Writing P h o t o g r a p h s
A research project on the relationship of photography and writing – and how photographs are expanded, altered and dissected through text in the gallery context.
Co-organized by Beverley Carruthers and Dr Wiebke Leister, Photography and the Contemporary Imaginary Research Hub, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
ACTIVITIES:
Wed 4 March 2015, 4.30, LCC
Anne Tallentire: ‘Photography and Action’.
http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2015/3/4/A-research-talk-by-Anne-Tallentire-Photography-and-Action-/
Wed 11 March 2015, 4.30, LCC
Yve Lomax: ‘Photographs, Writing’.
http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2015/3/11/Research-Talk-Yve-Lomax-Photographs-Writing/
1 June 2016, 4.00-6.00, LCC
Adrian Rifkin: ‘Talking Writing into a Corner, or on research without ends’
Adrian Rifkin works with film and cinema, classical and popular music, canonical art and mass imagery, literature and pornography. Until recently he was Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths. Website and blog: gai-savoir.net
Student presentations: Asa Johanesson (PhD), James Wilde (BAP3), Jessie McLaughlin (MAP15)
8 June 2016, 4.00-6.00, LCC
Hayley Newman: 'The Touch of an Eye'
The written images in the worlds I create operate as both smokescreen and window; denying and giving access to an event. I do not try to represent things truthfully, rather extend the visual world inwards and outwards to encompass that which is visually observed, what is experienced by other organs and senses and what can be imagined.
Hayley Newman, visual artist, Reader in Fine Art and co-ordinator of the practice-led PhD option at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (UCL). Author of the novella Common, written as self-appointed artist-in-residence in the City of London in 2011 and member of the art/activist collective Liberate Tate, she is committed to working collectively around the current ecological and social crisis.
Webpage: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/people/academic/profile/HJENE78
Student presentations: Marcia Michael (PhD), Patricia Atzur (BAP), Sabrina Fuller (MAP16)
15 June 2016, 4.00-6.00, LCC
Kreidler/O’Leary: ‘Word, Image and Situated Practice’
In this cross-platform survey we shall examine a number of works, looking specifically at the role of word and image in our nomadic, situated practice. How do words - and, by extension, the architecture of sentences, paragraphs and essays - operate within, beside and beyond the image to open and communicate meaning?
Kreider + O’Leary are a poet and architect who collaborate to make work in sites such as prisons, military sites, film locations, landscape gardens and desert environments. Dr Kristen Kreider is Reader in Poetry and Poetics at Royal Holloway, University of London. James O’Leary is Lecturer in Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
Website: http://www.kreider-oleary.net
Student presentations: Albi Gualtieri (BAP16), Brenda Vega (MAP16), David Dawson (BAP16)
22 Jun 2016, 2.00-6.00, Siobhan Davies Dance Company
Workshop Daniela Cascella
2017-2016: UAL Communities of Practice funding for ‘Writing Photographs’
28 Sept 2016, 2.00-6.00, E&C Shopping Centre Project Space
Workshop Daniela Cascella
26 Oct 2016, 3.00-6.00, E&C Shopping Centre Project Space
Workshop ERCO lighting
Wed 1 Feb 2017, 4.00-6.00, LCC
Michael McMillan: ‘Words, Sounds, Images & Things’
I am interested in telling stories and the installation-based works I create use imagery, video, sound, voices, and text to invoke the performativity in the material culture of everyday things like characters in a play.
Dr. Michael McMillan, playwright/artist/curator, is Lecturer in Cultural & Historical Studies at London College of Fashion and an Associate RAS Researcher (UAL) as well as a Research Associate with the Visual Identities in Art & Design Research Centre (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg. Michael curated the critically acclaimed The West Indian Front Room exhibition (Geffrye Museum 2005-06).
http://www.thefronteoom.org.uk; http://www.peckhamplatform.com/artists/michael-mcmillan
Student presentations: Marcia Michael (PhD), Victoria Louise Doyle (BAP16)
Wed 8 Feb, 4.00-6.00, LCC
David Mollin and Salomé Voegelin: ‘Writer’s Habits’
This performance is a talk, loosely based on the idea of an artist’s talk that demonstrates and discusses the voice and text as part of artistic production. Referring to their own work and its contexts in poetry, the news, architecture and language, David Mollin and Salomé Voegelin problematize through critical theory, live interventions and more colloquial discussion, ideas around words and language as things of image and sound, in contemporary art practice.
