Camden Arts Centre Camden Arts Centre's contemporary art exhibitions and events put you in direct contact with artists and making. http://www.camdenartscentre.org Copyright 2012 Camden Arts Centre Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:57:26 +0100 en-us CAC101329 Call For Submissions: Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary 2012 The annual bursary is now open for submissions.

A bursary of £5000 is available to mid-career UK based disabled visual artists.
The deadline for submissions is 5pm on 8 May 2012

The Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary is one of the most significant commissioning opportunities for disabled artists in the UK, offering an opportunity to engage in a three month residency at Camden Arts Centre.

It was set up in memory of sculptor Adam Reynolds to support disabled artists working in visual art and to provide time and space to develop their creative practice without the pressure to deliver a particular outcome.

The bursary is managed in partnership with Shape, the leading national disability art organisation. [www.shapearts.org.uk]

The bursary recipient will be supported by the Camden Arts Centre and Shape teams and will be offered exhibition and public engagement opportunities with both organisations.

Key Dates
Application deadline - 8 May 2012
Shortlisted announced - 22 May 2012
Interviews- 6 June 2012
Bursary recipient announced - w/c 11 June 2012
Bursary - 6 August to 5 November 2012

For more information and to download the application pack visit the Shape website http://www.shapearts.org.uk/artandexhibitions/adamreynoldsmemorialbursary.aspx

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101329 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:57:26 +0100 CAC101326 Junction: North London Cultural Consortium Junction: North London Cultural Consortium launch
Launch reception: Camden Arts Centre Friday 27 April, 6.30–8.30pm.
Launch Weekend: 27–29 April 2012.

Junction: North London Cultural Consortium is an ongoing collaboration between arts organisations in North London, offering a new platform from which to support and develop artists’ projects. The Consortium will combine the strength of its members to make a significant contribution to the cultural landscape of London and King’s Cross in particular.

The Consortium comprises Camden Arts Centre, Cubitt, The Place, Wellcome Collection, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, UAL and UCLH NHS Foundation Trust Hospital Trust.

The official launch Junction: North London Cultural Consortium begins at Camden Arts Centre with a VIP reception on Friday 27 April, 6.30 – 8.30pm with introductions from Jenni Lomax Director Camden Arts Centre, Eddie Nixon Artistic Director The Place and Richard Wentworth.

The Consortium will be launched with a series of exhibitions, performances and specially commissioned artist led walks around King’s Cross by Rebecca Birch, Simon Faithfull, Tanya Loi and Katherine Midgley responding in different ways to the history, environment and people of the area, each led by the artists on the opening weekend.

Download the Junction map and artists' walks HERE

Futher information about the programme, times and booking details here.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101326 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 11:11:54 +0100 CAC101324 Taking Root Holiday Weekend 12.00 - 5.00pm

To celebrate erect architecture’s residency and the
unveiling of their constructions in the garden, join us for
a day of activities, talks and workshops for all ages.

Including:

erect architecture leading tours of their new installation
in the Garden.

Artist in residence Rachael Champion building an
evolving wilderness structure.

Free, artist led workshops
]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101324 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:22:12 +0100 CAC101323 Cafe Curio Screening: Godard And Moholy-Nagy Marseille Vieux Port (László Moholy-Nagy, 1929).

Films selected by Zoe Leonard to accompany her exhibition.

Book a place]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101323 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:20:56 +0100 CAC101318 Final Spaces: Hanne Darboven Symposium
This event will be divided into two halves:

Friday 16 March 7.00 - 8.30pm at Camden Arts Centre - Book a place
Drinks reception and tour of the Hanne Darboven Exhibition with Jenni Lomax, Director, Camden Arts Centre.

Saturday 17 March 2.00 - 5.00pm at UCL - SOLD OUT
Pearson Lecture Theatre, Main Quad, University College London, Gower Street.

