'The 28th State: European Borders in an Age of Anxiety' questions how artists and curators in Europe are currently engaging with ideas around borders, nationhood, social organisation and collaboration. What is role of art within this context, particularly in relation to the current state of European politics and increasing social unease within many rapidly changing populations?
Invited international participants include keynotes Shaheen Merali and Elvira Dyangani as well as Margareta Kern, Emilia Telese, European Alternatives, Metahaven and Paula Roush, Ines Amado and Lucia Marques. The event will be chaired by Dr Raimi Gbadamosi.
Further information, including full speaker biogs and abstracts, will be available via the forthcoming borderline website.
Full price tickets cost £25, concessions £15.
For booking information, please contact Tate Britain via 020 7887 8888 or http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/19662.htm
Chelsea Programme have commissioned Italian artist collective Black Pig City to produce an installation for the Parade Ground in October 2009.
As part of their project BPC would like to work with a group of UAL students on a secret workshop. Applicants must be available on a flexible, part time basis between 6th – 16th October.
This is a unique opportunity to work with a group of emerging international artists on their first major UK commission. Deadline for applications – 30th September.
Chelsea Programme have commissioned Italian artist collective Black Pig City to produce an installation for the Parade Ground in October 2009.
As part of their project BPC would like to work with a group of UAL students on a secret workshop. Applicants must be available on a flexible, part time basis between 6th – 16th October.
This is a unique opportunity to work with a group of emerging international artists on their first major UK commission. Deadline for applications – 30th September.
For information on how to apply to take part in the workshop, please visit Black Pig City.
For further information on the workshop, please open document below.
Chelsea Programme Website Brief
Chelsea Programme – the public programmes project at Chelsea College of Art & Design – would like to recruit a former or current UAL student to design and develop a website for our forthcoming ‘Borderline’ season.
'Borderline' consists of two of artists commissions for the Parade Ground a Chelsea, a conference at Tate Britain in October and a series of artist-led screenings all exploring issues around borders and nationhood in contemporary Europe.
Website details
We envisage creating a website that is relatively simple, and easily update-able by the Chelsea Programme Co-ordinator. At this stage, we would like the site to contain the following capabilities:
·Text / image based (information on projects, conference timetable etc.)
·Contain podcasts / sound files
·Comment facility – allowing people to comment on information on the site
The web designer will work with the Chelsea Programme co-ordinator on the visual identity for the site.
We will offer:
·A competitive fee, in relation to workload / experience
·Full credits for the designer on the website (including a link to your own site if applicable)
·Free conference ticket, if desired (worth £25 / £15)
·A chance to build your portfolio
This is an international project, funded by Arts Council England, and supported by Tate Britain and City Inn Westminster.
This project should not take up more than 2/3 days work (and is likely to be less). We will need to have the website up and running by Monday 21st September 2009. This opportunity is probably most suitable for a recent graduate or current student.
Please send brief expressions of interest to Sonya Dyer, including links to any other website you have designed, by 31st August 2009 via s.dyer@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
There are no further Chelsea Programme events planned for the summer, but we'll be back in the Autumn with a major new project focusing on how artists and curators in Europe are engaging with the idea of borders.
This project will consist of two Parade Ground commissions, a conference in partnership with Tate Britain and a series of artist- led screenings and discussions. We will be working with artists including Black Pig City (Italy), Paula Rousch and Ines Amado (Portugal) as well as a range of international artists and curators for the conference.
They'll also be opportunites for Chelsea students to work directly with our commissioned artists.
Further information will be added to this site in late summer. In the meantime, we hope you have a great summer, and look forward to seeing you in the Autumn.
A selection of images from our recent series of 'Chelsea Conversations' events..
The Art of Protest, 5th May 2009
Guyan Porter (presenting), Yara El-Sherbini
Yara El-Sherbini (presenting)
Guyan Porter, Mark McGowan (presenting), Yara El-Sherbini
Left is Right? 12th May 2009
Claire Fox and Emma Ridgeway
Claire Fox and Emma Ridgeway
*Unfortunately, Matthew Collins was unable to join us*
What is engagement? Contesting 'socially engaged practice.'
Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre
Dave Beech
Sophie Hope
All photographs taken by Joanna Wodzicka (Chelsea student).
Chelsea Programme is working towards making the talks availiable via this blog, either in the form of transcripts or through podcasting edited excerpts. Join our mailing list to be informed of when they are available - contact s.dyer@chelsea.arts.ac.uk (with 'Mailing List' as the subject heading.)
PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS - *ALL EVENTS ARE NOW FULLY BOOKED*
The Art of Protest (5th May)
A discussion with three artists who, in different ways, are engaged with practice – based activism, or adopt what might be called ‘activist stances’ within their work.
