'There are certain artists that interest me. Not so much in what they're doing now, but why there's attention given to them at a particular time. For example, in 1985 I did a two-person show in Chicago with Gerhard Richter. Neither of us sold anything, which was not unusual back then, but the paintings he had in the show were the candle paintings, which are now $23 million each. I find that so puzzling. What was wrong with them then? Plus, he was doing pretty much the same art when I came across him in the late '60s. He didn't have much of a following.' John Baldessari
(from an interview with Nicole Davis, at Baldessari's studio in Santa Monica, Ca, on April 12, 2004 for Artnet Magazine)
Send listings, subscribe, comments: russell@russellherron.com
Web: www.russellherron.com
MY TOP BIT
BEN WOODESON IS HAVING SOME OPENINGS
Me love you long time (AKA Five in Five), Ben Woodeson
Occupation 4 at Basement 43, 43B Hanley road, London N4 3DU
Private views: run from Monday November 30th to Friday 4th December
Ben Woodeson will use his slot at Basement 43 to develop, finalise and exhibit a number of new installations. Each day Monday through Thursday will see a new experimental exhibition opening at 18.30 and closing at 20.00, by the following evening the preceding day's work will be gone. In some cases elements or documentation will survive into the next day, however, in others a complete rehang will have taken place. Friday's extended opening will run from 18.30 to 21.30 and will where possible include documentation from the week's work in addition to the final exhibition.
The works under development for the show are all part of the ongoing Health and safety Violation Series, so expect trip wires, garrotting cables, sharp spinning hazards, potential electrocution and chunky writhing ropes...
Specific shows may not be suitable for those fitted with pacemakers and or people who might be pregnant. As usual, these works may be dangerous and attendees do so at their own risk.
To clarify whether attendance might be inadvisable please contact:
benwoodesonmail@yahoo.co.uk
Location: http://www.basement43.co.uk/index.php?/where-we-are
For further information and project updates:
http://www.basement43.co.uk
http://www.woodeson.co.uk
http://twitter.com/benisdangerous
NUDE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE
Ladies and gentlemen, raise your glasses please as we unveil our newly revamped website which can be found at http://www.nudemagazine.co.uk
TURPS BANANA
Turps Banana issue 7 is out. Info: www.turpsbanana.com
tank.tv
Mark Aerial Waller 25th November - 15th December 2009
www.tank.tv
SIXTY SIX EVENTS
In January 2008 six_events was performed by hundreds of people over 6 days in 29 countries. On January 21st 2010, anyone in the world can take part in sixty_six_events, a 24-hour performance. Any of the 66 instructions/suggestions/events are to be interpreted however you wish.
r e a d. r e s p o n d. r e l a x. r e p e a t.
for more information and links to myspace/facebook/youtube/twitter, please go to:
http://www.sixtysixevents.com
THE MARK McGOWAN WEEKLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq4u4nFTLx4
ARTIST WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
It's always a problem when an artist has to write about themselves, give some sort of introduction to who they are and their work. Very few of us pull it off. It's not easy. So this week's website choice is Sharon Kivland. Her introduction to her and her work on the homepage of her website is elegant, concise, human, honest, beguiling, enchanting, self-aware, knowledgeable and respectful of the reader. It's a masterclass in writing about yourself. A real gem.
The rest of the site is, unsurprisingly, clean, open, engaging, satisfying, beautiful, detailed and easy to navigate. Take notes. Revise. We can all improve.
Enjoy: www.sharonkivland.com
(Sharon Kivland is showing at Domo Baal)
THE LISTINGS
LET'S GO!
