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Shapes and Colours
No full textShapes and Colours is an ongoing project that brings together the work of painter Gary Simmonds and object-maker Matthew Harrison. While Simmonds' interest lies in abstraction and decoration, Harrison deals with the functionality of art objects in relation to craft and design. Yet, a mutual interest in Dazzle camouflage has aligned the two practices in an unrestricted collaborative process.
With differing but related points of view, the convergence of Harrison and Simmonds' approaches has generated unexpected possibilities, which share the spirit and functionality of the historical development of Dazzle camouflage.
The exhibition at West Lane South will reveal the process of the continuing project, underpinned by a focus on the structure and aesthetics of the bicycle frame, which forms a departure point for the unpicking of divisions between fine art and design.</p
Die Panke - An off LoBe Project ‘Bad Str Chartreuse’ watercolour on wall, 2010
No full textGerman and English visiting artists take this small river that runs through Berlin as the starting point for this group show.
Gary Simmonds is an artist based in London, visiting Berlin for this show. His practice is concerned with abstract painting’s relation to domestic ornamentation and decoration.
For Die Panke he has worked with the contingency of material and space. Choosing the untypical medium of watercolour for his mural painting, and in response to the raw domestic space of the Bad Str flat, Simmonds uses the ephemeral to evoke the ghost of the decorative at the same time as drawing influence from the daily journey along the Panke to and from the flat
Guest: Lee Triming ; Host: Gary Simmonds.
No full textChapbook with Lee Trimming- Lee Trimming attended Transmissions as part of the Stranger series of lectures- as consequence and follow on from this initial dialogue we produced a chapbook which continued a pictorial and textual dialogue around contingency.
Transmission: Host is a series of chapbooks derived from an annual lecture series organised by Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Each week a host selects, presents, and looks after his or her guest. A critical engagement between host and guest is assumed. There is an ethics of hospitality, of making the stranger welcome. A host has a standard of conduct, and historically, hospitality has been seen as a code, a duty, a virtue, and a law. In this second series, each host invited a guest who was a stranger. Stranger’ implies one who is not known, but also incorporates the foreigner, or indeed, the odd/eccentric/uncanny. Following Jacques Derrida, the stranger is one who is irreconcilably ‘other’ to oneself, but with whom one may co-exist without hostility, to whom one must respond and to whom one is responsible. The stranger reminds one of the other at the heart of one’s being.</p
Video Work Exhibited in 'House Rules', Simonds and Simmonds, City Point, London, curated by Stuart Evans, April 2012
No full textVideo work was exhibited in 'House Rules', Simonds and Simmonds, City Point, London, April 2012. This exhibition of contemporary art investigated issues around social exclusion and included works by Tracey Emin, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Gary Hume, Sarah Jones, Michael Landy, Louis Maqhubela, Muntean/Rosenblum, Shirin Neshat, Laura Oldfield Ford, Lucienne O'Mara, Katherine Parshan, Sarah Strang, Emilie Taylo and Gillian Wearin
The Painting School 1 (New Materialities)
No full textGary Simmonds and Dale Holmes are engaged in an ongoing dialogue through painting. This dialogue takes the form of conversation, the sharing of knowledge – practical, technical, theoretical, pedagogical – and the making of paintings. The exhibition Painting School 1 (New Materialities) is the first in an ongoing series of exhibitions, symposia, events and publications, which are moments to reflect upon and perform this process of dialogue and its development
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Gary Gildner
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Transmission: Friend : Guest: Jane Harris ; Host: Gary Simmonds.
No full textJane Harris attended Transmission as part of the Friend series of lectures and this dialogue continued in the form of Chapbook. A dialogue was set up around drawing and the text was concerned with what music was on in respective studios at the time of making work.
Transmission: Host is a series of chapbooks derived from an annual lecture series organised by Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Each week a host invites his or her guest and a critical engagement is assumed. There is an ethics of hospitality: a host has a standard of conduct, and historically, hospitality has been seen as a code, a duty, a virtue, and a law. In 2009–10 we took up the idea of the friend. In the course of a life, friendships change but this is not to say that friends are interchangeable. What kind of friendship is possible between artists, between works of art, between men and women? What is a real friend? A dream from which one wakes to say, after Montaigne, who says it after Aristotle: O my friends, there is no friend.</p
Author Gary Gildner reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner reads "Sleepy time gal," "Pavol Hudak, the poet, is talking," and "Genealogy" then answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of the Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Dress, law and naked truth : a cultural study of fashion and form
No full textWhy are civil authorities in so-called liberal democracies affronted by public nudity and the Islamic full-face 'veil'? Why is law and civil order so closely associated with robes, gowns, suits, wigs and uniforms? Why is law so concerned with the 'evident' and the need for justice to be 'seen' to be done? Why do we dress and obey dress codes at all? In this, the first ever study devoted to the many deep cultural connections between dress and law, the author addresses these questions and more. His responses flow from the radical thesis that 'law is dress and dress is law'. Engaging with sources from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare, Carlyle, Dickens and Damien Hirst, Professor Watt draws a revealing history of dress and civil order and offers challenging conclusions about the nature of truth and the potential for individuals to fit within the forms of civil life
Letter from Gary Okihiro, professor, Department of Asian American Studies at Cornell University to Michi Weglyn
No full textA letter from Asian American studies professor Gary Okihiro to Michi Weglyn apologizing for a critical review he wrote of her book "Years of Infamy" in 1977.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
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