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Tonight’s Visiting Artist Talk: Hannah Rickards

Hannah Rickards’ works explore the elusive landscape of perception, language and translation.

Thursday, 23rd October, 2014

  • Clock Tower Building (formerly BridgeWardens College), Lecture Theatre
  • 17.30-18.30
  • Free, everyone welcome

Her attention is particularly drawn to natural phenomena such as thunder, mirage and the aurora borealis. She closely examines these occurrences – and how we experience them – through moving image, sound and installation works.

Rickards’ scrupulous and investigative methodology involves the detailed deconstruction of her chosen subject. Breaking sounds or physiological occurrences down into minute parts for individual examination, her intense artistic gaze scrutinises each particle of information from a number of angles before reconstruction and eventual presentation.

Hannah Rickards lives and works in London. She was the recipient of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2008/9. A survey of her work was recently held at Modern Art Oxford, accompanied by a publication examining her practice. She has also presented solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, The Showroom and Artspeak, Vancouver. Her work has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Witte de With, Rotterdam; the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton and at the South London Gallery.

She has recently completed a year-long residency within Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University, and is just opened a solo exhibition at the Fogo Island Gallery, Fogo Island, Canada.

Preparatory research material on Hannah Rickards for the students to begin forming questions from:

http://www.afterall.org/online/_it-sounds-like-a-legend_hannah-rickards-at-modern-art-oxford#.VDztfeevwnU

http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/the-portal/hannah-rickards_s-portal

and this: https://vimeo.com/88637535

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This week we welcome Visiting Artist Hannah Rickards

Hannah Rickards’ works explore the elusive landscape of perception, language and translation.

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23rd October, 2014

  • Clock Tower Building (formerly BridgeWardens College), Lecture Theatre
  • 17.30-18.30
  • Free, everyone welcome

Hannah Rickards

Her attention is particularly drawn to natural phenomena such as thunder, mirage and the aurora borealis. She closely examines these occurrences – and how we experience them – through moving image, sound and installation works.

Rickards’ scrupulous and investigative methodology involves the detailed deconstruction of her chosen subject. Breaking sounds or physiological occurrences down into minute parts for individual examination, her intense artistic gaze scrutinises each particle of information from a number of angles before reconstruction and eventual presentation.

Hannah Rickards lives and works in London. She was the recipient of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2008/9. A survey of her work was recently held at Modern Art Oxford, accompanied by a publication examining her practice. She has also presented solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, The Showroom and Artspeak, Vancouver. Her work has been exhibited at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Witte de With, Rotterdam; the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton and at the South London Gallery.

She has recently completed a year-long residency within Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University, and is just opened a solo exhibition at the Fogo Island Gallery, Fogo Island, Canada.

Preparatory research material on Hannah Rickards for the students to begin forming questions from:

http://www.afterall.org/online/_it-sounds-like-a-legend_hannah-rickards-at-modern-art-oxford#.VDztfeevwnU

http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/the-portal/hannah-rickards_s-portal

and this: https://vimeo.com/88637535

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Welcome back to our Visiting Artists Talks – a new programme for 2014-15

Come and experience inspirations and advice from an amazing array of professional female artists as part of our successful programme of Visiting Artists, returning for a second year.

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Following the succecss of the the first ever series of Fine Art talks during 2014/15 , for this year we are offering a real diversity from some very significant female artists for 2014/5. These talks are FREE to attend, and anyone is welcome to come along, no need to reply, just turn up to the School of Music and Fine Art at the Historic Dockyard, Chatam. The Clock Tower Building, Lecture Theatre. ME4 4TZ

We run this series as part of the innovative Fine Art curriculum throughout the year. We invite acclaimed artists to give come along the to the School of Music and Fine Art and provide a detailed presentation of their work, share their experiences and give one-off tutorials.

Our Visiting Artists have leading reputations in a wide range of fields including, installation, artist’s film and video, sound, performance, painting, sculpture, publishing and curating.

Visit the webpage here
Download the Poster Artist Talks Series Autumn 2014
Visit the Events Calendar

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Ruth Ewan kicks off the first Visiting Artist Talk for 2014/15

Ruth Ewan, based in London who’s practice includes sound, text, print, and process-based live events, often creating context specific art projects, which highlight the continued relevance of particular historic moments to the present.

Ruth Ewan

9th October, 2014

  • Clock Tower Building (formerly BridgeWardens College), Lecture Theatre
  • 17.30-16.30
  • Free, everyone welcom

Ruth Ewan frequently works with collaborators to realise her projects, which are often grounded in focused research into the social and political history of the site in which they are based.
Previous projects have involved historians, activists, archaeologists, bakers, school children, buskers and composers.

Ruth’s best known work A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World is an interactive archive of over 1,500 socially engaged songs from across the world which are catergorised into themes such as ‘Law and Order’, ‘Feminism’, ‘Freedom’
and ‘Slavery’.
This project has been shown in museums
internationally including New Museum,
New York, Prada Foundation, Venice and
Tate Liverpool.

