The Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much
Saturday 19 March, 11 am – 6.30 pm
Henry Moore Gallery
Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Sean Dockray and Marysia Lewandowska discuss their projects for Shadowboxing in a seminar focusing on issues of self-organisation, forms of resistance and their representation. The event includes additional contributions by Rod Dickinson and Janna Graham, as well as a screening of The Hornsey Film (Patricia Holland, 1970). Made with the students and staff of Hornsey College of Art the film reconstructs the arguments that led to their 1968 occupation of the school.
Speakers bios
Sean Dockray (b. 1977, Boston, USA) studied architecture at Princeton University before receiving his MFA from University of California, Los Angeles. Dockray has exhibited at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA and is one of the founding directors of the non-profit institution Telic Arts Exchange. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Marysia Lewandowska (b. 1955, Szczecin, Poland) received her MA from the University of Warsaw. Between 1995 and 2008, she collaborated with Neil Cummings in a series of projects exhibited at Tate Modern, the V&A Museum and the Whitechapel Gallery, and has recently shown at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. She is Professor of Fine Art at Konstfack, Stockholm, and lives and works in London.
Wendelien van Oldenborgh (b.1962, Rotterdam, the Netherlands) graduated from Goldsmiths College, London. Her work has been exhibited at the Generali Foundation, Vienna; Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the 10th Istanbul Biennal (2009); and the 29th Bienal of São Paulo (2010). She was Guest Professor at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst (Vienna) from 2009 to 2010, and lives and works in Rotterdam.
Janna Graham Janna Graham is an researcher, educator and activist who works as Projects Curator at Serpentine Gallery (UK), where she overseas the Edgware Road Project. Based at the Centre for Possible Studies, the Project is an international artist residency that enables site specific projects about migration and urban space politics. She has worked on writing curating, artistic and education projects with 16 Beaver Group (NY); Fuse Magazine (Toronto); Project Arts Centre (Dublin);the Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff);Mercer Union (Toronto);Vannabbemuseum (Eindhoven); Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto);Whitechapel Art Gallery (London); Plymouth Arts Centre (Plymouth) and Debajehmujig Theatre (Wikwemikong). She is one of 10 members of the international sound collective Ultra-red and works with the Carrot Workers Collective on the rights of cultural workers in London.
Rod Dickinson Rod Dickinson (b. 1965, UK) is a visual artist and lecturer in media and cultural studies at University of West England in Bristol. His art work explores ideas of control and mediation and focuses on the way in which our behaviour is moderated by feedback systems. Using detailed research into moments of the past and present, he has made a series of meticulously re-enacted events that represent various mechanisms of social control. He lives and works in Bristol.
All events are free. To book a place email: shadowboxing@rca.ac.uk
Posted 17 March 2011
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