Please be sure to attend these excellent and free series of talks
Tuesday Talks
13 October - 8 December 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm
The Tuesday Talks series, programmed by Prof. Pavel Büchler with Lesley
Young, explores the driving forces, influences and sources of inspiration
behind the work of contemporary artists.
Mark Lewis
13 October 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Mark Lewis¹s film works explore the language of cinema and painting, placing
the incidental compositions and camera shots conventionally used to connect
that surprise and unsettle the viewer. Lewis has had major solo exhibitions
at Vancouver Art Gallery; Hamburger Kunstverein; BFI Southbank, London, and
FACT, Liverpool; and is representing Canada in the current Venice Biennale.
He is co-founder and co-editor, of Afterall Journal and Books.
Fanni Niemi-Junkola
20 October 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Fanni Niemi-Junkola initially studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art in
the 1990s but through her interest in kick-boxing and martial arts has
developed a highly personal style of performance video, often based on
violent action. Her video installations and short films have been shown
extensively in her home country of Finland and also internationally,
including at the 3rd Berlin Biennial; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and
Manifesta 2, Luxembourg. She teaches in the Department of Fine Art at
Tampere Polytechnic.
Knut Åsdam
27 October 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Knut Åsdam¹s film works use sound, video, photography and architecture to
reflect upon the politics of space and the boundaries of subjectivity. These
concerns are often related to themes of dissidence and to an analysis of
space in terms of its use and its history. He lives in Oslo and has
exhibited at Tate Britain; Kunsthalle Bern and the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Oslo; as well as in the 2003 Istanbul Biennial and Manifesta 7,
Rovereto, Italy.
Will Holder
3 November 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Will Holder is an artist, designer and editor whose work focuses on books
and the gap between language and object. Through these different roles he
explores the transformative processes at play within the act of publishing.
Re-performing and referencing art, literature and music, using the works of
Dickens, Salinger or Cage, Holder swoops around the stuff of books and
writing with reverence and playfulness. He co-edits biannual journal FR
DAVID, has recently co-curated the exhibition Talk Show at the ICA, London,
and in 2005 organised Bachelor Party to celebrate Marcel Duchamp¹s birthday.
Pierre Bismuth
10 November 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Disney characters, fairy tales, or the rituals of the white cube and museumPierre Bismuth¹s practice appropriates imagery found in both pop and high
culture. Whether drawing from political events, reportage, men¹s magazines,
architecture; all are disrupted using similar low-tech means. In 2004 he
collaborated with film director Michel Gondry to make the film Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, winning an Oscar for the Best Original
Screenplay. He has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel; Villa Arson,
Nice; and Witte de With, Rotterdam. His work was included in the 2001 Venice
Biennale and in Manifesta 4, Frankfurt-am-Main. He lives in Brussels and
London.
Andrew Miller
17 November 2009, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Andrew Miller¹s work engages with abandoned, often utilitarian objects and
architectural fragments, designing and building structures which reference
their provenance and history. As well as exhibiting widely, he has worked on
many public and private architectural and design projects including building
a library for Douglas Gordon and the bookshop at The Fruitmarket Gallery,
Edinburgh. He has recently had a solo exhibition at Inverleith House,
Edinburgh.
Corey McCorkle
24 November, 11.00am - 12.30pm
By moving between cultures, both western and eastern, and disciplines
including art, craft, science and mysticism, Corey McCorkle acquires
knowledge and know-how to imbue his meticulously crafted objects, films and
architectural interventions with complex cultural references and poetic
resonance. Living in New York, he has had solo exhibitions at Maccarone
Gallery, New York: Kunsthalle Bern; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; and
been included within the 2008 Whitney Biennial.
Pamela Rosenkranz
1 December, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Swiss artist Pamela Rosenkranz makes works that resemble language and
suggest a narrative, yet deliberately confuse the viewer¹s search for
meaning. She works in a variety of media, often making use of the simplest
visual forms, techniques and gestures and incorporating in her objects and
installations a range of materials chosen as much for their symbolic
connotations as for their sensual qualities - from her own hair to silicon,
from dust to silk. Last year her work was included in the 5th Berlin
Biennale and Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy and will be on show in Manchester,
at Castlefield Gallery, from 3 December.
Speaker tbc
8 December, 11.00am - 12.30pm
Admission is free and attendance is on a first come first served basis. To
be added to the Tuesday Talk emailing list please call The Whitworth Art
Gallery on 0161 275 7450 or email events.whitworth@manchester.ac.uk
Whitworth Art Gallery
The University of Manchester
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