June Events at the University Gallery

We've got a real mixture of events at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery this month to coincide with the opening of our new exhibtitions, 'Paper Trails', showing highlights from the Gallery's works on paper, and 'Rough Draft', a celebration of the drawing process.

Our life drawing workshop (9 June) with the artist Karen Babayan is an extension of that celebration, focusing on a variety of different approaches and techniques. This will be followed by 'Making Trails' (16 June), a dance and movement workshop in the exhibition space, led by experienced tutor, Gerry Turvey

If you're more literary minded, why not try 'Write Me a Picture' (30 June), our well-established creative writing workshop with award-winning poet, Suzannah Evans. In a follow-up to our popular 'Archives for the Future' event, Brotherton Fellow Chris Sheppard and Digital Content Coordinator Beccy Shipman are also back, for a talk on the future of the collections, accompanied by a tour of the Library's digitisation studio (23 June).

For more information, please visit: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery/events.htm

MA Student Symposium

It's MA Student Symposium time again....we have a strong representation from the MA Museum Studies cohort, as usual, plus some really interesting perspectives from the rest of the students on the ma art history and ma cultural studies programmes...good luck to all....see you there!

Mark. 

University of Leeds

School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies

MA Symposium

Schedule

30 May-1 June, 2012

Old Mining Building

Room G.19

Wednesday 30 May

10:00-10:30         Welcome

          Eric Prenowitz

10:30-12:00         Who Owns What?

Chair: Ashley Thompson

-         Alice Kate Lambert: To sell or not to sell? That is the question!

-         Daniela Machado: The Art Market: A World of Luxurious Commodities Transfigured into Symbolic Capital by Art Collectors and Philanthropists

-         Oranuch Somprasit: Contemporary Buddhist Art in Thailand: A Study of Thawan Duchanee’s Painting

-         Erin Rolfe: The Location of Value: How does MIMA benefit Middlesbrough?

12:00-1:00     LUNCH  (Rm. 2.06A)

1:00-2:30    Storytelling

Chair: Barbara Engh

-         Hannah Goddard: Story telling as survival: The significance of Benjamin and Scheherazade for Saleem Sinai of Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

-         Max Raku: Between Borges and Derrida: Labyrinths of Sand and Mirrors

-         Rachael Thomas: The Spektor of the Storyteller

-         Theodore Wilkins: Wordless Communicators

2:30-2:45       TEA BREAK (Rm. 2.06A)

2:45-4:45              Representing Sexuality

Chair: Catherine Karkov

-         Anna Giovanaki: Representation and Interpretation of LGBT Communities in Social History Museums: The Museum of London

-         Elsy Benitez: Images of Intimacy: Photographic Works of Nan Goldin

-         Yelin Zhao: Becoming Victorine Meurent

-         Rachel Rotrand: Dodo: (Re)discovering, (Re)Constructing, and Exhibiting Identities in Berlin and London

-         Maria Daskalaki: Representations of Messy Paraphilias in the Culture of Cleanliness: Nikos Nikolaides’ Singapore Sling

Thursday 31 May

10:00-12:00         Representational Limits

Chair: Roger Palmer

-         Jo Hamill: Words Fail Me – Exploring the Limits of Language

-         Helen Brady: From Figuration to Abstraction: Mark Rothko and the years of 1942-1948

-         Laura Smith: ‘Writing’ in Film

-         Rachel Moaby: What is the Importance of Ephemera in the Museum?

-         Susan C. Timmins: An Atavistic Review of ‘Low’ Material in Sculpture

12:00-12:10   STRETCH

12:10-12:45         BA-MA Forum: ‘The MA Experience...’

12:45-1:30     LUNCH (Rm. 2.06A)

1:30-3:30              Restorations

Chair: David Jackson

-         Clara Woolford: Art and artifice: The Restoration of Leighton House Museum

-         Maria Elise Leland: Politics in Memory: The Historical Preservation of Ham House

-         Laura Rosemary Bootland: Conservation, Restoration or Re-creation: Interpreting Historic Houses

-         Emma Frances Bowen: Curating from the Garden Shed: The Re-creation, Restoration and Interpretation of Historic Gardens

-         Katie Thompson: A Study of the Restoration of Tiger 131 at the Tank Museum, Bovington

3:30-3:45       TEA BREAK (Rm. 2.06A)

3:45-4:50    The Art of the Museum

Chair: Gail Day

-         Joana Mateus Tavares: Re-interpreting The Other or Authorship and Identity in The Museum

-         David Knowles: Lost and Found Imagery

-         Joanne Williams: Contemporary Art Interventions in the Museum

Friday 1 June

10:00-11:30         Curatorial Cultures

Chair: Will Rea

-         Ching Wang: Same Objects; Different Museums: Chinese Porcelains in the British Museum and the National Palace Museum, Taiwan

-         Rachel Cunningham Clark: ‘Spice Up Your Life?’ – Popular Collecting and Museum Culture

-         Heather Dawson: The Representation of Mental Health within Museums

-         Phoebe Newman: The Code of Ethics for Museums: Can the Display of Human Remains with Contemporary Art be Ethically Acceptable?

