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: 1.00pm - 2:00pm
Re-evaluating Tam Joseph's 'spirit of the carnival"
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Eddie Chambers
The accomplished London-based artist Tam Joseph has produced a number of memorable paintings that locate themselves at the centre of socio-political commentary, often laced with humour and irony.
Typical in this regard is his 1984 piece 'Spirit of the Carnival', a large mixed media work looking at a number of issues revolving around a rapidly deteriorating relationship between Black people and the police. 'Spirit of the Carnival' speaks of and speaks to, a particular moment in Black British history. This informal lecture will take a closer look at this seminal work and discuss its continuing relevance and significance.
Eddie Chambers is a curator and a writer of art criticism. He was born in Wolverhampton, England and gained a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree from Sunderland Polytechnic in 1983. He now holds a PhD from Goldsmiths College, awarded in 1998, for his thesis researching press and public responses to Black visual arts practice in England in the 1980s.
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.
Elevate
Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Valentine Schmidt
Valentine Schmidt will speak about her image 'Elevate' taken from her exhibition 'On the Edge' showing at the Atrium Gallery| from 22 September - 31 October.
Valentine Schmidt gained her MA in Photography at the London College of Printing in 2002. Major works include 'Plunge', a set of semi-abstract images documenting three London Lidos during the winter months - one in use, one empty and one derelict.
Together they speak to the history and demise of the British open-air pool.
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.
Luc Delahaye's Taliban and the war of images
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Julian Stallabrass
Luc Delahaye's Taliban is a large-scale photograph of a dead Taliban soldier, made for and seen in the museum. This lecture will examine the place of such museum photography in the depiction of war, and in the context of the 'war of images' that is such a pronounced feature of the 'war on terror'.
Julian Stallabrass is a writer, photographer and lecturer. He is Reader in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and is the author of Art Incorporated, Oxford University Press 2004, Internet Art: The Online Clash Between Culture and Commerce, Tate Publishing, London 2003; Paris Pictured, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2002; High Art Lite: British Art in the 1990s, Verso, London 1999 and Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture, Verso, London 1996.
He has written art criticism regularly for publications including Tate, Art Monthly and the New Statesman. He is an editorial board member of Art History, New Left Review and Third Text. He is currently curating the Brighton Photo Biennial.
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.
Joy Gerrard's works for public spaces
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Joy Gerrard
Joy Gerrard will present a number of connected projects for Gallery and Public spaces conceived during the last 5 years.Joy Gerrard is a Dublin born artist, currently based in London.
Since 2003 she has completed five major public commissions in Ireland and the UK.
She is currently working on a significant sculptural commission for the London School of Economics, curated by the Contemporary Art Society, to be installed in the New Academic Building this Autumn.
Crowds, and the politics of congregation have formed an ongoing thematic focus in gallery work. In imaging the crowd both figuratively and abstractly she questions the limitations of power and the transformative potential of mass gatherings and multitudes. Gerrard received funding form the Irish Arts Council and Dublin Corporation to complete an MPhil. research project at the RCA, London in 2007 and was short-listed for the AIB Award; Ireland's most prestigious art prize in 2008.
Recent group exhibitions include the Great Exhibition at the Royal College of Art, London, Ubu Gallery, Glasgow in 2007, and Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin in 2008.
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.
Big ideas
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Richard Wilson
An insight into the larger commissioned pieces of work from Richard Wilson, who is also one of the artists producing work for the LSE New Academic Building.
Richard Wilson is one of Britain's most renowned sculptors. He is internationally celebrated for his interventions in architectural space which draw heavily for their inspiration from the worlds of engineering and construction. Wilson has exhibited widely nationally and internationally for over thirty years and has made major museum exhibitions and public works in countries as diverse as Japan, USA, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Australia and numerous countries throughout Europe.
Wilson has also represented Britain in the Sydney, Sao Paulo, Venice Biennials and Yokohama Triennal, was nominated for the Turner Prize on two occasions and was awarded the prestigious DAAD residency in Berlin 1992/3. He was one of a select number of artists invited to create a major public work for The Millennium Dome and the only British artist invited to participate in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2000.
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.