Tayto et Tayto, Special Feature (2010)Presentation at
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http://neilmulholland.co.uk/neilmulhollandsdrive/Grad.mv4
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Grad (Ohne Titel) @ GSA Pecha Kucha Wednesday 1st December 2010
Tayto et Tayto, Special Feature (2010)Presentation at
http://gsahub.ning.com/group/pecha_kucha
http://neilmulholland.co.uk/neilmulhollandsdrive/Grad.mv4
LGP Art Theory Course (1968-72) Symposium, Coventry - 18th November 2010
LGP Art Theory Course (1968-72) Symposium - 18th November 2010
LGP are organising a symposium of leading academics, artists, curators and writers to analyse the echoes of events at CSAD 1968 - 72 and look at current art educational practice and the perceived systematised failures and/or successes. It will examine the role that the regional art education institution played in the art education narrative and its significance to the wider counter culture of the 70s. In the late sixties and early seventies, CSAD held a vital subset of staff and students who together were responsible for formidable critical opposition to the art education model’s perceived compliance with the market definition of the art object and its reliance on the centrality of the author.
The Art and Language collective’s critical agenda was to shift focus beyond the material paradigm and to construct an education capable of reflecting and promoting conceptual practice. The 70s administration of CSAD repelled this self conscious overturn of the traditional material/author-centric regime. This unyielding stand, common through regional art schools at that time, created a network of opposing force which became part of the wider counter culture of the decade.
The symposium will look at the significant role that regional art schools played in the art education narrative and examine how, if at all, the art education institution can function as a site of self-organisation, agitation and change. It will be held at the Herbert and free to attend.
Speakers:
Terry Atkinson, Artist and Founder of Art and Language.
Neil Mulholland, Associate Head, School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art.
Simon Bell, Senior Lecturer Design and Visual Arts, CSAD.
Neil Cummings, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Art, University of the Arts London.
Francis McKee, Curator, Writer and Director of Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Lisa Tickner, Professor, Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
John Reardon, Founder of Artschool UK and Lecturer in Politics, Goldsmiths
Annie Fletcher, Independent Art Critic and Curator.
The proceedings and papers from the symposium, along with a reflective article by the chair Professor Steve Dutton, will be published in January 2011 and be distributed world-wide to major and marginal educational establishments, art galleries, museums and public libraries. It will take the format of a free newspaper.
LGP, in collaboration with the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, is presenting a solo exhibition of David Rushton’s eclectic body of work. Rushton was solidly involved in the conceptual Art and Language movement both as a student at Coventry School of Art in the early seventies and beyond. His art practice is infused with the radical politics of that time and this root focus has been transmitted through various politically committed disciplines; local television, trade unionism, social activism and education.
The exhibition is purposefully divided between both sites. LGP’s curatorial focus is art and education. Rushton has been working with CSAD students to restage a work he did as a student at CSAD in 1970. The work is a replica of a Robert Morris soft-form felt cutting piece that he produced as an alternative to writing an artist biography for an art history assessment. It was a statement about authorship and the dematerialisation of the art object, as well as a pointed comment towards the institution’s staid imposition of the separation between art theory and the art object. The Morris project is one example, of many, of an internal intervention Rushton and his peers undertook to address the educational objectives of the art school. The sense of agency or agitation didn't transfer to the contemporary students and we thought this was symptomatic of the wider crisis in art education.
Alongside the historical interventions and contemporary re-appropriations, LGP will display select titles from Rushton’s collection of UK art student magazines, critique and journals from 1969 - 79. These publications reflect a period of significant administrative change to the management structure of UK art schools and the insurgent artist-collective and self-organisation initiatives that this triggered in defence. By distributing it through other regional art schools where similar struggles for a theoretical practice were taking place, they created a dynamic and robust network of students, resistant to the traditional modes of teaching and keen to share their collective intellectual enquiry. The content in this material was of significant conceptual consequence and became an integral part of the wider counter culture of the 70’s. As well as having intense localised influence, the distributing network they established meant that the content was a great force of agitation, and eventually of consequence, to the prevailing system.
