As part of the project Disclosures, Gasworks is launching its new Reading Area. Disclosures started as a two-day seminar, residencies and commissions in March 2008, and continues with various events and projects.
The Reading Area is composed of the Disclosures Library, Pipeline and selected publications reflecting upon Gasworks’ past, current and future programmes of activities. All are available for browsing during gallery opening hours.
The Disclosures Library originated as a research archive informing the seminar and was shared onsite in reading and screening spaces during April-May 2008. It has constantly expanded since its inception and has now been relocated to the lobby area as a permanent resource. The library gives visitors access to printed, film and audio material themed around issues of openness and connecting fields encompassing critical media and visual art practice, social history studies and urban sociology.
The catalogue can be viewed online, with many texts available as links. Content is added on a regular basis, and is organised according to four different but overlapping categories:
FROM THE GROUND UP
The lived, embodied and situated realities of networked information culture, resistance to globalisation, activism in the network era, relations between land and information enclosure.
THE POLITICS OF INFORMATION AND ITS FORMS
The politics of organising forms of information and its cultural corollaries; corporate ownership, file sharing, intellectual property; enclosure of information; regulatory, political, corporate, governmental instrumentalisation and control of information.
NEW AND NON AUTHORSHIP
The diffused author, platforms for collaboration in networked media.
ART, NEW MEDIA AND THEIR INSTITUTIONS
Cultural institutions’ responses/co-optation; transfer of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) into cultural operation; labour conditions and art world precarity.
The Disclosures Library is edited by Anna Colin (Exhibitions Curator) and Mia Jankowicz (formerly Residencies Curator at Gasworks) and is coordinated by Christine Takengny (Curatorial Assistant). More texts relating to projects beyond Disclosures at Gasworks are also available through Pipeline.
Gasworks
155 Vauxhall Street
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Admission is free
Gasworks’ ground floor has full wheelchair access
Free Range graduate exhibitions at The Old Truman Brewery until 21st July.
See events calendar here.
The exhibition for the Photography graduates opened last night with some impressive work from the University of Westminster. See Sarah Chamberlain’s project below..
Sarah Chamberlain, University of Westminster
life guards, 2007
The series, Life Guards, investigates psychological representations of boredom and social detachment. Utilising photography and video installation this series is a survey of lifeguards observing pool activity, waiting for a scenario we hope will never happen. While the lifeguards are doing their job, their ‘looks’, framed before the camera, often appear detached from their surroundings and lost in their own internal worlds unobtainable to those around them.
As a portrait series Life Guards illustrates the ongoing predicament of the portrait photographs inability to communicate the ‘whole’ of a person. Instead their state of being and their represented form are defined by a predetermined scenario of observing from the confinement of a chair and of being confined in front of a camera.
Essentially ‘guardians of life’, the subjects ironically portray an internal psychological state, resembling boredom that, we as viewers, cannot touch. This irony is further parodied when we consider Barthes1 description of the photograph as ‘little deaths’ – a deceased moment in time .
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Situated bang in the centre of Mumbai, Dharavi is otherwise known as the largest slum in Asia. With a population estimated at over 600,000 people, the informal settlement turns over an estimated £700 million per year in it’s formal and informal industries.
The land itself is worth over US$2 billion in real estate.
The Urban Typhoon Workshop will be held in March 2008, and will focus on Dharavi’s Koliwada community as part of a global workshop on participatory design, brainstorming potential development strategies for Koliwada.
Further information regarding context, data, workshop schedules & how to participate can be found at Urban Typhoon’s website: www.urbantyphoon.com
Photos Ⓒ Antonia Halse 2007
Check out Alex’s website if you missed the exhibition: www.aalex.info
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from the GRADUAL press release:
Royal College of Art Graduate exhibition for London Design Festival 2007
In collaboration with the Brompton Design Project Martino Gamper will
select work from the last three years by graduates from the Design Products department, offering an insight into the design process of the graduates.