Chair: Briony Fer

Speakers include:

Miriam Schoofs
Hanne Darboven (1941–2009)
Mysterious and seemingly monotonous sequences of symbols, data, everyday images, audio and soundtracks characterize the work of the woman who is probably the most important German concept artist. By giving a short introductions of the works by Hanne Darboven currently exhibited at the Camden Arts Centre, I would like to give a closer idea of the artist’s general oeuvre and to place her work in its time context .

The aim is to demonstrate to what extent Darboven felt confirmed and encouraged in her own artistic endeavors by the principles of American Minimal Art and Concept Art, two directions that developed in New York in the mid-1960s. Particularly important for these new directions was the equal significance of different media and forms of presentation – e.g., constructional drawings, notes, diagrams, (found) words, images and objects, music and film; these technics and strategies can also be experienced in Hanne Darboven’s oeuvre – and in the exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre.

The rigorous nature of her work stands in complete contrast to her obsessive accumulation of art works, junk and objects of all kinds that gradually took possession of her house and studio in Hamburg-Harburg, where she would work until her death in 2009, filling it up to the ceiling.
“I don’t make Minimal I am making maximal Art”, the artist herself once explained and would successfully defend herself against any prefabricated definition of her work.

Miriam Schoofs (Curator, Falckenberg Collection / Deichtorhallen Hamburg)

Linzi Stauvers
Darboven – Stein – Ariadne
On moving to New York in 1966 Hanne Darboven planned the construction of a paper city through which she would assemble and sustain a personal mythology. Writing to her family in Hamburg Darboven outlined the task of visualizing her imagination, an epic task that required stamina and patience. This paper considers the effect of walking into one of Darboven’s labyrinthine environments, being initially captivated by its objects and eventually piecing together its history. It considers the chronicles of Darboven’s contemporaries, Michel Butor and Nasreen Mohamedi, in demonstrating a shared commitment to phenomenology and temporality. Finally it questions whether Steinian logic serves to solve or circumvent Darboven’s puzzling practice.

Petra Lange-Berndt
Hanne Darboven: Processing Infinity, Assembling Stuff
In 1966, Hanne Darboven relocated from Hamburg to New York. It was in Manhattan where she developed the famous artistic strategies for the years to come. Criticised for her fixation on semi-bureaucratic structures and a bourgeois sense of duty, a different perspective emerges once her living situation is considered: As Darboven's unpublished correspondence of 1967-75 shows, her way of working was achieved not in solitude but by setting up a discourse network, exchanging often passionate letters with fellow artists and friends. This bundle of papers will be analysed within the context of her artist's house in Hamburg-Harburg, containing a remarkably cluttered collection of popular artifacts. This space will be questioned as a laboratory of space, time, and things that enabled the artist to mix conceptual with everyday practices and even subversive bad taste.

Lynda Morris
Lynda Morris met Hanne Darboven only once at the meal at the Hotel New York in Amsterdam after the opening of Darboven’s exhibition at the Stedelijk in early 1975. Recently Lynda has been working in the Tate Archive for Barbara Reise no 78 of the Documenta Booklets. She found correspondence between Barbara and Hanne c 1975-1976. Hanne Darboven’s letters were like her work. Barbara Reise wrote about her sympathy for the difficult times Hanne was having. This information will be compared with the exhibitions and sales of Darboven’s work to Public Collections in the book Unconcealed that Lynda Morris edited for her late PhD student Sophie Richard in 2009.

Lynda Morris holds the Chair of Curation and Art History at Norwich University College of the Arts. She was curator of the Norwich Gallery and EASTinternational and she worked on When Attitudes Become Form at the ICA in 1969 and for Nigel Greenwood in the early 1970s.

Antoni Malinowski
Antoni Malinowski will give a personal artist-on-artist account of his encounter with Darboven's work and the lasting influence it has had on his own practise.
In 1984, at the opening of her exhibition in Dusseldorf, I briefly met Hanne Darboven. Both the person and the work made a lasting impression on me. The juxtaposition of automatic writing with the 3D found objects was a revelation, an opening of a new way of seeing and working. Here was an artist who was sculpting the invisible and she was doing it with the utmost attention. Her chisel was a pencil and it was the quality of the line which really struck me. The tension of the line is measured by the rhythm of the intervals – it is the seemingly empty which is full. Using the simplest means, Hanne Darboven tackled the most complex issues of consciousness, time, and history.

