Project 47

Posted: October 9, 2011 by project47convenors in From the Convenors, The Museum, The Prison, The Stadium, The Tunnel
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Project 47 is the blog of the Goldsmiths MA in Art and Politics group project. It is designed to be a collaborative space between staff, students and institutional partners for the exploration of our project sites. This year these sites include:

  • The Museum of London
  • The Greenwich Foot-Tunnel
  • Her Majesty’s Prison Wormwood Scrubs
  • Millwall Football Club

As part of our wider aim to map each site for longevity and continued local impact, this space should be used to track each group’s thinking, progress, blind-turns and failures along the way to a final site project.

Read. Comment. Post.

PERFORMANCE OF NEW MUSIC BY PRISONERS AT HMP WORMWOOD SCRUBS

Posted: January 27, 2012 by theoprice in Uncategorized
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Have just been told that this is really an invite only sort of thing and you may need to go through me to get places. In this regard i suggest that we aim to get the five working in the prison group in and then see if there is space for others. If the prison group want to go let me know and i’ll ask.

PERFORMANCE OF NEW MUSIC BY PRISONERS AT HMP WORMWOOD SCRUBS

As part of our programme of work with men in prison, you are invited to join us at HMP Wormwood Scrubs for a performance of new music by prisoners.

5.15pm, THURSDAY 1st MARCH 2012

Only guests who have submitted their details in advance can attend; you must be aged 18 or above. Admission is at the discretion of the prison.

You will need to bring photographic ID with you (passport, drivers licence). 

Project kindly funded by:

 

 

 

VISITING INFORMATION FOR HMP WORMWOOD SCRUBS

 

Train: The nearest underground station is East Acton (Central Line), which is a ten minute walk away.

Bus: Number 7, 70, 72, 272 and 283 buses all stop outside the prison.

Car: Visitor parking is not available at the prison, but meter parking is available on Du Cane Road and other nearby roads.

www.musicinprisons.org.uk

 

 

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The house is caught up in the (after)life or death

Posted: January 27, 2012 by jamesrrellison in The Museum
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I’m glad to hear somebody else noticed that building, I think its a hall of some kind….?

For me it seemed to fit perfectly well within the schema of the museum.
Next to the mock-up interiors and facsimile exteriors, the house sits as a record of what once was.
And, as if housing the same mannequins as the museum, it appears behind glass as part of a giant vitrine. A full scale model to be preserved, archived and looked at in new ways because of its proximity to the museum ‘site’.  Maybe its where the mannequins go when the museum closes, who knows???

Of course, I am hear speaking as if I was a member of one of the museums many school trips, we all know much better now! But it does make one wonder if the archivist knows what the insect content of this ‘hall’ is….?
Presumably these are the kind of buildings that once stood within the footprint of the museum. No matter how bomb damaged it would have taken the destruction of several of these buildings to build the brutal concrete  melange that is the museum. In keeping with the link to the Olympic ‘site’ it would be as if somebody had refused to move out, the trace would be a cross between Rodger Hiorns Seizure and a scene from ‘Battery’s not included’. A trace of an environ that once was, now physically taken over, like trees growing in the amazon.

the house is caught up in the life-and-death

Posted: January 27, 2012 by hellomeaow in The Museum, Uncategorized
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When we went to Museum of London, one of the photographs Cathy ( sorry if I remembered her name wrong) showed us in her presentation was the view of the museum from above. Theo pointed out a small building that was sitting rather awkwardly, and it was surrounded by the building of the museum. The small building couldn’t be removed and the museum had to somehow build itself around it. Looking back that image now, while reading a chapter from Timothy Mitchell’s Colonizing Egypt, the relation between this small building and the museum appears to be quite significant.

Mitchell questions “our own assumption about the nature of order by contrasting them with a kind of order whose assumptions are different”. He does so by looking at housings in pre-modern Cairo.

“The orientation of building, of worshipping, and of receiving guests, the direction of Mecca, the path of the sun, the forces of the zodiac and properties of the prevailing winds were all precisely correlated. With larger houses, the interior space carved out as courtyard and rooms aligned precisely with such ‘polar’ directions and forces, rather than with the street or with neighbouring buildings. The house, or the shared housing in the case of poorer dwellings, then expanded around this enclosure, in whatever shape and size the presence of neighbouring buildings allowed. Its generally blank and irregular exterior seldom corresponded to the shape, or represented the purpose, of its carefully oriented interior. In this sense, there was no exteriors, and the city was never a framework of streets on which structures were placed.”

