Visit the updated Borderline website for videos from the recent symposium, The 28th State: European Borders in an Age of Anxiety at Tate Britain.
On the website you can also see video footage of the Black Pig City Masonic Circus project – including video from the ‘secret workshop’ run with Chelsea students and the performance / private view on the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground.
You will also find information about the forthcoming Solidarity Camp! in April 2010.
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Chelsea College of Art and Design will be participating in ElectroSmog, a new festival that revolves around the concept of Sustainable Immobility. The festival organisers based in Amsterdam’s centre for Politics and Culture De Balie have developed an experimental interface to manage live streams from many locations around the world, exploring the possibilities of using everyday communications platforms to create an International Festival where no body has to leave home. In this way the project explores the concept of sustainable immobility in both theory and practice, with discussions, workshops, and performances taking place at each of the festival partners’ home bases.
On Thursday 18th and Friday 19th March the Dean’s office (EG04) will be turned into an informal seminar room to engage with the festival and test the possibilities of this experimental interface.
Developer, Grzesiek Sedek of Wimbledon College Of Art will present an Access Grid and the artists project Marcel as an alternative communications platform to the one developed for ElectroSmog and look at ways in which academic networks could play a more dynamic role in developing experimental platforms for wider use.
Members of the TED (Textile Environment Design) research group will make a contribution based on a subtle role that subjectivities in design create textiles that have a reduced impact on the environment.
Chelsea College of Art and Design will not only contribute from its own location in London, but will also work in partnership with Ambient TV, based in Hackney and Tactical Technology in Bristol on Thursday 18th and Saturday 20th March.
5 Chelsea BA Fine Art alumni – Myles Painter, Matthew La Croix, Sam Autsen, Amy Griffin and Susan Forsyth will be showing at the Recent Graduate exhibition at The Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. Curated by Jotta the exhibition offers a platform for 18 emerging artists whose practices test new perceptions of the archetypal landscape. The artists selected for ‘Land Without A Map’ reconsider natural and spatial elements, while questioning conventional visual assumptions.
Chelsea MA Curating course leader Amanda Beech has a solo show at Spike Island in Bristol. The show runs from 23 January – 11 April 2010 and see her presenting a new body of work entitled ‘Sanity Assassin’.
‘Sanity Assassin’ is a three-channel video installation with a sculptural element; a spotlit mirrored plinth, which displays a series of polished chainsaws. Situated in a custom designed waiting area, this glamorous structure with subliminal horror movie overtones is homage to the corporate lobby of a real Los Angeles showroom. Shot on location in Los Angeles the work is part of Beech’s on-going investigations into the forceful rhetoric played out within neo-liberal narratives of freedom in philosophy, politics, literature and popular culture.
To accompany the show there will be a seminar with Amanda Beech, Mikko Cannini, Bridget Crone, Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Marie-Anne McQuay entitled ’Imploded Action, Dissonant Affects’. The seminar takes place on Saturday 20 March and will address the relation or non-relation between space, image and sound as well as our expectations for art’s effective and affective potential.
Last week we posted a couple of videos from our new ‘Chelsea Shots’ series. Here is another interview from that same series. This time we are in the studio with BA Fine Art 3rd year Jack West. Jack shows us some of his large scale ‘Airport’ paintings he has been working on and talks about the line of investigation in his work.
‘For the Sake of the Image’ is the first show curated by Chelsea MA Fine Art alumna Suki Chan. The show, which runs from the 3 March – 1 April 2010 at the Jerwood Space explores the relationship between moving image and sound, “considering sound not merely as an accompaniment to the moving image but exploring how the force of one multiplies the power of the other.”
The show is part of the Jerwood Visual Arts Encounters series and features work by Asnat Austerlitz, Richard Bevan, Juan Fontanive, Paul O’Kane, Mark Raidpere, Dan Walwin and Suki Chan.
Monday 8 March (18.00 – 20.00) - Curator Suki Chan will be in conversation with exhibiting artists Asnat Austerlitz, Richard Bevan, Juan Fontanive, Paul O’Kane and Dan Walwin. Discussion chaired by Sarah Williams.
Here’s another video from our ‘Chelsea Shots’ series. This time we speak to Cyril Crentsil, a 1st year BA Textile Design student. He talks us through the various techniques they learn in ’stage 1′, shows us some of his work and tells us why he chose to study at Chelsea.
We have started a new series of short video clips called ‘Chelsea Shots’ that we hope will give you an insight into life at Chelsea. The videos will feature students, staff, events and exhibitions.
For our first series we have interviewed some of our Undergraduate students. In this interview we spoke Turi Baardsen, who is in her 3rd year of the BA Interior and Spatial Design course. She speaks to us about her current project and shows us one of her log books.
“The prize is unique in providing the artists with the time and opportunity to develop their practice. They are each commissioned to produce a brand new body of work to be exhibited one year on from their respective degree shows, encouraging them to explore new ideas in a large and modifiable space.
As with The Catlin Guide, the chosen artists are considered to be producing high quality work which demonstrates their capacity to make a significant mark in the art world during the next decade. Based on this criteria, a panel of judges will award one of the artists with the prize of £3,000.” An exhibition of the eight finalists will take place at Village Underground, London in May 2010.
James Capper is a Chelsea BA Fine Art graduate. The ‘Ripper’ was the sculpture he made for his final show in 2008 and was also shown at the Hannah Barry Gallery ‘Bold Tendencies’ exhibition later that summer. The piece is now part of the Cass Sculpture Foundation collection.
James describes the ‘Ripper’ as a ‘floor marking’ machine and ‘a tool for making art’; the structure being the cross between a ‘tower crane ‘ and a ‘drag hoe.’ The marks that it makes are the effect of the viewers’ active participation.
As part of Shaping Sculpture 2010 the cafe at Chelsea College of Art and Design currently has a small show of drawings by James. The drawings are for a machine called ‘Chimera’. ‘Chimera’ was shortlisted in 2009 for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize. James also has shows later this year at the Hannah Barry Gallery and Royal Society of British Sculptors.
