Talks – Studio 3 Gallery

Beautifully Obscene: Concert, Talks and Tours

After a fantastic opening night, we are thrilled to announce our season of events for Beautifully Obscene.

All events are free and will be held in Studio 3 Gallery. As space is limited, we would ask that you book tickets to ensure your place.

Please note, this exhibition contains very graphic of a sexual nature and may not be suitable for all audiences.

#EarBox: Operatic Arias

#EarBox, Studio 3’s collaboration with the Music Department, returns for a third time. In this instalment the University Music Scholars will take the audience on a journey through the tempestuous world of love and lust at the opera including arias by Mozart, Gluck, Dvorack and Saint-Saens.

May 27^th, 13:10 PM

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/earbox-operatic-arias-tickets-17042001084

Student-led Exhibition Tours

Beautifully Obscene has been curated by students from our History of Art department. Join us for a tour and hear them discuss both key works in the exhibition, and their experiences of curating this show.

May 27^th, 14:00-15:00

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beautifully-obscene-exhibition-tour-tickets-17041785439

June 3^rd, 15:00 – 16:00

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beautifully-obscene-exhibition-tour-tickets-17041798478

Beautifully Obscene: Lectures

“Beautifully Obscene: Shunga in Focus”

Louise Boyd, PhD Candidate, University of Glasgow

Do you want to know more about the artists who created shunga and how it relates to the rest of their work? Or do you wonder who bought shunga and why? Come along to learn more about the beauty and humour of the prints on display, and hear about how shunga was created, cherished, and occasionally censored in Edo Japan. There will also be the opportunity for questions.

June 5^th, 13:00 – 14:00

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beautifully-obscene-shunga-in-focus-tickets-17066893538

“Beautifully Obscene: Uses of the Erotic and Pornographic in Feminist Film”

Sara Janssen, PhD Candidate, University of Kent

Taking the paradoxical conjunction of “beautifully obscene” as a starting point, this talk will discuss the troubled relationship between feminism, erotic art, and pornography. I will discuss some of the issues feminists have raised against the representation of the female body and female sexuality in erotic art and pornography, as well as arguments that have been brought to the fore in favour of an appropriation of erotic art and pornography in order affirm female sexual agency. Discussing different examples of feminist art film as well as recent examples of alternative pornography, this talk highlights the central role of female sexuality in feminist theory and art from the 1960s to the present day.

June 8^th, 15:00 – 16:00

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beautifully-obscene-uses-of-the-erotic-pornographic-in-feminist-film-tickets-17042702181

PALINDROME: Q&A WITH IAN MASSEY, BRIAN RICE AND RICHARD ROME

Studio 3 Gallery is delighted to announce that artists Brian Rice and Richard Rome will be in conversation with the curator, writer and expert on British art, Ian Massey on 26 February. This is a great opportunity for lovers of 1960s art to hear more about the art on display in our current exhibition Palindrome: The Sixties Art of Brian Rice and Richard Rome.

Refreshments will be available from 17:30, and the talk will begin at 18:00.

Tickets are free, but booking is recommended due to the limited capacity of the gallery. Please book your place here: https://eventbrite.co.uk/event/15651255326/

Art Matters: Symposium on Art and Politics

ART MATTERS // SYMPOSIUM ON ART AND POLITICS

15^TH NOVEMBER 2014 | TURNER CONTEMPORARY, MARGATE. FOYLE ROOM

Philosophers of art and art historians will debate how we might understand the relationship between art and politics. Is all art political? Is there a difference between political art and propaganda? Can art make a real political impact, or does it just preach to the converted? What are the most useful theoretical models for thinking about the political dimension of art? Such broad issues are compellingly brought into focus by Jeremy Deller’s exhibition.

Date: 15th November 2014
Time: 1.30pm
Location: Turner Contemporary, Margate

PROGRAMME

1:30	WELCOME (Martin Hammer)
1:45 – 2:15	Political Art and Political Propaganda Art Angelo Cioffi (Kent)
2:15 – 2:30	Q&A
2:30 – 3:00	Art and Politics: the Crosshatch and the Breach Bernadette Buckley (Goldsmith)
3:00 – 3:15	Q&A
*3:15 -3:30*	*BREAK*
3:30 – 4:00	Varieties of Political Art: The Curious Case of Jeremy Deller Diarmuid Costello (Warwick)
4:00 – 4:15	Q&A
4:15 -4:45	Apocalypse Now, then: Politics and Contemporary Art Partnerships Grant Pooke (Kent)
4:45 – 5:00	Q&A

The event is open to all at £8, £6 for concessions, and free for Kent staff and students on production of a KentOne card.

View more information and reserve your place at the Turner Contemporary’s webpage.

Talk: An Evening with Rose Hilton

You are warmly invited to join us on Wednesday November 26^th for a conversation between Rose Hilton and curator Dr Ben Thomas.

The pair will discuss our current exhibition that features 26 of Hilton’s lyrical, sensitive and joyful canvases including recent landscapes, still-lifes, interiors and nudes, as well as key works from earlier in the artist’s career, such as the poignant Roger’s Room (1973) depicting her late husband, the artist Roger Hilton.

Refreshments will be available from 17:30, and the talk will begin at 18:00.

Tickets are free, but booking is recommended due to the limited capacity of the gallery. Please book your place here:http://ow.ly/Dds7b

Talks: Visiting Artists in Fine Art at the School of Music and Fine Art

LiberateTate_TBritain-2418 — Artists from activist group Liberte Tate stage a performance in Tate Britain on the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and released 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. A naked member of the group has had an oil-like substance poured over him by silent figures dressed in black and wearing veils, and is now lying in a fetal position on the floor in the middle of the exhibition Single Form. Dedicated to the human body, Single Form is one of a series of British Art Displays staged throughout the galleries of Tate Britain.

Visiting Artists’ Talks

Autumn term 9th October – 11th December 2014

The Clocktower Building Lecture Theatre
The School of Music and Fine Art
University of Kent
Chatham Historic Dockyard
Kent
ME4 4TZ

Kent School of Music and Fine Art in Chatham is very proud to announce a program of visiting artists, writers, filmmakers, curators and performers who will talk about their work on consecutive Thursdays for 10 weeks commencing from the 9th October 2014. These talks follow the success of the previous Visiting Artists’ Talks earlier in the year and the Autumn term’s lineup showcases female artists working in a variety of contemporary artistic fields. This program shows the astonishing breath and scale of contemporary artists practice. Each speaker is renowned in their own field and uses imagery, materials and processes differently to pose distinct and searching questions and to address the urgent concerns of our age.

Fiona Boundy, known curator and producer of Artlands North Kent, will be speaker at the next talk on the 16th October.

All talks are free to attend and are open to all. The programme for the term is as follows:

Ruth Ewan 9th Oct
Fiona Boundy 16th Oct
Hannah Rickards 23rd Oct
Lindsay Seers 30th Oct
Hayley Newman 6th Nov
Ope Lori 13th Nov
Trish Scott 20th Nov
Kirsten Glass 27th Nov
Jananne Al-Ani 4th Dec
Ami Clark 11th Dec

View all the artist profiles and more information on the School of Music and Fine Art’s page.

A free shuttle service operates for Kent students and staff travelling between Kent campuses: more information on the Kent website.

Image: Liberate tate, Amy Scaife/Corbis