Therefore “ the town was not built as a series of structures located in a space. The spacing was the building, and such spacing, in the city as much as in the village, was always polarised”. This implies an absence of planning and coordinating. He describes this spacing created by ‘polar’ directions and forces as “ balancing or tending” with potentiality of life. The beautiful expression I found in this essay was that “ the house is caught up in the life-and-death”.

This is a different way of composing a house ( or a house being composed) from the one we have here. Housings here are structured with framing that coordinate and order, rather than embracing life and death. It’s not an active housing, but it’s a deactivating housing. And museums are no exception to this. In this context, Museum of London that was built around this small house shows an unique state of spacing.

I am interested in comparing this to how Olympic sites are planned and organised. Olympic sites are the opposite to the pre-modern Cairo; the sites are cleared as a white canvas on which new building can be built. They are not caught up in the life-and-death, but rather they determine the life-and-death. I can’t quite remember who it was ( perhaps Paul?), but somebody from Museum group mentioned about a possibility of building a temporary structure ( a museum) around the Olympic sites. And, I can imagine that the temporality will be an interesting resisting forces against the Olympic sites. It’s a contrasting way of embracing life.

Just a thought.

Future of Education…

Posted: January 25, 2012 by alternativeartcollege in Uncategorized
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Talk at the Whitechapel Gallery

http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/22/product_id/1120

FEB 16th Speakers incl Mark Fisher (Author of Capitalist Realism). Worth a look. £7 ish

Biennales on the Edge

Posted: January 24, 2012 by michaelrdutton in Uncategorized
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Biennales on the Edge, or, A View of Biennales from Southern Perspectives

Anthony Gardner


 

Scholarship on biennales is only in its infancy, yet two lines of thinking already shape it. Biennales are either the root of all evil, symptoms of neoliberal economics and their international relations, or they’re a platform of hope, generating multicultural dialogue to contest our neoliberal numbness. Despite their claims to globality, however, what’s striking about this scholarship and the histories they present is how resolutely northern they are, grounded in cultural economies that hug the North Atlantic Ocean. The question I want to pose, though, is what might a southern perspective of biennales look like. How might a different understanding, a southern viewpoint, of biennales agitate our understanding of these exhibitions? And where might these still largely occluded histories begin? This paper suggests we look to the significant “second wave” of biennales, dating from 1955 to the late 1980s in places as diverse as Alexandria, Sydney, Ljubljana and Medellin, to suggest a possible answer.

Event Information
Location: Screen 2, Media Research Building
Cost: Free
Website: For more information, click here.
Department: Media & Communications
Time: 1 February 2012, 17:30 – 18:45

Blake escapes from Scrubs

Posted: January 24, 2012 by project47convenors in The Political, The Prison
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In 1961 George Blake was convicted of treason and espionage and was handed down a 42 year prison sentence, to be served out in H. M. Prison Wormwood Scrubs. In 1966 Blake escaped from Scrubs with the aid of the KGB and defected to Moscow.

 

As a space of incarceration the prison is society’s regulator of flow par excellence. So how does the prison cope when flows are disrupted or when the flow is more like a hemorrhage; an uncontrolled movement – an escape? What does the escaped prisoner show us about the social space that is the prison (and the prison within society)? In what way did the escape of Blake belong to another time, another society? Could we even imagine the social space, in this age of surveillance, where a ‘prison break’ is even possible…

Individual project

Posted: January 23, 2012 by johnoreardon in Individual project
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Evening all,

As per usual, we’ll meet in 47 Lewisham Way tomorrow, Tuesday 24th at 10.30am ,Chie, Ayat  and Anna Harding (Chief Executive [ s p a c e ]) will present followed by a discussionc…

ps. Anna  would  also like to discuss potential collaboration as Space  have a new venue opening by the Olympic Park in June/July, they’ve been involved in,   lots of Olympic related stuff, including their annual Legacy Now symposium (next one takes place 21st Feb 2-5pm, , (an invited audience as they  have limited space). Furthermore they worked with Museum of London on a  symposium 5 years ago about the Olympics, Mike Seaborne, photography curator (no longer working in Museum of London)

Anna Harding

Anna Harding was Programme Director of MA Creative Curating course at Goldsmiths College, London. She was formally Curator at Kettles Yard, Cambridge and Exhibitions Organiser at Camerawork, London. She has written extensively on participatory art practices including Ikon Gallery’s publication Out of Here, in 2002. Anna curated an exhibition, book and symposium entitled ‘Potential: Ongoing Archive at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and at Tent, Rotterdam, artists included; Ella Gibbs, Ruth Maclennan, Naomi Salaman, Chris Dorley-Brown, Jakob Jakobsen, Nils Norman, Barbara Steveni, Helmut Kandl and Nasrin Tabatabai.