Coventry and other marginal non-metropolitan places that contributed to these publications played a major role in the development of the art education narrative and harnessed a student-led coalition which linked localised but shared ideals to create a significant movement across the UK.
Old Skool
View more presentations from Dr Neil Mulholland.
LGP are organising a symposium of leading academics, artists, curators and writers to analyse the echoes of events at CSAD 1968 - 72 and look at current art educational practice and the perceived systematised failures and/or successes. It will examine the role that the regional art education institution played in the art education narrative and its significance to the wider counter culture of the 70s. In the late sixties and early seventies, CSAD held a vital subset of staff and students who together were responsible for formidable critical opposition to the art education model’s perceived compliance with the market definition of the art object and its reliance on the centrality of the author.
The Art and Language collective’s critical agenda was to shift focus beyond the material paradigm and to construct an education capable of reflecting and promoting conceptual practice. The 70s administration of CSAD repelled this self conscious overturn of the traditional material/author-centric regime. This unyielding stand, common through regional art schools at that time, created a network of opposing force which became part of the wider counter culture of the decade.The symposium will look at the significant role that regional art schools played in the art education narrative and examine how, if at all, the art education institution can function as a site of self-organisation, agitation and change. It will be held at the Herbert and free to attend.
Speakers:Terry Atkinson, Artist and Founder of Art and Language.
Neil Mulholland, Associate Head, School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art.
Simon Bell, Senior Lecturer Design and Visual Arts, CSAD.
Neil Cummings, Professor of the Theory and Practice of Art, University of the Arts London.
Francis McKee, Curator, Writer and Director of Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow
Lisa Tickner, Professor, Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
John Reardon, Founder of Artschool UK and Lecturer in Politics, Goldsmiths
Annie Fletcher, Independent Art Critic and Curator.
The proceedings and papers from the symposium, along with a reflective article by the chair Professor Steve Dutton, will be published in January 2011 and be distributed world-wide to major and marginal educational establishments, art galleries, museums and public libraries. It will take the format of a free newspaper.
LGP, in collaboration with the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, is presenting a solo exhibition of David Rushton’s eclectic body of work. Rushton was solidly involved in the conceptual Art and Language movement both as a student at Coventry School of Art in the early seventies and beyond. His art practice is infused with the radical politics of that time and this root focus has been transmitted through various politically committed disciplines; local television, trade unionism, social activism and education.The exhibition is purposefully divided between both sites. LGP’s curatorial focus is art and education. Rushton has been working with CSAD students to restage a work he did as a student at CSAD in 1970. The work is a replica of a Robert Morris soft-form felt cutting piece that he produced as an alternative to writing an artist biography for an art history assessment. It was a statement about authorship and the dematerialisation of the art object, as well as a pointed comment towards the institution’s staid imposition of the separation between art theory and the art object. The Morris project is one example, of many, of an internal intervention Rushton and his peers undertook to address the educational objectives of the art school. The sense of agency or agitation didn't transfer to the contemporary students and we thought this was symptomatic of the wider crisis in art education.
Alongside the historical interventions and contemporary re-appropriations, LGP will display select titles from Rushton’s collection of UK art student magazines, critique and journals from 1969 - 79. These publications reflect a period of significant administrative change to the management structure of UK art schools and the insurgent artist-collective and self-organisation initiatives that this triggered in defence. By distributing it through other regional art schools where similar struggles for a theoretical practice were taking place, they created a dynamic and robust network of students, resistant to the traditional modes of teaching and keen to share their collective intellectual enquiry. The content in this material was of significant conceptual consequence and became an integral part of the wider counter culture of the 70’s. As well as having intense localised influence, the distributing network they established meant that the content was a great force of agitation, and eventually of consequence, to the prevailing system.
Coventry and other marginal non-metropolitan places that contributed to these publications played a major role in the development of the art education narrative and harnessed a student-led coalition which linked localised but shared ideals to create a significant movement across the UK.
Slides from State of Play, Glasgow, 9.10.10
Venice: The State of Scottish Art
View more presentations from Dr Neil Mulholland.