Margaret Iversen
Trauma, Repetition and Creaturely Life: Hanne Darboven and Zoe Leonard
This lecture bridges the current Darboven exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre and the forthcoming one of new work by Zoe Leonard. There are many shared formal strategies one could mention. What interests me more, however, is what I take to be the common motivation driving their work, that is, their practice of making art out of a tragic or traumatic history and of finding an aesthetic form adequate to that history. My understanding of both artists work is informed by a reading of Eric Santner’s remarkable book, On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald (2006).


Supported by Goethe-Institut London.


]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101318 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:13:46 +0000 CAC101299 Cafe Curio: Herzog (dir. Werner Herzog 1974)

Chosen by Raphael Hefti to accompany the exhibition.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101299 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:56:05 +0000 CAC101298 Cafe Curio: Artists' Book Club
Selected texts for discussion are:

LSD My problem Child, Albert Hofmann
The Craftsman, Richard Sennett

Book a place]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101298 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:08:27 +0000 CAC101297 Exhibition Tour: Ben Roberts Camden Arts Centre, Programme Co-ordinator Ben Roberts leads a tour of the exhibitions.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101297 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:02:09 +0000 CAC101277 Cafe Curio: Systems 07:00 pm - 08:30 pm

A series of esoteric short talks about how the world is organised, how we can change it and what happens when we can't

Speakers include

Stephen Shaw is an expert in how local and national government operates. For Systems he will discuss this and how charities and NGOs can influeence and change government policy and actions.

Gareth Dale, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations Brunel University, on The Enchantment of Economic Growth, discussing the political and historical implications of growth economics.

Dr Tali Sharot author of The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain will talk about the human facility for optimism in the face of disaster, adversity and everyday life.

Book a place


]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101277 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:25:09 +0000 CAC101274 Clore Museum Learning Award 2012 Camden Arts Centre is delighted to be shortlisted for the Clore Museum Learning Award this year, for our long-running Get the Message project. Supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation and Art Fund, the £10,000 award recognises quality, impact and innovation in using museums and galleries for learning activities and initiatives.

Get the Message is a collaborative project between young people with learning disabilities, teachers and artists. It aims to challenge notions of disability as a limitation through collaborative activities which champion all forms of communication and self-expression. Through encounters with contemporary art practice both in galleries and working with artists, Get the Message offers innovative approaches to working with young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities.

The winner will be announced on 19 June 2012.

For more information please see www.artfundprize.org.uk/]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/education/?id=101175 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:23:19 +0000 CAC101273 Taking Root Family Day
Families will work together to create and design their own belvedere or viewing structure. Taking examples of similar buildings and structures as a starting point and how they work in their environments, families will work together to create and design their own belvedere or viewing structure, using architectural modelling materials to build a scale.

Over the past four seasons erect architecture and artist Ashley McCormick have invited local families and school children to explore the wildlife, habitats, growth and ecology within the wild edges of Camden Arts Centre’s garden, in order to develop new ways of thinking about this particular space.

Book a place]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101273 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:40:44 +0000 CAC101272 Cafe Curio Performance: Platform 1 A selection of performances presented by students at the Slade School of Art over two days:

Wednesday  01 February, 6.30pm

Sunday 05 February, 2.00pm - today's performance is definitely going ahead despite weather conditions

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101272 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:34:49 +0000 CAC101271 Cafe Curio Screening: Kon Tiki
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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101271 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:33:05 +0000 CAC101255 Introductory Talk By Emma Cocker
Emma Cocker, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, leads an introductory tour of the exhibitions and a discussion with Raphael Hefti.

