Events during the MA Fine Art Show
September 2011
Charlotte Young: Performance lecture: So, You’re (Finally) Leaving Art School Friday 2nd September, 6.30pm – Camberwell College Bar/Canteen Camberwell Fine Art MA students have invited Charlotte Young to make a new performative lecture especially for the launch of their MA show. Charlotte Young is an artist, writer and comedian. She has recently co-written a book with acclaimed artist and musician Billy Childish, which is published by the L-13 Light Industrial Workshop. In 2008 she received the Owen Rowley Award for Art (£600) but did not invest this money wisely and is now receiving benefits. Her 2011, YouTube sensation ‘Artist’s Statement’ has received nearly 200,000 hits so far this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8DbLWAXvU http://todayimadenothing.wordpress.com http://l-13.org/acatalog/Charlotte_Young.htm |  |
Helen Stratford: Approaching Art (Performance Tour/ Action Walk) Monday 5th September 2pm - Fine Art Degree Show studios Starting in the Canteen A preparatory and performative tour around, about and in-between the spaces of Camberwell College of Art MA Fine Art show. Helen Stratford is a practising artist, architect and critical writer based in Cambridgeshire. Located between performance art, architecture and writing, her practice explores the role everyday objects, and activities play in supporting certain ways of being or placing. She has been asked by the Camberwell MA Fine Art students to lead a Performance Tour/Action Walk in response to the Fine Art degree show. www.wysingartscentre.org/artists/studio-artists/87 artside:pause // Southend-on-Sea // July 2011 intervals // metropolis biennale // Copenhagen // August 2011 www.kit.dk/2011/INTERVALS.html Walking through Walls // Stadttheater Bremerhaven // October 2011 www.stadttheaterbremerhaven.de |
Janine Harrington: Dance piece whelm/ voke/ tract/ vise/ sist/ pates Thursday 8th September: 2pm – 4pm – Fine Art Studios A score of partial, variable gestures accumulates through relationship with the installed work and it's audience. Janine Harrington is a dancer, choreographer and visual Artist. The MA Fine Arts students have commission her to develop a piece in response to the degree show. |
Other events:
The Breakfast Sessions
Will be taking place each morning during show from 10am - midday
The events are open to the public; guest artists, curators and writers will also be attending
3-4 artists' works will be discussed per day
A bring-and-share breakfast will be available
Anna Baker - Coordinator
Squeeze Tube Thursday 8th September – 6pm Fine Art Studio 2 Performance in Fine Art Degree space by Ma Fine Art students |  K. James Photography |
Rachael House’s Feminist Disco events Each day during her Fine Art MA show, Feminist Disco, Rachael House will be DJing with singles played on dansette record players. As part of Feminist Disco Rachael has invited guests to perform, DJ and speak, putting the ‘disco’ into ‘discourse’. All events are free and take place in Rachael’s exhibition space in Camberwell Art College. All welcome. For more information please contact rachaelhouse@me.com |  |
Friday 2nd September at 4.30pm- Deborah Withers
The remarkable Deborah Withers will present material from the Women's Liberation Music Archive (http://womensliberationmusicarchive.wordpress.com), and will instigate a discussion based around questions of process. This presentation will offer opportunities to listen to the music and collectively reflect on what it means to consider acts of cultural production - and the wider trajectories of cultural memory - as grounded in processes, actions and events. How does it transform our relationship to history and can it?
Deborah Withers is a writer, researcher, curator and publisher living in Bristol. In 2010 she published Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory to critical acclaim. She is the founder of HammerOn Press and is interested in the relationship between publishing and social change. She is currently developing plans for an exhibition based on the Women's Liberation Music Archive, which she co-curates with Frankie Green. Deborah’s work is published in numerous academic journals and she plays drums and sings in the band bellies!
Saturday 3rd September 3.00pm- Lucy Whitman
This discussion with writer Lucy Whitman will touch on the politics of feminism, punk and the anti racist movements of the 1970s and early 1980s and their continued relevance today.
As Lucy Toothpaste, Lucy Whitman created the feminist and anti-fascist fanzine JOLT in 1977, and wrote for Temporary Hoarding (Rock Against Racism) and Drastic Measures (Rock Against Sexism) in the late 70s and early 80s. She wrote about women and popular music for Spare Rib regularly from 1978 – 1982. She was in two women-only bands: The Neons (1976) and Sole Sister (1981 - 82). A recent interview with her, about women and punk, appears on feminist blog the f word at http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2011/05/Lucy_Whitman
Monday 5th September 5.00pm- Anne Robinson
Anne Robinson performance- Protest Your Love
A manually selected live jukebox featuring feminist favourites with an element of chance...
Anne Robinson is an artist working with painting, film & songs and is a senior lecturer in film at London Met University.
Wednesday 7th September 5.00pm- The Hissterics fanzine launch party
Fanzine launch for legendary 70s women’s band The Hissterics, featuring very special guest DJs. Refreshments available.
Thursday 8th September 7.00pm- Hackney Secular Singers
Hackney Secular Singers are the best punk choir in the world.
The Hackney Secular Singers (aka the Punk Choir) have been meeting every Monday for three years of co-operative musical bliss, devising alternative arrangements for new wave classics like 'Psycho Killer' and 'Germ Free Adolescents'. Previous gigs range from Hackney Wicked Festival through the School of Life to the Dublin Castle with some flash mob singing in between... and they welcome new members!
