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Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as Collector, Educator and Cultural Transferant
No full textThe role of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819–1861) as cultural transferant between Britain and the German lands has long been undervalued. This study reassesses his contribution to British life through the lens of cultural transfer theory. Examining Albert’s education, collecting and working practices, it focuses on his pivotal role in the Great Exhibition of 1851. The book establishes Prince Albert as a major European cultural transferant, particularly evident in the South Kensington complex of museums known as Albertopolis
Visual Narratives in Contemporary Fashion Photography: A Case Study on Gucci’s S/S 2024 Collection
Get PDFThis project consists of a 24-page visual study published as a special cover story in Numéro Berlin (May 2024), spanning the magazine cover and pages 292-315. Conducted in collaboration with Italian luxury brand Gucci, the series reinterprets the S/S 2024 womenswear collection through the lens of contemporary femininity. Featuring model Roxane Plaza, the work critically engages with the visual language of fashion imagery, examining the evolving representations of femininity and the ways in which fashion photography can challenge conventional narratives
Hope is a Discipline
No full textAs part of ‘Hope is a Discipline’ at the October Salon, Belgrade, the Feminist Duration Reading Group (FDRG) exhibited at FLU Gallery. Their participation in the biennale included 'Date Nights,' two weekend event programmes developed in partnership with Belgrade-based feminist artists, writers, curators, translators, and activists.
The FDRG’s exhibition included books that have inspired and shaped the group's development, alongside Serbian translations of feminist classics donated by the Reconstruction Women’s Fund. The installation featured CEED Feminisms Bibliography, a resource mapping central and east European diasporic feminisms, devised during the FDRG’s 2023-2024 collaboration with Cell Project Space in an initiative led by Jessie Krish. Tablecloths hung on facing walls were annotated over the course of our events programme, with notes, sketches, and reflections on themes ranging from friendship to translation, group authorship and intergenerational feminist exchange. The 2021 FDRG podcast, ‘Nothing Worth Doing is Done Alone,’ edited by Sabrina Fuller and co-conceptualised with Helena Reckitt, offered a polyphonic account of friendship as a political practice through a chorus of feminist voices and citations. The exhibition was conceived collectively with FDRG members and installed by Helena Reckitt.
'Date Nights’ comprised moments of shared exploration of practices through reading, writing, listening, translating, and performance. Reflecting the central importance of collaboration to the FDRG, each exchange produced a particular way of working, drawing on the strengths and processes of various partners and building the grounds for mutual networks, experience, learning and understanding. The format questioned the group’s role in the October Salon as both hosts and guests.
The first weekend events programme, 9-10 Nov 2024, focused on friendship and feminist organising, through collective readings and relational group work. FDRG Working Group members Beth Bramich and Sabrina worked with Belgrade-based collaborators Hristina Cvetinčanin Knežević, Zorana Simić, and Ana Simona Zelenovic. Readings in English and Serbian respond to the question: how do we meet and organise around shared feminisms, and how might this foster an embrace of difference and the building of enduring friendships? In the reflective workshop 'Feminist Micro-interventions into the Politics of Friendship,' participants explored the significance of otherness and shared experiences, including solidarity, empathy, and resilience, in building feminist friendships. Through storytelling and discussion, the group considered values of solidarity, empathy, and resilience within feminist circles. Audio contributions by Taey Iohe and Dot Zhihan, together with readings from Hristina Cvetinčanin Knežević's text 'Feminist’s Politics of Friendship: A Manifesto,' focused discussions on the joy and conflict that are central to feminist friendships.
The second weekend events programme, 23-24 Nov, 2024, touched on dynamics of language and translation. Activities included the collective writing of a Monster Text, performance, and group reflection. FDRG Working Group members Mariana Lemos and Katrin Lock worked with Belgrade-based collaborators Marija Iva Gocić and Natalija Paunic.
Collective reading in both English and Serbian stimulated the creation of a “monster text” —a hybrid, intertextual collage. Contributions ertr prompted by the question of how meaning is both lost and found in translation – across time, space and language
A grainy collaboration between image and stone
Get PDFA grainy collaboration between image and stone. A research paper given at International lithography conference.
The second lithography colloquium “QUO VADIS SAXA LOQUUNTUR” will take place from April 4th to 6th, 2024. The organizer is the International Senefelder Foundation based in Offenbach am Main, Germany, which also advertises the international Senefelder Prize worldwide. The aim of the event is to expand the contacts of the joint network after the first meeting in 2017 and to provide information about all lithography activities. In addition to specialist lectures, the focus should be on a broad panorama of as many activities as possible in workshops, research and teaching as well as on discussion about perspectives for the future. In addition to lectures, demonstrations and practical exchanges will take place in the new printing workshop
Total Theatre ESP
No full text"The stage is bare. A landscape cut from the pines of a mind. Lights, timeless and exuding life. Backstage latent. Ready. Total Theatre ESP is Belmacz’s embodiment of Edward Gordon Craig (b.1872, Stevenage UK — d.1966, Vence, France); a ‘Craigische vorstellung’, an act of Craigian imagination.
An actor, illustrator, director, a scenic designer, thinker and revolutionary philosopher in the Art of Theatre, Craig don’ many hats but this gaze was always attuned to the production dramatic stage. He was a doer. Restless in his search for Higher Forms of Beauty, Craig rejected the particularities of the early 20th-century and its fancy for Realist Theatre — a tendency to impose the physical fashions of the day on a production rather than letting the formalities of the performative work abound an audience’s eye, be these action, scene or voice — embracing instead simple, severe expressions or the base characteristics of theatrical design, the figure in a space. This theatre is poetry in motion.
