{"id":303,"date":"2013-11-14T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T10:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/?p=303"},"modified":"2013-11-14T16:16:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:16:04","slug":"visiting-artist-talk-fran-cottell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/2013\/11\/14\/visiting-artist-talk-fran-cottell\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Artist Talk \u2013 Fran Cottell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visiting Artist Talk Today\u00a0\u2013 Thursday 14th<\/sup> November, 2013.
\n<\/b>BridgeWardens College- Lecture Theatre,
\n6-8pm
\n\"Fran<\/a>\"Back2Front1\"<\/a>
\nArtist Fran Cottell will be visiting the School of Music and Fine Art to give a talk, on Thursday 14th November.<\/p>\n

Fran works at creating visual presentations which harness the performative qualities of the ordinary and the mundane. Her structures are developed out of collisions and conversations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cMy work questions how to show the ephemeral, live experiences that make up the quotidian within the fixed frame of the art institution. Further: how to preserve life, or rather the breath of \u2018aliveness\u2019 \u201d says Cottell.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018House Projects\u2019 (since 2001) initially focused on the honesty and truthfulness of mess over domestic order; the focus then shifted to the visitors who with the occupants discussed their relative status, bringing into play conflicting and contradictory power relations. I engaged in dialogue with museums and galleries about the static nature of collections and their inability to collect life, live art and time and created, through a hole in the ceiling, in a form of reverse collecting, a photographic collection of visiting curators\u2019 heads.\u00a0Building on a history of feminist artists, who initially addressed their own invisibility as house workers, the project was extended to include service work.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of an active and lively conversation, rather than a social levelling, the work aims to challenge fixed hierarchies, to produce a dynamic democracy with different points of view coming into focus\u201d<\/p>\n

Fran\u2019s recent and current projects include: an Ebook,\u00a0House: from<\/i>\u00a0Display<\/i>\u00a0to\u00a0BACK to FRONT<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>2012\u00a0<\/i>(a\u00a0<\/i>series of live installations in her house as offsite projects for CGPLondon 2001-2012) available from www.ktpress.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The installation for\u00a0Concrete Geometries: the Relational in Architecture<\/i>\u00a0at the Architectural Association, London 2011.\u00a0She continues to work with\u00a0Concrete Geometries,<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>recently co-presenting the project at\u00a0Rethinking<\/i>\u00a0the Social in Architecture<\/i>\u00a02013, Umea School of Architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Visiting Artist Talk Today\u00a0\u2013 Thursday 14th November, 2013. BridgeWardens College- Lecture Theatre, 6-8pm Artist Fran Cottell will be visiting the School of Music and Fine Art to give a talk, on Thursday 14th November. Fran works at creating visual presentations which harness the performative qualities of the ordinary and the mundane. Her structures are developed … Continue reading Visiting Artist Talk \u2013 Fran Cottell<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81427,24626,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"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\/33718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/smfa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}