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Autumn 2015 Programme

DateSubjectContent
Tuesday 27 OctoberMaya Deren
Film screening and discussion
 
Screening of selected short films by Maya Deren: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943-59); At Land (1944); A Study in Choreography (1945); Ritual in Transfigured Time (1945-6);Meditation on Violence (1948); The Very Eye of Night (1952-59)
Wednesday 28 OctoberExhibition visit

A tour with curator Renée Mussai of the exhibition of French/Algerian artist Bruno Boudjelal at Autograph. The work traces Frans Fanon's journey from Martinique to Algeria in abstracted form. The tour is followed by a conversation with the artist at 6.30.

 

Wednesday 4 NovemberWerker Magazine, talk & conversation

Werker (or Werker Magazine) is a publication about photography and labour initiated by visual artist Marc Roig Blesa and graphic designer Rogier Delfos. A presentation of the magazine will be followed by a discussion with Jorge Ribalta, curator of A Hard, Merciless Light. The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939 (Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2011) and Not Yet: On the Reinvention of Documentary and the Critique of Modernism (Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2015).

Poster for the event (pdf)

Friday 6 NovemberExhibition visitWalk-through of the Kara Walker exhibition at Victoria Miro, all are welcome
Victoia Miro Gallery, Wharf Road, London. 4:45
Tuesday 17 NovemberFilm screening and discussion

Gordon Matta-Clark film screening and discussion

Friday 20 NovemberExhibition visit

 

Join curator Flavia Frigeri for a private view and tour of The World Goes Pop, a groundbreaking exhibition revealing how artists around the world engaged with the spirit of Pop Art.

Tate Modern 9:00

 

Tuesday 24 NovemberSeminar
Simon Baker (Senior Curator International Art (Photography), Tate Modern)

George Condo: Painting Reconfigured

Spring 2016 Programme

DateSubjectContent
Monday 1 FebruaryStan Douglas
Talk and discussion

Starts at 4pm

Tuesday 9 FebruaryHelen Marten
Film workshop and discussion

Starts at 5.30pm

Tuesday 23 FebruaryIsabella Rossellini
Film workshop and discussion

Workshop and discussion on Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno
Starts at 5.30pm

Saturday 5 MarchConference

Playing Games: Power and Pleasure in Art After the Internet

Tuesday 8 MarchValie Export
Film workshop and discussion
Workshop and discussion on Valie Export's Invisible Adversaries (1976)
Starts at 5.30pm
Saturday 19 MarchConference

Reality Check: A symposium on art, psycho-politics and the limits of community

programme (pdf)

Summer 2016 Programme

DateSubjectContent
Tuesday 26 AprilExhibition visitWalk-through of Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen at Serpentine Gallery 4pm
Saturday 7 MayConference

Extracurricular Activity: Undermining Histories of Contemporary Art

Starts at 10am

Friday 13 MayExhibition visit

Walk-through of the Mary Kelly exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

EVENT CANCELLED

Saturday 11 JuneInterdisciplinary conference

Proust Project:

a conference on Proust and the image, organised by Briony Fer and Rye Holmboe. CSCA/Institute of Advanced Studies.

Venue: Institute of Advanced Studies. 10.30-6pm

Thursday-Friday 7-8 JulyInterdisciplinary conference (UCL Institute of Advanced studies)Bodily Matters