The talk begins at 5.45pm, prior to the Exhibition Preview at 6.30pm.

Admission is free but availability is limited. Book a place or call the Bookshop on 020 7472 5500.

 

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101255 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:57:43 +0000 CAC101254 Exhibition Preview: Hanne Darboven And Raphael Hefti Join us at the preview of the exhibitions Hanne Darboven and Raphael Hefti: Launching Rockets Never Gets Old.

19 January 2012
6.30pm - 8.30pm
pay bar
]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101254 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:54:55 +0000 CAC101253 Activity Guide Family Days: A World Of Clay Thursday 29 & Friday 30 December 2011, 2.00 - 4.30pm

Over two afternoons, we will build an entire city and its inhabitants from clay. Led by artist Serena Korda, families are invited to drop in to create their own landscape and take part in short animation workshops. We will work alongside each other to create characters, environments and ultimately a collective fairytale. Admission is free.]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101253 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:09:16 +0000 CAC101252 Holiday Opening Hours Camden Arts Centre will be closed 24-27 December and 01-02 January 2012.

There will be no late opening on Wednesday 28 December and an early closure, at 4.30pm on Saturday 31 December.
]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101252 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:05:09 +0000 CAC101249 Cafe Curio: Broadcast 07:00 pm

Inspired by the exhibitions, Broadcasting features a series of short presentations on the possibilities for broadcasting and other creative solutions for the dissemination
of ideas. Produced in collaboration with www.thisistomorrow.info

Speakers

Marialaura Ghidini
Founder and curator of or-bits.com, co-curator at Grand Union (Birmingham), and PhD researcher at CRUMB, University of Sunderland


]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101249 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:46:13 +0000 CAC101248 Residency Exhibition And Performance 07:00 pm

Join us for the premier of a new performance work and opening of an exhibition of works made during Benera’s residency.

Exhibition continues in the Artists’ Studio until Sunday 04 December.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101248 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:43:46 +0000 CAC101247 Support Camden Arts Centre In The Big Give From 5 – 9 December 2011, Camden Arts Centre is taking part in The Big Give Christmas Challenge to raise £60,000 for our 2012 community projects.

If you have enjoyed visiting Camden Arts Centre this year, please make an online donation to us on The Big Give website from 5 – 9 December, and it will be matched, giving us double the value from your gift.

To keep you in the festive mood, during donations week we will be offering a 10% discount on books, artists’ editions and stationery in our bookshop, and a free mince pie with coffee in our café.

Camden Arts Centre relies on the generosity of our supporters to keep our work free and accessible to all.]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101247 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:25:23 +0000 CAC101244 Cafe Curio: For One Night Only - Angela Kingston Encounters with beasts: Nathalie Djurberg and fairytales

Talk by Angela Kingston,  discussing the role of fairytales and storytelling in contemporary art in relation to the work of Natalie Djurberg. There will also be a screening of films by screening of films by Marcus Coates and Lottie Reiniger.

Angela Kingston is an independent contemporary art curator. She has previously curated exhibitions such as 'Fairytale: Contemporary art and enchantment', at Leeds City Art Gallery, 2007 which featured six international artists and explored the bewitching and transgressive nature of fairytales and their influence in contemporary art and the subsequent exhibition 'Underwater' in 2010.

Organised in collaboration with Amy Thomas.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101244 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:13:51 +0000 CAC101242 Booklaunch: We Hate Humans By David Robins We Hate Humans is a landmark in the study of soccer violence. The first book to give voice to the denizens of the terraces, it followed seven years of research onto the violent 'ends' of Britain's football grounds, such as Chelsea's Shed and Manchester United's Stretford End. Through the vivid speech of the fans themselves, it chronicles a subculture of disaffected young men, their lives and backgrounds and their reasons for fighting. We Hate Humans is a bizarre, scary, sometimes funny and always thought-provoking look at one of the most intriguing social topics of our times.

