engaging in the activity of making prints. Multiplied Art Fair is an exciting new fair in the field of contemporary art. Held during the week of the Frieze Art Fair, it provides a platform to promote emerging talent in two and three-dimensional contemporary editions.

In collaboration with over thirty London galleries the art fair will be hosted by Christie’s and will offer contemporary art editions in all its manifestations. For further information visit http://www.multipliedartfair.com/

Our Textiles Environment Design section (TED) have been beavering away and now some of their designers will be displaying their latest work  at Camberwell Space from Wednesday 7th July as part of AA2A 2010 Exhibition.

Go along and feast your eyes on these tasty textiles.

One of the the designers Clara Vuletich has been exploring the idea of 

How can digital print be used to enhance and celebrate old heirloom fabric pieces? 

Can a ‘digital craft’ process, using sustainable base cloths, help to reinvent the traditions of quilting and patchwork?

For more about her work and her use of digital printing go to her blog at http://www.loveandthrift.com/

Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon/AGENDAS and the Bartlett School of Architecture present: Utopics in Art and Architecture

Saturday 5th June 10.30 – 3.45

This free, one-day conference is the first in a series of events led by Dr Dan Smith (Chelsea College of Art and Design) and Dr Robin Wilson (Bartlett School of Architecture) that will explore the relationship between art and architecture through the consideration of a common ground in utopian expression and utopian impulse.

Speakers:
Daniel Baker (Chelsea College of Art)
Eric de Bruyn (University of Groningen)
Gordon Cheung (artist)
Matthew Cornford (artist)
Richard Noble (Goldsmiths)
Postworks (Matthew Butcher and Melissa Appleton)

For more information:
contact at d.j.smith@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
utopianimpulse.blogspot.com

Admission Free

Lecture Theatre
Chelsea College of Art and Design
16 John Islip Street
London SW1P 4JU

Critical Practice would like to invite you to Parade. This landmark event will explore the diverse, contested and vital conceptions of being in public and will take place in the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art and Design as part of the CCW Graduate School programme of events. Set in a bespoke structure designed by Ola Wasilkowska and Michal Piasecki, with a host of international contributors including staff and students from across the Graduate School. Parade will challenge the lazy, institutionalised model of knowledge transfer. Our modes of assembly, our forms of address and the knowledge we share will be intimately bound.

Friday 21 May – Launch event 5pm —7pm
Bring things to share in our Pot-Luck of snacks, while Eileen Simpson & Ben White of the Open Music Archive play music from the commons.

Saturday 22 May – A day of consecutive Barcamps 10am — 6pm
These open, participatory workshop-events will explore publicness,
past, present and future. Come and contribute.

Sunday 23 May – Market of Ideas 2pm — 6pm
These open, participatory workshop-events will explore publicness,
past, present and future. Come and contribute.

Stall holders include: Abundant Amelia (designers: Dallas Pierce Quintero), Larisa Blazic and startx, Malgorzata Bochenska / Salon 101, Chelsea MA Interior Spatial Design students, Musashino Art University (Tokyo), Geoff Cox and Rui Guerra, Ian Drysdale and ThinkPublic, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Joanna Erbel, FLAG, Angela Hodgson Teall, The KNOT Team, Owen Hatherley, Brandon Labelle, Wojtek Kosma and Dwayne Browne, Michal Kozlowski, Ewa Majewska, Lidka Makowska, microsillons, Krzysztof Nawratek, The People Speak, Satelite Project of Politicised Practice Research Group, Dr Malcolm Quinn, Mike Ricketts, Anatomy of the Street (Levente Polyak and Eszter Steierhoffer), Eileen Simpson & Ben White of the Open Music Archive, George Shire, Dr Dan Smith, Bogna Swiatkowska / Bec Zmiana, TangentProjects, Textile Environment Design (TED), Wojtek Kosma and Dwayne Browne, Chris Wainwright and Cape Farwell, Joanna Warsza and Nuno Sacramento and many more besides.

Parade is at:The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU.

Critical Practice is a cluster of artists, researchers and academics and students and is hosted by the CCW Graduate School.

Read more about this event on the Critical Practice website.

Watch the development on the Parade Flickr page.

Installation shot, Sound Escapes, London, 2009, photo: Peter AbrahamsBeyond the Academy: Research as Exhibition
Friday 14 May 2010, 10.00 – 18.30
Drinks 18.30 – 19.30

The exhibition is increasingly being reframed as a ‘research output’, but what can new forms of research and collaboration bring to the concept and curatorship of the exhibition? Is the idea of the exhibition being distorted or creatively extended by new disciplinary practices and knowledge? In what ways do new forms of research exhibitions create new types of knowledge and experience for the audience? 

(installation shot, Sound Escapes, London, 2009, photo: Peter Abrahams)

Keynote plenary talk: Professor Bruno Latour
Confirmed speakers include Dr Gail Lambourne, Dr Angus Carlyle, Irene Revell, John Byrne, Alistair Hudson, Dr Ken Neil, Dr Leslie Topp, Professor Felix Driver, Professor David Cotterrell, Professor Oriana Baddeley, Dr Noortje Marres, Kate Southworth, Dr Susan Pui San Lok, Dr Brian Dillon and Professor David Solkin
In collaboration with and supported by LCACE

Tate Britain Auditorium
£25 (£15 concessions)
Price includes drinks afterwards
For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888

Chelsea College of Art and Design will be participating in ElectroSmog, a new festival that revolves around the concept of Sustainable Immobility. The festival organisers based in Amsterdam’s centre for Politics and Culture De Balie have developed an experimental interface to manage live streams from many locations around the world, exploring the possibilities of using everyday communications platforms to create an International Festival where no body has to leave home. In this way the project explores the concept of sustainable immobility in both theory and practice, with discussions, workshops, and performances taking place at each of the festival partners’ home bases.

On Thursday 18th and Friday 19th March the Dean’s office (EG04) will be turned into an informal seminar room to engage with the festival and test the possibilities of this experimental interface.

Developer, Grzesiek Sedek of Wimbledon College Of Art will present an Access Grid and the artists project Marcel as an alternative communications platform to the one developed for ElectroSmog and look at ways in which academic networks could play a more dynamic role in developing experimental platforms for wider use.

Members of the TED (Textile Environment Design) research group will make a contribution based on a subtle role that subjectivities in design  create textiles that have a reduced impact on the environment.

Chelsea College of Art and Design will not only contribute from its own location in London, but will also work in partnership with Ambient TV, based in Hackney and Tactical Technology in Bristol on Thursday 18th and Saturday 20th March.

For more information visit: www.electrosmogfestival.net