Curator's Lunchtime Tour
Thursday 21 June
Venue: Art Exchange
Time: 1.00pm–1.30pm
Admission free. Booking required.
Join curator Zanna Gilbert on a tour of her exhibition at Art Exchange.
Designing the Nation: Olympics, Authority and Unrest from Mexico 68 to London 2012
Friday 29 June
Venue: Art Exchange
Time: 2.30pm-5.30pm
Admission free. Booking required.
This panel discussion considers the gap between the intentions of the Olympic organisers in promoting Britain to the world and the backdrop of the crisis of capitalism, cuts and social unrest.
Olympics By Design Exhibition
Thursday 19 - Saturday 28 July
Venue: Art Exchange
Fluid Images: Óscar Muñoz
17 May 2012
Time: 18:30Venue: Art Exchange
Images in the work of Colombian artist Óscar Muñoz are not fixed but fluid, such as his beautifully simple film Línea del destino /Line of Destiny in which Muñoz captures his own reflection on the surface of water that fills his cupped hands.
In this talk Rebecca Breen engages with themes of disintegration and frustration in Muñoz’s image-making, and his elaboration of a portraiture which implicates the viewer, exhorting him or her to “take away an idea of [the] image, […] an idea full of variations and changes” (Muñoz, 2004)
In this talk Rebecca Breen engages with themes of disintegration and frustration in Muñoz’s image-making, and his elaboration of a portraiture which implicates the viewer, exhorting him or her to “take away an idea of [the] image, […] an idea full of variations and changes” (Muñoz, 2004)
Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell
11 March 2012
Performance Time: 19:00
Venue: Lakeside Theatre
Venue: Lakeside Theatre
An evening of readings from two of Britain’s foremost poets. Simon Armitage is one of the UK’s widest read and best loved writers. His trademark
dry humour lends his poetry an accessible and realist style which has won him many notable awards including a CBE in 2010.
Glyn Maxwell is a poet, dramatist and librettist and winner of an E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as many other prestigious accolades including the 2004 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Glyn is part of the Creative Writing teaching team in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex.
Wednesday 7 March
Venue: Art Exchange
Time: 6.30 – 7.30pm
Admission free, booking essential.
Book Tickets.
Join artist Laurence Owen and art critic and curator Kasia Maciejowska for a discussion of Owen’s exhibition and the ideas and inspiration behind his work.
Extracting Images Workshop with Laurence Owen
Saturday 10 March
Venue: Art Exchange
Time: 11.00 – 4.00pm
Admission free, booking essential. Book Tickets.
Artist Laurence Owen leads an all-day workshop that explores the wide variety of images that surround us and the meanings we construct for them. Join us for this artist-led workshop that focuses on the miraculous in the everyday.
Artist’s Film Choice: Koyaaniquatsi
France/Godfrey Reggio/1982/86 mins/Cert U
Monday 12 March
Venue: Lakeside Theatre
Doors: 7.00pm Screening: 7.30pm
Tickets: Full £5 Concs £3. Bookings go live Monday 9 Jan 2012
Meaning ‘Unbalanced life’ in Hopi, Koyaaniquatsi is a haunting and hypnotic tone poem set to the music of Phillip Glass that juxtaposes images of technology and scientific progress to make a deeply affecting parable of life in post industrial society.
Curator’s Lunchtime Tour
Thursday 22 March
Venue: Art Exchange
Time: 1 – 1.30pm
Admission free, booking essential. Bookings go live Monday 9 Jan 2012
Come along and join Jess Kenny for an informal discussion of Laurence Owen’s insightful exhibition The Elemental Dynamic.
Curator’s Lunchtime Tour Wednesday 22 February
Venue: Art Exchange
Time: 1 – 1.30pm
Admission free, booking essential - Email arts@essex.ac.uk Come along and find out more about the extraordinary work of artist Laure
Prouvost. Join curator Jess Kenny for a tour of The Wanderer (Betty Drunk).
Find me out in the country
Saturday 28 January
Venue: Art Exchange and Company Shed Mersea
Time: 1 – 6.30pm
Ticket prices: £5 Concs: £3. Bookings go live Monday 9 Jan 2012.
Lunch not included in price.
Join artist Laure Prouvost for a trip to Mersea’s famous Company Shed for lunch, followed by an afternoon talk and reception to celebrate The Wanderer (Betty Drunk) coming to Art Exchange.
A minibus will take us to Mersea, collecting from Art Exchange and Colchester.
