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News 2012

Peter Sant is showing his film I Yam What I Yam… L'invenzione at Birkbeck Cinema, 41 Gordon Square (use entrance at 43 Gordon Square), London WC1H 0PD, on Thursday 15th November 2012 at 7pm. Entrance is free, but booking through http://yam.eventbrite.com/# is recommended. There is an introductory talk by Dr Angus Cameron (University of Leicester) prior to the screening. For further information see www.petersant.com.

Alumnus Martine Poppe and current students Sarah Pettitt and Judith Rooze are showing Private Drama at Vibe Gallery, The Biscuit Factory, 100 Clements Road, London SE16 4DG.

Professor Emeritus Phyllida Barlow, Lecturer Lisa Milroy and alumni Tacita Dean, Antony Gormley and Christopher Le Brun are showing in Encounter: the Royal Academy in the Middle East, Katara Cultural Village, Doha, Qatar, 5 December 2012 - 5 March 2013. See www.royalacademy.org.uk.

Her Eyes and My Voice: A Relationship in Ekphrasis' is a self published 71 page publication by Vanessa Visual and Virginia Verbal, distributed by Slade Press. It includes poems, images and essays by emerging and international artists, including Sharon Morris, responding to the relationship between the visual and the verbal in art making. See www.youtube.com.

Lecturer Jayne Parker, Professor Emeritus Bruce McLean and alumni David Blandy, Laura Cooper, Amy Cunningham, Mikhail Karikis and Dante Rendle-Traynor are showing in The Voice and the Lens, a festival and exhibition exploring the treasures of the human voice, conjured up for our eyes through film and performance, curated by alumnus Sam Belinfante (who is also exhibiting) and Third Ear.  The Voice and the Lens is at the Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS from 8 – 11 November 2012. See www.ikon-gallery.co.uk.

Amna Malik has contributed an essay on Kobena Mercer's writings on photographic artists of the African diaspora in Fifty Key Writers on Photography (ISBN-10: 0415549450 and ISBN-13: 978-0415549455) which is published by Routledge on 14 December 2012. See www.routledge.com.

Emma Hart - To Do is showing at CIRCA Projects, Stephenson Works, South Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3PE from 4 October to 1 December 2012. See http://circaprojects.org.

Breathe by Dryden Goodwin will be projected from the roof of St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1, 6.30pm - 1am from 9 - 28 October 2012. The best view of this large scale outdoor video projection, which explores how air sustains us but also insidiously corrupts and damages our young, is from Westminster Bridge. See http://invisibledust.com. There is a talk, Turner Updated, by Dryden Goodwin from 2-4pm Tuesday 16th October, at Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, House of Commons, London SW1. For further details about the talk, see http://invisibledust.com.