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EVENTS Best Laid Plans Symposium Friday 12 November 2010,10.30 – 17.00 Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern In collaboration with the Drawing Room and Middlesex University In this symposium, which relates to an exhibition The Drawing Room's exhibition Best Laid Plans, seven international artists reveal ways in which the tools of planning and drawing both drive and articulate their practice. The drawn plan has the status of a rational tool that is quickly superseded by more concrete manifestations. Best Laid Plans proposes that the plan can be an end in itself and in its open condition is able to create models for alternative ways of living. Conversation 1: Artists Trenton Doyle Hancock and Paul Rooney in discussion with Professor Jon Bird. Both Hancock and Rooney use the individual as the protagonist in narratives that unravel modes of behaviour and subtly suggest more deviant forms. This conversation will consider drawings’ association with figuration and with narrative forms such as the comic book, illustration and storyboards. Event: Marie Lund: Starr Auditorium Lund asked a Danish architect, whose career is distinguished by prizes for his visionary plans but not for their realisation, to recollect a museum that he designed more than twenty years ago. The performer enacts his recollection, transporting the audience to the conceptual space of an unrealised plan.
Event: Marie Lund: Starr Auditorium The performer, who specialises in guided tours of historic sites, will describe plans for a visionary museum, conceived more than twenty years and now recollected by the architect transporting the audience to the conceptual space of an unrealised plan. Conversation 2: Artists Marie Lund and Katya Sander in discussion with Tate Curator Katharine Stout. Both Lund and Sander’s work for Best Laid Plans references the idealism of modernism and explores the changing status of the architectural plan and planning schemes as they evolve over time. The conversation will consider the transformation of utilitarian forms of drawing such as cartography, architectural plans and typography into abstract forms that can mutate endlessly within a conceptual practice. Conversation 3: Ultra-red artist-collective and artist Marjetica Potrc in discussion with Professor Esther Leslie. Ultra-red and Potrc instigate grass-roots collective projects that address significant issues that affect the lives of individuals and or communities. The conversation will bring to light the role that sound, scores, notation, diagrams, narrative sketches and construction play within their transformational projects. Event: SONGS FOR A BETTER FUTURE : TURBINE HALL A project initiated by Matei Bejenaru in collaboration with Will Dutta and singers from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Conversation 4: Artist Matei Bejenaru and composer Will Dutta in conversation with Rob Stone. Romanian artist Bejenaru develops projects that evolve from the context of Romania as a failed utopia. The choir performance, ‘Songs for a Better Future’, developed in collaboration with Will Dutta, is a montage of different modes of expression. There exists in this work a disparity between form and content which will trigger a discussion of the role of drawing within Structuralist films, the production of scores and montage techniques in film-making. Brief Biographies Matei Bejenaru was born in 1963 in Suceava, Romania and lives and works in Iasi, Romania. In 1997 Bejenaru established the Periferic Biennial in Iasi which has since developed into an international art biennial. It is now supported by the Vector Association, a non-profit cultural NGO designed to support local contemporary art of which Bejenaru was also a founding member. Selected solo exhibitions include Galerie ERSEP Tourcoing (with Yves Robuschi) France (2009); Cupola Gallery Iasi, Romania (2009). Selected group exhibitions include Dacia, Lille 3000, Galerie Comune Tourcoing, France (2009); The Irresistible Force, Tate Modern (2007).
Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, USA and lives and works in Houston, Texas. Forthcoming exhibitions include Big New Field: Artists in the Cowboys Stadium Art Program, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas. Selected solo exhibitions include Singapore Tyler Print Institute (2010); Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum (2010); Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas (2010). Selected group exhibitions include Mutant Pop and the Living Image, Loyal Gallery, Malmos (2010); From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (2010); Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008). Janice Kerbel was born in 1969 in Canada and lives and works in London. She has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Chisenhale Gallery, London (2011). Selected solo projects include Art Now, Tate Britain (2010); greengrassi, London (2009); Nick Silver Can’t Sleep: A Radio Play for Insomniacs was performed live at Art Now Live, Tate Britain (2008) and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 (2006). Selected group exhibitions include Recipes for an Encounter, Dorsky Gallery, New York (2010); Poor. Old. Tired. Horse., ICA, London (2009).