Artist’s Film Choice: L’humanité
France/Benoit Dumont/1999/148 mins/Cert 18
Monday 13 February
Doors: 7.00pm Screening: 7.30pm
Venue: Lakeside Theatre
Ticket Prices: Full £5, Concs £3. Bookings go live Monday 9 Jan 2012.
When a girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions investigates the crime, which asks more questions than it answers.
Laure Prouvost in Context
Wednesday 15 February
Venue: Art Exchange
Time: 6.30 – 7.30pm
Admission free, booking essential. Bookings go live Monday 9 Jan 2012.
A chance to watch a selection of Laure Prouvost’s films that brought her to international attention. Stay on for a discussion of this up-and-coming artist over a glass of wine.
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06 December 2011
Time: 18:00
Venue: Art Exchange
Following in others' footsteps, walking within cities, the past and present politics of cities - are touched on in this evening of readings.
Phil Terry will be reading poems derived from walks, including a poem based on walks from The Cut, a thoroughfare near Waterloo in London, conceived as a protest against the government cuts, and some poems retracing W. G. Sebald's steps.
Roger Moss will also be reading works that are inspired by the theme of walking between worlds.
Admission free.
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Lakeside Writers
Monday 5 DecemberTime: 7.00pm-9.00pm
Venue: Lakeside Theatre
Lakeside Writers is a new initiative aimed at writers and aspiring writers whose work includes an element of performance. Open to all University of Essex students and to any writers living in the east of England and led by Lakeside Theatre's Literary Consultant Andrew Burton, it is a space where writers can network, see excerpts of work-in-progress, and hear about current developments in the wider cultural sector.
Whether you describe your work as drama, audio drama, live literature, documentary, screenplay, storytelling or song lyrics, you are welcome to join us.
For further information, or to book a place email arts@essex.ac.uk
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Writers at Essex presents Ian Monk
02 December 2011
Time: 18:00
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Thursday 15 November: Marina Warner gives a talk on Tacita Dean's Footage and representations of the other-worldliness of feet in cultural history and mythology. She comments "Divinely beautiful feet summon up their counterpoise, their opposite, as imagining the soul and its lightness recalls the drag of the body.” See the documentation on this event here: Curator's Blog
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A new performance by internationally renowned artist Regina Jose Galindo. Using h er body and skill of a surgeon, Galindo will explore how recent murders in Mexico and Guatemala owe much their ritualistic killing to a history of dissection. Do come along! Admission free, but booking essential. Email: arts@essex.ac.uk
Commissioned by Art Exchange in partnership with ESCALA and firstsite. Regina Jose Galindo's website: http://www.reginajosegalin
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Curator's Talk20 October 2011
Time: 13:00
Venue: Art Exchange
Find out more about the art and ideas in the current Art Exchange exhibition Margins: walking between worlds with curator Jess Kenny. As it’s lunchtime, you’re welcome to bring your sarnies!
Admission free, booking required. Email arts@essex.ac.uk to reserve your place.
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Francis Alys Film Night
26 October 2011
Time: 18:30
Venue: Art Exchange Join Andrés Montenegro for an evening of discussion of the films of artist Francis Alÿs, whose artistic exploration of walking engages with the urban environment of Mexico City. Please join us for a drink after the discussion. Admission free, but booking advised.
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Walking between worlds Symposium
Saturday 5 November, 2.00 – 5.00pm
Venue: Firstsite, Colchester
Venue: Firstsite, Colchester
This symposium examines the act of walking as a subversive artistic practice. We will consider the ways in which walking can question the workings of the city, the understanding of territory and the assumptions of the established order. Speakers include art historians Dawn Ades and Anna Dezeuze, writer Iain Sinclair and artist Regina José Galindo.
The symposium will be followed by a newly commissioned performance by Regina Jose Galindo.
Admission free, but please ensure your place ring Firstsite on 01206 577067 or go to http://www.firstsite.uk.net/
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Oh Painters! My Painters! 4-6pm, Saturday 16 July 2011
Come along to Art Exchange and hear the artists in the show talk about their work with guest curator Kaavous Clayton.
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Performance Art Symposium Tuesday 31 May 2011..........................................................................................................................................
Date: Tuesday 1 March
Time: 1-1.30pm
Venue: Art Exchange
Admission free, booking essential.
A chance to have lunch in the gallery and chat about this fascinating exhibition with guest curator Zanna Gilbert.
