Michael+Asbury's+Open+Seminars

This is an off site project that will run from 22nd March and may take different times/days which will be agreed with small groups of students before hand.
 Dr Michael Asbury is curating an exhibition at Camden Arts Centre of the artist Anna Maria Maiolino (http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions/?id=100799), which will open to the public on the 2nd April. The artist will be producing an installation with clay that relates to notions of difference and repetition, the idea of the first/primal gesture, ephemerality, cyclical/recycling, etc.. Students signing up for this seminar will integrate with the team of volunteers producing these pieces in collaboration with the artist. The seminar will be literally a ‘hands on’ experience, where issues will discussed while producing the objects.

=Anna Maria Maiolino: Continuous = 
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02 April – 30 May 2010 Gallery 3 and Reading Room Admission Free

 Installation view ‘Territories of Immanence’ (retrospective Installation view ‘Among Many’ (retrospective exhibition), exhibition), 2006. __Miami Art Central__, USA. Photographer: Oriol 2005.  Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photographer: Tarridas Isabella Matheus Italian-born, Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the most significant artists working in Brazil today. Her new exhibition at Camden Arts Centre will include a site-specific installation and a selection of film works made over the last 30 years. In a career that spans five decades and a diversity of disciplines and mediums including clay, ink, film and performance, Anna Maria Maiolino’s work retains a fundamental concern with creative and destructive processes and with identity; from the subjective to the universal. Conducting a dialogue between opposite yet complementary categories, Maiolino’s practice dissolves the dichotomies of inner and outer, self and other, void and matter, ancient and contemporary. Maiolino’s early artistic experiments in Brazil throughout the 1960s and 1970s connect her to key moments of Brazilian art history: the New Figuration Movement, Neo-Concretism, and New Brazilian Objectivity, working alongside respected Brazilian artists such as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica. Later, she was associated with the Neo-Avant-Garde in Europe, particularly in Italy, as well as Minimalism and conceptual art in the United States. At Camden Arts Centre, Maoilino will create an installation using several hundred kilograms of clay. Manually rolling and shaping the clay into hundreds of rolls or balls, the basic shapes used in ceramics, Maiolino refers to everyday tasks, to the individual, society and language; each piece retaining the distinctive marks of its manufacture, but collectively creating an imposing structure. Over the course of the exhibition the clay will dry and begin to crumble, eventually turning to dust. By labouring to create a work of material impermanence, Maoilino comments on the transience and futility of creation, but also refers to a cycle of renewal, as the clay may be reformed and reused. The exhibition will also include selected films made by Maiolino dating from the 1970s, amongst them: //Y//, (1974) and //+&-// (1999). Anna Maria Maiolino: Continuous is supported by the Embassy of Brazil in London.