Her audio project ‘The Darks’ is currently
on show at Tate Britain and she is working
towards a major solo exhibition at
Camden Arts Centre, London in 2015.

Download the Poster

Further links:

http://ruthewan.com
http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/ruth-ewan/ http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/tateshots-darks
https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1749 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rmnn9
http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/the-portal/ruth-ewan_s-portal
http://artmuseum.pl/en/wydarzenia/rewolucyjny-kalendarz-adwentowy-ruth-ewan

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Globus Hystericus takes Electroacoustic Music and Video Art to Athens

Tim Howle and Nick Cope will be performing Globus Hystericus during the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Greece this September.

Director of Recruitment, Admissions and Internationalisation at the School of Music and Fine Art, Tim Howle, and Nick Cope  of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University are attending the special event in Athens, Greece from 14-20 September 2014.

Globus Hystericus combines Electroacoustic Music and Video Art and is a piece of audio-visual work that utilises the two media in an equitable way. The principles of acousmatic music are extended to incorporate parallel ideas found in video art.

By taking these ideas beyond simple underpinning or reinforcement, the sounds are imbued with multiple meanings. The piece exploits post-acousmatic possibilities and examines the creative relationships between visual and audio material in terms of hybridisation by establishing an equitable, collaborative, approach typified by Chion’s ‘audio-visual contract’

Further details of the conference are available on the ICMC website.

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Tim Meacham and Adam Chodzko have got the ‘Moves’

Celebrating the Extraordinary World of Mobile Art Vehicles – ‘Art Moves’ at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Tim and Adam displayed their vehicles.

Ghost - Adam Chodzho The Drawing Carriage Tim Meacham

Art Moves is a celebration of the extraordinary world of mobile art vehicles at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Bringing together twenty-five of the most ingenious and inventive art vehicles, Art Moves offers a unique showcase of mobile architecture and art as part of London’s Open House weekend and the Park’s arts and culture programme. This collection of vehicles which was selected by invitation and open call, is a visual experience that also prompts further thought into some of society’s most pressing issues such as sustainability, new modes of architecture and transport, and how we interact with one another.

Fine Art lecturers Tim Meacham and Adam Chodzko both exhibited their works during the event.

Tim Meaham:The Drawing Carriage’ by Tim Meacham is a pedal powered vehicle designed to allow the passenger to engage in a “powered stroll”, exploring and enjoying outdoor spaces at a leisurely pace. The Carriage is mounted on a tricycle chassis and steered and powered from the back, allowing the passenger an uninterrupted view and giving the “front seat top deck of bus” experience, with a live ‘soundscape experience’. The passenger is encouraged to document their journey using a drawing apparatus mounted on the bench. The apparatus is connected to an arm that traces the terrain over which the carriage moves, transferring the undulations and texture of the ground to the surface of the drawing. The journey becomes part of the drawing, which the passenger is invited to keep as a memento.
View The Drawing Carriage Video
View the Facebook image gallery

Adam Chodzko:
‘Ghost’ by Adam Chodzko is a custom-built wooden two-man kayak inspired by the artist’s work around Deadman’s Island, so named after being used as a burial site for the bodies of convicts who were imprisoned within the hulks, moored in nearby Swale throughout 19th Century. ‘Ghost’ is a vehicle for visiting the dead – the passenger is positioned low and flat within the vessel – as though being lain to rest in a coffin and paddled to their final destination. A camera records each trip from the bow, creating a unique film archive. For ‘Art Moves’ the artist will undertake a series of new journeys within the Olympic Park, visiting sites along the waterways that allude to past uses and histories.

Read more about Art Moves at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

 

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Stour Valley Arts Residency for Fine Art students

This month sees Nadeen Adbulla and Maegan Newbury, who were awarded the prestigous artist residency with Stour Valley Arts take their place in the Forest Studio.

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The University of Kent, School of Music and Fine Art and the Stour Valley Arts work closely together to provide exciting opportunities for upcoming artists to undertake residencies in their newly converted Forest Studio on the edge of King’s Wood, Challock in Kent.

This month, the successful student artists take their place among the wildlife for two weeks in order to undertake a series of self-directed work as part of this fantastic opportunity with Stour Valley Arts in their new residency environment.

Maegan and Nadeen were awarded the residency amid a high level of applicants, there were over 150 artists vying for the chance to enjoy this unique and rewarding process-led opportunity that helps students build their artist experience in a ‘real-world’ setting that goes beyond the gallery space, as well as the thrill of  working and living in the forest.  This opportunity comes as part of the the Fine Art degree programme at the School and supports the module ‘Place and Site’.

