{"id":2622,"date":"2017-11-08T13:13:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2017-11-08T13:13:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:13:20","slug":"visiting-artist-talk-with-samson-kambalu-on-tuesday-28th-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2017\/11\/08\/visiting-artist-talk-with-samson-kambalu-on-tuesday-28th-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Artist Talk with Samson Kambalu on Tuesday 28th November"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2623\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2017\/11\/Nyau-Cinema-Venice-Hysteresis-r05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2623 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2017\/11\/Nyau-Cinema-Venice-Hysteresis-r05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2017\/11\/Nyau-Cinema-Venice-Hysteresis-r05.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/files\/2017\/11\/Nyau-Cinema-Venice-Hysteresis-r05-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nyau Cinema (Hysteresis) , installation view,\u00a0 Venice Biennale, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Taking place from 5.15pm \u2013 6.45pm in the Galvanising Shop Performance Space at the University of Kent\u2019s campus on the Historic Dockyard Chatham, the next School of Music and Fine Art Visiting Artist talk in this prestigious series will be London based artist and author\u00a0Samson Kambalu.\u00a0 Born in Malawi in 1975, Dr Kambalu studied at the University of Malawi (BA Fine Art and Ethnomusicology, 1995-99); Nottingham Trent University (MA Fine Art, 2002-03) and Chelsea College of Art and Design (PhD, 2011-15).<\/p>\n<p>Working in a variety of media, including site-specific installation, video, performance and literature, he has shown his work around the world, including Dakar Biennale (2014, 2016), Tokyo International Art Festival (2009) and the Liverpool Biennial (2004, 2016), \u00a0won research fellowships with Yale University and Smithsonian Institution, and is\u00a0Associate Professor of Fine Art at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsa.ox.ac.uk\/\">Ruskin College<\/a>\u00a0and fellow at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.magd.ox.ac.uk\/\">Magdalen College<\/a>, Oxford University.<\/p>\n<p>His recent solo exhibition is at the newly inaugurated Zeitz Mocaa, Cape Town (2017).<\/p>\n<p>More info:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/samsonkambalu.com\/\">https:\/\/samsonkambalu.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The talk will focus on Cinema and Praxis \u2013 the artist\u2019s occupation with the problematic of the gift (non linear time) and how it animates various aspects of his art practice\/praxis around film, with regard to his background growing up in Africa and current forays around the world from Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The talk is FREE to attend \u2013 everyone welcome. Booking is via Eventbrite: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/school-of-music-and-fine-art-visiting-artist-talk-samson-kambalu-tickets-38497857127\">https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/school-of-music-and-fine-art-visiting-artist-talk-samson-kambalu-tickets-38497857127<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more info on SMFA\u2019s Visiting Artist Talks click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/fineart\/visitingartists2016.html\">https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/smfa\/fineart\/visitingartists2016.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Taking place from 5.15pm \u2013 6.45pm in the Galvanising Shop Performance Space at the University of Kent\u2019s campus on the Historic Dockyard Chatham, the next School of Music and Fine Art Visiting Artist talk in this prestigious series will be London based artist and author\u00a0Samson Kambalu.\u00a0 Born in Malawi in 1975, Dr Kambalu studied &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2017\/11\/08\/visiting-artist-talk-with-samson-kambalu-on-tuesday-28th-november\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visiting Artist Talk with Samson Kambalu on Tuesday 28th November<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22922,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24626,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22922"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}