Thursday November 26th
Studio Voltaire, Nairy Baghramian, 7-9pm, info: www.studiovoltaire.org
176, The Same Roturns, Art Critic Anthony Downey and Novelist Tom McCarthy discuss repetition in art, philosophy and literature, 7pm, info: www.projectspace176.com
WW, Both Ends Burning, group show, 6-9pm, info: www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com
David Roberts Art Foundation, Talk, The Future is Now, 6.30pm, with Tom Corby, Sue Golding and Stephen Melville, info: www.davidrobertsartfoundation.com/events
Portman, Dissolving Cube, large group show, 4-8pm, info: www.portmangallery.blogspot.com
Sartorial, Urbanart, group show, and Olly Beck, The Impossible Room, project space, 6-9pm, info: www.sartorialart.com
Alison Jacques, Andre Butzer, 6-8pm, info: www.alisonjacquesgallery.com
Josh Lilley, Belen Rodriguez Gonzalez, Mixtilinea, 6-8pm, info: www.joshlilleygallery.com
Pilar Corrias, Ulla von Brandenburg, Wagon Wheel, 6-8pm, info: www.pilarcorrias.com
Mummery+Schnelle, Alexis Harding, Bi-product Depositories, 6-8pm, info: www.mummeryschnelle.com
Pure Evil, Andreas Schmidt, book launch Photographs of the City, 6pm, info: www.pureevil.eu
ArtBarter at The Rag Factory, 6-9.30pm, info: www.artbarterlondon.co.uk
The Greenwich Theatre Art Gallery, Charlotte Cory's Christmas Cabinet of Curiosities, 5-8pm, info: www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk and www.charlottecory.com
Domo Baal, Sharon Kivland, A Gift of Flowers and Charaden, 6-8pm, info: www.domobaal.com
Bun House/Field Project Space, Line Through A Room (a bitter sweet parting), Natasha Bird and Nicole Morris, 7-211pm, info: www.bunhousebandits.com
Stephen Friedman, Kendell Geers, A GUEST + A HOST = A GHOST, 6-8pm, info: www.stephenfriedman.com
Ground Floor, Kingly Court, Cluster, group show, 6-9pm, info: www.mcgalleries.com
Vegas, Polari, group show, 6.30-9pm, info: www.vegasgallery.co.uk
Kate MacGarry, Paintings in the Sky, group, 6-8pm, info: www.katemacgarry.com
Gimpel Fils, Hannah Maybank, The Invitation, and downstairs, Camilla Symons, Fur of the Outcast, 6-8pm, info: www.gimpelfils.com
NO:ID, Steve Mallaghan, 6-9pm, info: www.noidgallery.net
Manchester:
Castlefield, performance and CD Launch of Lemke/Gwilliam's fourmill plus quarterinch
6-8pm, info: www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk
Friday November 27th
Old Police Station, Let Yourself Go and Dirty Cop Friday, plus loads, 6-11pm, info: www.tempcontemp.co.uk/oldpolicestation3c.html
Wilkinson, Jacob Dahl Jurgensen, and Jimmy de Sana, 6-8pm, info: www.wilkinsongallery.com
Ground Floor, Left Unit, Enterprise House, Tudor Grove, E9, Tales of the Flesh, new artists collective, 7-late, info: www.demetrymowbray.com
MOT, Heather Cantrell, A Study In Portraiture, Act II, 6.30-9pm, info: www.motinternational.org
E:vent, Residual versus Excess, group, 7-8.30pm, info: www.eventgallery.org.uk
Derby:
Quad, Magic Show, Curated by Jonathan Allen and Sally O'Reilly, Hayward Touring show, 7-9pm, info: www.derbyquad.co.uk
Manchester:
Cornerhouse, Artur Zmijewski , Democracies Screening and Discussion, 2-6pm, info: www.cornerhouse.org
Milton Keynes:
Milton Keynes Gallery, Graham Hudson and the Centre of Attention, 6-8pm, info:
http://www.mk-g.org/index.php?id=122
Saturday November 28th
[ space ], PALMERAMA, Tony Palmer film day, 1-4pm, Includes: 200 Motels - Frank Zappa (1971), Tangerine Dream - live at Coventry Cathedral (1975), The Space Movie - NASA's 10th anniversary film (music by Mike Oldfield) (1979), info: www.spacestudios.org.uk
Area 10 Project Space, Bricks London, big mixed group show, 7-10pm, info: www.area10.info and www.brickslondon.co.uk
Maureen Paley, Seb Patane, 6-8.30pm, performance 7.30pm, info: www.maureenpaley.com
