Monday, February 27, 2012

Reconstructed Research







Picture via

Costume made by Travilla for Marilyn Monroe in the 1952-3 film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

First Link

Second link

All rediscovered with "this room is closed in 15 minutes so you need to finish what you are doing." that and blogger crashing as the version of IE on the college computers "no longer supports Blogger"

It's now 9.32 pm and I have to be back there [after walking dogs and making strides in artistic contemplation by 10.30 am tomorrow. So bed and drawing for me.







It's now 9.32 pm and I have to be back there [after walking dogs and making strides in artistic contemplation by 10.30 am tomorrow. So bed and drawing for me.


what a shitty day




Got a bill incl £120 for over usage of broadband

VP didn't happen,

Research folder has vanished.

link to one thing I've managed to refind

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8881495/Marilyn-Monroe-Eight-page-letter-up-for-auction.html

2.40 pm

Martin Westwood




Benjamin and Technology

Andrew Chesher

Feb 27th

4.30pm

Lecture Theatre

In his essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, written in the 1930s, Benjamin gives an analysis of how the technical reproduction of Art affects the status and experience of the original. On the one hand reproduction dilutes the presence of the original and hence depletes its power, and on the other it makes the reproduced image available more widely, especially true in our present age of digital reproduction. Using Benjamin's analyses and concepts as its starting point and touchstones, this lecture explores subsequent theories about technology, and practices that utilise it, whose basic premises Benjamin anticipated.

Key text: Walter Benjamin (2007), ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, Illuminations, New York: Schocken Books

Saturday, February 25, 2012

a lecture on 'ugliness'

"Artist and writer, Mark Hutchinson, will be giving a lecture on 'ugliness' today, Thursday 23 February, at 2pm in the Lecture Theatre"

I was under house arrest that day, shame as my work has often been described as 'ugly.'

No way of seeing "ways of seeing"


Yet again the internet gives and takes away. This programme can't be listened to again.

Edit - 7 days to listen from today 



No plans to make Jonhn Berger's  television series aviliable on dvd or re-broadcast. The book sold 20,000 copies the first year of publication. it's been in print ever since1972.



"The Lucien Freud A Painted Life" via BBC iPlayer cut out on me halfway through on the last hour of viewing and tickets for the NPG show are selling faster than Da Vinci or Coldplay


Episode 1 part 1
 

Episode 1 part 2



Episode 1 part 3



Episode 1 part 4

Friday, February 24, 2012

Dallas Wiens

1973


To coincide with the beatification Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is playing host to an exhibition of ”rarely seen items from the life of Cardinal John Henry Newman”. Amongst the exhibits are many not generally on public view. Most items are loaned from Birmingham Oratory’s own collection and were in Newman's rooms at the Oratory. Below are photographs of the exhibits.

Cardinal's robes, hat and shoes @ 1879. Newman reputedly complained that it was very expensive to be fitted out as a cardinal!

Kris Knight

Kris Knight

Fedor Emelianenko


Xavier Le Roy

Xavier Le Roy

"maybe have a life where it's not so clear pleasure  work
to describe my work
I would say in the first place experimental that is what I am interested in that is making a performance that are experiment with he spectators
let's start with the easiest one that is the 'sacre de printemps'
the conductor is doing
I have no education in music so that is really help to have this perspective
and I have the feeling that is more reacting on the music than producing the music than - in something
this balance between this very confused moment when you don't know the cause and what is effect
out this observation could be an interesting thing to work on this kind of movement as being  dance movement on the music
working for the body for to dance  is a very difficult kind of difficulty and it appear that some of my body was not well construct for this and what happen is I struggle a lot  but what helped me is that because I could not do what I was supposed to as a dancer then I had to develop and do other things which afterwards was interesting because this was a way to develop something interesting
It is difficult to do experimental work with a lot of people because experimental work by definition and it's a pity and it's like this doesn't invite a big audience if you don't invite a big audience you will not get a lot of means
so if you don't get a lot of means you can't work with a lot of people or you have to work with them without paying  which is out of question 
so you know this after plays a big role in why and how you do solo work so after now I can get some support for my work and subsidies and things like this I alternate very much between work that I do with people and work that I do solo"



http://www.xavierleroy.com/

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Stuart Brisley


Sweating The Hole from Stuart Brisley on Vimeo.

Also went to the Bisley Gallery this week, very heartening.

Chris Burden

Chris Burden

WANNA SEE . . . .


Hayward Gallery. South Bank.  22 February - 13 May 2012


 
Song Dong : Waste Not " The activity of saving and re-using things is in keeping with the Chinese adage wu jin qi yong – ‘waste not’ – a prerequisite for survival during periods of social and political turmoil. . . . . Waste Not speaks of the strong bonds between family members and the power of objects to tell stories and shape our lives."


 The Curve. Barbican. 15 February 2012 - 12 June 2012

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Ken Wilder

Artist Talk

Wednesday 22nd February – 1pm. Lecture Theatre

Ken Wilder – Projective Space

Ken Wilder makes site-responsive sculptural installations, often including video projection. “My research focuses on the phenomenological experience of art, particularly in terms of how artworks structure an often problematic relation with the beholder...

...My research also attempts to define the phenomenological experience of video art when it shifts from the cinema to the space of the gallery.”





Going by dates - has he moved to Camberwell ? Didn't know there was a Chelsea youtube channel !

UPDATE:

I've only found this pdf

'Why we have corners'


the represented, the representation, the reproduction


Monday, February 20, 2012

Fanon, Subjectivity and Race


Bernice Donszelmann

Feb 20th
4.30pm
Lecture Theatre

Frantz Fanon’s essay ‘The Fact of Blackness’ (1952) explores how subjectivity is experienced as a crisis for the colonized subject within the context of colonial domination. Fanon’s thinking has been very influential within post-colonial theory and the lecture will introduce some of the key ideas presented in this text.

Key text: Frantz Fanon (2008), ‘The Fact of Blackness’, Black Skin, White Masks, London: Pluto Press, 82-108