at Norwich Arts Centre
Sogand B showed her video of the "i am here" project.
Tate Britain
Urban Encounters: Routes and Transitions explores the dialogue and practice of visual urbanism to bring together international researchers, academics, photographers and artists concerned with the transitional nature of contemporary urban space. This third annual conference will address how photographic practices and archives intersect with an understanding of local and global routes as 'places', considering the temporality of place and the cross-cultural juxtaposition of locales.
This conference approaches the city as a palimpsest of routes and its panels will consider local, global and remembered routes through film, photography and other visual urbanist approaches. Considering the cultural geographies of migration, change, place, identity and the process of making transitions, the conference will facilitate an on-going interdisciplinary dialogue about the growing field of urban visual practice, method and enquiry.
Tate Britain
http://thisisnotagateway.squarespace.com/salons-upcoming/
The EA Festival is tackling the European Commission's 2010 theme 'Poverty & Social Exclusion'- their specific interest is exploring the return of slums to European cities. Tate Britain's Cross Cultural Contemporary Art Team are looking at contested spaces and notions of London's East End for their event 'East is East'. TINAG's interest in both these areas is the potential to explore the psycho/social idea of 'refusing to accept one's place'.
The salon will explore how notions of poverty are constructed, the return of slums in Europe, understandings of democracy, the links between land ownership and social exclusion and the psycho/social condition of Refusing To Accept One's Place that may have motivated social and spatial reformers - past & present.
"Over the past couple of years we have been producing work [film, photography and public artworks] revolving around the place where we live, a run down housing estate in Hackney on the threshold of being re-generated. In this economic milieu of small means we have come across numerous examples of interventions and innovations eloquently displaying a refusal to resign and simply accept the hand one was given. Encountering these gems of creativity in the midst of a regeneration project raises questions about progress and what will inevitably also be lost with social reform. Though there is always the danger of turning poverty into aesthetics and therefore we equally want to ask what is the difference between resilience, resistance and refusal?" Andrea and Lasse
The Building Exploratory, Waterhouse, 8 Orsman Road, London N1 5Q www.buildingexploratory.org.uk/findingus/
0207 729 2011 or mail@buildingexploratory.org.uk
Rehearsal Room, Kobi Nazour Centre, 30 Hanbury Street, London E1 6QR. www.thisisnotagateway.net
Panel discussion organised by Fugitive Images. The topic of the debate will focus on socially engaged art practices and the title is as follows: 'The production of public space: Should a socially engaged artistic practice necessarily generate social cohesion?' There will be presentations followed by a discussion and Q&A. The idea is to critically discuss the emergence of different kinds of socially and politically engaged artistic practices and look closely at different kinds of motives, aims and methodologies behind such practices as well as potential problems.
The panel will be chaired by Bill McAlister and consist of four speakers, Lasse Johansson [artist - filmmaker] from Fugitive Images, Marsha Bradfield [artist, educator and curator], Dave Beech [Freee Art Collective] and Mark Davy [director future\city].
Site Visit The debate will be preceded by a site visit to 'I am here', a public artwork by Fugitive Images installed on Haggserton estate. Meeting point is at 11am by the Mosque on Kingsland Road [E2 8AX], last stop before Regents canal if coming form Liverpool street. Catch bus 149, 242, 67, 243.
Fugitive images presenting i am here the day before the
launch of the project.
part of Critical Practice [Chelsea College of Art], work in progress presentation - I am here
at The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts. Fugitive Images presenting work-in-progress: In Wait and i am here