AHM Symposium: One Minute Manifesto Announcement & Last Chance To Book

Newsletter In this issue One Minute Manifestos Announcement Last chance to book a place at the State of Play: Art & Culture in Scotland Today symposium Save the date - State of Play Symposium 2    One Minute Manifestos Announcement AHM symposium State of Play: Art and Culture in Scotland Today  The symposium will begin with a dynamic 30 minute performance of spoken one minute personal manifestos by a wide range of artists. AHM have said;   "We don't often hear from artists themselves – usually we hear only from art critics, journalists and administrators. The manifesto performance will give the opportunity to 30 artists to express their views, in a public forum, delivering a wide range of thoughts and attitudes reacting to the present condition." Manifesto artist's include:- Nicola Atkinson, Ian Balch, Ruth Barker, Sue Biazotti, Alice Bradshaw, Justin Carter, Dalziel and Scullion, DMM McEwan (Black Sun Drum Corps), Minty Donald, Jimmie Durham, Chris Freemantle, Alex Gross, Ilana Halperin, Michelle Hannah, Ellie Harrison, Escutcheon Department of Athletics, Jac Mantle, Shauna McMullen, Roxana Meechan, Oliver Metzger, Jonathan Monk, Shelly Nadashi, Janie Nicol and Alistair Quietsch. This is the first of three symposia to be delivered by AHM over two years in different locations across Scotland; providing a forum to examine the significance of art and culture for society today.   Last chance to book Saturday 09 October 10am-5pm 2010 (Registration & refreshments 9.15am) Gilmorehill Centre University of Glasgow 9 University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ Tickets £10 Concessions £5   To book a place please contact Glasgow Sculpture Studios on 0141 204 1740 or via info@glasgowsculpturestudios.org At this first symposium there will be four keynote presentations by Christine Borland, Dr. Neil Mulholland, Prof. Philip Schlesinger and AHM. Chaired by David Harding   Prof. Phillip Schlesinger As an expert on cultural policy Prof. Phillip Schlesinger will set the cultural, political and economic context in which artists, and the visual arts in general, will have to operate today and in the immediate future.  What are the real challenges and how can they be met?   Christine Borland Borland will present a personal view, in terms of her own practice, and what it is to be an artist in today's rapidly changing world.  What are the implications of the change from the Scottish Arts Council to Creative Scotland?  Does this change matter and how might the economic situation affect artists and art practice?   Dr. Neil Mulholland Much of what is written about contemporary art could be described more as reportage.  While critics do include elements of critique in their reviews of art and exhibitions Dr. Neil Mulholland will ask questions about the lack of an overarching critique or as he puts it , a generative critique.  How can this be constructed – where and how would it exist?   AHM If the recent past is anything to go by, our future as a society is going to be influenced as much by our artists as it is by our politicians.  Whilst this is something to be welcomed and celebrated, we need to ask not only who speaks for the arts, but how we speak of art and what it speaks about. How can we develop the institutions and infrastructure to best support our artistic and cultural imagination? And how can we challenge, imagine and dream of a very different kind of society and values to the orthodoxy of the past few decades? Save the date Saturday 02 April 10am-5pm 2011 Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland The Mound Edinburgh EH2 2EL State of Play Symposium 2 will have an international emphasis and include contributions by Tom Lawson, Artist & Dean of Fine Art CAL Arts (USA) Peter Hill, Artist & Writer (Victoria, Australia) and Liz Ann McGregor, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, Australia). To keep up to date with details for this event please visit http://theahmblog.blogspot.com/  Image Credits:- The Zocalo, main square of Mexico City 2005 © John Calcutt State of Play: Art & Culture in Scotland Today 2010 © Glasgow Sculpture Studios Forward to a friend | Remove me from this list © glasgow sculpture studios 2009 Glasgow Sculpture Studios 145 Kelvinhaugh Street Glasgow G3 8PX Monday - Friday 9am – 5pm + 44 (0) 141 204 1740 + 44 (0) 141 221 3801 info@glasgowsculpturestudios.org For more information on Glasgow Sculpture Studios please visit: glasgowsculpturestudios.org

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Tonight!: Film Lounge Talk Monday 4 October 6.30pm

