LSE Arts is pleased to present talking Pictures: a series of lunchtime talks involving art historians, gallery curators and artists who have each been invited to offer a concise and insightful interpretation on their chosen work of art. The first series of talks will focus on works in painting, photography and video.
talking Pictures aims to be an informal but informative and accessible event, intended to appeal to anyone interested in gaining greater insight into the making of and meanings behind visual art past and present.
(Attendees are welcome to bring along their lunch)
Location: Shaw Library, 6th Floor, Old Building
Time: 1:00- 2:00pm
Public lecture with Andrew Jackson
All that It was...All that it is
Date:Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Time: 1:05-2:00pm
Venue: Shaw Library
This talk focuses on Jackson's powerful documentary photographic series All That It Was... All That It Is (2006/07) produced during two extended visits to Cape Town, South Africa.
Jackson's remarkable images are, amongst other things, concerned with extremes: extremes of violence, wealth and poverty.
However, rather than seeking the dramatic effect, Jackson's photographs of people, places and objects, are imbued with humanity and empathy. Writing about his experience and feelings in producing this work, Jackson reflects:
"Of course, these images are indeed, as André Bazin cites, "...the death masks of time that has gone forever... yet the feelings that I experienced as I wandered for two months through the city of Cape Town still remain and perhaps will never leave me."
Andrew Jackson is an independent photographer. He completed as Master of Arts in Documentary Photography at the Centre for Photographic Research, Newport (University of Wales), where he studied under Paul Seawright and Ian Walker. He has undertaken a diverse range of commissioned work, from editorial assignments to community-based artwork, as well as personally initiated projects.
In 2006, he exhibited All That It Was... All That It Is (2006), a powerful series of photographs which intimately explored the lives of individuals in post-apartheid South Africa. This work was subsequently purchased for permanent collection of the New Art Gallery, Walsall. He currently lives in Birmingham.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk| or phone 020 7955 6043.
Public lecture with Victor Mount
The sound of drawing
Date: Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Time: 1:05-2:00pm
Shaw: Library
The Sound of Drawing amplifies the friction of a pencil on paper accompany by a music box rendition of 'Send in the Clowns'. The viewer is invited to draw an image of the sounds and to later look at the marks made and use them to evoke a memory of the noise.
Using a picture of this sculpture and its visual references as a starting point, Victor Mount will discuss the use of sound in his art and in particular his attempts during the last fifteen years to make and perform music informed by his experience as an artist rather than a musician.
Victor Mount presented the solo exhibition Hospitality Complex (2006) at the Unit 2 Gallery, London, and the solo shows History in the Making - A Retrospective (2005), at The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, and Say No To Art (2005), at Flowers Central, London. More recently, Mount contributed to Hearing Voices, Seeing Things at the Serpentine Gallery, London. Mount is currently concentrating more on recorded work and performances rather than the production of objects; his performance Crusade Against Talent was recently showcased at The Royal Academy.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk| or phone 020 7955 6043.
Public lecture with Ingrid Wildi (translated by Raphael Cruz)
Video essay as a form of artistic expression
Date: Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Venue: Shaw library
Wildi uses video and photography to reflect on the social constructions that surround us.
She works with the documentary format to produce what is best described as 'video essays'. Much like an anthropologist, Wildi surveys individual and collective memory, as well as our perceptions of our everyday reality.
The video essay is a form that combines the objective quality of the traditional documentary with the subjective and experimental character of artistic practice. Starting with various interviews, Chilean artist Ingrid Wildi constructs a set of audiovisual documents that use montage and other techniques borrowed from documentaries to articulate complex political and social relationships. The self-reflective quality of this approach questions the univocal quality of documentaries and invites us to rethink the relationship between fact and filmed image.
Ingrid Wildi was born in Santiago de Chile in 1963 and emigrated to Switzerland with her family at the age of 18. Living in Zurich she graduated in Fine Arts at the Horere Schule fur Gestaltung and later completed a masters degree in mixed media at the École d'Arts Visuels in Geneva, under supervision of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.
She has exhibited internationally, including in the Swiss national show Expo 02 (2002) and in the group exhibition Re:view, Migros Museum, Zurich (2003), and she also represented Switzerland in the Venice biennale in 2005. Wildi has been awarded numerous awards and prizes, including the Prix Culturel Manor Aarau in 2003 and the Swiss National Fine Arts Prize in 2001. She now teaches in Geneva.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk| or phone 020 7955 6043.
Public lecture with Renée Mussai
The autograph ABP archive-in-the-making
Date: Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Time: 1:00-2:00pm
Location: Shaw Library
Using the Archive and Research Centre for Culturally Diverse Photography as a starting point, this talk will focus on selected images in Autograph ABP's collection, with a particular emphasis on vernacular photography.
Autograph ABP is an international photographic arts agency that addresses issues of cultural identity and human rights. Autograph develops, exhibits and publishes the work of photographers from culturally diverse backgrounds and advocates their inclusion in all areas of exhibition, publishing, education and commerce in the visual arts.
Renée Mussai studied for a degree in Art History at the University of Vienna, Austria and holds an MA in Photography from the University of the Arts London. In 2001 and 2007 respectively, Renée was the recipient of a Sofie and Emanuel Fohn Fellowship.
She regularly lectures on issues around photography and identity, and is currently researching photographic practice in East Africa, as well as a related PhD proposal.
She is currently Archive Project Manager at Autograph, involving the establishment of an Archive and Research Centre for Culturally Diverse Photography at Rivington Place - a major Heritage Lottery-funded project, opening to the public in the autumn of 2010.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email arts@lse.ac.uk| or phone 020 7955 6043.