Current Events
Afterall / The Showroom Seminar
– Saturday 27 March 2010. 15:00
The
Showroom
63 Penfold Street
London NW8 8PQ
£5 entrance fee
In this seminar, Emily Wardill will discuss her new feature-length film, Game Keepers Without Game (2009)
Game Keepers Without Game is based on the seventeenth-century play Life is a Dream (La Vida es Suena) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. The film takes Calderón's story of an imprisoned prince and translates it into the context of contemporary London. The original's themes of morality, incarceration and truth resurface in Wardill's present-day narrative of a violent child, put up for adoption at an early age, who re-enters the family home as a teenager and a stranger.
Emily Wardill is a London-based film-maker. She has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, including solo projects at Spacex, Exeter (2009); ICA, London (2008); Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London (2005 and 2006); and STANDARD (OSLO) (2008). Her work has been screened at the Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain; the International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and the London Film Festival. In 2008, Wardill was nominated for the Jarman Award and performed Life is a Dream at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 2007.
Read an interview between Wardill and curator Mike Sperlinger from Afterall's 'Artists at Work' series here.
Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in the 1990s / Conference
– Friday 30 April 2010. 10:00
Tate Britain Auditorium, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Friday 30 April 2010, 10.00 to 18.00
£25 (£15 concessions)
This symposium will explore the social turn in exhibition-making
in Europe and North America in the 1990s, looking at the part
played by political activism, institutional critique and forms of
socialisation influenced by the media and the moving image.
Questioning labels such as 'Kontext Kunst', 'social engagement' and
'relational aesthetics', the participants will discuss developments
in recent contemporary exhibition history, including exhibitions
staged outside of the art institution that engaged with site in the
broadest sense. Speakers will include Doug Ashford, Claire Bishop,
Sabeth Buchmann, Charles Esche, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Stéphanie
Jeanjean, Renate Lorenz, Christian Philipp Müller and Stephan
Schmidt-Wulffen.
Organised by Afterall, at Central Saint Martins College of Art and
Design, as part of the Exhibition Histories project and in conjunction
with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven. Supported by the University of the Arts London, the
Institut Français du Royaume-Uni and the Goethe-Institut.
Realised within the framework of FORMER WEST, a
contemporary art research, education, publishing and exhibition
project (2008-2013). FORMER WEST is supported by the Mondriaan
Foundation, EU Culture Programme, European Cultural Foundation, and
the City of Utrecht.
For tickets book online or call 020 7887 8888
Picture caption: Ute Meta Bauer and Yvonne P. Doderer, Raumstruktur, 1994. Photo: Esther Thylmann.
