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Studio 288 | Goldsmith’s College | Art Education Building | 288 New Cross Rd. Saturday 12th December from 3 – 5pm. Speakers: Nick Gee, artist I currently earn money by working as a carpenter and have done so intermittently throughout my adult life. This form of income has allowed me to live, pay my rent and sustain an art practice. Since leaving art school I have lived and worked in Paris and London. During my time in Paris I was preoccupied with the question of how to resolve the tension arising from the need to earn money from carpentry which left me with little physical or mental energy needed to meaningfully engage with my art practice. It was during this time that I developed strategies to subvert moments of my economic time in order to continue with an art practice. This involved the production of subjective and objective documentation of my working day. While living in Paris I developed an interest in other forms of subversive practices of everyday life, most notably the production of informal spaces such as gardens made on wasteland. In 2013 I completed a doctoral thesis that explored questions posed by the production of informal spaces in relation to space produced by the state. What kind of practices produce informal space, and to what extent do informal spaces either subvert or reinforce the order of private property? What was at stake in the thesis was the tension between the production of social space – that is, shared public space or space for society as a whole – on the one hand, and the tendencies and desires of individuals or small groups of spatial users to appropriate and produce their own space, on the other. In the same year, I made a replica of a small room that I rented while I lived in Paris. The low rent of the tiny room was part of the strategy to work less as a carpenter while allowing more time to engage with my art practice. The making of the replica living space was another form of documentation - at the same time it was a way to explore the relationship between a living space, economy and works of art. Jonathan Lill, artist http://bethlemgallery.com/artists/jonathan-lill/ Paul O’Kane, artist, writer and lecturer Paul completed a PhD in History on a theme of 'Hesitation' in 2009. He published a book 'Where Is That Light Now?' last year (on photography and personal memoir). His art involves a history of technologies influencing subjective narratives. He teaches fine art, mainly at CSM, Chelsea and SOAS. Paul writes regularly for Art Monthly, Third Text, various journals, catalogues etc. and also '750wordsaweek, his weekly Blog on art in London. www.okpaul.com 750wordsaweek Bethlem artists and staff selected to participate in 'What Remains ... Anatomy of an Artist' Festival Siobhan Davies Dance and Independent Dance and invite proposals for What remains…, the 6th annual WHAT festival, taking place at Siobhan Davies Studios on 5–6 March 2016. What remains…will be entirely composed of artists’ work generated from this call for ideas. The festival's central theme this year is the Anatomy of an Artist, inspired by the thoughts of Edmund Locard, a pioneer of modern forensics. We invite dance artists and practitioners from other disciplines to look at the ‘anatomy’ of an artist: to examine their methods, inspirations, influences, biography or indeed their actual anatomy, and propose a way to share this with the festival audience. Rather than focussing on celebrity or adulation we encourage you to draw out specific traces of their lives and practices. The artist at the centre of this investigation can be any artist you choose, provided that her/his artistic engine is performance. The presentation as part of the festival can be a performance, intervention, discussion, workshop, lecture, film, presentation, digital, walk & talk, publication or other audience-facing way of sharing. Read more → Siobhan Davies Dance is an investigative arts organisation that stimulates new thinking based on a more contemporary definition of choreography. Learn more. If you no longer wish to receive emails from us, please unsubscribe here. Siobhan Davies Studios 85 St George's Road London SE1 6ER Visit Bethlem Salon #4, 9th October, 6-8pm, Bethlem Gallery and Museum With Professor Frank Rohricht: www.frankrohricht.com |
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