Open+Seminars

2012 -13

Summer Term Lecture Programme All lectures start at 2pm,Wilsons Road Lecture Theatre, unless otherwise stated.

Rebecca Fortnum (Reader in Fine Art, Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon) will talk about her current exhibition at the Freud Museum and the process of developing the work and the exhibition. []
 * Wednesday 17 April: **Rebecca Fortnum Artist talk

**Wednesday 24 April:** Artist Residencies Rebecca Fortnum (Reader in Fine Art, Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon) will offer advice and ideas about how artist residencies can be useful in developing your practice.

**Wednesday 1 May:** Fred Baier - furniture designer/artist Fred Baier will talk about his design process for furniture/sculpture involving digital drawings, of which he was a pioneer in the 1980s when he began to use this process. [|www.fredbaier.com]

2011-12 Archive

**MAVA CROSS COURSE SEMINARS** This seminars are open to all full-time and part-time year 1 students. All students should sign up for both seminars led by one member of staff. Students should not sign up for seminars led by their own pathway leader. There will be seven different seminars. Sign up here

**Led by Jan Woolley, Pathway Leader MA Illustration** Dates: 5th April & 12th April Time: 10.30am Venue: ROOM 114
 * Title: ‘GOOD ARTISTS COPY, GREAT ARTISTS STEAL’ (PICASSO) **

“One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.” Eliot, T.S., “Philip Massinger,” The Sacred Wood, New York: Bartleby.com, 2000 *

**Led by Finlay Taylor, Pathway Leader MA Printmaking** Dates: 14th April and tbc (confirmed at the first meeting) last minute change Times: 10.30 – 12.30 Venue: Large seminar room Wilsons 116.
 * Title: Survival Strategies **

The seminar will discuss continuing to practice outside of the institution with focus on exhibiting. Particular emphasis will be put on group shows calling on experience from the students attending where possible.



**Led by David Cross, Pathway Leader MA Graphics** Date: 7th April Times:10 am & 2pm Venue: Graphic Design Studio Wilson’s Road Sofa, tea and biscuits provided
 * Title: The End of Art School? **

For this pair of open seminars, I’ll screen excerpts from several films, and facilitate an open discussion on how we might position contemporary cultural practice in relation to the so-called ‘age of austerity’. I would like you to think in advance about the following questions: • how does your practice relate to production and consumption? • what is the relationship between your discipline and the division of labour? • which aspects of your practice do you plan in advance, and which do you improvise? *

** Title: Practice as Research, Research as Practice ** **Led by Katrine Hjelde, Associate Lecturer MA Fine Art** Dates: 7th April & 14th April Time: 11 am - 1pm Venue: Ground Floor Seminar Room These seminars will explore the potential for art practice to be understood as a form of research, which can contribute to ‘new knowledge’. This will be useful for anyone considering undertaking a practice -based PhD in the future. However, we will also discuss how the art educational institution frames research at different levels and we will be looking at artists for whom particular notions/methods of research can be seen to be an integrated part of their practice. The seminars will focus on art but also relate to design and applied arts. Seminar One: Exploring art and research – art as research. We will discuss examples of research undertaken through, with or for art. A task will be set for the next seminar - a short written text to consider one’s own practice as research (building on UALs framework for research degree applications). Seminar Two: This will take the form of group discussion around the responses to the written task. Based on the outcomes, we will further examine some of the benefits and problems of instrumentalising practice as research, for the artist, for art education and for the art world.

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** Title: Appropriation / Transcription as strategy ** **Led by Susan Johanknecht, Pathway Leader, MA Book Arts** Date: Tuesday April 12th (Second date of meeting to be confirmed with the group) Time: 10:30 – 12:00 Venue: Please meet as a group just inside the Chelsea College of Art library (15 students only)

To alter, erase, to write through, to derive/depart from, to transcribe – taking existing material as a starting point & to then move off from it - back into your own practice but at a slant. In this seminar we will discuss the relationship of derived work to its source material, with the implicit or explicit critique of the original and new meanings created. We will begin by looking at works in the Chelsea special collections. At the end of this session a task will be set and a second meeting date and possible venue for display of the finished works discussed. Preliminary Research: writers/artists: Jerome McGann, Marjorie Perloff, Marcel Broodthaers, Tom Phillips, Xu Bing, Rebecca Horn’s ‘Ocean Library’ http://www.informationasmaterial.com/  www.colinsackett.co.uk   (‘writings and readings’ section especially)  http://www.ubu.com/historical/

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**Led by Maiko Tsutsumi, Pathway Leader MA Designer Maker** Dates: 7th and 14th April Time: 11am-1pm Venue: Small Lecture Theatre What makes things ‘thing-like’? This seminar will explore the ways objects potentially communicate by looking into the ways meanings of man-made objects are created and embodied in the objects. The first part of the seminar will introduce the theme the ‘poetics of objects’ that is loosely based on the practice-based PhD, //The Poetics of Everyday Objects// completed in 2007. The seminar touches on the themes such as material culture, consumerism, and design practice/history(1988 onwards). In the second part, the students will be asked to bring in objects (found or made by themselves) to further discuss the theme in the material form. Recommended reading can be found on: http://madesignermaker.wikispaces.com/Recommended+reading
 * Title: Undoing Objects **



Led by Ed Kelly, Associate Lecturer MA Digital Arts
Dates: 5th and 12th April Time: 10.30 – 12.30 Venue: Digital Art studio, basement Wilson Road (next door to the basement seminar room) Whether we like it or not the digital revolution has changed creative practise forever. Previous boundaries of art production are being blurred and connections made that were previously unimaginable. This seminar will introduce some of the key ideas behind these changes, using texts from important thinkers and examples. We will also explore some of the possibilities for your own work and research with a particular emphasis on how digital tools can enhance and help promote your practise. Start by reading this essay: http://madigitalarts.wikispaces.com/Manovich+essay