Silent Debate: Proposal (Interim show)

1. Title:

Silent Debate
Motion: “That this debate is not a dialectic”

2. Description of concept of project/ Statement of Intent:

In a debate, an individual or team will publicly engage in a spoken dialogue with another within a given time frame, each contending antithetical positions with the intention of proving one ’truth’. Silent Debate aims to provoke argument about the nature or necessity of the curator by asking curators to begin contributing only after the exhibition has begun. Each proposition will be presented visually at either end of the week.

3 Practicalities for artists and for curators:

Participating artists will be asked to deliver and display artworks (max. 3/ person) to the seminar room at the beginning of the exhibition (7th May). Artists working in performance/ video or other non-object based practice are asked to participate in the initial stages of the exhibition in whatever way they deem appropriate. All participating artists will be required to engage with a team of MFA curators and other MFA artists throughout the week developing a second format, theme and/ or content of the exhibition in preparation for its concluding night.

4. What will be the outcome?

Unknown.

5. Timeframe of Silent Debate:

Monday 7th May – Works/ elements of works are to be left in the Seminar space by participating MFA fine art and textile students.
Friday 11th May – ‘Curated’ exhibition opens, Silent Debate concludes.

6. How you will employ the seminar space for the week of your project?

Displaying/ removing/ moving artworks and equipment, the exhibition space will be open to the public at all times, will press releases available.

If you have any queries about the Silent Debate before or after signing up please contact the MFA Silent Debate curatorial team via Isobel on va601ih@gold.ac.uk, or call 078 5433 1418. A list will be posted on the curating studio walls, Laurie Grove Baths, on Monday morning 23rd April for all MFA Curating, Fine arts and Textiles students interested in participating.

Sainsbury's Proposal

SAINSBURY'S

Due to the subtle relationships between Sainsbury's and the market of art, to which art schools -and therefore Goldsmiths- seem to be more and more directed, and in relationship with the idea of branding, we have decided to reflect it directly and to form an exhibition divided in sections à la Sainsbury's.

The sections will be:
Organic - Exhibition in Seminar Room (preferably site/theme-specific works, not obligatory though)
Toiletry - Exhibition in Curating Space (same as above)
Fresh Meat - Performance/s during the opening day
Crisps and Chips - Screenings, divided in two parts: videos with sound will be screened on Friday of the week of the exhibition; videos without sound will be shown in an ongoing basis on the wall of the coffee-shop during the week of mugs/publication.
We keep Beers, Wine and Spirits free for propositions. One proposition by a fellow curating student was to call it W(h)ines and Spirits, in the sense of whiners who never get something done but complain instead and focus it on unrealized proposals or conceptual/immaterial work.We are open for more propositions.

Artists have to think which section they feel their work fits better into.They can also participate in two sections, but artists who haven't signed up for any section will have preference.

The exhibition will take place on the week of the 15th of May. We hope that there will be a bit of discussion and debate around the subject between us too. We will hang this same explanation with an inscription list in the curating studio by Monday. If you have any questions or proposals for further sections, please do contact us here or at va601hbg@gold.ac.uk.

Curating team (by now): Haizea Barcenilla, Ana Garcia-Pineda

The Golden Mugs proposal

THE GOLDEN MUGS PROPOSAL

TITLE: #1 Brand
SUB-TITLE: Consume it while it’s Hot

PREMISE: Given the rapid turnover and limited resources at our disposal for this show, why not capitalize on the best one we have: the fact that Goldsmiths was recently voted one of UK’s coolest brands. To commemorate this commercial coup and play with the current art market interest for multiples (the value of which defies basic economic laws of rarity that privilege the aura-invested original), we propose to release a series of limited edition mugs – destined to become real collectors’ items.

PRACTICALITIES: Every participating artist should submit an image by May 1rst. Each image will be printed on 3 mugs alongside the title and sub-title of the show. Bare in mind that neither the Goldsmiths name nor logo will appear (thus the image will be substituted for the brand). 2 of the mugs will be auctioned off on the quintessential silent/virtual auction house: Ebay.

The last mug, which will randomly but officially be declared as the Original of each series, will be used to serve coffee/tea in the seminar room. The latter will be transformed into a makeshift coffee shop for a week during which time visitors will be invited to come in and enjoy coffee/tea while reading the outcome of the publication proposal. The artists as well as the curators involved will be asked to volunteer a few hours of their time at the coffee shop. Proceeds of the mug and coffee/tea sales will go towards the reimbursement of production costs while profit, if any, can be put towards next year’s show.

TIMELINE: This project will take place during the last week of the rotation (May 29th to June 5th, 2007) in order to allow for enough time to produce the mugs.