Anna, Daniel and Sophie Robins invite you to celebrate David Robins and the republication of We Hate Humans by Milo Books. The event runs from 6.30 - 8.30pm in the Camden Arts Centre Bookshop.]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101242 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:38:17 +0000 CAC101220 Cafe Curio Artists' Book Club: Haroon Mirza Haroon Mirza will be discussing a selection of texts which have informed his work and practice. In conversation with writer and curator Tom Morton, he will speak about the influence of Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut), Technoromanticism (Richard Coyne) and Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner).]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101220 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:56:45 +0100 CAC101219 Open Music Archive With Mechanical Bride Eileen Simpson and Ben White run Open Music Archive, a musical project which revives the free dissemination of music by altering records, both to suppress layers of sound still under proprietary ownership and release the copyright-expired elements.

Camden Arts Centre has commissioned Open Music Archive to play a series of live sets- the third and final set is happening on 16 November and is being streamed live on www.thisistomorrow.info. This set will include specially invited guest Mechanical Bride.
www.mechanical-bride.com

http://www.openmusicarchive.org/about.php

Admission is free but please book a place.]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101219 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:48:04 +0100 CAC101218 Make And Do Every Sunday while the exhibitions are on, families are invited to use found or borrowed objects to make kinetic sound instruments, taking inspiration from Haroon Mirza's exhibition I saw square triangle sine. Together, families can decorate their instruments and attach mechanical parts and motors so that they automatically play themselves and make interesting musical sounds.

These special instruments can be played amongst sounds of the exhibition or families can find other spots around the building to make their own site-specific sound piece.

Make and Do takes place every Sunday between 2.00 - 4.30pm. Our sessions are led by artist Jessie Brennan and are free for families to drop in to at any time.]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101218 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:47:00 +0100 CAC101214 Anca Benera Residency focuses on storytelling and re-construction, and uses the public realm as both a resource and a medium to present and inform her projects, which are themselves rooted in the use of collective spaces.]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101214 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:02:29 +0100 CAC101212 Open Music Archive DJ Set DJ set: Eileen Simpson and Ben White
7.00 - 8.30pm

1920s, 30s and 40s recordings are altered and encoded through autotune, reversed playback and flipped lyrics — techniques ported from R&B and HipHop production. The resultant filtering ensures the suppression of layers still under proprietary ownership but enables the escape of copyright-expired elements that are, for the first time, released into the public domain.

Part of song division a series of experimental events exploring the sonic
potentials of materials gleaned from the edges of the public domain. Commission by Camden Arts Centre to accompany the Nathalie Djurberg and Haroon Mirza exhibitions.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101212 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:58:18 +0100 CAC101211 Exhibitions Private View Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg: World of Glass
07 October 2011 - 08 January 2012

The animated films Djurberg is best known for are made with a technique referred to as ‘claymation’. Though at first the work appears to be playfully naïve, the scenarios enacted are often disturbing, uncovering taboos or difficult aspects of the human condition such as vulnerability, desire and suffering. A World of Glass consists of four new synchronised films with a soundtrack produced by Djurberg’s collaborator Hans Berg, presented amongst an immersive installation of glass-like objects. Another new installation will flood the central space with luminous colour, and a series of earlier animations will be shown in the Reading Room.

Haroon Mirza: I saw square triangle sine
07 October 2011 - 08 January 2012

Using an eclectic range of objects and elements including used furniture, outdated electric appliances, electronic materials, light and the appropriated work of other artists, Mirza creates complex audio installations which investigate the moment where noise becomes music.

For his new installation made for Gallery 3, Mirza is bringing together a number of instruments traditionally associated with bands including a keyboard, drum kit and synthesisers fused with turntables, LED lighting, lamps and radios in order to create a minimal audio composition.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101211 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:54:25 +0100 CAC101209 The Artists' Gallery The Artists’ Gallery is a documentation and celebration of a unique moment within Camden Arts Centre’s history. It follows the installation of Simon Starling’s exhibition Never the Same River (Possible Pasts, Probable Futures) to capture the centre’s energy and distinct approach to art: interviewing artists, curators and critics involved in the centre’s past, as well as those who continue to effect and shape its present. It is a testament to the innovation and insight of Jenni Lomax, who has remained the Director of Camden Arts Centre for the past twenty years and, who remains one of London’s most treasured art figures.