Campbell Works, InCounter, Sound - Video - Text, £3, Doors open 7.30pm, Performances begin 8pm, info: www.campbellworks.org and www.ericascourti.com
Herald Street, Klaus Weber, Bee Paintings, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.heraldst.com
Birmingham:
International Project Space, Megan Fraser, 3-5pm, info: www.internationalprojectspace.org
Sunday November 29th
Transition, Launch of Garageland 9: Migration, preceded by slide lecture 3-4pm, Lecture on Migration, info: www.transitiongallery.co.uk
Monday 30th November
Basement 43, Ben Woodeson, Anti-personnel steel rod thing, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.basement43.co.uk and www.woodeson.co.uk
IMT, Noise Control, 6-9pm, info: www.imagemusictext.com
Tuesday 1st December
Basement 43, Ben Woodeson, Randomly activated tripwire, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.basement43.co.uk and www.woodeson.co.uk
Showroom, Ruth Buchanan, Several Attentions - Lying Freely, Part III, 7-9pm, info: www.theshowroom.org
Kaleid, The Grand Plasto-Baader-Books, 6-9pm, info: www.kaleideditions.com
Wednesday 2nd December
Basement 43, Ben Woodeson, Scary f++king spinning thing, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.basement43.co.uk and www.woodeson.co.uk
Phoenix Arts Club, off Charing Cross Road, launch of issue 4 of The Coelacanth Journal - The Dream Has Gone but the Baby is Real, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.thecoelacanthpress.co.uk
Thursday December 3rd
24 Seven at Gooden, Mark McGowan performance, Soldier's Widow with Vicky Gold, 6-9pm,info: www.goodengallery.com
Gooden, A One Night Stand with Cecile Wesolowski, 6-9pm info: www.goodgallery.com
Madder139, Pretty Baa - Lambs, Guy Allott, Sam Douglas, Peter Jones, Julian Perry, 6-9pm, info: www.madder139.com
242, ID! Please Sir, Patricia Shrigley and Jake Narang, 6-9pm, info: http://sites.google.com/site/idpleasesir
R O O M, Gordon Cheung, 6-8pm, info: www.roomartspace.co.uk
Basement 43, Ben Woodeson, Twisted hazard, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.basement43.co.uk and www.woodeson.co.uk
Nunnery, (N)Everland, group show, 6-9pm, info: www.n-everland.co.uk
Acme Project Space, Christian Quesnel, Hearts of Clay (Coeurs d'Argile), 6-9pm, info: www.acme.org.uk
Studio 1.1, Situation X, group, 6-9pm, info: www.studio1-1.co.uk
Shoreditch Town Hall, Tate the Biscuit, group curated by Helen Edwards and Infinity Bunce, 6-9pm, info: www.eastendartsclub.co.uk
Signal, Mixed Signals, group, 6-9pm, info: www.signalgallery.com
Birmingham:
Rea Studios, group show, The Endless Descent, 6-8.30pm, info: http://theendlessdescent.blogspot.com
Friday 4th December
Basement 43, Ben Woodeson, Constantly changing angles, 6.30-9.30pm (extended opening), info: www.basement43.co.uk and www.woodeson.co.uk
Saturday December 5th
24 Seven at Gooden, Scott King, starts today, info: www.goodengallery.com
176, artist's talk: Giorgio Sadotti, 3pm, info: www.projectspace176.com
Carter Presents, Hobby Life, Sarah Baker, Galen Riley, Covadonga Valdes, 6.30-9.30pm, info: www.carterpresents.org
Sunday December 6th
Five Years, Closing party, Spacious, Alex Schady and Mia Taylor, 4-7pm, info: www.fiveyears.org.uk
Tuesday December 8th
Concrete Hermit, launch of Amelia's Magazine - "Amelia's Anthology of Illustration", 6.30-9.30pm, info: www.concretehermit.com
Thursday December 10th
Montague Arms, Frog Morris Presents...Art, Music and Comedy, all info: www.frogmorris.net
Charlie Smith, Sam Jackson, Vas Deferens, 6.30-8.30pm, info: www.charliesmithlondon.com
Trident Way 2 The Southall Project, group, 6-9.30pm, info: www.departuregallery.com
Friday December 11th
tank.tv 2009 at Tate Modern, From John to Sebastian, 7pm Programme duration approx 70 mins // Tickets £5 (£4 concessions) available through the Tate box office.
