10/11 - Go See 16 - Stirling Archive

James Stirling: Notes from the Archive
5 April – 21 August 2011

"It is eighteen years since James Stirling’s death, and he is long due a retrospective exhibition. Given his close association with Tate, in the form of the Clore Gallery and Tate Liverpool, Tate Britain is an especially appropriate place to review his work. This exhibition, curated by the renowned architectural writer Anthony Vidler, draws on the Stirling archive held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. It will be presented in the Clore Gallery, designed by Stirling and opened in 1987. Unfashionable at the time, it, like its designer, is the subject of renewed interest and appreciation. The exhibition will cover the whole of Stirling’s career, from the iconic Engineering Building of 1959 at Leicester University through to the late 1990s, including built and unbuilt projects, drawings, photographs and furniture."

TATE LINK HERE

10/11 - BERLIN FIELD TRIP

Partial group jump at Neues Museum on a sunny Monday.

10/11 - Go See 15 - Bunker

For this exhibition, entitled 'Bunker', Hatoum has transformed the gallery spaces into sites of heightened tension, where global geographies are abstracted and condensed, and themes of mobility, belonging and displacement are explored through three new artworks.

25 Feb—2 Apr 2011
Mason's Yard

WHITE CUBE LINK

10/11 - Go See 14 - The Witching Hour: Darkness and the Architectural Uncanny

The Witching Hour, featuring the work of ten artists from Birmingham and the West Midlands, is an exhibition of photography, painting and film exploring the power of buildings to unsettle or intimidate.
Taking inspiration from a variety of buildings and architectural forms, and exploring both unusual and everyday locations, the exhibited artworks feature sites as diverse as a shadowy cemetery, looming industrial gasholders, underground tunnels, deserted houses after a hurricane, melancholy housing estates and the London streets where Jack the Ripper murdered his victims.
The exhibition explores how buildings can carry the weight of their own histories,
becoming imbued with an affecting atmosphere. It peers into the disconcerting darkness that we can encounter daily, whether in the unnerving quality of architecture at night-time, in the darkened, neglected corners of towns, or beneath the city itself. The collected works are charged with a sense of the ‘witching hour’, a time of night when peculiar things can occur.

GALLERY LINK

10/11 - Go See 13 - Pioneers of the Downtown Scene

Performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson, choreographer Trisha Brown and artist Gordon Matta-Clark were friends and active participants in the New York art community, working fluidly between visual art and performance.

With the city as their backdrop, canvas, stage and inspiration, this exhibition is the first major presentation to examine the experimental and often daring approaches taken by these three key figures, both individually and collectively, in the burgeoning arts scene in downtown New York during the 1970s.

3 March 2011 - 22 May 2011
Barbican Art Gallery
BARBICAN LINK

Cinéma Corporel

cinema of the body/the body of film
LINK

10/11 - Now Showing Pop Up Cinema

A huge thank you to everyone for braving the elements. Everything that could happen did happen. An amazing show. Excellent!

10/11 - Landscape Workshop

Recording the intangible phenomena of the site. Quote of the day: "Everywhere on the site is interesting"

10/11 - Guest Lecture

With thanks to Andreas Helgesson, architect from Tham & Videgård Arkitekter who gave a super lecture on the Tree Hotel in Sweden. The landscape workshop after was epic. Great day.

LINK HERE

10/11 - Semester 2 Site Visit

This semester we embark upon the design of an Arcadia for Oxford.

10/11 - Go See 17 Masterworks

Sir Denys Lasdun RA (1914–2001), ‘Models in Dialogue’. The National Theatre, South Bank, London, 1991. Photograph by Arnold Behr of room with models, with added autograph perspective drawing in pen with black ink and white correction fluid. © Royal Academy of Arts, London

Spectacular examples of Georgian and Victorian perspectives of famous projects by celebrated architects such as John Soane, Charles Barry and George Gilbert Scott are be exhibited alongside works by many post-war and all current RA architects, including Hugh Casson, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, David Chipperfield and Zaha Hadid’s Stirling Prize winning scheme for the MAXXI Museum in Rome.

14 January—13 March 2011

RA LINK

10/11 - Go See 16 new Contemporaries

Hunger (Wüstefeld) 2009
linocut, 182x229cm
New Contemporaries exhibition is a snapshot of today's emerging art landscape featuring 49 artists working across film, sculpture, photography, painting, animation and performance.
ICA LINK

10/11 - Go See 15 Magic Lantern

'Magic Lantern'
Mat Collishaw
2010
© Mat Collishaw

Magic Lantern transforms the Museum's edifice into a beacon of light, brought to life by fluttering moths visible from dusk each evening.
V&A Cupola (from dusk) and John Madejski Garden (10.00 - 17.45)

LINK

10/11 - Go See 14 Light Works

The exhibition, which coincides with the launch of the illustrated monograph publication Light Works by Black Dog Publishing, traces the emergence of Jorge Orta’s practice in Argentina from 1972 to 1983.
On view will be a selection of previously un-exhibited work from the Orta’s extensive archive including early video performance, tactile poetry, mail art, graphic scores and as well as handmade editions designed to communicate beyond the very limited sphere of contemporary art practice during the military regime.

ORTA LINK
Art Rabbit Link

10/11 - Go See 13 Philippe Parreno

Philippe Parreno
The Boy From Mars 2003
Film still
© 2010 Philippe Parreno

Parreno’s exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery has been conceived as a scripted space in which a series of events unfolds. The visitor is guided through the galleries by the orchestration of sound and image, which heightens their sensory experience.

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