Marjetica Potrc was born in 1953 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she continues to live and work. Selected solo exhibitions include Galerie Nordenhak, Stockholm (2010); Meulensteen Gallery, New York (2010); Rainwater Harvesting, on-site project, St. Erasmo, Venice (2010); Barbican Art Gallery, London (2007). Selected group exhibitions include The Promises of the Past, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010); EMSCHERKUNST.2010, Essen (2010); Making Worlds, 53rd International Venice Biennale, Venice (2009).
Selected solo exhibitions include Spacex, Exeter, UK; ‘Letters That Rot’ (and ‘Magazine 10’ residency), Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh Arts Festival (2010);Durham Art Gallery (2010); Harewood House, Leeds (2010). Selected group exhibitions include InCounter Sound – Video – Text, Campbell Works, London; Running Time: Artist Films in Scotland 1960 to Now, Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland (2008); Cine y Casi Cine (Cinema and Almost Cinema), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid (2007). Katya Sander was born in 1970 in Denmark and she lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin. Selected solo exhibitions include Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2010); RedCat / Calarts Downtown Center for Innovative Visual, Performing and Media Arts, Los Angeles (2009); Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2009). Selected group exhibitions include 9 Scripts from a Nation at War, Tate Modern (2009); Whose Cosmopolitism? Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, University of Manchester (2009); Coming to You LIVE, Art in General (Bloomberg Building), New York (2008-9). Founded in 1994 by two AIDS activists in Los Angeles, Ultra-red conduct sound investigations in collaboration with social justice movements where sound is the medium and the site of inquiry. With nine members located in North America and Europe, the collective produce recordings, performances, workshops, radio broadcasts and installations. Ultra-red's investigations have been hosted by institutions such as Tate Britain and Serpentine Gallery. Selected solo exhibitions include Raven Row, London (2009); KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts, Durban (2008). Selected group exhibitions include See This Sound, Lentos Museum, Linz (2009); NobelPrize, UKS Galleri, Oslo (2008); Floteson, KHM Gallery, Malmö (2008). Jon Bird is Professor of Art & Critical Theory, Middlesex University Esther Leslie is Professor in Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London Cylena Simonds is an independent curator and co-curator of Best Laid Plans Katharine Stout is Curator, Tate Britain and Associate Director of the Drawing Room. PAST The Drawing Room will screen a programme of drawn animations
17 July 2010. Inside/Outside Cinema, Film screening event, Gillett SquareCARDEW WEEKEND IN COLLABORATION WITH THE ICA 21 & 22 November 2009, ICA, London ‘Play for Today’: Cornelius Cardew’: a symposium This symposium aims to remake rather than repeat the legacy of Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra. Through talks, performances and panel discussions the questions and contradictions that Cardew’s practice incorporated will be replayed and re-evaluated for their contemporary relevance. The first day of the symposium includes contributions from a wide range of participants, including John Tilbury (musician and Cardew collaborator and biographer), Grant Watson (curator at MUHKA, Antwerp), Adrian Rifkin (Professor of Art Writing, Goldsmiths College), artist-duo the Otolith Group and artist and musician Lawrence Abu Hamdan. As a complement to the symposium, and over the course of both days, international sound collective Ultra-red is leading a performative enquiry into Cardew’s work which mirrors the ten-hour performance of Cardew’s Schooltime Compositions that occurred at the ICA forty years ago, in 1969. The second day of the Cornelius Cardew symposium begins with performances of the composer’s works, including ‘Autumn ‘60’ and Paragraphs 3 and 6 of ‘The Great Learning’, directed by Dave Smith and John Tilbury. The day continues with a discussion that includes contributions from sonic artist John Levack Drever, Andrea Phillips (Director, Curating Architecture, Goldsmiths College) and Marcel Swiboda (lecturer in cultural theory, University of Leeds). In the Lower Gallery Ultra-red are continuing their performative enquiry into Cardew’s work. The day concludes with artist Beatrice Gibson presenting a work inspired by Cardew’s ‘The Great Learning’ From Scratch was conceived in collaboration with ICFAR (International Centre for Fine Art Research), University of the Arts, London.