The Artists' Gallery has been directed by Renee Vaughan Sutherland and will be screened for the first time on 09 October 2011. See here for more details.]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101209 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:56:37 +0100 CAC101208 High Is The Ocean To mark the culmination of Mathilde Rosier's Necklace of Fake Teeth, Deborah Levy will take a tour of the exhibition at Camden Arts Centre at 3.00pm, before leading the group to a live performance by Rosier, at the nearby Freud Museum.

High is the Ocean

Rosier’s new performance will involve original artefacts collected by Freud, and live, percussive music creating the atmosphere of a tribal ritual. Staged across two floors of his London residence, the performance will enact Freud’s notion of the topographic imagination in which he analogised the ground floor of the building with the rational mind, with the upper level respresenting spiritual perceptions.

Rosier was inspired by Romain Rolland’s notion of the ‘Oceanic Feeling’ which was also a preoccupation for Freud. It describes a religiously generated feeling of limitlessness or ‘continuity’ with a cosmic energy connecting all things. Freud understood this mystical experience as the primitive ego-feeling – the sense of being that an infant has prior to its formation of an individual self, or ego, separated from its mother and the rest of the external world.]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101208 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:45:35 +0100 CAC101207 Maya Deren Films
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943 – 59)
The Very Eye of Night (1952 – 59)
Divine Horsemen – The Living Gods of Haiti (1985)

Introduced by writer and curator Elinor Cleghorn

Book a place]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101207 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:39:25 +0100 CAC101204 Gallery Discussion: Where The Latent Image Lives 7.00 - 8.30pm

Catherine Yass, Simon Periton and Anne Hardy will form a panel to discuss themes and issues arising from Where the Latent Image Lives. The exhibition has been conceived and co-ordinated by Camden Arts Centre Front of House Volunteers and is on at Kingsgate Gallery until 25 September.

Where the Latent Image Lives looks at the way we perceive our environment and how this translates to experience and comprehension. The works negotiate the boundaries of perception through memory and sense, and attempt to isolate the moment where visual intensity changes looking to experiencing.

There will be a brief introduction of the panel and the works before the discussion, which will take its starting point from one of the issues below:

Where does a work end or begin?
What is a latent image and when do we know something is an image?
The role of a technical (photographic) mediation
Mechanisms of breaking down light, colour and perspective

The discussion will take place in the vicinity of the exhibition at Kingsgate Gallery.

110 - 116 Kingsgate Road
London NW6 2JG]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/exhibitions/?id=101147 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:33:21 +0100 CAC101185 Artist's Book Club - Mathilde Rosier Rituals of Desire
7.00 - 8.00pm

Writer Deborah Levy and Camden Art Centre's Gina Buenfeld will be discussing texts selected by Mathilde Rosier in relation to her current exhibition.

Texts include Bataille's Story of the Eye as well as Jordorowsky's Psychomagic.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101185 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:01:52 +0100 CAC101180 Laura Eldret - A New Ceremony For Hampstead 02:00 pm - 05:00 pm

Artist Laura Eldret presents a ceremony based on her research into the social
landscape of the Camden area and its folkloric histories. Made in collaboration
with local tradesmen, societies and communities, the ceremony will evolve
over three weeks and be performed throughout Camden Arts Centre.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101180 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:32:29 +0100 CAC101179 Performance: A Song For A Tradesmen Choir 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm

Artist Laura Eldret will bring together a small group of tradesmen to create and
perform a folk song for the present day. The majority of folk songs derive from ways
of verbally attracting customers to buy their wares and services.