Mark McGowan (artist), Yara El-Sherbini (artist), Guyan Porter (artist)
Left is Right?(12th May)
Are the arts intrinsically ‘progressive’? Is there a ‘left’ consensus in the arts? If so, how do we explain the ‘art market’ and reliance on ‘free labour’? What do terms like ‘left,’ ‘right’ and 'progressive' mean now anyway for politically engaged art / artists?
Claire Fox (Institute of Ideas), Emma Ridgeway (curator, RSA) and Matthew Collings (critic / broadcaster)
What is Engagement?Contesting ‘socially engaged practice.’ (26th May)
‘Socially engaged’ and ‘participatory’ practices are increasingly attracting public subsidy and support, with some artists naturally seeing this form of practice as a positive way of engaging with ‘communities’ and others as a form of cheap social work. Three leading cultural practitioners discuss..
Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre (artist), Sophie Hope (curator), Dave Beech (artist and writer)
All discussions are free and take place in the Banqueting Hall @ Chelsea College of Art & Design, between 6 – 7.30pm.
*ALL EVENTS ARE NOW FULLY BOOKED*
To join the mailing list, please contact s.dyer@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
Please mention any additional requirements (wheelchair access, BSL etc.) if applicable.
BIOGS:
Yara El-Sherbini
Yara El-Sherbini (London) utilises humour to playfully explore art and life. Her practice straddles between live art, video and installation, using recognizable formats within contemporary popular culture (board games, game shows, pub quizzes, and auctions) to explore ideas around what art is, can be and who it involves.
Her work has recently been shown at Modern Art Oxford (Oxford), Gallery 111 (London) Delfina Foundation (London), BAC! International Festival of Contemporary Art (Barcelona), Fringe Festival (Melbourne), National Portrait Gallery (London), IKON gallery (Birmingham), Khoj Live 08 (Delhi), Art Dubai (Dubai), Centre d'Art Contemporain (Geneva), ARCO (Madrid), and Palazzo Papesse (Siena).
www.yaralesherbini.com
Guyan Porter
Guyan Porter is an artist and writer based in Glasgow.
Guyan organises, exhibits in and curates artist-led projects, multi media arts events, and temporary public art projects internationally. In 1998 he carried out a Residency in Russia, going on to South Africa, and has travelled extensively ever since.
His practice involves sculpture, installation, political dialogue, text and events combining live art, music and visuals, as well as performance in strange places.
As a writer he has covered the subjects of art, culture, politics, and religion, publishing articles and essays, while writing a book on the history of mind.
He was a founder member and first President of the Scottish Artist Union.
Mark McGowan
Mark McGowan is a London-based artist.
Claire Fox
Claire Fox is the director of the Institute of Ideas (IoI), which she established to create a public space where ideas can be contested without constraint.
She is also a passionate supporter of the arts, and strongly believes that they should be valued for their own sake. She argues that efforts to dilute the arts for the benefit of 'the socially excluded' are patronising rather than democratic. Claire features in the Telegraph's list of Britain's 100 most influential people on the Left.
Emma Ridgeway
Emma Ridgway is curator and producer at the Arts and Ecology Centre, Royal Society of Arts; she was previously at Serpentine Gallery, London. She edited the book Experiment Marathon (Serpentine Gallery and Reykjavik Art Museum, 2009) and curated Beings and Doings at the British Council (New Delhi, 2007) following her research into humour as form of aesthetics. She is currently researching engagements with ethics and ecology through the arts.
Matthew Collings
Dave Beech
Dave Beech is an artist and member of art the collective Freee, He writes regularly for publications including ‘Autonomy v Barbarism’ (Art Monthly) and ‘The Freee Manifesto for a Counter-Hegemonic Art’.
His work has been exhibited widely across Europe and the USA, including Tate Modern (in Century City). He contributed to the Matthew Higgs Bookworks project "Seven Wonders of the World", Kenny Schachters conTEMPorary Gallery, New York, as well as Gavin Wades "STRIKE" exhibition. His most recent exhibitions include text works for John Russells publication, "Frozen Tears", "strolling into history" for Artranspennine03 and he has recorded 19 songs for "Radio Radio" at International 3.
He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design.
Sophie Hope
Sophie Hope's work inspects the uncertain relationships between art and society. This involves establishing how to declare her politics through her practice; rethinking what it means to be paid to be critical and devising tactics to challenge notions of authorship. Since co-founding the curatorial partnership B+B in 2000, Sophie has gone on to pursue her independent practice, with recent projects taking place in a Dutch new town, south London housing estate and Austrian cultural embassy. Sophie also writes, teaches and facilitates workshops, dealing with issues of public art, the politics of socially engaged art and curating as critical practice.
Ana Laura López de la Torre
Ana Laura López de la Torre (b. Uruguay 1969) is an artist and writer based in London since 1995. Using the overlooked and the underrated as a starting point, her work creates visible and unexpected connections between things, people and places. Often acting as a catalyser and involving disparate constituencies with common interests but conflicting agendas, Ana Laura’s work explores the meaning of the local as a critical context for artistic production.