Film Lounge Talk                                                                      Monday 4 October 6.30pm    Free Film Lounge is delighted to invite Dr Sarah Smith and Dr Ryan Shand to discuss the nature of Cinépoetry in relation to the current programme, focussing specifically on the work of Enrico Cocozza.   Dr Sarah Smith lectures in historical and critical studies at the Glasgow School of Art. She will be discussing her selections for the Film Lounge programme and relating them to broader ideas surrounding the practice of Cinépoetry. Dr Ryan Shand is a lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, at the University of Glasgow. His research interests are the history and aesthetics of amateur film, British cinema and media practice. He will be discussing the work of Scottish-Italian film-maker, writer and academic, Enrico Cocozza, unpicking the themes which permeate his work and specifically examining the film Masquerade.   To book your place email info@stills.org Image  Masquerade Enrico Cocozza (Courtesy of Scottish Screen Archive) Don't miss.....Cinepoetry Film Lounge Programme Monday 13 September  - Sunday 24 October  Open daily 11am - 6pm  Free Ranging from the poignant to the playful, these films either engage directly with literature or experiment with the pure poetry of abstraction. Through orchestrated layers of image and sound they each provide absorbing moments that resonate long after we've stopped looking. The programme brings together works by Orcadian poet, painter and filmmaker, Margaret Tait, Scottish-Italian writer, academic and amateur filmmaker Enrico Cocozza, key feminist experimental filmmaker of 1980s and 1990s, Sandra Lahire and more recent works by Glasgow based artists Stephen Sutcliffe and Katy Dove. The films presented in the programme are:  Enrico Cocozza, Masquerade, 1953, 16 mins Katy Dove, Stop it, 2006, 5 mins Sandra Lahire, Lady Lazarus,1991, 25 mins Stephen Sutcliffe, Vacillation, 2008, 35 secs Margaret Tait, Aerial, 2009,  4 mins Curated by Dr Sarah Smith 23 Cockburn St Edinburgh EH1 1BP 0131 622 6200   Full map & directions > www.stills.org info@stills.org We welcome everyone and are fully accessible by wheelchair. Staff are always available to help visitors.

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Collective Gallery Press Release - New Work Scotland Programme 2010

Collective Gallery
Press Release

New Work Scotland Programme 2010

New Work Scotland Programme lies at the heart of Collective's Professional Development Programme and creates a 4 month period dedicated to the support and development of new artists in Scotland through exhibitions, writing and events. Launched in 2000, New Work Scotland Programme supports some of the most promising new creatives working in the visual arts in Scotland - providing them with the opportunity to make new work and bring it to the attention of a wider public. Each year Collective invite a different selection panel to review applications and select artists through written proposals, images and interviews. The 2010 selection panel were: Jordon Baseman (Artist and lecturer at The Royal College, London), Lesley Young (Co-founder and director of The Salford Restoration Office), Michelle Cotton (Independent curator and writer, curator of Cubitt, London).

The selected artists are: Jacob Kerray, Shelly Nadashi, Nicolas Party and Catherine Payton. Lucy Clout and David Beattie have been selected for The Contemporaries Guest Room.
16 Oct – 28 Nov Jacob Kerray | Shelly Nadashi with Lucy Clout in The Contemporaries Guest Room.
11 Dec – 6 Feb 2011 Nicolas Party | Catherine Payton with David Beattie in The Contemporaries Guest Room.

NWSP writing was launched in 2002 in collaboration with Edinburgh College of Art's Centre for Visual & Cultural Studies. The aim of NWSP writing is to promote new creative and critical writing within the visual arts. The writers collaborate with the artists and produce texts for Collective's NWSP newspaper as well as on-line texts for Collective's website. Collective have worked with MAP to select and deliver NWSP writing which involves editing and mentoring of the writers by the MAP team: Alice Bain (Editor MAP) and Steven Cairns (Artist and Co-editor of MAP). The two writers selected, Laura Edbrook and Norman Hogg both graduated Edinburgh College of Art this year. Laura from MA Contemporary Art Theory and Norman from MFA Visual Culture.