11:30-11:35   STRETCH

11:35-1:00           Interpreting Architectures

Chair: David Hill

-         Sheelagh White: The Contemporary Museum: Its Relationship with Architecture and Exploration of Space

-         Alexander Peters: Architecture as Narrative: Shaping Museum Interpretation

-         Claire Davies: Elizabeth Percy: Engaging with Architecture in the 18^th C.

-         Harriet Page: Museums’ Impact on Urban Regeneration: The Building Itself (The Hepworth, Wakefield and Turner Contemporary, Margate)

1:00-1:40       LUNCH (Rm. 2.06A)

1:40-3:10             Constructing Memories

Chair: Claudia Sternberg

-         Alison Torbitt: Memorial Culture and the First World War: is the Centenary the Final Milestone in Commemorating World War One?

-         Carolin Eisner: Jewish Memorials in the Public Ssphere: the Berlin Memorial for the Murdered Jews in Europe

-         Philippa Basey: 9/11: The Process of Memorialisation

-         Viesturs Marnauza: Latvian Nativism in the Post-Soviet Transition

3:10-3:20       TEA BREAK (Rm. 2.06A)

3:20-4:50              Curatorial Pedagogies

Chair: Kerry Bristol

-         Charlotte Preston: Learning in the Museum: The Hepworth

-         Seung Joo Cha: Exhibition Design and Visitors’ Experience in the Contemporary Museum: The Galleries of Modern London

-         Sarah Richardson: Aesthetics/Education: Social Inclusion (the Hepworth)

-         Lela Radisevic: University Museum: Collections of knowledge

Want to chat Herbert Read?

Thought this event might interest the art-interested Museum Studies folk - a new critical reading group at East Street Arts, called 'Plundering Troops' - run by artists for the love of art (and thinking deeply about it!)

If you like the idea of a no-marks-pressure-just-fun-fun-art-theory group, come along to the next meeting on Tuesday 15th, at 6pm (wine and nibbles provided).  The reading is from Herbert Read's classic art history text The Meaning of Art.

http://plunderingtroops.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/reading-lab-15th-may-6pm/

INTERVENTION! Collage Workshop with Hondartza Fraga

Saturday, 5 May 2012, 2-4pm

Join us at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery this Saturday from 2pm as we explore the theme and process of intervention in this collage workshop, led by the artist Hondartza Fraga. On this, the final day of Matt Smith’s ‘Other Stories’ exhibition, Smith’s interventions use stories and found objects to suggest alternative narratives relating to artworks in the Gallery’s collection.

Participants will be invited to respond to these narratives through creating their own interventions and weaving extracts of the stories into collages. All materials are provided but participants are also welcome to bring their own collage images.

Hondartza Fraga is a visual artist who has exhibited both nationally (Liverpool, Leeds, London, Sheffield) and internationally (Portugal, Spain, Norway, Istanbul, Italy). Hondartza is currently a studio holder at Patrick Studios (East Street Arts) in Leeds.

Free workshop, but places are limited so please book your place in advance by e-mailing gallery@leeds.ac.uk, phone (0113) 343 2778, or online.

MGHG Conference 2012

Hello All,
Registration is now open for the 2012 conference, Cultures of Curating, and a draft programme is available. Both can be found at http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/event%20name,11259,en.html
(or go to http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/home/campuslife/whatson/eventsconferences/ and navigate from there).
See you there?

Mark

April Events at the Gallery

Why not take part in one of our free Saturday events, sure to inspire creativity or even ideas as part of your MA research.

Our creative writing workshop on the 14 April, led by experienced tutor Suzannah Evans, invites participants to respond to works in the Gallery's collection. This year we're also offering people the chance to enter a competition which sees the winners reading their poems read for a recording, to be placed alongside the chosen artwork via the wonders of QR-code technology. The poems will be available to listen to for a limited period to coincide with National Poetry Day 2012 (4 October). Places can be booked here: http://spinastory.eventbrite.co.uk/

Nick Cass, Research Associate in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, is leading a curatorial interventions workshop on the 21 April which involves re-interpreting the space of the Gallery for an afternoon. This is perfect for any students wanting to learn more about curatorial and interpretive practice. Sign up here: http://nickcassart.eventbrite.co.uk/

Finally, on the 28 April John Thorp MBE, Leeds Civic Architect will be giving a talk about working on projects that have helped to define the architecture of modern Leeds. The talk will be followed by a guided tour by John across the campus to finish up at one of the city’s newest architectural additions, the M&S Company Archive, where refreshments will be served and informal tours of the building will be offered. This talk and tour is free and all are welcome. For details of these and other events, please visit: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery/events.htm

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