I'm in the process of editing some of the ideas in this talk for Gerry Hassan's forthcoming book on Self-Determination. As Gerry says: "The aim of the book is a political and cultural one; in some small way - shifting the debate in Scotland and shifting how we think about power; while also contextualising Scotland in a wider environment - with a series of international conversations." A pre-publication conference will be held at Strathclyde University, Glasgow in November.
I'm in the process of editing some of the ideas in this talk for Gerry Hassan's forthcoming book on Self-Determination. As Gerry says: "The aim of the book is a political and cultural one; in some small way - shifting the debate in Scotland and shifting how we think about power; while also contextualising Scotland in a wider environment - with a series of international conversations." A pre-publication conference will be held at Strathclyde University, Glasgow in November.
State of Play: Art and Culture in Scotland Today
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Dancing Borders, Panel Discussion- 17 Sept
Dancing Borders Panel Discussion: Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, 17 Sept, 14:00-16:00
This discussion will celebrate the launch of the latest video work Dancing Borders by artists Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich, premiering at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, screening from 15th – 19th Sept. The Dancing Borders Panel Discussion will focus on cross-disciplinary and collaborative practice, looking at ways in which creative practice can respond to the context of site to re-invent histories, and examine the potential for this type of expansive practice to act as a catalyst for social transformation.
Dancing Borders is an ambitious cross-disciplinary project that uses dancing, ceremony and pollination to transform the psychology of place. Taking place in Berwick-upon-Tweed Dancing Borders marks the start of a collaborative process between artist duo Walker & Bromwich with Mobius Dance Theatre.
Panelists: Neil Mulholland (Associate Head of the School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art), Laura McLean-Ferris (Writer, Guardian, Art Review London), Zoe Walker & Neil Bromwich (Artists, UK), Henna-Riikka Halonen (Artist, Finland)
Event Schedule:
14:00–16.00 Panel Discussion in historic courtroom chambers in the Town Hall Berwick-Upon-Tweed, refreshments and discussion
11.00–17.30 View at your leisure, Dancing Boarders Video showing in Coxton Tower, and the Bath House by Henna-Riikka Halonen showing at the Prison Cells
The Dancing Borders Panel Discussion is supported by Newcastle University Intersections and Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival
Dancing Borders project is supported by: Arts Council England, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Maltings Theatre and Arts Centre, Northumberland County Council, Newcastle University Intersections
Photograph: Mark Pinder
www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com
www.walkerandbromwich.org.uk
An Unco Site!
Edinburgh Art Festival 2010
An Unco Site!
As part of the 2010 Edinburgh Art Festival Expo Commission, the Confraternity of Neoflagellants are staging a ‘zombie walk’ and reception on Saturday the 7th of August. This involves a mash-up of Robert Burns’ Tam O’Shanter, The Party (starring Peter Sellers) (1968), Night of the Living Dead (1985) and The Fall’s Live at the Witch Trials (1979). A secret party is being held in the honour of Edinburgh's 'ghosts’, the living dead who wear historical costume for their work. At 11:00pm this Confraternity of Neoflagellants will assemble at the Scott Monument and walk through the City of Edinburgh, arriving at an undisclosed location before the midnight hour. Once there, they will cross the Styx to a wake. The after party will feature music and DJ sets as well as projections by artists currently exhibiting in ‘Avalon’ at The Embassy gallery in the Roxy Art House, Edinburgh. An Unco Site! is a psychogeographical work's night out, a busman's holiday that will create a confluence of professional historical actors, re-enactors and tour guides working in the City of Edinburgh - to allow them to meet and mingle and to share indulgences, resources and friendships.
Warlocks and witches in a dance:
Nae cotillon, brent new frae France,
But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys, and reels,
Put life and mettle in their heels.
If you would like to participate or attend please contact the event producers:
An Unco Site! has three components:
1. 'The Zombie Walk’ 11pm, Scott Monument, Saturday 7th August 2010.
2.
‘The Reception’
early hours of Sunday 8th August 2010.
3. ‘Investigating Premodern Futures’™ – Symposium, Monday 9th August in Inspace, University of Edinburgh, featuring a range of speakers on the subject of neomedievalism.
