A pacey run through of a number of useful ideas on curating as enhanced activity, good images.
He talks of curating following the art of the time, so the art that is being made now allows curating to become enhanced outwith institution etc, but therefore it continues in the shadow of the art and artist as a practice.
Some video I found of my piece in the Limousine Bull art collective (Matthew and Debbie Wickham) organised exhibition “Trust” at the National Trust of Scotland owned heritage property, Drum Castle, near Banchory, Aberdeenshire, September 2009.
I am a big fan of Kelley’s work, so his death this week is sad to hear about.
Some memories of my encounters with his work were, while at the CCA, Glasgow in the 90′s I used to hire his video’s from Electronic Arts Intermix, and show them in the centre, as we never saw this work on show and wanted to experience his world. He was also included in the Obrist curated Do It exhibition at the CCA in June/July 1995. The exhibition was based on instructions which we shared amongst the staff to make. I worked with performance tech Bob Pringle on capturing the sound of a potential ghost in the ABC cinema next door for the Mike Kelley piece. We were asked to find a place where someone thought that they had seen a ghost. Apparently a projectionist had killed themselves in the cinema during a Christmas party in the 1960′s and the current cleaners thought they had felt his presence. So we followed Kelley’s instructions to use a reel to reel tape recorder, recording through a sound proofed box at a slow rate. The sounds were then sped up and played back in the gallery so that through the white noise some sounds of the ghost could be heard – we did think there was something there. Kelley asked for the tape which I sent to him, I think he was going to compile them all together. I also think he was included in a touring print show from the Southbank at Duff House in Banff, Aberdeenshire in 2002/3.
In a rubberized bag comb brush towel soap change of underclothing copy of Burn's poems Milton's Paradise Lost Wood's botany small new testament journal map a plant press
Funny what you find when raking around on holiday at home.
This is a cassette tape of the first Leisure Beacon, a short lived radio show on SweetFM run from Glasgow Art School on 2 February 1995.
The Leisure Beacon was hosted by David Shrigley, Jonathan Monk and Martin Young
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I didn’t realise that Craig Richardson had recently authored a book on Scottish Art, (Scottish Art Since 1960: Historical Reflections and Contemporary Overviews, £61.25! everyone) but the new edition of Variant drew my attention to it with a review by Neil Mulholland and Robin Baillie, doing a sort of Waldorf and Statler act on it. Their conversation is all a bit bah humbug but from what I’ve read on Google books, indeed I think we need something more in depth on the actual creativity and effect of the artwork and experiences for all that have been produced over the years. I must admit I am getting a bit bored by the same old story (and the same old names and scenarios), I think we all know this by now. We are all too aware of the structuring structure and the rules of the game, we need to highlight the folk who picked up the ball for a change.
Martin Honert’s sculpture Feuer taken by The North Sea
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Stage 3 CCS Lecture at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen Monday 21 Nov 2011
Nicola is coming to do a Guests @ Grays lecture
at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen on Friday 30th March 2012
Dick Hebdige is not dead: a bit of friction and breakage helps you remember that you’re living in time.
Funny thing, today I was reading some old CCS text and Dick Hebdige was referenced (many times) and I thought about him and his book Subculture. After I bit of (digital) research, I found out that Dick Hebdige is not dead, and very much alive in the USA, and that he is now only 60, only 10 years older than me (quick calculation) so he wrote the seminar cultural text when he was 28, blimey that’s quite good. So further fiddling and I find a bit of an interview he made in 2004. In this there are some great comments on his use of old tech, power point presentations and the need for a bit of friction and breakage to help you remember that you are living in time. Here’s some choice quotes to live to, cool
It says his current interests include the integration of autobiography and mixed media in critical writing and pedagogy, look forward to it.
Research group at Gray’s School of Art, where we discuss things
Co-Creativity of Hand and Mind is potentially one of the most important research areas within Gray’s School of Art’s portfolio, strategically positioned to ‘knit together’ and interconnect knowledge in all the other research areas (Art in the Public Sphere, Cultures of Representation, Design & Innovation). The research will address the continuum from undergraduate to post-graduate art education, positioning this critically and creatively in relation to the specificity of Gray’s cultural context. Building on past research themes (On the Edge, Working in Public, The Artist as Leader), the School has the opportunity to exploit and transfer the outcomes of this existing research and thereby develop current desires to place ourselves at the heart of ‘rural economies and ecologies’. This earlier research has already positioned itself as node within significant international networks, identifying the dynamics of rural remote culture as a catalyst to new ways of working in the arts and society. The new research will create innovative ways of conceptualising and practising teaching and learning in art education, placing these in the context of a changing world (environment, health, values and skills). Through effective dissemination, this research seeks to influence the education of the artist (and designer) in 21st century nationally and internationally.
And in the Art Review Power Art Top Hot hippity hop 100
A-m-a-zing!
Surely this shows influence and currency as opposed to just power.
Interesting article (and comments) but as an art school tutor now, I really wouldn’t want to hang out with the students, cramping their style. Who wants some middle aged ‘guru’ hanging around when your making your mark. But then again maybe the ‘education’ exists within this social situation, we all know that the real learning happens outside the classroom.
I would have liked to hear even more about the current scene and activities of other art/curatorial/writing groups/projects which are working in Glasgow (and around Scotland) as its quite significant (The Mutual, Yuck n Yum, Studio 41, The Commonty, Atlas, paralines, Ganghut, Sierra Metro etc) and healthy.