Cell, The Grey Area, group, 6.30-9pm, info: www.cellprojects.org
Brighton:
Moksha Caffe, 'tiktoc 2009 (bi)Annual' launch with guest performances, poetry and readings, info: www.mocksim.org/Exclusive_Invite_Moksha.pdf
Saturday December 12th
Mews Project Space, Gonçalo Sena - Chloe Brooks, from 4-9pm and then Sunday 4-7pm, info: www.the-mews.org
George Polke, Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, screening of 'nanoq: the journey', and copies of
'nanoq: flat out and bluesome: A Cultural Life of Polar Bears' available from Luminous Books, 4-6pm, info: www.georgepolke.co.uk
Monday December 14th
24 Seven at Gooden, Gary Colclough, starts today, info: www.goodengallery.com
Tuesday December 15th
The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, Magic Carpet, group show, 6.30-9pm, info: www.cryptgallery.org.uk
Thursday December 17th
IMT, White Shoe Station, screening by Sara Preibsch, 6.30pm, info: www.filmarmalade.co.uk and www.imagemusictext.com
Birmingham:
Trove, The Sickly Trickle, Zoe Williams, 6-9pm, info: www.trove.org.uk
Friday December 18th
Grey Area at Fabrica, 1-2-3-4, art-gig - Martin Creed, The Apathy Band, The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim aka David Blandy, The Coolness, Plastique Fantastique, 7-11pm, info: www.greyareagallery.org
Sunday December 20th
Birmingham:
Eastside Projects, Liam Gillick, Two Short Plays, artists talk 2pm, performances 3- 5pm, info: www.eastsideprojects.org
MY BOTTOM BIT
1.
WW Gallery
'Drink & Dial' OPEN CALL to artists.
Deadline for applications 31st January 2010
http://www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com/dial.htm
2.
Print Now, Bearspace, London
Deadline: 19 November, 2009 - extended to 29th
PRINT NOW is an open submission exhibition run by BEARSPACE for a physical and online exhibition to be held at the London Art Fair, 2010, between 13-17 January 2009.
The purpose of this exhibition is to investigate contemporary artists working with the concept of print, be this physical print, multiple objects, the processes of print or the concept of print as a repetitive process.
Works will be selected to produce an exhibition of some of the most innovative 'PRINT' being produced today in the UK.
Each print will be exhibited and sold at the London Art Fair and should be at least an edition or a series of 3 physical works made available to BEARSPACE exclusively for the purposes of the fair and a 3 month period afterwards for the online exhibition.
Accepted media
Print (Woodcut, screen-print, photographic print, digital print, lithograph) collage and sculpture. Prints with interventions are also acceptable, for instance, drawing or painting over print processes. Other media will be accepted in the manner of print, for instance a series of paintings referring to a print process.
The work submitted can be no bigger (2D) than A2 (42 x 59 cm) and now smaller than A5 (21 x 15 cm), and 3D can be no larger than 30 cm width.
Selection Panel:
A group of arts professionals will select prints for PRINT NOW including: Pryle Behrman - Curator of Art Projects at the London Art Fair Julia Alvarez - Director of BEARSPACE and Mike Simms - Deputy Editor of Print Making Today. Other panel members will be confirmed shortly.
Further Information and Application
http://www.bearspace.co.uk/beta/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=6
Bearspace, 152 Deptford High Street, London, SE8 3PQ
http://www.bearspace.co.uk/beta/
3.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
ARCHITECTURAL CONCEPT: THE PAVILION OF POSTCONTEMPORARY CURATING
The skeletal remains of Sutton Scarsdale Hall continue to decay. A dilapidated wreck of a structure, you enter at your own risk. This decay needs to be resisted and Sutton Scarsdale needs to live again...
In the very heart of England, Sutton Scarsdale Hall is to become the Pavilion of Postcontemporary Curating, a new international art facility set in the beautiful Derbyshire countryside, dedicated solely to new curating.
The current hall is a perfect exhibition/performance space: lit from above, with high walls, neutral floor. As a functioning work of art/art centre, it should provide everything the contemporary curator requires, and be able to evolve as those needs change... Importantly
it will facilitate new media production as well as old, it will have a library, archive, research facilities, studios and accommodation as well as a gallery dedicated to the history of the house.
It will be a base for new ways of looking at art and its production. A sculpture, it will become part of the regional landscape and act as a beacon to advanced ideas and art praxis in the regional and international scenes.
With this call for entries, the Centre of Attention is seeking proposals for the re-imagining of Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire into a pavilion of postcontemporary curating.
This call is open to architects, designers, artists, curators and others. All ideas, gestural, utopian or pragmatic are welcome.
Proposals and concepts can be submitted as drawings, images or texts, by email to on@thecentreofattention.org
More information and images:
http://www.thecentreofattention.org/exhibitions/sutton2.html
The Centre of Attention: 020 8880 5507 or 07792 582 386
4.