Ana Laura is the current holder of the Southwark Studio Residency, awarded by ACME Studios, the South London Gallery and Southwark Council. Forthcoming presentations include group exhibition at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, a public art commission to launch the new Peckham Space gallery, in collaboration with South City Radio, and a solo exhibition at Gasworks Gallery.
Chelsea Conversations is back for a new season of lively discussion and heated debate. This season's focus is on exploring intersections between art and politics.
FORUM
The Art & Politics season begins with an ongoing online discussion on Art in the Recession. Artists, designers, curators and other cultural practitioners are invited to kick start the discussion, so pitch in and have your say.
‘What can the arts sector expect to happen during the recession? Does it mark the beginning of the end for public funding of the arts? Or should government see the recession as an opportunity to reconfirm the importance of art and artists, in the manner of Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administrations ‘Federal Project Number 1’? What strategies should cultural practitioners and institutions adopt to support themselves and each other during this time? What effect will the downturn have on you?
This discussion will run throughout the duration of the talks and beyond. Add comment, links, thoughts to take part in this collective conversation...
Prof. Linda Drew introducing Bill Fontana
Bill Fontana speaking at the launch of 'Speeds of Time.'
Speeds of Time was a real-time sculptural sound map derived from the sounds of Big Ben. A network of microphones started at the House of Commons from the bell tower itself, spreading out to rooftops and terraces around and beyond Parliament Square. As it did so, Speeds of Time traced the contours of the temporal deformation of the bells. Some of the microphone locations included Westminster Abbey, the Treasury Building and the Horse Guards Clock at Whitehall.
This version of Speeds of Time was developed from an earlier version that was originally commissioned by the Works of Art Committee of the House of Commons in 2004, and had focused on the Great Clock. As a live sound sculpture, sensors and microphones were mounted on the 'Great Clock' and near the bell so that each tick and chime was repeated seven times, and relayed across eight speakers, moving from one to another and raising the question 'which one is real?'. This older version can be heard on Bill Fontana's website.
Speeds of Time was originally commissioned for the Parade Ground at Chelsea College of Art & Design. Due to difficulties in obtaining planning permission, Chelsea Programme worked with Tate Britain and the artist to realise this project in a new location - the Millbank Entrance of Tate Britain.
With thanks to Arts Council England, Meyer Sound Labs, BBC Radio 4, Autograph Sound Recording, Haunch of Venison and City Inn Westminster.
Speeds of Time was commissioned by Chelsea Programme, Chelsea College of Art and Design and organised in collaboration with Tate Britain.
https://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/billfontana/default.shtm
Artist and Chelsea lecturer Jo Bruton organised a series of cheerleading performances, followed by a screening of work from various members of the Subjectivities and Feminisms research group. The evening was capped by a screening of the seminal cheerleading movie 'Bring it On!'
Supported by the Chelsea Programme and Westminster Arts.
As part of 'Perplexed in Public,' a programme of public interventions curated by Lisson Gallery, Chelsea College of Art & Design's Parade Ground hosted Italian artist Lara Favaretto's installation, 'The Poor Are Mad.'
Click below for images detailing the installation of the project:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chelseaprogramme/sets/72157612590443465/
The Committe for Radical Diplomacy / Micropolitics Research Group
PHOTOROMANCE
Tuesday 29th April 2008
Images from the PHOTOROMANCE workshop
Images from the PHOTOROMANCE party
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Images created during the workshop ( (c) The Committe for Radical Diplomacy and the Micropolitics Research Group.)
http://micropolitics.wordpress.com/
Emma Leach
'Your Torch is Burning Brightly..'
Wednesday 30th April 2008
Yara El-Sherbini
Auctions Speak Louder than Words
Tuesday 1st May
Temporary Agency, a series of live art and performative events exploring value, free labour and social capital, took place at Chelsea Space. Curated by Sonya Dyer, supported by the Chelsea Programme, with thanks to Donald Smith.
Publication available from Chelsea Space
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s seminal experimental film combines first-wave feminism, film theory, film practice and psychoanalysis in a multi-layered study of a woman’s position within society seen through Oedipus’ encounter with the Sphinx. Known for its formal innovation as well as its theoretical content, 'Riddles.’ was the second film made by the author of 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,’
This event also featured an introduction by Laura Mulvey and a post-screening discussion.
Laura Mulvey is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, one of the world’s most prominent theorists of film and gender.
Image (c) Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen
From top - Teresa Gledowe, Jen Wu and Donald Smith (Curatorial Independence); Kwong Lee presenting (Curatorial Independence); Andrew Hunt presenting (Curatorial Independence); Raimi Gbadamosi (BHM); Paul Goodwin and Bonnie Greer (BHM).