Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities conference, Manchester, 12-14 October 2015 At this year’s National Archives and Research Libraries UK conference, Alison Green and Birgitta Hosea will be presenting a collaborative project between four organisations: MA Culture, Criticism and Curation and MA Character Animation at Central Saint Martins, the Guildhall School of Music and the Old Operating Theatre… Continue reading Re-animating the Archive
Category: gallery installation
Documentation from the CUT! Exhibition
CUT! was an exhibition at the Old Operating Theatre Museum, 9a St Thomas’ Street, SE1 9RY that ran from 3 November 2014 to 15th December 2014. This museum is sited in a former anatomical theatre and herb garret from the ancient St Thomas hospital. There has been a hospital on this site near London Bridge for… Continue reading Documentation from the CUT! Exhibition
Documentation from KETCHUP
The Ketchup exhibition by Chunning (Maggie) Guo in Central Saint Martin’s Window Gallery was extended by two weeks due to popular demand. Setting up (thanks to Judy Wang): The exhibition: Window I The exhibition: Window II Private View Presentation During her presentation, Maggie described how, based on incidents from her husband, Baishen Yan’s… Continue reading Documentation from KETCHUP
KETCHUP by Chunning (Maggie) Guo
MA Character Animation presents: Ketchup, an installation by Animation Artist-in-Residence Chunning (Maggie) Guo. MACA is delighted to welcome Chunning (Maggie) Guo as our first Chinese Visiting Researcher and Animation Artist-in-Residence, a project made possible by the British Council and CICAF. Maggie is an independent animator who collaborates with Baishen Yan on films that explore memory and is in… Continue reading KETCHUP by Chunning (Maggie) Guo
Documentation of SEeAFAR
Foá + Hosea, Carali McCall, Anne Robinson, Sarah Sparkes, Thurle Wright Folkstone Triennial Fringe 29-31st August 2014 Deptford X 27th September – 5th October 2014 Curated by Birgitta Hosea He will not have been (a) present but he will have made a gift by not disappearing without leaving a trace. (Jacques Derrida in… Continue reading Documentation of SEeAFAR
SEeAFAR: 27th Sept – 5th Oct 2014
Fresh from the Folkestone Triennial Fringe, this touring exhibition curated by Birgitta Hosea brings together new work from Foa + Hosea, Carali McCall, Anne Robinson, Sarah Sparkes and Thurle Wright. Using a range of media – drawing, animation, performance to video, light installation, painting and collage, the works engage with living with the constant presence of… Continue reading SEeAFAR: 27th Sept – 5th Oct 2014
SEeAFAR: 29-31st August, Folkestone Triennial Fringe
Taking place in a former waiting room for the Folkestone ferry, SEeAFAR features six artists – Foa + Hosea, Carali McCall, Anne Robinson, Sarah Sparkes, Thurle Wright – whose work manifests absence. Through drawing, painting, installation, performance and moving image, these artworks recall the perspective of generations of women living in a state of unknowing… Continue reading SEeAFAR: 29-31st August, Folkestone Triennial Fringe
Traion I (Ferme)
Dans Ma Cellule, Une Silhouette, 1st February – 20th April 2014, Centre d’Art Contemporain, La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, Paris Maryclare Foá and myself were commissioned to create a new piece of work for this exhibition inspired by the legend of the first drawing told by Pliny the Elder. In this apocryphal tale a Corinthian maiden,… Continue reading Traion I (Ferme)
William Kentridge, I Am Not Me, The Horse is Not Mine
Don’t miss the last chance to see William’s Kentridge’s atmospheric and evocative, multi-screen installation, I Am Not Me, The Horse is Not Mine (2008) in the Tate Modern Tanks. It finishes on Sunday 20th January. The title of the piece is inspired by a Russian peasant saying that is used to deny guilt. In Kentridge’s… Continue reading William Kentridge, I Am Not Me, The Horse is Not Mine
‘Medium’ mark II
Medium, a living picture in which I take the role of a techno-medium, channel digital doubles and emanate electronic ectoplasm, will be performed again at two different events in December 2012: Saturday 1st December, Exploding Cinema @ Besides the Screen, St James Hatcham, Goldsmiths College, St. James’s, New Cross, SE14 6AD. This event is on… Continue reading ‘Medium’ mark II