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Sunday 05 February, 2.00pm - Book a place

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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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.

Using an eclectic range of objects and elements including used furniture, outdated electric appliances, electronic materials, light and the appropriated work of other artists, Mirza creates complex audio installations which investigate the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

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

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

"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.

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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‘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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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. 

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

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American artist and filmmaker Kerry Tribe's large-scale projects in video, film and sound form an on-going investigation into memory, subjectivity and doubt. For this exhibition, Tribe will show her new body of work Dead Star Light, commissioned as part of the 3 Series - a collaboration between Camden Arts Centre, London, Arnolfini, Bristol and Modern Art Oxford, alongside other existing works.

Dead Star Light is comprised of three works which continue Tribe’s study of memory and it’s opposite, forgetting. Each work structurally engages with a different technology in innovative ways: 16mm film (Parnassius Mnemosyne); reel-to-reel audio (Milton Torres Sees a Ghost); and video (The Last Soviet), all 2010. The works relate to questions of personal and historic memory and share common themes of erasure, flight, portraiture and the role of the viewer.

Dead Star Light will be shown together with H.M. (2009), a work which also explores memory but from an individual, neurological perspective. This film installation, an experimental documentary about an anonymous amnesiac known within the scientific community simply as Patient H.M., sets up a structure whereby the viewer’s own power of memory is challenged.

3: 3 artists / 3 spaces / 3 years is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Christine Borland

Borland's most recent project began when she discovered a fibreglass sculpture in the collection of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. The sculpture records the dissection of an unidentified man who had been posed with his back arched in a manner resembling Michelangelo’s Pieta (1498–1499). Over the last nine months Borland has set up a ‘live’ studio so people could witness her transformative process of recasting the figure. Freed from his plinth and newly cast and restored, the anonymous man and is displayed in a manner more akin to the original pose of the Pieta. This poetic transformation is at the heart of Borland’s work in which the certainty of science is put into question by the ambiguity of art.

‘I want people to be thinking back to the dissection process, which was the starting point here. In doing something hands on I’m inserting myself in an active role. There's always an assumption that what I’m doing is a simple critique. But I'm not just saying look, this poor guy was anatomised, posed, cast, made into a sculpture... it's making me complicit, adding complexity to the whole story.’ Christine Borland

'...this is a wonderful show. See it while you can.'
Charles Darwent, The Independent on Sunday

Exhibition catalogue now available

Fully illustrated Pino Pascali exhibition catalogue including essays by Martin Holman and Christopher Bennett and full colour installation views of the galleries here at Camden Arts Centre out now for only £13.00.  Call the Bookshop on +44 (0) 20 7472 5500 to order your copy.

Open Easter weekend and Bank Holiday Friday 29 April.

Jennet Thomas - Artist and founding member of The Exploding Cinema Collective, Jennet is also Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art.

Ariella Yudgar - Freelance curator and writer

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Arte Povera and beyond, Milan - Turin - Rome
Saturday 12 March, 12.00 - 6.00pm
Venue: Italian Cultural Institute, 39 Belgrave Square London, SW1X 8NX
Speakers include: Ester Coen, Nicholas Cullinan, Gabriele Guercio, Robert Lumley, Matilde Nardelli, Tommaso Trini

Pino Pascali and British Sculpture
Sunday 13 March, 12.00 - 5.00pm
Venue: Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG
Speakers include: Martin Holman, Nicholas Cullinan, Phyllida Barlow, Eric Bainbridge, Jeffrey Dennis and films by Luca Patella.

1 Day - £10 (concessions £5.00)
2 Days - £15 (concessions £7.50)
Booking essential. To book tickets contact the Bookshop on +44 (0)20 7472 5500

Organised in collaboration with Drink Italy, Italian Cultural Institute, La Bottega Kensington, The London Consortium and UCL

04 March – 01 May 2011

This exhibition, the first dedicated to Pino Pascali in the UK, focuses on works
from 1967 and 1968, the years in which he became associated with Arte Povera,
the radical trend in Italian art where everyday materials were used in resonant
combinations and events in art and life appeared to converge. 

The core of the exhibition is a series of works from Pascali’s one-person presentation at the XXXIV Venice Biennale in 1968. This show closed when the artist withdrew his
work in response to student protests and the actions of the police. He died later the same year after a motorcycle accident, aged 32.

Using materials such as steel wool, coloured fun fur, feathers and straw, Pascali created visually exciting and texturally appealingsculptures, demonstrating his complexity as a maker. His creations propose a playfully serious reconstruction of the universe. This exhibition includes a hairy mushroom, a giant spider covered in blue fun fur, large-scale coloured acrylic brushworms and a shield pierced by eagles’ quills. Contradictory notions of reality and artificiality come together in his use of
synthetic materials and the prime natural elements of water and earth. Pascali also used the direct expression of his own body through performance and by manipulating
the forms of his sculptures to set-up dialogues with the audience.

Pascali believed in tapping the alternative realities of myth, memory and the
imagination expressed in play. He sought never to repeat the same work and thought
that art should be superseded by new forms and ideas in the manner of a snake shedding skins. Although over 40 years old, Pascali’s work and its restless energy are fertile ground for thought and imagination today.

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