An ornithological interest meets the notion of technology and community through the presence of Villem Flusser, and gains a new articulation as swarm through the voice of Franco “bifo” Berardi; anecdotes, taken from the internet, on how to write will guide proceedings into the realm of Terence McKenna’s experiments with the hallucinogen DMT; and while the British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane will lead the charge into “the universe (that) is not only queerer than we suppose but queerer than we can suppose”, Hindu numerology and the particular numerological time structure of the virtual environment of the computer game, interjected by other concerns about words and texts will form the content of proceedings.
David Mollin and Salomé Voegelin are Swiss-UK artists working since 2008 collaboratively as Mollin+Voegelin on projects that focus on invisible connections, transient behaviour and unseen rituals. Their work reconsiders socio-political, architectural and aesthetic actualities through the possibilities of things, sounds, voices and words, whose invisible mobility invites an individual and collective inhabiting and promotes participation. Their work take the form of installations that as “dispositifs” lend shape and a setting to the performances that happen within them, and that in turn expand the installative material in a temporal mode. In this way they entail a relational dimension: bringing associations, conditions and dynamics into view and prompting different perceptions and insights in response to particular architectural, geographical or conceptual sites. Their work has been shown at Kunstraum Riehen, Switzerland 23.05-28.06.2015 and at Dar Bellarj, Partner Project of the 6. Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco 24.02-08.05.2016, and the Showroom London (with Thomas Gardner). Most recently they have been awarded a highly remunerated Art and Architecture award from the Kunstkommission Bern, Switzerland, to realise a public art project in the city.
www.davidmollin.net www.salomevoegelin.net @mollinvoegelin
Student presentation: Victoria Jouvert (BAP17)
2017-2019: UAL Teaching Scholarship for ‘Writing Photographs’
http://www.arts.ac.uk/about-ual/teaching-and-learning/awards-and-funding/ual-teaching-scholars/2017-ual-teaching-scholars/
Wed 22 Feb 2017, 2.00-6.00, E&C Shopping Centre Project Space
Workshop Erica Scourti
Wed 1 Mar 2017, 2.00-6.00, LCC
Workshop David Mollin
Wed, 3 May, 2.00-4.00, LCC
Joseph Kendra: ‘If You Had a Year to Change Something What Would You Do?’
The BMW Tate Live Thought Workshop Series 2013-14 was a project that explored the possibilities of change and transformation, through ideas about art, thought and technology. Organised in partnership with theatre company Quarantine, the project asked people to answer a simple question: If you had a year to change something, what would you do? A group of 30 recruited participants met across a series of events between 2013-2014, with invited guests from a wide range of disciplines. The ‘Thought Workshop Series’ acted as a case study for Tate Exchange, a new space at Tate Modern for the public to collaborate, test ideas and discover new perspectives on life, through art. This talk explores how long-term collaborations between institutions, artists and the public might transform the way we think about current artistic practice, learning and the role of the museum.
Joseph Kendra is Curator, Public Programmes, Tate Modern and Tate Britain. He has held several positions at Tate over eight years as well as working for the BFI Southbank and Barbican Art Gallery, London. He holds an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MA (Hons.) in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh. He has worked on public programmes for Tate exhibitions including Wolfgang Tillmans, Malevich and Conflict Time Photography and has organised a number of high profile events and conferences featuring names such as Hal Foster, Theaster Gates, Zaha Hadid, Marc Jacobs and Saskia Sassen.
Student presentations: Jessie McLaughlin (MAP15), Sabrina Fuller (MAP16), Jacqui Taylor (MAP16)
Wed 3 May 2017, 4.30-7.30, Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre Project Space
Exhibition by students, alumni and staff from LCC’s BA & MA Photography programmes
Beverley Carruthers . Victoria Louise Doyle . Ana Escobar . Sabrina Fuller . Alberto Gualtieri . Victoria Jouvert . Jessie McLaughlin . Wiebke Leister . Nassim Rad . Herman Rahman . Ernst Schlogelhofer . Tomoko Suwa-Krull . Jacqui Taylor . Brenda Vega . Agnès Villette . James Wilde
Fri 12 May, 6.00: Responses with Q&A
Sat 13 May, 4.00: Tour with Cakes
Sat, 6 May, Tate Modern, 2.00-4.00, 4.30-6.00
Panel Debate and Workshops
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/talk/wolfgang-tillmans-2017/writing-photographs
Building on London College of Communication’s reputation for conceptual photography, this artists’ discussion between Marcus Coates, Clunie Reid and Erica Scourti puts forward photography as an interdisciplinary practice. By combining the image with elements such as the voice, technology and performance as a means of writing within this expanded field, these artists’ work counter traditional notions of text and the photograph, adding to a contemporary understanding of Writing Photographs. The conversation is chaired by artist and writer Wiebke Leister. Following on from this event each artist will lead a practical workshop delving further into the relationship between writing and photography.