21 research outputs found
Measuring the impact of values at BDO Stoy Hayward: Creating an award‐winning business with strong values‐based management
No full textIn 2001, BDO Stoy Hayward decided to develop a strong values‐based culture, which has generated major enhancements in staff opinions, during a period of restructure and business growth. Nick Tatchell, senior project director at ISR, works with the company to test the attitudes of its people. Here, he discusses how BOD Stoy Hayward embedded its values and how this has improved employee retention and satisfaction.</jats:p
The future of pornography - panel debate. Speakers | Finn Mackay, Rowan Pelling, Peter Tatchell
No full textMany believe that porn's dark fantasies risk corrupting relationships and society. Has this arisen because pornography is largely created by men? Could feminist pornography featuring authentic sex, diverse bodies and female perspectives offer a truly liberating alternative? Or is porn fundamentally incompatible with intimacy and a problem for all of us until its abolished? Feminist thinker Finn Mackay, author of Belle de Jour: Diary of a London Call Girl Brooke Magnanti, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell and Erotic Review editor Rowan Pelling imagine the future of pornography.In association with the New College of the Humanities
TrAIN Open Lecture: Cildo Meireles
No full textDiscussion with the artist, Cildo Meireles, chaired by Michael Asbury, and with other participants including Guy Brett, co-curator of Meireles’ Tate Modern retrospective and Moacir dos Anjos, independent curator and contributor to its accompanying publication.
Part of the TrAIN Open series
The 28th Bienal de Sâo Paulo: a post-mortem discussion
No full textAiming to offer a platform for observation and reflection upon the culture and system of biennials within the international art circuit, the 28th Bienal de Sâo Paulo (Oct-Dec 2008) proposed a different format from previous editions.
After the event, Moacir dos Anjos, Michael Asbury, Elizabeth Araújo Lima and Isobel Whitelegg looked at different aspects of the edition that was titled ‘In Living Contact’ and colloquially termed the ‘Empty Bienal’.
In turn, they will each review and raise for open discussion its curatorial concept, critical reception, and the unplanned intervention that marked its opening to the public
TrAIN Open Lecture - Professor Joseph Heathcott
No full textTHE KNOWN CITY: VISUAL RHETORICS OF URBANISM IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Despite the uncanny nature of the city, we do everything we can to convince ourselves that we understand it. Nowhere is this more the case than in those professions dedicated to divining and prophesying the urban through the gentle arts of persuasion. This lecture examines a range of visual tropes deployed over the last century by architects, planners, social reformers, investors, and marketers to render the city known—and indeed knowable. Through maps, ideographs, diagrams, photographs, and trade films, we will trace the visual registration of powerful urban narratives that reveal the organization of an urban episteme. We will also review the emergence since the 1960s of a critical discourse of urbanism among artists and activists whose interventions, détournements, and insurgent geographies raise fundamental questions about what we can and cannot know of our cities.
Joseph Heathcott is the 2010-2011 U.S. Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of the Arts London. He is an Associate Professor and Chair of Urban Studies at The New School in New York, where he teaches in Eugene Lang College and Parsons School of Design. His work considers the role of collective memory and creative expression as everyday civic practices that shape the metropolis over time. His work has appeared in a wide range of academic journals, magazines, newspapers, trade publications, blogs, and DIY ‘zines’. His most recent photography exhibit Post-Acropolis Metropolis was installed at the City Hall Gallery in Stuttgart, Germany. He has been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Erasmus Institute, the Mellon Foundation, and the Brown Center for the Humanities. Currently he serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Urban Pedagogy In New York, and frequently gives his time to neighborhood groups and community organizations
TrAIN Open Lecture | Inti Guerrero : Flavio de Carvalho and his City for the Naked Man
No full textIn 1930 artist and architect Flavio de Carvalho (1899-1973), known to be the enfant terrible of Brazil’s avant-garde, proposed to build a new city in the tropics that would have no god, property, nor marriage.
He envisioned an urban scenario for a ‘naked mankind’ that would have stripped itself from its cultural body, or in his words, a man without ‘scholastic taboos, free for reasoning and thinking’ in order to begin a painstaking process of wonderment, change and self-transformation.
De Carvalho’s utopia was set to be a constellation of centres and laboratories; the city’s ‘Laboratory of erotica’, was thought of as a place where ‘the naked man would select his own erotic forms, […] where he could orient his energy toward any direction, without repression; where he would fulfil his desires, discover new desires.’
By understanding the experience of sexuality as a kind of libido without a predetermined perspective, that is, without a predetermined constructed desire, but as a continuous rhizomatic experience, which would bifurcate according to the individual’s subjectivity, Flavio de Carvalho, by 1930 seemed to propose an architectural ‘blueprint’ which sought to dissolve any socio-cultural fixation regarding people’s sexuality and corporality.
