You are warmly invited you to the next Material Encounters research seminar, part of the School of Art research programme. Using the School of Art’s recent representation at IMPACT10 in Santander, Spain as a starting point, the second session from the Material Encounters Research Cluster will focus on the development of shared international outputs between […]
The new MATERIAL ENCOUNTERS Research Centre in the School of Art, BCU are delighted to announce our first event with invited artist/academic Flora Parrott. MATERIAL ENCOUNTERS intends to extend and interrogate the boundaries of materiality within the context of contemporary art. The centre provides a critical intellectual space for the exploration of embodiment, subjectivity and […]
Ever since the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority, things have been changing dramatically and unexpectedly. The production of a state and its institutions have left a huge impact on the spectacle. The representations of the newly formed authority rendered a new landscape, the official view is now dominated by the notion of production - […]
Please join us for the School of Art PhD seminar programme … . Theo Reeves-Evison | Fiction, fabulation and 'as-if' strategies in art and theory. The concept of fabulation can be seen as a subterranean passage through many works of 20th century philosophy, from Bergson to Deleuze – a passage that surfaces in numerous works […]
NIGHT SCHOOL | On the last Tuesday of each month the School of Art will open to the public as a way of sharing work that our students, staff and researchers are doing. Dr. Lisa Metherell will present her research at the next Night School event on ...on 31st October at 7.30pm in the School […]
Please join us for the School of Art PhD seminar programme ... . Sophie Hedderwick | "in the blink of an eye" Current M3C student Sophie Hedderwick will present and discuss her recent work “in the blink of an eye”. Inspired by Erin Manning's notions of incipient movement and pre-acceleration (2009), the animation explores micro-gestures […]
The acclaimed Mexican performance artist Rocio Boliver will give an illustrated talk about her life and art. Rocio’s story is particularly compelling: once a teenage model Rocio became one of Mexico’s leading News Readers before having to leave the job when news of her pornographic feminist texts spread. Rocio then dedicated her life to Performance […]
Preach R Sun’s work, a combination of protest activism and social critique (described as, Fugitivism and Conjuring) incorporates and fuses art and activism as a means to investigate and interrogate the nature and limits of freedom, while simultaneously posing a direct challenge to systems of oppression and injustice. Sun accomplishes this through implementation of unconventional protest […]
The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts at Birmingham City University would like to invite you to their annual conference ... . Confirmed keynote speakers: Karen Smith (OCAT, Xi'an), Pauline J. Yao (M+, Hong Kong), Scott Lash (Goldsmiths, University of London) The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University aims to foster […]