Jacob Kerray | Shelly Nadashi
Lucy Clout (Contemporaries Guest Room)
16 October - 28 November

Shelly Nadashi presents new work in a gallery exhibition as well as producing an off-site performance at Thomas Morton Hall, situated in the Leith Theatre complex.
 
Working with film, puppetry, text and object-making, Shelly's practice is rooted in live art, and explores the relationships between performer, object and environment. Through collaged narratives with surreal elements, her exhibitions and performances invite the viewer/audience to become part of a ceremony of self-examination. In this instance, performance and exhibition are linked, both having been developed in relation to the Thomas Morton Hall Theatre. Both also explore Shelly's interest in the object and its relationship to narrative.
 
The performance investigates the link between object and narrative. An imposing object among the audience questions their role and that of the stage. Puppets provide another way of investigating the link between object and narrative, taking the role of the agent or translator of Shelly's intimate voice.
 
Detached from the narrative and live event, the work in the exhibition provides an opportunity to re-consider objects from the performance. A filmed conversation between Shelly and her friend Noam further illuminates reoccurring themes.

       Biography
       Glasgow-based artist Shelly Nadashi was born in 1981 in Haifa. She graduated from The School for Visual Theatre in Jerusalem before completing an MFA degree at the Glasgow School of Art 2007-2009.                                                            
        Nadashi has exhibited at the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Plateux Festival Frankfurt, and in the Magdeburg Puppetry Festival.  Recent performances include Urlibido (part of Glasgow International 2010),                                
       Ambush in Wedding at SWG3 Glasgow, and Reading Application Forms at Glasgow Festival of DIY Culture.

Jacob Kerray presents a new series of paintings for NWSP. Juxtaposing diverse cultural references, his work has a particular relationship with male identity as described through visual culture through the ages, manifesting itself in large figurative paintings, often hung in a salon style.

Fusing the aesthetics of classical and Baroque portraiture in the context of the counter reformation, with a variety of present day pin-ups taken from wrestling, football and sci-fi, Jacob explores how these differing visual languages can be used to examine popular culture and produce modern mythologies. His paintings attempt to imitate the intensity, immediacy and drama of Baroque painting acting as a homage to its ideals. But by exchanging the traditional subjects of the canon for the somewhat forgotten heroes of male 'geek' stardom, he salutes, and, at the same time, undermines, their historical context.

For this project, Jacob is focusing on the Star Trek villain Khan Noonien Singh, the superhuman tyrant who once controlled more than a quarter of the Earth, and his voyage of revenge on Captain Kirk. Other heroes like 'Der Kaiser' footballer Franz Beckenbauer collide with Singh to perform new parodies full of visual puns and jarring clichés.

        Biography
        Glasgow-based Jacob Kerray was born in Dannenberg, Germany. He graduated from Glasgow School of Art BA in 2010. Following his degree show, he exhibited in 'Bad Grace' alongside Ian Hetherington      
        at The Duchy Gallery, where he also has his studio.

THE CONTEMPORARIES GUEST ROOM

This year Collective have programmed our guest room with a focus on young artists who are working outside Scotland, this programme acts as a relevant reference point for the artists involved in the NWSP and the wider audience.
Collective are pleased to invite London based Lucy Clout and Dublin based David Beattie to present work in The Contemporaries Guest Room.

Lucy Clout studied at Goldsmiths, London prior to completing an MFA at The Royal College, London. Recent exhibitions include manual non manual manual, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK and Limoncello, London, UK.  Lucy is currently on the LUX Associates programme
David Beattie trained at National College of Art and Design (BA), Dublin and Dun Laoghaire IADT, Dublin (MA).  He has recently finished a residency at Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh.  Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto and a group show There is no solution because there is no problem, that was part of Art Sheffield 2010

• New Work Scotland Programme Part II Nicolas Party | Catherine Payton with David Beattie in The Contemporaries Guest Room from 11 December 2010 - 6 February 2011 further information to follow or available on request.

• For more information or images, please contact: Jill Brown on 0131 220 1260 or jillbrown@collectivegallery.net 

• Collective's newspaper publication is available now featuring new writing and the NWSP programme of events and performances.

• NWSP 2010 is in association with MAP, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, The Woodmill and Studio Voltaire.

• Collective is funded by Creative Scotland and City of Edinburgh Council.

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