In 2010, curator, Inti Guerrero, created a group exhibition titled ‘The City of the Naked Man’ at the Museum of Modern Art of Sao Paulo, which embarked on a curatorial translation of Flavio de Carvalho’s aforementioned transgressive spirit. .
The exhibition included: works by international contemporary artists; documentation of a 1956 street performance by Flavio de Carvalho, where he cross-dressed to a tropical male fashion he’d designed; and other cultural artefacts and manifestations related to the subject, such as visual and musical material of Brazil’s rock-glam singer Ney Matogrosso. Guerrero will first give an art historical background to the practice of De Carvalho, and share the curatorial grammar he built up in order to touch upon other key subtexts within ‘Brazilian culture’ such as the Antropofagia avant-garde, the construction of Brasilia and the counter-culture movement of Tropicalia
José Roca - Essays in Geopoetics: the notion of territory critically redefined from the perspective of artistic practice.
No full textJosé Roca (Barranquilla, 1962) is a Colombian curator working out of Bogotá and Philadelphia. For a decade he managed the arts program at the Banco de la República in Bogotá, establishing it as one of the most respected institutions in the Latin American circuit. Roca was a co-curator of the I Poly/graphic Triennial in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2004); the 27th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2006); the Encuentro de Medellín MDE07 (2007); and of the Bienal de Arte Paiz in Guatemala (2010), and was the Artistic Director of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia’s international Triennial celebrating print in contemporary art, among many other exhibitions and events. Roca served on the awards jury for the 52nd Venice Biennial (2007). He is currently chief curator of the 8 Bienal do Mercosul, scheduled to open in September 2011 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Essays on Geopoetics: the 8 Mercosul Biennial
The curatorial project for the 8th iteration of the Mercosul biennial, which takes place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, departed from simple questions: is it possible to conceive a large art biennial in which the model is not primarily exhibitionary? Can or should a biennial create or consolidate local infrastructure? Who is the real public for a third-world biennial? Using the notion of nation both as a thematic framework and as a strategy for curatorial action, the project aimed to answer through seven distinct components. Reflecting on territory and its critical redefinition from an artistic viewpoint, the 8th Biennial wanted to show alternatives to the conventional idea of nation and discuss activist cartographies, the relationships between political and geographical conditions, routes of circulation and exchange of symbolic capital, citizenship in non-urban areas, the political status of fictional nations and the relationship between art, travel and colonisation
'Caracas Centrifugal' - Jaime Gili
No full textJaime Gili will discuss the current context of the arts in Caracas, Venezuela. He will introduce the modernist legacy of artistic integration – developed by the work of Carlos Villanueva and epitomised by the city’s Central University – and the present political situation, the disappearance of museums and the growth of private initiatives. Points of focus will be spaces including Los Galpones art center, Jesus Fuenmayor, Oficina 1, Organización Nelson Garrido and La Carniceria; young art initiaves around the FIA art fair, including Desconfia and Jovenes con FIA; the work of individual arts in Venezuela including Suwon Lee, Luis Romero and Luis Salazar, and that of artists working abroad, including Alexander Apostol, Nayari Castillo, Hernandez Diez and Arturo Herrera
Chris Wainwright (Head of College, CCW) in conversation with Venu Dhupa
No full textVenu Dhupa and Chris Wainwright will discuss the role and responsibility of thematic enquiry within the art school – in relation to a broader field of policy, curating and commissioning.
Venu Dhupa is a Patron of the Asha Foundation and Minorities of Europe. She lead the development of a new Creative Innovation Unit at the South Bank Centre, and has held the posts of Director of Arts and Creativity for the British Council, Fellowship Director at NESTA, Chief Executive at the Nottingham Playhouse and Producer (Mobile Touring) at the Royal National Theatre.
In 1999 she was appointed as the inaugural Chair of the East Midlands Cultural Consortium by the Secretary of State at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, a role she held until 2002. She has been awarded the prestigious Asian Woman of Achievement Award for her contribution to the Arts and Culture
TrAIN Conversation: Sebastian Lopez
No full textWhat makes a transnational practice or perspective in art or curating? TrAIN Conversations are informal conversations with invited artists and curators, followed by round-table discussions with the participants.
Sebastian Lopez, Director of Iniva, will spoke about his vision for Iniva and work in curating. Iniva was established in 1994 to address an imbalance in the representation of culturally diverse artists, curators and writers. Iniva creates exhibitions, publications, digital projects, education and research projects, designed to bring the work of artists from culturally diverse backgrounds to the attention of the widest possible public. Anchored in the diversity of contemporary British culture and society, Iniva engages with culturally diverse practices and ideas, both local and global