An Unco Site! will be streamed live to Bambuser. http://bambuser.com/channel/Confraternity+of+Neoflagellants
Photographs and footage will be edited for future podcasting on Central Station http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/_Confraternity-of-Neoflagellant/group/113456/126249.html
Supported by:
The event has been made possible by support from the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund for the Edinburgh Art Festival 2010, Central Station, New Media Scotland and Inspace.
The Edinburgh Art Festival showcases the very best in Scottish, British and international visual art in Edinburgh during the August festivals.
The Confraternity of Neoflagellants
The Confraternity of Neoflagellants are lay peoples dedicated to the ascetic application, dissemination and treatment of neomedievalism in contemporary culture. They are attuned to the scent of medieval analogies relating to the creative commons, the folkmote, the plateau of middle, post-post-industrialism and to geopolitical debates in the current era of zombie capitalism and the new irrationalism.
Something Might Happen
Something Might Happen
The Forgotten Bar, Boppstrasse 5
Berlin
(U8- Schonleinstr, direction Hermannstr)
20:00, Monday 21st June 2010
‘Avalon’
‘Avalon’
The Embassy, Roxy Art House,
2 Roxburgh Place,
Edinburgh EH8 9SU
19.06.10 – 11.07.10
The relentless association, from the Renaissance onwards, of the Middle Ages with the ‘hypereconomy’ of the gift, with whatever exceeds calculation or rationality, for good or for ill, has made the Middle Ages a marker of fantasy and excess (...), a figure of the unnecessary and the extraordinary. Louise Fradenburg, 1997
Atilliator Plastique Fantastique – Burgage in London and Birmingham. www.plastiquefantastique.org
Doctor Mirabilis Torsten Lauschmann – Bad Soden, Germany, 1970. Wapentake Glasgow. www.lauschmann.com
Angry Penguin David Osbaldeston – Middlesbrough, 1968. Riding in Manchester. www.mattsgallery.org/artists/osbaldeston/home.php
Head Fatrasist Alex Pollard – Brighton, 1977. Hide in Glasgow. www.sorchadallas.com/artists/6
Almoner Andro Semeiko – Ozurgeti, Georgia, 1975. Knight’s fee London. www.androsemeiko.com
Falconer General Ewan Sinclair – Burgh Edinburgh. www.ewansinclair.co.uk
Neoflagellant without portfolio Eddo Stern – Tel Aviv, 1972. Rape of San Francisco. www.eddostern.com
Witch with HP-50 Emma Tolmie - Lathe Edinburgh. www.emmatolmie.co.uk
‘Avalon’ is the first curatorial investigation into premodern futurity by The Confraternity of Neoflagellants - lay peoples dedicated to the ascetic application, dissemination and treatment of neomedievalism in contemporary culture. Borne of the new irrationalism of zombie capitalism, they are attuned to the scent of medieval in the creative commons, in the folkmote, the plateau of middle, in the unbundled territoriality of post-post-industrialism.
Ewan Sinclair and Emma Tolmie Modified Knights: Crusaders of the Cosmic Forge (2010). Looped DVD and Mixed Media.
Ewan Sinclair and Emma Tolmie Modified Knights: Crusaders of the Cosmic Forge (2010). Looped DVD and Mixed Media.
Ewan Sinclair and Emma Tolmie Modified Knights: Crusaders of the Cosmic Forge (2010). Looped DVD.
Eddo Stern Best...flame war ..Ever: Leegattenby King of Bards v. Squire Rex, (2007), QuickTime Movie, 14:37mins.
Andro Semeiko Secret (2010) Acrylic and Oil on Board, 120x50cm.
Portal to Jerusalem, Edinburgh Annuale 2010 Information Point
Plastique Fantastique Plastique Fantastique Inversion Cone (2010). Assemblage.
Plastique Fantastique Plastique Fantastique Diagram of the Plague Bacterium: Welcome Cunverse – Negative (2010). Glitter, variable dimensions.
Plastique Fantastique Plastique Fantastique Cunverse: Welcome Run – T – Mo – Bile – Still - Ner (2010). Looped DVD.
For further information and to join the Confraternity of Neoflagellants:
http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/_Confraternity-of-Neoflagellant/group/113456/126249.html
