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.

Work by Fine Art student, Amelie van Moorsel Orssich

In her final year at Chelsea, Amelie has been invited to exhibit her work with 4 other artists, at the town hall of Founex, in Geneva, Switzerland. The exhibition was held on the 2nd of October. Undergraduates go Global!

Contact the artist: swissame@gmail.com

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You are invited to:

The Space Between – Showcasing the work from a number of Chelsea College of Art and Design Staff

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Presenting Obsess(us), a group exhibition that explores ideas surrounding the consumption of oneself by one’s own personal or interpersonal desires. Investigating what it means to obsess or be obsessed, these artists create a contorted beauty; whether this comes from a tension of absence, of boundaries, of sensory perception or even of identity.

Each artist brings to the exhibition what they think of as their Obsess(us). Shared qualities and ideas in their work, such as social and self, body and space, physical and mental, reality and imagination, all play a part in each of the works. Some of the artists deal with ideas surrounding their identity, opening up a dialogue with the viewer and questioning their own identity in turn. The boundaries that the individual and society create are challenged both passively and actively. Other artists tackle obsession through the senses, by creating serenity, or a sense of haunting or liberation.

The anxiety that obsession brings with it is present in all of the works, leading the viewer into a state of ambivalence and contemplation. The artworks engage the viewer into the consuming nature of this exhibition.

Contact: SylviaNicolaidou@hotmail.com

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The idea behind this exhibition is to add value to an immaterial object.

Event: The GRID

Location: Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU 

Date: 26th and 27th of November 2009.

The idea behind this exhibition is to add value to an immaterial object. To do so, artists Joshua Stocker and Samuel de Ceccatty create a grid on the walls of a room and sell the network’s individual squares, recorded as coordinates, to participants.

The buyers are free to use the resulting space in any way they see fit:

Introduce your cat’s face to the world
Promote your business
Exhibit your art work
Tell the world what you think
or anything else we haven’t thought of!
One square (22×22 cm) is £0.50 only!

More information about this project

BA (Hons) Graphic Design Communication

David Wightman - Behemoth

David Wightman: Behemoth and Other New Paintings

Part of Cornerhouse Projects

From Saturday 31 October to Wednesday 16 December

David Wightman appropriates images from both geometric abstraction and classical landscape painting – motifs associated with aspiration, idealism, and modernity. Using collaged wallpaper, which signifes the domestic, he personalises these images and renders them nostalgic – capturing their beauty, banality, and the desires they represent. The colours and patterns he uses in his work link aspirational working class homes and high art.

CORNERHOUSE, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH

Black Pig City Masonic Circus
Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art & Design

Exhibition runs from 17th – 25th October: 10am – 5pm (weekdays), 10am – 4pm (weekends)

For the first Borderline commission, Italian collective Black Pig City have been running a workshop with a group of UAL students. The result of this process – ‘The Phenomenal Manifestation of the Black Pig’ – a performative event / Private View is on Friday 16th October. All welcome!

www.borderlineproject.org.uk

The 28th State: European Borders in an Age of Anxiety
Tate Britain
Saturday 24th October 2009
‘The 28th State,’ seeks to explore how cultural practitioners in Europe are engaging with the idea of borders – both literally and metaphorically. What is the role of art in framing visions of contemporary / future Europe? How are practitioners engaging with the idea of borders when much of contemporary practice is peripatetic? What do terms like ‘cross-cultural’ or ‘trans-national’ mean now? How do Diasporic experiences affect the Europe we are creating?

‘The 28th State ‘ is a practice –based symposium, placing artistic practice at the heart of the discussion, featuring speakers from across the EU.

Tickets £25/£15

To book, please visit http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/19662.htm

Forthcoming projects include a commission form Paula Rouch and Ines Amado and much more…

Borderline is funded by Chelsea Programme and Arts Council England. ‘The 28th State’ is also kindly supported by City Inn Westminster.

As part of the London Design Festival 2009 CHELSEA space is pleased to present an exhibition of Scandinavian glass design curated by the renowned Finnish designer, Harri Koskinen. Focussing on the iittala company, Koskinen will consider the work of Alvar Aalto, Aino Aalto, Kaj Franck, Tapio Wirkkala and others, drawing on materials from the Design Museum, Helsinki and iittala’s own vast archives and collections.

Koskinen has a deep appreciation of the simplicity and subtlety of Scandinavian design and the traditional techniques used to create some of the most interesting and lasting works in design history. His own relationship with iittala is well defined, as a designer he has collaborated with the company for over fifteen years, giving him a unique understanding of their interests, processes, history and direction.

Harri Koskinen studied at the Lahti Institute of Design and the University of Art and Design Helsinki. In 2000, he established his own studio called Friends of Industry, offering product and concept design and exhibition architecture. His uncompromising work is characterized by practicality and strict aesthetic criteria. He relies on existing techniques and materials but employs an innovative and experimental approach. His designs are pared down and simple, perhaps drawing on the experience of his rural upbringing in Karstula in the Finnish countryside. Koskinen is internationally renowned for award winning designs such as his Muu Chair for Montina, his Vakia watch for Issey Miyake, and his Block Lamp which is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As well as iittala and Issey Miyake he has designed for many international brands including Muji, Panasonic, Seiko, Swarovski, Artek, and Marimekko.

www.chelseaspace.org
www.iittala.com
www.harrikoskinen.com
www.londondesignfestival.com

Sangyoon Yoon

In the context of Post modern art, my works are initiated from nomadic life of globalised society. I employ unusual elements and fabricates them in my paintings which make audiences feel and understand ‘strangeness’ in the fictive circumstance.

Based on my personal experience, the ‘strangeness’ implies metaphor of tension which I have confronted in new society. Individual’s movement from low context to high context society, from Far East Asia to Europe, I started thinking of meaning of geographical and political territory and its society and individuals. My notion of territory is marked in contrast to those societies I have experienced. In which, individuals’ identities are characterized by their society’s nature.

Contact the Artist, Sangyoon Yoon, at: aplo4444@hotmail.co.uk

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