The new song will combine issues from contemporary life and trade, and will function as a surreal advert for the individuals' skills. A Song for a Tradesman's Choir will be performed in a stagelike set that exhibits the skills of the individuals in the choir, resulting in an appropriation of traditional folk music as a 'promotional mix' campaign for real tradesman operating in Camden today.

A Song… will combine the styles of the sea shanty and antiphon which both employ
call‐and‐response musical patterns –which has evolved from speech patterns in
human communication.

The antiphon was a popular mode of song used in the mystery plays of medieval
Britain: plays that were originally performed in churches in the tenth‐century to
recount biblical stories, which later became popular forms of entertainment carried
out on the streets. The plays were originally acted out by communities of guildsmen,
who were employed by the church as readymade acting troupes before the rising
professionalism of players. The name 'mystery plays' is believed to have derived from
the term 'misterium', meaning craft; a play performed by craft guilds.

If you're a tradesman and would like to be involved contact Ben Roberts on 0207 472 5500 or ben.roberts@camdenartscentre.org


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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101179 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:30:56 +0100 CAC101178 Performance: Have You Been Sworn? (at Highgate) The Wrestlers Pub, 98 North Rd, Highgate, N6 4AA
02:30 pm - 03:30 pm

MAP

Artist Laura Eldret is staging a Swearing on the Horns ceremony as part of a residency at Camden Arts Centre researching the social landscape of the Camden area and its folkloric histories.

This is a farcical ceremony that became popular with travellers stopping in the many inns of Highgate during 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. It involves an oath confirming one's commitment to debauchery, and the saluting of animal horns, resulting in participants being awarded the title of "Freemen of Highgate".

The Penny Magazine in April 1832 talked of the Swearing on the Horns ceremonies as "mummeries of a past age, when boisterous merriment was mistaken for happiness".

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101178 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:28:43 +0100 CAC101174 Sam Lee And The Magpies Nest The Pilgrim, The Posion, The Party

3 nights, 3 songs, 3 themes, 
Ffolk tales, music, performance, mythology, Sight and sound

Singer and folk music enthusiast Sam Lee presents a series of musical nights
organised in response to the theatre, ritual and storytelling inherent within
the exhibitions including

Joanna Burke
Nissa Nishikawa
Debs Newbold


]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101174 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:56:01 +0100 CAC101173 Ritual: Its Relevance And Resonances
Kenneth Rees has been a lecturer in the humanities at a range of London colleges and universities for nearly 30 years. Among his many specialisms is the study and practice of ritual within different traditions as both participant and facilitator.

Admission Free]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101173 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:53:32 +0100 CAC101172 Sam Lee And The Magpies Nest The Pilgrim, The Posion, The Party

3 nights, 3 songs, 3 themes, 
Ffolk tales, music, performance, mythology, sound and sights.

Singer and folk music enthusiast Sam Lee presents a series of musical nights
organised in response to the theatre, ritual and storytelling inherent within
the exhibitions including

Anthony Robertson
Nick Goode
Michelle Bloom
Fritz Stolberg
Tim Cummings

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101172 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:51:12 +0100 CAC101163 Summer Course Taster Sessions 27 July - 06 August 2011

Never done a course before or unsure which course would be most suitable for you? Why not enrol on our Summer Course Taster Sessions and get the opportunity to meet our artists and find out more about course content.

Click here for full programme.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101163 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:40:55 +0100 CAC101162 Katie Cuddon: In Conversation With Richard Dyer 7.00 – 9.00pm

Join us to hear Katie Cuddon discuss her exhibition and celebrate the completion of her fellowship.


]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101162 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:41:51 +0100 CAC101127 Exhibition Preview: Rulers 6.30 - 8.30pm

"Things are beginning to break up. I don't know why. It all began well. Then people started forgetting what really matters."  William Golding, Lord of Flies

An exhibition of films by artists Alex Schady and Hadas Kedar made with students from South Camden Community School based on a text from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Continues until 26 June 2011.

Part of Junction: a series of artists’ projects for King’s Cross, commissioned by Camden Arts Centre.

