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2012

Her Eyes and My Voice: A Relationship in Ekphrasis' is a self published 71 page publication by Vanessa Visual and Virginia Verbal, distributed by Slade Press. It includes poems, images and essays by emerging and international artists, including Sharon Morris, responding to the relationship between the visual and the verbal in art making. See www.youtube.com.

Lecturer Jayne Parker, Professor Emeritus Bruce McLean and alumni David Blandy, Laura Cooper, Amy Cunningham, Mikhail Karikis and Dante Rendle-Traynor are showing in The Voice and the Lens, a festival and exhibition exploring the treasures of the human voice, conjured up for our eyes through film and performance, curated by alumnus Sam Belinfante (who is also exhibiting) and Third Ear.  The Voice and the Lens is at the Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS from 8 – 11 November 2012. See www.ikon-gallery.co.uk.

Amna Malik has contributed an essay on Kobena Mercer's writings on photographic artists of the African diaspora in Fifty Key Writers on Photography (ISBN-10: 0415549450 and ISBN-13: 978-0415549455) which is published by Routledge on 14 December 2012. See www.routledge.com.

Breathe by Dryden Goodwin will be projected from the roof of St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1, 6.30pm - 1am from 9 - 28 October 2012. The best view of this large scale outdoor video projection, which explores how air sustains us but also insidiously corrupts and damages our young, is from Westminster Bridge. See http://invisibledust.com. There is a talk, Turner Updated, by Dryden Goodwin from 2-4pm Tuesday 16th October, at Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, House of Commons, London SW1. For further details about the talk, see http://invisibledust.com.

Thomson and Craighead - October
Thomson and Craighead - October, 2012

Thomson and Craighead - October

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Jon Thomson (Thomson and Craighead) are showing October, an artwork about the early rise and fall of the global Occupy movement in 2011, at the Brighton Photo-Biennale, Space @ Create, New England House, York Hill, Brighton
BN1 4GH from 6 October - 4 November 2012. See www.bpb.org.uk and www.thomson-craighead.net.

Aaron Angell, Benedict Drew, Sophie Michael and Jack Strange are showing in Young London at V22 Workspace, F-Block, The Biscuit Factory, 100 Clements Rd, London SE16 4DG from 23 September - 11 November 2012. See www.v22collection.com.

Daniel Preece is among the artists taking part in One Hundred Plus Draw, a show of a hundred artists at The Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Rd, London SE1 8TJfrom Tuesday 2 October - Thursday 4 October, 2 - 6pm. Each artist has donated a work that will be bought through a lottery ticket (tickets are still available at £100 each) and the draw takes place at 6pm on Thursday 4 October. The owner of the first number drawn will have the choice of the entire exhibition and the draw will continue until the number of tickets sold has been reached. See www.thelondongroup.com.

The video London Art in the Jazz Age 1919-1939 featuring work by past alumni is online on http://youtu.be/KlFBqBQ6ttE. Dr Caroline Bressey and Dr Gemma Romain (UCL Geography) are examining what art during the inter-war period can tell us about the experience and identities of Black and Asian people at the time. The AHRC-funded project, Drawing over the Colour Line: Geographies of art and cosmopolitan politics in London 1919 - 1939, will result in a freely accessible database of details of the artworks created which represent Black people and those created by Black people based in Britain during this time. The project wants to find any artwork by inter-war period London artists featuring Black or Asian models. Many Slade students at the time would have drawn and painted Black and Asian models, so please get in touch with the organisers if you have any relevant information. The project is holding an open day on 20 October 2012 for people to bring or discuss this artwork. See
http://drawingoverthecolourline.wordpress.com/london-art-in-the-age-of-jazz/.

Ciao! Compost (Nastja Rönkkö,  Anna Bunting-Branch and Kate Lepper) is the latest in a series of experimental performative encounters between diverse artistic methodologies and aesthetics. Ciao! Compost will present three new works each involving a live video/audio link with Quebec, during which the day will dawn from darkest Canadian night. They are:
4 October 2012, 5 – 8pm: Club 27 by Nastja Rönkkö
5 October 2012, 10am – 2pm: Suomi Missi (Bim Bum) by Anna Bunting-Branch
6 October 2012, 10am – 2pm: A Beginners Guide to Psychic Archiving by Kate Lepper
at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland. See www.kiasma.fi.

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