Film - Thursday 3rd Dec, The Studio, 4pm

You, the Living: A Swedish black comedy film written and directed by Roy Andersson

The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence," centered around the lives of an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heart broken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, an elementary school teacher with emotional issues and her rug selling husband, among others. The cast is non-professional and alienating techniques such as presenting the characters in grim make-up and having them talk directly to the camera are extensively used.

Shot in an unconventional manner, it consists of a fluent succession of exactly 50 short sketches, most of them with a tragicomic undertone. Most of the sets were meticulous created and the shooting took three years to finish.

A fantasticly absurd and surreal film, i think you would find it hard not to laugh

-Robin

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR VIDEO: 7a*11d INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL

Of interest? F
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INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR VIDEO: 7a*11d INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL

8th International Festival in Toronto, presented by the 7a*11d collective
October 21 – 31, 2010

www.7a-11d.ca

Direct to Documentation: d2d
D2D = Direct to Documentation: a program of performance documentation or performance for camera. Can't come to the Festival? We still want to see your work! Send us a tape, CD or DVD [five minutes or less] of your performance documentation or performance for camera. Selected works will be curated into a screening program. Artist fees will be paid to those selected for screening.

Deadline: Proposals must be postmarked no later than January 15, 2010.

Return of materials: If you wish your materials to be returned, you MUST include a self-addressed stamped envelope for the return of your documentation. Please ensure that postage is adequate. Materials will be returned by June 2010.

Art Gig in Brighton after Xmas party 18th Dec?

at Fabrica Gallery: Brighton

Grey Area presents a one-off art-gig bringing together five artists who use music performance as an integral component of their practice. Staged in front of the altar of a deconsecrated Church, now Fabrica gallery, 1-2-3-4 features a diverse billing of inter-disciplinarians who both play and display .

Hi
It's the Xmas party on 18th Dec at WCA, 4.30-6.30PM, and after, at 6ish, I'm heading back to Brighton, to go to an art-music gig with a friend, at Fabrica Gallery, (nr the South Lanes, 15 minute walk down from Brighton station). If you'd like to go to this event; tickets need to be pre-booked (see blue link).
Jackie j.raybone2@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk

1-2-3-4
Artists:
Martin Creed
The Apathy Band (Bob & Roberta Smith , George Barker, Victor Mount, Leonardo Ulian)
The Barefoot Lone Pilgrim aka David Blandy
The Coolness
Plastique Fantastique

Date: Friday 18 th December 2009
Time: 7.00pm-11.00pm
Location: Fabrica, 40 Duke St, Brighton, BN11AG
Tickets: £6.50 in advance
available from Grey Area, Fabrica, and online at http://www.amiando.com/1234artgig

JILL MAGID Authority to Remove - Tate Modern (level 2)

This is a great show!
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/jillmagid/default.shtm

The secret itself is much more beautiful than its revelation.' Jill Magid, The Report for the AIVD on the Subject of its Face.



Frances

Want to get some lecturing experience?

Hi, I'm Martin (2nd year PT).

I work PT for UCA (www.ucreative.ac.uk) at the Maidstone campus teaching on the Foundation and Adult Access course.

I've spoken to couple of you about coming down and gaining some work experience. Andrew and Joel are going to come down on Weds 9th December to give a short talk about their work followed by Q&A (in the lecture theatre) and then do some tutorials (studio). I can open up the opportunity to a couple more MA students, with a preference for non-painters (just for variety). This is an especially good opportunity for Video Artists as it will give you a rare chance to screen your work and get some feedback outside Wimbledon.

If you're interested can you email me? I'm m.lang3@wimbledon.ac.uk. Feel free to ask any questions but if you're sure you want to do it you should tell me 3 interesting things about yourself and 5 achievements as an artist (I'll use this for a poster and an introduction on the day).

Here's the deal....

PAY: It's unpaid

STUDENTS: I expect there will be an audience of no more than 45 students, 16 ACCESS and about 27 Foundation (Fine Art specialism). It could be up to 150 if all the Foundation students come (they don't normally come in on a Wednesday though).

TRAVEL: Maidstone East train station is 1 hour from Victoria, direct. If you catch the 07:49am train you will arrive at 08:51. I will pick you up (up to 4 people) and drive you to the college which is not near Maidstone East. I will also drive you back to the station. A return ticket will cost you about £32. If you haven't get a 16-25 "Young Persons" railcard yet I'd get one. I'm 30 but you can get the college to stamp it to say you're a mature student. It costs £20 per annum and gives you 1/3 off most journeys i.e. you'd save c£10 on this trip alone.

It is also possible to get trains to Maidstone East from Cannon St, London Bridge, Waterloo East, and others but you'd need to check yourselves. You could get a train to Maidstone West and walk to the college but there are no direct trains so you'd need to change and that would add 20mins onto you journey, plus the walk.

Martin

hi guys,

I really enjoyed Sophie Calle and Faisal Al Abdullah, two related but almost counterposing exhibitions around ideas of portraiture.. at the Whitechapel... if you are interested in portraiture and/or dialogical models of work these two adopt completely different ways of working, but both seem to offer a portrait or interpretation of another person.

also this frieze discussion on theory as suggested by Andy and Sarah is really well worth a listen.. esp to Simon Critchley's points about a few philosophical theories being used to cover artists works wholesale "like a margarine"!

http://www.friezefoundation.org/talks/detail/scenes_from_a_marriage_have_art_and_theory_drifted_apart/

see you next week Bex x

Opportunity - Toilet Gallery, Kingston

I visited the Toilet Gallery last night, an old toilet block turned gallery in Kingston. In short, the gallery hasn't been active for a good while but recently a small group of artists has taken it over as 'artists in residence', although they will not be able to use it a studio space. Basically what this means is they are really open to any propsals for projects to run in the space during this 12 month period and better than that it will be for FREE! This is however a very specific site, it very much feels like a toilet, but with the right approach it could be a good opportunity.

If Interested email Dave Loder ( coperniciumproject@gmail.com )

Current Exhibition :
Fluxion
5th-8th Nov

Joel