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It is with great pleasure that this year we are able to offer residencies to two students who thrived through the process of ‘Place & Site’. Nadeen and Maegan will have the opportunity to use Forest Studio and King’s Wood as their testing ground for 2 weeks. – Forest Studio and SVA

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Forest Studio
Stour Valley Arts
Interested in applying for Artist Residency 2015?

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Sarah Turner successfully secures new film project -Public House

Sarah Turner has secured a film development award in order to undertake a new long term shape shifting film project.

 

Sarah Turner Sarah Turner, Beatrice Gibson and Larissa Sansour have become the latest artists to secure development support through FLAMIN Productions. Selected from over ninety proposals, the artists’ exciting new long-from projects impressed the expert panel and won them the unique opportunity to participate in a funded development phase- an essential period for artists to refine ideas and acquire the skills and contacts to realise work to their best potential.

At the end of the development phase, the three projects will be considered for production support – with £100,000 available to support the successful work.

In addition to their outstanding creative quality, a key characteristic shared by the awarded projects and artists is the potential they have to benefit from the period of mentoring and financial support offered by this development stage. A fact that boosts their chances of securing production funding when the time comes.

Sarah Turner – Public House

Public House  fuses fact and fiction in a multi layered exploration of memory, community and social reinvention.  Activated in response to the community takeover of the Ivy House pub, London, SE15, this feature length work for cinemas is a shape shifting genre hybrid that moves from observational document to minimalist opera. Interweaving testament, performance poetry and an innovative soundscape that fuses acousmatic composition and verbatim librettos, the film explores individual and cultural memory and its resonance in shaping social spaces.

About FLAMIN Productions

Supported using public funding by Arts Council England, FLAMIN Productions is a unique commissioning scheme which goes beyond simply producing work – it is committed to nurturing talent and supporting innovative artists in their professional growth.

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ICA wiki-a-thon chaired by Sarah Turner

Continuing the School’s strong  affiliation,  Sarah Turner will be chairing the first Wiki-A-Thon: Friday Salon.

The ICA is working in partnership with the  University of Kent on their  first ‘wiki-a-thon’ features a Salon with academics, filmmakers and curators. Chaired by School of Music and Fine Art’s Director of Research, moving image artist Sarah Turner, speakers include Elinor Cleghorn, Elizabeth Cowie, Sophie Mayer, and Lucy Reynolds. This is a chance to further and exchange knowledge of feminist film and film theory.

Visitors are invited to bring a laptop and determination to shape history.

A closed workshop will take place before the Friday Salon to post entries on Wikipedia.

Followed by a 5pm screening of She Must Be Seeing Things (Sheila McLaughlin, 1987).

Ticket Offer: attend both the Feminist Film Friday Salon and She Must be Seeing Things screening for the reduced price of £12 / £10 Concessions / £8 ICA Members.

More information visit the ICA website.she must be

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MAAST system sound diffusion at Farnborough

MAAST participates in the event Speed of Sound – Aerodynamics and experimental acoustics, part of the Wind Tunnel Project

The School of Music and Fine Art’s ‘Music and Audio Arts Sound Theatre’ (MAAST) system diffused a series of live electroacoustic,
acousmatic works and sound installations at Farnborough Wind Tunnels, on Sunday 6 July 2014.

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Speed of Sound interprets a history of aero-acoustic advancement through a half-day of talks and performances re-activiating the decommissioned space of Q121 and remarkable air return duct. Manipulation of acoustics plays an important role for twenty-first century developments in aviation and experimental music. Investigating ideas of noise and turbulence, and approaches to sensing and recording, this event converges findings in aerodynamics and experimental sound practices as invited artists and speakers engage with the physical uses of sound.

Programme:

Graham Rood (Sound & vibration research / wind tunnel engineer / FAST Museum)

An introduction to the history and practice of aeroacoustic research in the wind tunnels at Farnborough.

Aki Pasoulas & Paul Fretwell (SMFA, University of Kent)

Diffusing their acousmatic works Arborescences and King’s Cross. With special guest Peiman Khosravi and his 6-channel work Vertex. Testing the limits of Kent University’s full Genelec diffusion sound system installed throughout the event spaces.

Teleplasmiste (Mark Pilkington/ Strange Attractor with Michael J York)

Testing the space with an experimental demonstration of standing waves and resonant frequencies in the unique acoustic environment of the tunnels.

Sound as Terror (Royal College of Art)

A presentation of sonic research into the use of drones in contemporary conflict.

Cindytalk (Editions Mego) 

A set embodying the micro-events of wind flow and dynamics, found here in a push of elemental sources and synthesis.

Dalhous (Blackest Ever Black)

Finding a new soundtrack for the wind tunnel – a live set created to embody the space and its physics.

The Wind Tunnels at Farnborough have opened to the public for the first time, 50 years after they stopped operating.  Aircraft from Spitfires to Concorde were tested on the premises. http://www.airsciences.org.uk/windtunnels.html