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The Centre seeks to generate debate concerning those pressing questions facing the contemporary condition of art, as well as providing a valuable space in which to work through the complex trajectories of contemporary art's long history. Engaging with the work being done by postgraduate students and staff in the department, the Centre provides a place to think, theorise and historicise contemporary art, exploring what it has become in light of the complex global, historical, social and political aspects of its current expanded field.
All events take place from 6pm in Seminar Room 3 and 4 at UCL History of Art Department, 20 - 21 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG unless otherwise noted.
Spring 2020 Programme
| Date | Subject | Content |
| Tuesday 14 January | CSCA Steering Committee | CANCELLED |
| Tuesday 21 January | Drawing Project: Melanie Klein at the Wellcome | The Wellcome are kindly arranging a study room for us to look at and talk about selected drawings from Klein’s psychoanalytic sessions with children. Due to the size of the room and rarity of materials, the Wellcome can only accommodate a group of 12 people at a time. If you wish to join, do email me (meret.kaufmann.15@ucl.ac.uk), so I can keep track of numbers and make sure we can accommodate all interested. More about Klein, her psychoanalytic play technique and the archive at the Wellcome can be found here: https://melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/ Starts at 4pm. |
| Tuesday 28 January | Confrontations: Sessions in East European Art History | Research group leaders Maya Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes will talk about the Confrontations project followed by a reception in Room 3, 6-8pm. |
| Tuesday 25 February | Exhibition Visit | Donna Huddleston The Exhausted Student at Drawing Room. The artist will talk about her new show. Meet at 4pm at Drawing Room, 1-27 Rodney Place, London SE17 1PP |
| Saturday 29 February | Symposium | Pedagogic Relations: Art and Art History Saturday 29 February 2020 UCL, Institute of Advanced Studies, 1pm–7pm. In examining the teacher-student relationship in the production and dissemination of art and art history, this conference will track art’s often overlooked intellectual histories. Within this pedagogic dynamic, what is replicated and what is changed? Where are the points of departure and do they always lead to progress? And, in the transmission of knowledge, what is lost and what is gained? Taking into account a diverse cast of pedagogues spanning from Isabel Rawsthorne to Theodor W. Adorno, and pedagogic models that range from universities to romantic relationships, this conference will look at how the relationship between teacher and student plays out in the making of art and its histories. Keynote: Elizabeth Price in Conversation with Adrian Rifkin 6pm - 7pm |
| Tuesday 10 March | Drawing Project: The psychoanalyst-drawers: Klein, Winnicott, Milner. | |
| Tuesday 17 March | Drawing Project: Drawing and Dance | |
Autumn 2019 Programme
| Date | Subject | Content |
| Tuesday 22 October | Funding Advice Session | Seminar room 3, 4.30pm |
| Monday 28 October | The Word Is Then | Seminar room 6, 5-8pm |
| Friday 1 November | Jointly funded by CSCA and SSEES in collaboration with PPV (Perverting the Power Vertical: Aesthetics and Politics in the Global East) 5-8pm, IAS Forum | |
| Monday 4 November | Reading group | PPV #11: The Perils of Perversion in the Age of Populism A PPV Reading Week Reading Group (PPV ReWeReGo) with Keti Chukhrov Masaryk Room, SSEES, 1pm |
| Tuesday 19 November | Drawing Workshop 1 | The Scribblers: Short papers on Rosemarie Trockel, Arshile Gorky and Adrian Piper followed by discussion. Seminar room 6, 5.30-8.30pm |
| Thursday 21 November | Gallery visit | CSCA Renee Mussai, senior curator at Autograph, will give a tour of the current exhibition of Lina Iris Viktor at 6.30. Please meet at Autograph, Rivington Place |
| Tuesday 26 November | Steering Group meeting | CANCELLED |
