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PhD and MA students launch 2 new Post-Grad reading groups
Two new additions to our directory of postgraduate reading groups launch this week, bringing together students and staff across subject areas, with similar research interests.
What should art do with animals? Richard Crawford (PhD, CSM) is interested in examining the way animals have been used in fashion, fine art, the decorative arts and museum displays.
What does it mean to use animals in art?
What does this say about our relationship with the natural world?
How can we represent futures in which all natural species co-exist sustainably?
The group will look at exhibitions, museums, and read selected texts on animal theory, cultural studies and may invite speakers to address these themes.
Design, Prescribed Design for Hospitals Reading Group
Sophia Luu (MA Art and Science, CSM) is making an open call to join her in establishing a reading group and design collective.
"We all use the NHS at some point in our lives.
But those who are regular visitors of hospitals and NHS buildings don’t always feel like these places look like they can make you feel better. Many wards are impersonal, bare and do not visually reflect the care they are receiving.
I am looking for students from all disciplines and colleges to form a reading group which will eventually become a design-for-good collective. We will begin by visiting various exhibitions, critiquing current hospital wards with the aim of working on live projects."
The Process as Object:
The Object as Process
A report on the Pop Up Common Room: A Narrative of Progress by E Okobi (MSc Applied Psychology in Fashion, LCF)
"UAL Post-Grad Community visited ‘A Narrative of Progress’ in its final week at Camberwell Space, the public gallery housed at the UAL Camberwell campus. The objects in the exhibition were selected from the Camberwell ILEA Collection—including some deaccessioned objects which had been reimagined by students on the Camberwell MA Designer Maker programme. Post-Grad Community visitors were treated to a joint talk from Martin Williams, alumni of the MA Designer Maker programme at Camberwell...”
An Art Award for Our Times
Setting up an artist led award by Shefali Wardell (MA Drawing, Wimbledon College of Arts Alumni)
"Applying to art shows and competitions, awards, prizes and residencies seems to be a right of passage after art school. Yet it isn’t a direct route to success, whatever each person defines that as. It doesn’t take long before you wonder about the merit of spending hours (in some cases days), and often large sums of money applying for things that are really hard for the majority of applicants to benefit from....”
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Art for the Environment Residency: Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK Deadline for applications: 31 October 2018
Would you like to take part in a 2-4 week residency at the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) in Manchester?
Including:
• Use of studio space, library, archive and office facilities
• Built in living accommodation on site, with a daily per diem for living expenses
• Curator mentoring and feedback
• Participation in an open studio event
• Networking with other art spaces and organisations in Manchester
• UAL grant of £500 on completion of the residency and final report
Call for Papers & Performances
CARU | Arts re Search Annual Conference 2018, Oxford Brookes University Deadline: 4 November 2018
CARU brings together artists and researchers for a day of cross-disciplinary exploration into creative research. This year, we are delighted to welcome Dr Geof Hill as the keynote speaker, who will open the event with a talk on ‘Creative Practice as Research’.
You are invited to present a podium presentation and/or performance on the topic of research in the arts / creativity in research / art as a research process.
Post-Grad Community Project Fund
Funding for collaborative projects Autumn Term Deadline: 7 November
Awards of up to £300 are available for UAL postgraduate students (both taught and research) to organise academic events, projects and cultural interventions that bring together postgraduate students from different disciplines, courses and colleges.
Proposals are sought in response to the following themes:
Creative Enterprise Week 12-16 November 2018 Across UAL
Want to turn your creative ideas into a reality? Launch your freelance career, social enterprise, artistic practice or start-up?
Creative Enterprise Week is UAL’s annual programme of inspiring talks, workshops, one-to-ones and networking opportunities. Hear from creative business founders and enterprise experts who will share their insider knowledge and advice. This year’s programme will take place from 12-16 November across UAL Colleges.
The exhibition ‘Earth’s LAW™ in FLUX’ is an exploration of the 98 NCE’s (Natural Chemical Elements of Planet Earth) through a series of paintings and installations from the core of the earth to its skin where most of the elements are found..
NEW WORK
Opening: 2 November 2018, 6pm - 9pm
Exhibition continues: 3 November - 14 December 2018 Exposed Arts Projects, 6 Drayson Mews, London, W8 4LY
NEW WORK by artists Candida Powell-Williams and Thomas Yeomans: a collaborative project in decrypting and encrypting anew; a manifestation of friendship as an unchosen artistic strategy; and a magical riddle that can be solved in (at least) two ways – resulting in (at least) two different routes through the exhibition.