Direct and uncompromising, Craig, like many modernist artists, was a man with a strong perspective, “The duty of the Theatre (both as Art and as an Institution) is to awaken more calmness and more wisdom in mankind by the inspiration exhaling from its beauty” (Edward Gordon Craig, Towards a New Theatre). This vision has gone on to resonate across ages, across disciplines. Indeed, today Craig’s refusal to make plays with naive pizzazz speaks directly to the current state of the world, one fettered to elaborate staging of a sociocultural life.
Total Theatre ESP leans into Craig’s search for poetic sublimity. Rather than a narrative theme, or some kind of frenzied soap opera, the exhibition unfolds through a modernist meeting of artistic practices. Featuring sculpture and photography, works on and from paper, each artist embraces the formalities of their chosen material, allowing Higher Ideals to direct and guide.
Dramaturgically, Total Theatre ESP evolves from a diagonal stage — a three-dimensional place for extrasensory perception. Sculpture creates this in-ordinary environment, with flying candle lights (Michael Kleine) and a porous screen (Camilla Løw) situating us within a place all strangely in mood. As the exhibition arcs, moments and memories, reconstituted through oblique views — be these photographic (Tereza Zelenková), penned, painted or projected (Agata Madejska, Cosima zu Knyphausen and Rechonski respectively) — appear as non-diegetic soliloquies. Representational and not, these two-dimensional images toy with us, demanding a cognitive engagement with the formalities of their enunciative actions, reminding us that there is always more behind a show and script. Operating between realms, the mind’s visions of a mysterious past and the physicality of the present, ghostly form (Bora Baboçi and Toby Christian) accentuate this speaking through material cues. Meta-reliefs, these traces of narrative awaken us to the performative possibility found in the Craigian and the particular.
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Sideshow
No full textThis year the art programme’s take over of Lethaby Gallery spotlights the peripheral, the distraction, the sideshow. The dramatic changes to the art world over the last decade have brought into question the future of arts education but what opportunities might be found at the margins? Staff and students will be learning together to consider the role of art education in society today . You are invited to join us, activate the exhibition and join the conversation. Sideshow presents a menagerie of speculative artists works, performances, discussions, workshops & music events
Responsible research and innovation: Opportunities and challenges for UK-China collaboration in the creative industries
Get PDFResponsible research and innovation (RRI) aligns research and innovation with societal values, needs and expectations. It increases the quality, relevance, social acceptability and sustainability of research and innovation outcomes. RRI is a key concept in the major research and innovation programme Horizon 2020, but it is unfamiliar to the creative industries. This paper explores the relevance of RRI to the creative industries and examines the opportunities and challenges for UK-China collaboration in this area. The research methods used were workshops for data collection and thematic analysis for data analysis. This paper has identified significant stakeholder interest in UK-China RRI collaboration in the creative industries, related emerging research and innovation trends, potential areas for collaboration and challenges. The main contributions of this paper include providing an understanding of RRI from the perspective of key stakeholders in both countries and offering practical next steps for further exploring UK-China RRI collaboration in the creative industries sector
Moda na Fronteira: Masculinidade, Migração e Modernidades na Amazônia Brasileira
Get PDFEm 1910, no auge do ciclo da borracha na América do Sul, o fotógrafo nova-iorquino Dana Bertran Merrill foi contratado para documentar a construção transnacional da ferrovia Madeira-Mamoré, construída nas profundezas da Amazônia brasileira. A sua câmera atuou tanto como testemunha quanto cúmplice deste projeto imperialista de expansão capitalista americana e exploração da América do Sul. Merrill não foi contratado com o intuito de documentar a cultura do vestuário transnacional da sociedade fronteiriça masculina que surgiu ao redor da construção da ferrovia. Não obstante, suas fotografias transbordam de informações visuais sobre o vestuário: o que os trabalhadores usavam e como o usavam, documentadas em detalhes extraordinários. Voltar-se para a moda oferece uma visão revisada sobre como seus sujeitos predominantemente masculinos, vindos de mais de 52 países, usaram roupas para construir suas identidades e posicionarem-se em relação uns aos outros naquele local remoto e pouco convidativo. O arquivo de Merrill fornece um estudo incomum para o historiador avaliar criticamente a desvalorização colonial e neocolonial do trabalho manual, na qual se basearam os projetos de modernidade industrial do início do século XX, como a ferrovia Madeira-Mamoré. Fundamentado na análise visual de moda, este artigo baseia-se no método revisionista de “fabulação crítica” da filósofa feminista Saidiya Hartman. Este método desvia da historiografia tradicional nos seus esforços para superar atos de apagamento do registro histórico. Ao unir os aspectos visuais e sensoriais da moda, apresenta-se novas compreensões sobre a história da moda, bem como sobre a fotografia na sua intersecção com projetos globais do capitalismo industrial
Comics Aloud: Introduction
Get PDFThis dossier is about comics as sound objects. The collection of articles and interviews examines how comics can be adapted, remediated and/or transformed into aural works. The collection’s scope includes songs, radio dramas, audiobooks, and other aural forms, such as a spoken reading of a comic