242 GALLERY FOR HIRE
242 Cambridge Heath Road, in the heart of the Vyner Street gallery district
£350 per week
Fully equipped versatile 200 sq ft 'white cube' with high ceilings and direct access to the street
Beautiful building with mix of natural and gallery lighting, plus an optional external wall for murals
Full details on the website www.242gallery.weebly.com or contact Barbara Smith for more information on 242gallery@google.com or 0786 606 3663
Reduction of £50 (£300 pw) for bookings in November and December 2009
5.
Cell Studios has a selection of newly created studios for artists at our arcola street building in dalston. approx 180 sq ft / £250 pcm inclusive of all bills, central heating and wifi.
for more info and to arrange to see the studios, contact studios@cellprojects.org with a cv and description of your practice. further info about cell can be seen at www.cellprojects.org
6.
Call for recommendations and submissions for
The Live Art Almanac - Vol. 2
An international publication of writing on and around Live Art
Deadline: 31 December 2009
The Live Art Almanac Vol. 2 is a publication produced and published by the Live Art Development Agency (London, UK) in partnership with Live Art UK, Performance Space 122 (New York, USA), and Performance Space (Sydney, Australia).
The Live Art Almanac Vol. 2 will be published in 2010 and will draw together recent writings about and around Live Art* - from reviews, interviews and news stories, to cultural commentaries and "private" communications. It aims to be both a useful resource and a good read for artists, writers, students and others interested in Live Art.
Recommendations for, and submissions to, The Live Art Almanac Vol. 2 may be any length up to 5,000 words. The material must be engaging, provocative, and thoughtful writing on and around the contemporary cultural landscape in which Live Art practice sits and must shed light on the various debates and ideas in circulation within that landscape. You may submit your own writing but we really want you to tell us about interesting material you have read. The submission must have been written between July 2008 and December 2009.
The first Live Art Almanac primarily contained material about and by British-based artists and writers. The Live Art Almanac Vol. 2 will be published in English, but encourages international submissions as well as texts in translation previously published in other languages.
For more detailed information on this call for recommendations and submissions visit www.thisisLiveArt.co.uk
Recommendations should be emailed to contact@thisisLiveArt.co.uk with 'Almanac' in the subject line. The deadline for all recommendations is 31 December 2009.
Please also contact contact@thisisLiveArt.co.uk if you have any questions.
7.
***CALL FOR ARTISTS - "...LOUDER THAN BOMBS": ART, ACTION AND ACTIVISM***
STANLEY PICKER GALLERY & LIVE ART DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
Over the course of seven weeks in February/March 2010, the Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University, will hand over its entire exhibition space to host a series of week-long residencies entitled "...Louder than Bombs": Art, Action & Activism.
Co-curated with Live Art Development Agency, London, "...Louder than Bombs": Art, Action & Activism will focus on challenging social/political/global issues addressed through seven invited artist/activist's individual working practices and the Gallery audience's direct participation and responding involvement through an integrated programme of public workshops and live events.
Its title borrowed from a compilation album by 80's anti-establishment beaus The Smiths (in turn borrowed from Elizabeth Smart's extended prose poem By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept), "...Louder than Bombs" invites seven artists, artist-activists, or artist-groups for a series of weekly occupancies to deliver work that expresses their creative response around a chosen issue. The issues addressed by the programme of activities will include a range of political, ecological, social and personal causes, as to be defined by the seven participating individuals and groups. The programme will provide each participating artist/group with the space, resources and supportive environment for their work to be developed over an intensive five-day period. During their week-long residency each participant will be required to deliver at least one participatory workshop and a public event/s. The entire programme will recorded through photographic documentation and a concluding interview with each participant, that will aim to reflect critically upon their direct involvement in the overall programme.
In addition to the above, one of the seven invited projects will be developed to engage directly with a local primary school, in order to pilot the introduction of performative practice into the classroom.
"...Louder than Bombs" Art, Action & Activism has been developed as an extended element of an ongoing collaborative research project entitled The Art of Intervention: The Intersections of Public and Private Memory between Kingston University, London and Kyoto Seika University, Japan.
To propose your participation in the "...Louder than Bombs" Art, Action & Activism programme please provide the following information:
* A statement (maximum 1,000 words) outlining your chosen issue and describing how you would envisage developing and delivering your proposed workshop activity and public event, including an initial indication of the resources, equipment and materials you may require for your activity. You may want to suggest targeting your activities at particular audience sectors or age groups. Only if appropriate to your practice, please state in what ways your activity would also be suitable for a pilot project aimed at primary school pupils.