Grad*u*al adj.
Proceeding or developing slowly by steps or degrees; a way of changing slowly…
The emphasis of the exhibition is to reveal the process through generating and experimenting rather than finishing and polishing work.
The exhibition space, 1st floor, 5 Cromwell Place, will be transformed into a temporary laboratory for gradual development of ideas and processes, where the viewer will have the advantage of engaging with the designer in the process.
Filed under: architecture, book/ magazine, education, film & video, talk/ lecture, urbanism
lecture by MIT’s..
William J. Mitchell
Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences
Director, Smart Cities research group, MIT Media Lab
Mitchell talks about his book covering topics such as ‘the death of particular architectures’ (phone boxes) due to new wireless technologies..
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/170/
also….
iTunes have quietly launched iTunes U in the U.S. where you can access free lectures from American Universities, including David Lynch’s ‘Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain’.
Exciting new work from recent RCA graduates & tutors..
‘Don’t Panic’ is a new exhibition at The Architecture Foundation’s Yard Gallery that presents alternate visions for now and the near future that concentrate on the fragility of human behaviour.
‘Don’t Panic’ features films, architectural projects, design products and installations by recent graduates and tutors from the Royal College of Art. These address the realities of contemporary life that architects and designers usually ignore: fear, danger and the fragility of human behaviour. It embraces and celebrates a world full of contradiction and complication, a society obsessed with youth, beauty, media and celebrity, a society where what we believe to be true has more value than empirical truth, a society obsessed with itself and its own desires, a society searching for instant gratification, a society in which fewer than 50% of us describe ourselves as happy.
Opening Hours:
1 June – 13 July 2007
Admission free
Tuesday – Friday 10am-6pm
Saturday 12-6pm
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Discovering the Bartlett’s Architecture listing was a memorable moment.. You choose to subscribe to a monthly or weekly newsletter which will keep you posted on their events, some of which are free! Unfortunately, I’m going to be away for this one, so would be very interested to hear from anybody who was able to attend…
6.30 – 8.00pm Thursday 24 May 2007
Reynolds Room, Royal Academy, W1
The Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Programme: RA Forum
Anxious Landscapes: Spaces of Abandonment and Decay
Speakers examine “anxious landscapes” which represent a new kind of urban form in the post-industrial city. It explores how and why formerly productive spaces associated with the industrial metropolis have faded from collective consciousness and are no longer an integral part of the “social imaginary” of the contemporary city. How are we to make sense of these wastelands and urban arcadias? Do we need to expand our concept of landscape to encompass these spaces? London based American artist, Ian Monroe, Ben Campkin, Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and Vittoria Di Palma, Assistant Professor in Modern European architectural history, are the confirmed speakers. Matthew Gandy, co-ordinator of the UCL Urban Laboratory will chair the event.
£7/£4 students (incl. drink). To book tickets call 020 7300 5839.
The Bartlett Architecture Listing is an informal round-up of information relating to architecture in general and architectural history and theory in particular. The listing is issued in two formats:
1. Monthly – emailed on the first Monday of the month and giving a round-up of forthcoming events
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If you wish to be added to the mailing list, please send an email with “subscribe architecture” in the subject heading to: archlist@ucl.ac.uk
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The School of Art and Design Kassel had an impressive array of work at Milan, one of my favourite pieces was the ‘Grat, foldable loungechair’ although I overheard designer, Arne Amtsfeld commenting that you could ’store it, hanging up on the wall’ I think I would have preferred to see the chair as adaptable floor tiles which could be randomly resurrected… Practical? Possibly not.
Veteran graphic design/typography and letterpress teacher from the London College of Printing: David Dabner talks… giving an insight into the principles of design, creative letterpress and why computers make students sloppy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xg5O0l7ybY
Department of Chemistry Centenary Lecture on Innovation, 22 February 2007
Innovation: A Survival Issue
Dr Geoff Nicholson
Inventor of the Post-it note
and alumnus of the College
