Art, Resistance and Alternatives: a screening and discussion with Oliver Ressler and Katarzyna Kosmala

CCA Glasgow, 7.30 – 10.00pm, October 21st 2011

www.ressler.at

Oliver Ressler is an Austrian-born artist who produces projects in public space and films addressing forms of resistance and social alternatives. He has had solo exhibitions at Berkeley Art Museum, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul; Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Egypt and The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Istanbul. His films have been screened around the world.

Socialism Failed, Capitalism is Bankrupt – What Comes Next?

Oliver Ressler

19mins, 2010

Recorded in Armenia in Yerevan’s largest bazaar, the film follows the market traders’ struggle to survive the crisis of a post-Socialist reality that has closed many local factories and dissolved social safety nets.

Comuna under Construction

Dario Azzelini and Oliver Ressler

94 mins, 2010

In consejos comunales, the people of Venezuela collectively decide about the community’s concerns. These councils, built from the grassroots, aim to create a form of self-government, parallel to the institutional framework.

The screening will be followed by a conversation and Q & A exploring the role of politically engaged art in protest and human rights issues, led by Katarzyna Kosmala

Dr Katarzyna Kosmala is Reader in Visual Culture and Organisation at the University of the West of Scotland, a visiting research fellow at GEXcel, Insitute of Thematic Gender Studies, Linkoping University & Orebro University, Sweden, and a curator and freelance art writer.

Presented as part of Document 9: International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

MEd Artist Teacher @ GoMA, 1st October

EDUCATION AS CULTURAL IMPROVISATION:
LESSONS FROM ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION
Anne Pirrie PhD is Reader in Education at the University of the West of
Scotland. She has wide-ranging and divergent research interests. Her
recent work has been on the epistemological bases of social research.


James Benedict Brown is a postgraduate researcher in architecture at
the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPACE) at
Queen's University Belfast. His doctoral research concerns live projects
in architectural education.


ARTIST DRIVEN INITIATIVES FOR ART EDUCATION:
WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM STREET ART
G. James Daichendt, EdD serves as Professor and Exhibitions Director at
Azusa Pacific University in southern California and is an adjunct
Professor for Boston University’s graduate online program in art education. Jim is
author of the books: Artist-Teacher: A Philosophy for Creating and
Teaching (2010) and Artist Scholar: Reflections on Writing and Research
(2011)

For more information on the event and the UWS Artist Teacher Master

of Education Programme contact diarmuid.mcauliffe@uws.ac.uk

The Deptford Machine

Doctoral researcher Ben Parry, working with Utrophia, presents The Deptford Machine: a mechanical and sonic sculpture inspired by, made from and found in Deptford. Opening night: 23rd Sept, at Utrophia.

Whose Story is it Anyway?

Jo Ronan, theatre-maker, performance lecturer and PhD student, together with members of the newly created BloodWater Theatre, would like to invite you to a performance of Whose Story Is It Anyway, a developing project that challenges assumptions of ways of making theatre. 

The two performances at the Tron, Glasgow on the 15^th of October at 2.30pm and 8pm respectively are free but ticketed. 

Please refer to http://www.jamie-walker.com/BloodWaterTheatre  and/or http://www.tron.co.uk/event/whos_story_is_it_anyway/ for more information about the project and ticket reservations.

As there are only two performances, tickets are limited so please let the Tron box office know if you have made a reservation but are unable to attend.

Be the first to catch the nascent stage of this pioneering work!

Vault Lounge: Art, Money and Value

artists talking about making a living

6.30pm to 8.30pm 9^th September, The Briggait, 141 Bridgegate, Glasgow

As part of the Vault Art Glasgow event, we are pleased to present an open panel discussion offering diverse perspectives on those tricky questions about how artists negotiate between audiences/publics, patrons/funders, markets and communities. In what different ways do contemporary artists ‘realise value’ from their work and get the resources that they need to keep working? What is at stake when we talk about buying and selling artworks? How do different people in Glasgow’s contemporary art world see their relationship with the wider cultural economy?

Chaired/introduced by Graham Jeffery (University of the West of Scotland)

With contributions from:

Peter McCaughey (Glasgow School of Art) on public art/private art

Simon Cronshaw: http://www.culturelabel.com/ on new markets, new media

Amanda Dobbratz (IRONBBRATZ) on art and entrepreneurship

Katarzyna Kosmala, UWS on not-for-profit art & artistic life in ‘emerging markets’

Michelle Daniels - Market Gallery (www.marketgallery.org.uk) on what the ‘gallery’ can do in the 21^st Century

Knowing Ways

Knowing Ways: Critical Learning in Arts Practice, North Edinburgh Arts Centre, 8 -10th September 2011

An international conference organised in collaboration with: Amnesty International, North Edinburgh Arts, The University of Glamorgan & The George Ewart Evans Storytelling Centre, The Institute of International Health & Development, The University of Glasgow Business School, The Learning for Democracy network, Intellect publishers and Creative Scotland.

In the face of increasing and ever-changing social, political and economic pressures and crises in diverse societies, practitioners in the visual and performing arts have produced a growing range of approaches through which ordinary citizens use the arts to explore and express their situations, challenging the structures and people who limit their development.   This conference brings together a wide range of practitioners from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa to share experiences and ideas.

Katarzyna Kosmala has contributed to the jubilee Special Edition of the international Journal of Arts & Communities in partnership with Amnesty International.

The conference Knowing Ways will launch a Special Edition of the International Journal of Arts & Communities devoted to Arts & Human Rights, in partnership with Amnesty International to celebrate its 50^th Anniversary. 

 

Making Routes

The Arches and the University of the West of Scotland present

Making Routes

Friday 23rd September 2011

2.30pm - 5.30pm

The Arches, Glasgow

Join David Overend, Kieran Hurley, Nic Green, Adrian Howells, Phil Smith (Wrights & Sites) and Ellie Harrison (Pointed Arrow) for an afternoon of talks, presentations and discussions about the relationship between performance and journeys. Making Routes is a network of artists and researchers and this launch event opens up the project to new contributors and possibilities. 

We’re at the beginning, we don’t know quite where we’ll end up, and we want you to help determine what direction we go in...

This is a free event. Please contact david.overend@uws.ac.uk to reserve a place.