Ecobuild is the world’s biggest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment.
For the third year in a row the Kingston University, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture has been invited to show design work on an 80-square metre stand at Ecobuild and we are one of the only universities involved. Our main exhibit will be a nine-metre high wooden spire.
Registration is free, please visit:
http://www.ecobuild.co.uk/
Stanley Picker Fellows Take Over the Gallery:
Andy Holden, Daniel Eatock & Marloes ten Bhömer
May 2012
Before the Stanley Picker Gallery closes at the end of May for venue refurbishments, Stanley Picker Fellows Andy Holden, Daniel Eatock and Marloes ten Bhömer will be spending a fortnight in the Gallery developing work on-site and offering the opportunity for others to participate at the following events:
Tuesday 8 May 6-9pm All Welcome
Andy Holden, Daniel Eatock & Ice, Sea, Dead People
The band Ice, Sea, Dead People – signed to Holden’s label Lost Toys Records – will perform live in the Gallery as visitors are invited to draw onto paper discs, spinning on turntables around the space, and help create a unique picture-disc edition of the band’s new single. Join us for what promises to be a lively evening blurring the boundaries between art, design, music and live performance. Important: If you have a turntable you can bring along on the day, please contact our Participation Programmer Natalie Kay on n.kay@kingston.ac.uk or 020 8417 4074. Assistance with transportation is available upon request.
www.andyholdenartist.com
www.eatock.com
www.iceseadeadpeople.com
Next: Marloes ten Bhömer In Residence at the Stanley Picker Gallery
Friday 18 May 4-5pm All Welcome
Public discussion following a week of collaborative experiment in the Gallery.
We look forward to welcoming you here!
The Stanley Picker Gallery
DumbType, Teiji Furuhashi, Soni Kum, Bubu de la Madeleine & Sohei Yamada, Yoshiko Shimada, Chikako Yamashiro
19 January – 26 February 2012.
Art, Performance & Activism features the work of artists/activists based in Japan who push the boundaries of where art, performance and activism intersect. Presenting visually powerful and pioneering works from the mid-1990s to the present the exhibition explores differing strategies of intervention that seek to engage in contemporary debates and to change how we think and act.
Engaging with contemporary themes of art and action, private and public, memory and identity, the exhibition is the first to present their work in the UK and to provide a context for their interventions. Works include Teiji Furuhashi’s mesmerising solo production, The Lovers (Dying Pictures, Loving Pictures) and S/N performance by the Kyoto-based art collective DumbType, the print-based activist work of Yoshiko Shimada, and the visceral performance-based film work of emergent artists Soni Kum and Chikako Yamashiro. Provocative, beautiful, haunting, disturbing…moving.
Curated by Professor Fran Lloyd of Kingston University, London and Professor Rebecca Jennison of Kyoto Seika University, Japan.
A range of events to support the exhibition will also be held. For more information please click on the links below:
ARTISTS’ TALK: Yoshiko Shimada and Chikako Yamashiro
CURATORS’ TOUR: Fran Lloyd & Rebecca Jennison
MONTHLY DO: Drawing as One – with artist Yoshiko Shimada
MONTHLY DO: Performance workshop with artist Soni Kum
Supported by:
POLA Art Foundation
Japan Foundation
Japan Foundation Endowment Committee
Japan Society
British Council
The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
The Saison Foundation
Kingston University
Kyoto Seika University
DumbType work is presented with cooperation of Shiro and Yoko Takatani, DumbType, Kyoto & Shinya Yamaki, Kyoto Seika University; Chikako Yamashiro’s work is presented with cooperation of Yumiko Chiba Associates; Yoshiko Shimada and Bubu de la Madeleine courtesy of Ota Fine Arts.