Tate Britain presents a conference for arts professionals; offering a rare insight into the strategic, social and intellectual bases for the work of key European institutions.
The conference will explore how historic, political and social contexts influence and inform their practices. The conference will feature contributions from education curators at:
Centre Pompidou – Paris
Reina Sofia – Madrid
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art – Helsinki
Stedelijk Museum – Amsterdam
Gallery Educators Conference: International Perspectives
Tate Britain, Auditorium
Friday 15 March 2013, 11.00 – 16.00
FREE Booking required
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/confe…
Prof. Shannon Jackson, the author of Social Works at Tate Modern, London:
The politics of the social in contemporary art
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
Friday 15 February 2013, 10.30 – 19.00
£20, concessions available
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/confer…
This is a must: APG in Raven Row
The Individual and the Organisation: Artist Placement Group 1966-79
27 September to 16 December 2012
This will be the first retrospective of the pioneering artists’ organisation Artist Placement Group, or APG, conceived by Barbara Steveni in 1965 and established a year later by Steveni and John Latham along with Barry Flanagan, David Hall, Anna Ridley and Jeffrey Shaw, among others.
Between 1966 and the turn of the 1980s, APG negotiated approximately fifteen placements for artists lasting from a few weeks to several years; first within industries (often large corporations such as British Steel and ICI) and later within UK government departments such as the Department of Health and the Scottish Office. APG arranged that artists would work to an ‘open brief’, whereby their placements were not required to produce tangible results, but that the engagement itself could potentially benefit both host organisations as well as the artists in the long-term. Artists’ work in proposing and carrying out placements will be represented here in diverse ways, in films, photographs, texts and correspondence and sometimes in art objects.
APG was a milestone in Conceptual Art in Britain, reinventing the means of making and disseminating art, and anticipating many of the issues facing cultural workers today. It represented itself in a number of exhibitions and events, notably in the exhibition Art and Economics at the Hayward Gallery in 1971 with artistic interventions by Garth Evans, Barry Flanagan, John Latham and others. Emulating APG’s emphasis on the discursive, the exhibition will host frequent public discussions relating to art and social organisation.
The exhibition is curated by Antony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury, in consultation with Barbara Steveni.
http://www.ravenrow.org/current/artist_placement_g…
If you are in London this weekend go to Frieze to see great Project by Grizedale Arts: http://www.grizedale.org/
For Frieze London, Grizedale and Frieze Foundation will host a programme of food-related performance, discussion, representation and retail which will be called Colosseum of the Consumed.Including new commissions by artists Nicolas Party, Alistair Frost, juneau/projects, Bedwyr Williams, William Pope L, as well as talks by food historians and specialists, plus unique dining opportunities; the project will be enclosed in a bespoke structure built by Yangjiang Group. Modelled as a cross between a Roman amphitheatre and a cricket pavilion, viewers will be able to watch events unfold from the ground or a platform above. A number of artists, community groups and eccentrics will be manning stalls around the circumference of the structure, selling their home produce and ideas for alternative eating.
Great opportunity with Bedford Creative Arts.
Full Info Here:
http://www.bedfordcreativearts.org.uk/index.php/ca…
Bedford Creative Arts is seeking proposals from artists or artists groups for our first major commission of 2013. Our artistic theme for 2013 is OURS – what we have in common and what makes something our own?
The Central Bedfordshire town of Dunstable and its surrounding area has been chosen as the location for this commission. As well as the artistic themes identified in the artists brief, proposals should respond to the specific identity of this location and the people who live, work and visit there.
We expect participative events and activities for local communities and identified target groups to begin in April 2013. These activities should be integral to the commission and lead to sustained collaborative relationships with participants throughout summer 2013.
This shared artistic process will result in the creation of a new artwork to be revealed in a high profile public presentation in September 2013.
A commission fee of £10,000 is available for the chosen artist or artists group. Additional budgets for travel expenses, materials, resources and the delivery of specific events and activities will be negotiated before the artist is contracted in early 2013.
Deadline for submissions: Friday 30th November 2012, 12 noon GMT
http://www.bedfordcreativearts.org.uk/index.php/ca…