* A CV including up to 5 web-references to view online examples and/or documentation of your practice to date.
Please email your proposals to picker@kingston.ac.uk by Midday on Friday 4th December 2009.
Selected applicants will be notified by Friday 18th December with a view to commencing preparations for their period of residency in January 2010.
All participating individuals/groups will receive a fixed-fee and expenses for their involvement in the overall programme. Additional funds will be made available for the associated schools programme.
8.
Call for artists film and video works [deadline: 30.03.10]
Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, would like to invite artist film makers to submit works for publication in our 2010 artists film and video DVD series.
Every year we publish a series of films, selected through a process of invited and open submission. Each DVD includes one film only and is accompanied by a specially filmed interview with the artist.
Also next year all published works will be individually screened at the IMT gallery, London and will be available to buy at the BFI Filmstore, London, ICA, London, Koenig Books, London, Close-up, London, IMT Gallery, London, Bookartbookshop, London, Pro qm, Berlin and Konst-ig, Stockholm or by order from our website.
Please send film or video works on PAL or NTSC DVD for consideration to: Marmalade Publishers of Visual Theory, Studio 4, 21 London Fields Eastside, London E8 3SA, United Kingdom.
marmalade@inter.uk.com www.filmarmalade.co.uk
9.
RE:stage
Ann-Marie LeQuesne invites you to join
THE 12TH ANNUAL GROUP PHOTOGRAPH
backstage at the National Theatre
South Bank, London, SE1 9PX
Saturday December 5th at 12.15pm
Please come to the Stage Door
(through the main entrance and you will be directed from there) between 12.00 noon and 12.15pm
Photographing will begin promptly at 12.15pm
An RSVP to amlq@onetel.com is not essential but will be helpful. We need to "sign in" for this photograph so if you have emailed beforehand the process will be quicker.
Information: amlq@onetel.com
www.theannualgroupphotograph.com
10.
Call for Papers/ Art Presentations
Seminar in Visual Culture 2010: The Art of Murder
Deadline for proposals: 7 Dec 2009
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, Room ST 275
(School of Advanced Study, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, WC1B 5DN London)
This series of seminars acts as a forum for practicing artists, researchers, curators, students, and others interested in visual culture who are invited to present, discuss and explore a given theme within the broad field of Visual Culture.
In 2010, the theme of the seminar is 'The Art of Murder.'
Artists and writers have always been fascinated with the violence of murder and the thrill and sensationalism that comes with it. Many examine it in critical, theoretical or creative forms of expression exploring the hidden fears and desires inherent in breaking the most sacred taboo, the destruction, and thereby for some the renewal, of life itself.
Thomas de Quincey considered 'murder as one of the fine arts', and the murderer as artist, in his eponymous satirical article from 1827. W.H. Auden calls murder 'negative creation'; and like the classical rebel-poet/artist Auden's murderer is 'the rebel who claims the right to be omnipotent.' According to legend George Bataille dallied in a more dangerous fashion with the artistic act of murder.
Today, artworks by serial killer John Wayne Gacy fetch up to $15,000 at auction. In the Washington-based Museum of Crime and Punishment one can admire art and craft made by Charles Manson and an online search will provide opportunities to purchase one of his sock puppets. Marcus Harvey's portrait of child-murderess Myra Hindley, which was created from the hand-prints of children, attracted much criticism, but it also drew the crowds.
When crime writer Patricia Cornwell cut up a painting by Walter Sickert in her quest to prove that Sickert was Jack the Ripper, the art-world was outraged. However, whether we believe Cornwell's theory or not, Sickert's paintings suddenly acquired a new fascination.
This cross-disciplinary seminar series 'The Art of Murder' sets out to explore visual representations of actual murder in fine art, theatre, film and literature, as well as our relationship with artefacts and artworks created by criminals.
Contributions are invited from individuals working in the fields of art history, philosophy, literary, cultural and visual studies, film and media studies, theatre and history.
Artists are also invited to present new (and existing) work on the theme.
Please send proposals for art presentations (200 words plus images) or academic papers (200 words) to Ricarda Vidal: ricarda.vidal@sas.ac.uk > by 7 December 2009.
Please indicate which date you would prefer for your talk.
Dates and times:
Wednesday 27 Jan. 2010, 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Wednesday 24 Feb. 2010, 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Wednesday 24 March 2010, 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Wednesday 26 May 2010, 6.30pm - 8.00pm
ENDS ENDS ENDS
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