Aphra and Aradia
3 November 2018, 2pm Cinema 2, ICA, London, SW1Y 5AH
Célia Hay, (MA Photography, CSM alumna) will be screening 'Aphra and Aradia' as part pf a series comprising of recent works commissioned by the ICA by artists who participated in the STOP PLAY RECORD (2015–18).
The longform film follows Aphra, a young woman who travels to a desolate island to meet Aradia, a local witch. Aphra endeavours to convince her to perform a series of rituals to call for her sister, and the two women form an unconventional bond.
Célia is also showing her degree show piece 'The Last Gesture’ at the Aesthetica Short Film Festival 7-11 November, various venues in York
EVENTS AIMED AT POSTGRADUATE AUDIENCES:
DESIGN AWARD & FINISSAGE
with Grayson Perry 26 October 2018, 5pm-8pm Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Arts, SW1P 4JU
Throughout the Chelsea Space exhibition ‘The Democratic Dish: Mintons Secessionist Ware’ visitors were invited to make a design inspired by the work on display. From the submissions, four have been selected to be turned into transfers and workshopped onto large ceramic plates (chargers).
Please join us this Friday, where Grayson Perry will announce the four designs selected to be made into ceramic transfers.
As the opening show for Elephant West, Maisie Cousins presents Dipping Sauce, consisting of a new series of large scale photographic works, in print and on lightboxes, and animations on screens. Maisie creates an immersive experience for the audience, surrounding them with hyper-saturated macro images of food and the aftermath of gluttony.
Tate Britain African Heritage Tour - Black History Month 31 October 2018, 2.45pm - 4pm Tate Britain, London SW1P 4RG
This tour is free as part of Arts SU Black History Month.
Join Arts SU for a private African selected tour at Tate Britain.This tour will move beyond the assumption that the history of black people is essentially the history of slavery and subjugation. These tours will encourage visitors to think widely, to apply their imaginations, and reflect on erroneous and ill-conceived personal beliefs about what constitutes Western European art.
Fashioning Inclusion
12 December 2018, 6pm RHS East, LCF, John Princes Street, W1G 0BJ
Fashioning Inclusion brings together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners who show that bodies of all abilities and types can be a site for creative self-expression. The challenges of creating with and for different abilities offer new opportunities for experimentation with materials, technologies and aesthetics which can pioneer true innovation for art, performance, fashion and worn objects.
Passagens: Dancing the Answers of the Citizenship Test 6 November 2018, 4:30pm- 6pm CSM, Kings Cross, N1C 4AA
This Passagens session will take the form of a workshop, led by Laura Malacart and based on 'The Little Book of Answers' an ongoing project conceived as a participatory work for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Its starting point is a book compiled using the correct answers of the UK citizenship test that becomes a score to engage its audience in a range of ways.
reading collections
15 November 2018, 5pm-7pm Library, Chelsea College of Arts, SW1P 4JU
A reading group focusing on the African-Caribbean, Asian & African Art in Britain Archive, part of the Special Collections at Chelsea College of Arts Library.
Open to all UAL students (of any course and any academic level) and staff (academic and non-academic), you will need to read short texts/documents provided in advance, and be prepared to join in short readings and group discussions.
Event 1: Multicultural education article by Liz Ward
A growing number of cross-disciplinary postgraduate reading groups are active across the university and are open to all UAL postgraduate students (MA, PGDip, PhD and MPhil) to attend.
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Postgraduate Community Project FundUAL has made available some funds to assist postgraduate students in organising academic events, projects and cultural interventions; which work to bring together different disciplines within both Postgraduate Taught and Research student bodies at UAL.
Through the Postgraduate Community - Project Fund, students are invited to work collaboratively with students from different colleges and disciplines, on projects which sit under one of the four research themes.
Arts SU: The Student Initiative Fund Arts Students' Union enables students to create their own university experience through The Student Initiative Fund. Using this small supply of money and their in-house expertise, they help students organise all kinds of original and creative events. You can apply for between £10 and £200 to support a project or event, providing you meet their collaborative criteria. READ MORE
The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding 2018-2019The Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding provides advice and information about applying for alternative sources of funding, particularly from charities and trusts.
The Guide was written by two postgraduate students who between them have won over £45,000 from 55 different charity awards. It contains model personal and financial statements, and over 500 links to voluntary sector funding sources. READ MORE
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