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101127 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:07:06 +0100 CAC101108 Christine Borland: Book Club With Dr Ruth Richardson Cafe Curio

Join Christine Borland and Dr. Ruth Richarson in the Cafe for an informal discussion of writings which have informed her work and practice.

Dr. Ruth Richardson is Senior Visiting Research Fellow in History at the University of Hertfordshire at Hatfield; Affiliated Scholar in the History of Science at the University of Cambridge; and Society of Apothecaries Examiner and Lecturer in the History of Medicine. She is an interdisciplinary historian with particular interests in literature, history, the visual arts and medicine.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101108 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:18:02 +0100 CAC101106 Cafe Curio: Quite Spectacular Quite Spectacular is series of live, heart stopping, surgical demonstrations by the Imperial College medical school and designers Studiohead, staged to co-incide with Christine Borland's explorations into the use of the human body in medical science.

You are having a heart attack. Your life is passed from hand to hand as you are rushed into hospital by ambulance. You find yourself lying on a bed, while a surgeon inserts a wire into your leg. You are scared, but you witness a miracle, you watch someone saving your life.

The afternoon sees Camden Arts Centre playing host to the ‘inflatable operating theatre’ simulating the angiogram procedure. Visitors will be able to watch the entire process and even take part to experience what it is like to put your life in someone else's hands or even insert a virtual stent into yourself.

Performances at 1.00pm | 2.00pm | 3.00pm

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101106 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:58:58 +0100 CAC101104 Exhibition Tour: Paul Teasdale
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‘Memory Believes Before Knowing Remembers’ William Faulkner

This edition will focus on the work of Robert Whitman alongside Kerry Tribe, looking at the use of technology and innovation within art to reach wider audiences through creative use of formats and disciplines.

Speakers include Caterina Albano, research fellow and curator for Artakt at Central Saint Martins' College of Art and Design and Nicola Triscott, founder and Director of the Arts Catalyst. Both will express their position in relation to the intersection of art and science, and the importance of such collaborations.

Highlighting themes of dissection, memory and the role of the viewer, alongside video footage of Whitman’s performance work from the 1960s, this evening looks to bring together a diverse selection of past and present pioneering work.

Organised in collaboration Emma O'Rourke

Nicola Triscott is a cultural producer and writer. She is the founder and Director of the Arts Catalyst, which she has built into one of the UK’s leading arts commissioning and producing organisations of contemporary art that experimentally and critically engages with science. Nicola writes and lectures internationally on the intersections between art, science, technology and society in a global context.

Caterina Albano holds a PhD in Renaissance Studies from the University of London and is a research fellow and curator for Artakt at Central Saint Martins' College of Art and Design. Albano curates, lectures and publishes in the field of art and science, cultural history, in particular on the history of emotion and of the body, and on the theory of curating.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101103 Thu, 19 May 2011 14:05:46 +0100 CAC101102 Anne Hardy Closing Party 7.00 - 9.00pm

A final chance to visit the studio and find out about Anne Hardy's work during her residency and a rare chance to see behind the scenes, so join us for a celebration to mark the culmination of the residency. 

 

]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101102 Thu, 19 May 2011 13:59:13 +0100 CAC101101 Simon Faithfull In Conversation With Kerry Tribe And Christine Borland 5.45pm

Artist Simon Faithfull leads an introductory tour and discussion of the exhibitions with
Christine Borland and Kerry Tribe.

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]]> http://www.camdenartscentre.org/home/?id=101101 Wed, 11 May 2011 10:22:21 +0100 CAC101100 Cafe Curio: Certainty Inspired by the exhibitions, Certainty features a series of short presentations,
discussing how and why we come to think we know things for certain.

Hugh Aldersey-Williams (Writer) on the history of fallacy and fact in
materials science.

Cathy Haynes (Art on the Underground) on the fantasy and imagination of maps.

Robert Rowland Smith (Writer) gives an introduction to the philosophical concept
of certainty.

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