Thursday 2 July, 11.00 – 18.30 This Forum brought together individuals and groups who share an interest in the work of the Scratch Orchestra and collectives working in music, performance, film and visual art during the 1960s and 70s. A canal boat duo scratch style. Performed by pupils from the Bridge Academy with Kaffe Matthews and Shane Waltener Thursday 2 July 16.00- 17:00 Regents Canal between Acton Lock (Broadway Market) and Kingsland Basin. Jude Walton: ‘Dancing the Book’ Monday 6 & Tuesday 7 July, 10.00 – 16.30 A two-day workshop exploring the relationship between gesture, mark and movement, and thedocuments and records that result. Jude Walton is a Melbourne based interdisciplinary artist who is Summer Fellow at ICFAR. John Lely - Performance of Treatise Saturday 11 July 2009, 14.00 – 20.00 Composer and musician John Lely collaborates with contemporary musicians Angharad Davies,Rhodri Davies, James Saunders, Lee Patterson and Tim Parkinson. Live visual and audio performance directed by Adam Melvin Friday 17 July 2009, 18.30 – 20.30 Live visual and audio performance directed by Adam Melvin of DEME This live interdisciplinary performance used a range of visual and aural elements as its ‘score’. PATRON EVENTS By becoming a patron of THE DRAWING ROOM you will have an opportunity to give significant support to a growing and ambitious organisation. You can enjoy a close relationship with The Drawing Room Directors and will benefit from exclusive invitations including visits to private collections, artist-hosted events and studio visits, a special preview and guided tour of our biennial fundraising exhibitions, an invitation to The Drawing Room Annual Dinner and idea sharing forum among others. Please visit follow this link for further information on joining our patron programme. Selection of past PATRON EVENTS Tour of The Cranford Collection May 2008 The Cranford collection was established by Freddy and Muriel Salem in 1999 with the aim of collecting and supporting contemporary art projects. The Collection comprises important works in all media by distinguished national and international artists including Francis Alÿs, Louise Bourgeois, Ryan Gander, Mona Hatoum, Sophie von Hellermann, Damien Hirst, Martin Kippenberger, Jim Lambie, Sarah Lucas, Lucy McKenzie, Gabriel Orozco, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West and many more. The tour of the Collection was led by Dr Andrew Renton, Curator of the Collection and Director of Curating, Goldsmiths, University of London and a member of The Drawing Room Advisory Board. Studio Visits October 2008 This was the first of several forthcoming studio visits to young emerging and established artists using drawing either as their main practice or towards work in other media. In October we visited Emma McNally, Axel Antas and Claude Heath. Idea sharing forum November 2008 Patrons and their guests were invited to share and discuss our plans and ideas for the future programme and activities. Dinner was held in the studio of Anne Katrine Dolven, one of the Tannery Artists at Laburnum St. Tour of The Pictet Collection June 2009 With an introduction by Stephen Barber, Group Managing Director, and with the expertise of Jeni Walwin (freelance curator and member of The Drawing Room Advisory Board) and the Contemporary Art Society, Pictet & Cie have been developing an ambitious contemporary collection that has a focus on drawing, including a remarkable new large scale commissioned wall drawing by Diann Bauer. Jeni Walwin led a tour of the new commission and purchases in the collection including Charles Avery, David Austen, Callum Innes, Paul McDevitt and Ugo Rondinone. |
