I am currently developing a new iteration of Re - (a collaborative performance reading with Rachel Lois Clapham) which will be presented as part of Strategies for approaching repeating problems, the closing event for the exhibition Accidentally on Purpose, curated by Candice Jacobs and Fay Nicolson.
CLOSING EVENT
Strategies for approaching repeating problems
6 October 2012 - 10:00 - 16:00
The Box, Quad, Market Place, Derby
Emma Cocker & Rachel Lois Clapham, Fatima Hellberg, Gil
Leung, Andrew McGettigan, Francesco Pedraglio, David Raymond Conroy, Alex
Vasudevan.
Strategies for approaching repeating problems presents a series of
performances, presentations and talks around the ideas explored in the Accidentally
on Purpose exhibition at QUAD, connecting the exhibition to wider
contemporary issues in cultural production and discourse. Taking the
notion of a repeating problem as a starting point, we invite artists,
writers and curators to discuss an element of their practice within this
framework: From difficulties inherent in language and communication to the
way artists and writers position themselves in relation to wider social issues,
such as education and the public sphere, this event will identify an array of
current or ever-present difficulties, discuss their perception from different
positions and consider whether notions of progress or return are clichés or
inevitable fates.
Rachel Lois Clapham & Emma Cocker - Artists
and writers, Rachel Lois Clapham and Emma Cocker will perform a new version of Re
— an ongoing iterative project that essays the relation between meaning and
intention, hesitation and purpose, and the visible and invisible states of not
knowing within the event of practice.
Fatima Hellberg
- Curator Fatima Hellberg will be performing Wooden
Eyes, Why Are You Looking at Me? a series of reflections on productivity
and anxiety, starting with an autobiographic narrative, told from the
perspective of a pencil. Turning to American economist Leonard E. Read’s ‘I
Pencil’, alongside a number of other neo-liberal management treatises Hellberg
explores the use of the fable and mysticism as a way of containing, and coping
with vulnerability in management.
Andrew McGettigan - Recognising that we are in the
midst of a strong push to reform education, writer and researcher Andrew
McGettigan asks What is Education For? Responding to the fall in
recent GCSE and A level exam results and the rise in University tuition fees,
McGettigan will probe recent shifts away from state administered and funded
provision towards private educational operations that favour competition, fees
and test outcomes.
Francesco Pedraglio - Francesco Pedraglio is an artist,
writer and co-founder of the art-space FormContent. Pedraglio will be
performing Writing methods for hands and windows, creating a direct link
between internal and external space this performance reflects on the mechanics
of storytelling in relation to the subjectivity and perception of shape and
form. Speaking and writing directly in a foreign language, Pedraglio faces the
problems associated with ‘making sense’ while delivering a story to an
audience.
David Raymond Conroy - Artist David
Raymond Conroy will be performing I know that fantasies are full of lies,
a talk that combines Roland Barthes' Reality Effect with McDonald’s
advertising photography to explore imperfection’s role in creating a sense of
authenticity. Using mobile phone pictures and YouTube clips, Conroy will map
out what roles humility, fallibility and disappointment might have to play in
seduction, desire and capitalism.
Alex Vasudevan
- Dr. Alex Vasudevan is a Lecturer in Cultural and
Historical Geography at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on
radical politics in Germany and the wider geographies of neo-liberal
globalisation. He also works on the spatial politics of contemporary
art. Within Strategies for approaching repeating problems Vasudevan
aims to consider the question of failure and loss in relation to urbanism, the
aesthetics of politics, and activist communities.
Gil Leung
- Gil Leung is a writer, artist and curator based
in London. She is Distribution Manager at LUX and editor of Versuch journal.
She writes for Afterall and other independent publications. For Strategies
for approaching repeating problems, Leung has been invited to chair the
final panel discussion with other participants.
For more information about the participants download this PDF
BACKGROUND TO THE EXHIBITION
Accidentally on Purpose
Friday 27th
July to Sunday 7th October
Curated by Candice Jacobs and Fay Nicolson
Quad, Market Place, Derby
Artists include Becky Beasley, Karen Cunningham, Michael Dean, Cyprien Gaillard,
Ryan Gander, Paul Graham, Jonathan Monk, Rose O’Gallivan, Edit Oderbolz, Dan
Rees, Clunie Reid, George Shaw and Ryszard Wasko.
Accidentally on Purpose takes its title
from an American Sitcom situated in the banality of the everyday. Its
characters strive to make the best of an unfortunate situation; repetitively
re-negotiating the uncertainty of their lives. The exhibition explores the
relationship between success and failure using common place materials, everyday
situations and repetitious processes as a point of departure. Art
works grapple with their materiality, context or the processes that bring them
into being; challenging the frameworks we use to judge success or validate an
aesthetic decision, sincere message, or logical action. Objects, images and
words test their own limits, and in doing so, re-negotiate and
redefine their success or failure, intention or meaning.
Candice Jacobs & Fay Nicolson in
conversation: to download PDF please click here
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