CURATORIAL TEAM: Stephanie Bertrand; Suzie Gladwin; Rahila Haque; Sonya Yu.

nurjahan akhlaq

nakhlaq@gmail.com

Florin Ungureanu MFA Fine Art

UNTITLED
2007, Acrylic and enamel on board, Variable dimensions.

Please see more work on:
http://goldsmiths2007mfa.blogspot.com/

Contact details:
Mobile: 079 017 65546
Email: va601fu@gold.ac.uk

Thanks,

Florin

Tina Hage MFA

Current Work:

Me (Chantelle, Jodie, Beet, Danielle, Jade, Banana)


6 Posters

Me (Amanda, Jade, Chantelle, Danielle, Jodie)


Videoinstallation


Videoscene


Videoscene

contact: va601th@gold.ac.uk

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Labels: artist's work, Tina Hage

Show this Thursday!

Projects
Lab Three
Goldsmiths

including

Les Hommes Des Beaux Arts
Ehsan Fardjadniya
Helena Hansdottir
Kristen Lovelock and Conrad Ventur
Christl Mudrak
Ryan O'Connor
Yiorgos Tsalamanis
Sinta Werner and Wueste

Thursday 15th March 2007
Viewing 5-8pm

(Exhibition in the LA3 Studio - the studio is behind the fields)

See you there!

My Work

Hi. I'm Masako in MFA Fine Art Part 1.
This is a part of my works. If you want to see more works, please contact me.
myuim@hotmail.com
Thank you.

va601saf@gold.ac.uk

hello

My name is Caroline. I studied in Paris before for 5years in Art History and Contemporary Art (Ecole du Louvre). The topic of my thesis was the rock concert in contemporary art since 1966 (Warhol and the Velvet to Christoph Büchel).
So I am really interested inthe relation between art and popular culture and especially with popular music. But I am doing research about dance and architecture too and in general I find very interesting the relations between sociology, documentary, anthropology and art...

I discussed last week with Christel, a german artist that will be involved in the MFA show. Our idea will be to organize a show with Kristen too, it would be an exhibition in a squatted house that we have to find near Goldsmiths. The theme will be something around punk aesthetic or punk music. I think that the spontaneous meeting due to the same interests is the best way to deal with this big show.
This year, with five other curators of the master, we have organized the Interim Show of the St Martins School...after this experience, I think that it is really irrelevant ans impossible to curate a show with 25 curators and 50 artists...Anyway this kind of show remains always artificial because of the origin of the frame, I mean that it is impossible to work all together. So I think that as you, the artists, you know each other, and as it is impossible for us to know all of you and especially all your works...the best will be that you organize yourselves into groups and then we can discuss about it according to the common interests of each group.

Caroline

Curatorial Interests

Konstantinos

YO everybody! i'm Konstantinos, one of da curator people. This link is the website of the project space I run for 2 years now back in Greece and from May I will set it off in London as well. If you browse around you will get a quite concrete idea of what I am interested in. enjoyyyy!!!!

www.bigprojectspace.com

My work plays with reality and inversion of visual languages. If you would like to know more about it you are very welcome to pop into my studio in the large baths.

Melissa Bugarella

Jean Baudrillard is dead. Or is he?

Private View: Disruption 1

Just a reminder-


Disruption 1
6:30- 8:30 pm
Saturday, March 10th
Building 9, Unit 7
Long Street Workshops (off Kingsland Rd., shoreditch end)
E28HN


Hope to see you there!
Mary Cork
Cadine Navarro

The Gibbification of Culture

Steff S.

My recent curatorial interest has been invested in Dubai and its bizarre dynamics. As a place that is 88% composed of capital and sun-hungry expatriates, Dubai houses a collision of identities that creates a strong dichotomy between its traditional Islamic roots and its rapid cultural expansion.

The implementation of a contemporary art scene is a deliberate move by the government and monarchy to retaliate against criticism that the city lacks a soul; it reflects Dubai's competitive nature, as it aims to beat Abu Dhabi and Sharjah in their respective attempts to become the cultural capitals of the UAE.

With such funnel-vision intention, it would be easy for Dubai to become an ephemeral trend witin the art world. My primary interest is to contribute to the sustainability of its art scene, to infuse the fabric of the city with art instead of watching the city rely on auction house sales and art fairs.

MAP

Have any curators got together to decide who might want to be in charge of the Map? (that is if it's still happening?)
Also do we need another group meeting before the break?

tim bennett

I am working on the idea of voids into systems. A methodology that explores and maps systems in order to proceed with the idea of system exception or false. The system can be of any kind; technological, theoretical, artistic, built, visible or invisible. The present stage of my research has to do with collaborating with artists and theorists in order to expand this idea and come up with new cultural products.
I have worked on the idea of destabilizing radio and tv networks by creating and documentating the procedure of void creation using an appliance composed by ready made equipment.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yannis_arv/