Links for Anna

http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/space/staff/anna-harding

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Moments-Collaborations-Between-Artists/dp/1904772285/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327340005&sr=1-2

http://www.art-omma.org/NEW/issue10/theory.html

http://www.art-omma.org/NEW/issue10/text/theory/10_Potential%20ongoing%20archive%20by%20Anna%20Harding.htm

http://www.engage.org/publications/seebook.aspx?id=569

SANTIAGO SIERRA AND HANS ULRICH OBRIST- TALK

Posted: January 23, 2012 by vlada42 in Uncategorized
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Hello boys and girls

There is a talk between Santiago Sierra and Hans Ulrich Obrist at the 31. of january. For free:

http://www.lissongallery.com/#/artists/santiago-sierra/

Santiago Sierra ‘In Conversation’ with Hans Ulrich Obrist Tuesday 31 January, 2012, 12.30 – 13.30 29 Bell Street, London, NW1 5BY Lisson Gallery is proud to present a programme of free lunchtime talks which offer a unique opportunity to hear artists, cultural figures and our curatorial team discuss art and its broader content. The thirteenth taken in the series will be a conversation between Santiago Sierra and Hans Ulrich Obrist about works in Santiago Sierra’s solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery. Free admission. Booking is essential.

rsvp@lissongallery.com

patrick keiller’s LONDON

Posted: January 20, 2012 by hellomeaow in Events
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I’m wondering if any of you will be free to come around to mine to watch a film ” LONDON” by Patrick Keiller on Friday 3rd Feb.

It will be good to watch this film in relation to the group project. ” LONDON” is neither a feature film nor a documentary film, but it’s a fictitious journey through looking at architectures around the city. Every shots of various locations are assembled to reveals how the city life has been affected by the liberal policies of the mrs Thatcher’s conservative government.

I’ll check  everybody’s availability in the next meeting.

The first bit of the film is this….

Chie

Nottingham event details and train times.

Posted: January 17, 2012 by alternativeartcollege in Uncategorized
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Hello, Below is the info again for the event and the train times i have booked. (the cheapest times obviously). if you have a rail card it will be around 20 squid return if not closer to 50.

Leaving LDN Kings Cross stn : 7.03am (1 Change in Grantham) Getting to Nottingham at 9.28am

Returning Nottingham stn: 19.27pm (no change) arriving at St Pancras stn at 21.20pm

28 Jan 2012

10.30am – 6pm, Free, Gallery 2

With DAAR, Rasha Salti, Nicola Perugini, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri (16 Beaver Group), Sari Hanafi, Lieven De Cauter, Ismael Sheikh Hassan, Berlage Studio

A one day seminar within DAAR’s reconstruction of the Palestinian Parliament, A Common Assembly will consider the new nature of political action and association, against the background of current collective protest in the Middle East and around the world.

Running order of the day:

10:30: Introduction

10:45: Session One: The Public, The Private, The Common
Lieven De Cauter – The Place of the Common: Revisiting Heterotopia from the perspective of the Commons

11:15: Nicola Perugini – Anomic State: Un-normed, Abnormal or Common?

11:45: DAAR and the Berlage Studio – Returns to the Common

12:15: Discussion

12:45: Lunch Break

1.45: Session Two: Refugees, State, Representation
Sari Hanafi – An Extraterritorial Nation-State

2:15: Rasha Salti – Imagining the Revolution, Representing Palestininas: Palestinian Poster Art and the International Exhibition solidarity with Palestine

2:45: Ismael Sheikh Hassan – Refugee and Political Representation: PLO reform and the Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees

3:15: Discussion

3:45: Coffee Break

4.15: Session Three: Citizenship, Revolts, Occupation

4:45: Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri – The Base of the Air is Common

5:15: Discussion and Conclusions

 

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/decolonizing-architecture-art-residency-daar

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