Last week we posted a few videos from our new ‘Wimbledon Shots’ series. Here is another video from that same series. This time we are in the studio with BA Fine Art – Painting 1st year student Peter Simpson. Peter talks about his work and the course at Wimbledon.
See the full series here – www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/wimbledonshots
Wimbledon was delighted to welcome Fukusuke Nakamura, Kabuki grand-master to the College recently for the first UK performance of ‘Sumire’. In an ‘east meets west’ colloboration about the life of Chopin and his connections with Japanese culture, actors, musicians and designers held workshops for our students in Japanese Kabuki dance, makeup, music and costumes. With performers from East 15 Acting School, and Wimbledon’s Design for Performance, Costume Design, Technical Arts and Set Design students supporting this production, a wonderful Kabuki piece was performed to students and an invited audience.
‘Theatre and Performance Design: A reader in scenography’(Routledge) is the title of a new publication by Jane Collins and Andrew Nisbet. Jane is a member of the Research staff at Wimbledon College of Art.
The book draws upon theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and the social sciences to “to examine the principle forces that inform understanding of theatre and performance design.”
Packed full of key writings from lumunaries such as Josef Svoboda, Richard Foreman, Roland Barthes, Oscar Schlemmer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Richard Schechner, Jonathan Crary, Elizabeth Wilson, Henri Lefebvre, Adolph Appia and Herbert Blau the book “provides a much needed critical and contextual framework for the analysis of theatre and performance design.”
Spinal Cord is an experimental performance project by Deepan Sivaraman. Deepan is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD at Wimbledon College of Art which explores Spatial Identities and Visual Language in Indian Theatre.
Deepan says “in this performance project I am exploring the dramaturgy through space, objects and action as the core performance language rather than using word as a primary source of communication. The subject of this theatre project was inspired by the novel ‘The Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ by the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez.”
The play was recently nominated for India’s prestigious Mahindra Excellence Theatre Awards 2010 in ten categories and won seven awards including; best play, best director, best stage design, best choreography, best actor, best lighting design and best supporting actor.
Here’s another video from our ‘Wimbledon Shots’ series. This time we speak to Stephanie Reed, a 2nd year BA Costume Interpretation student. She talks to us about her current project, the course and the studios.
See more videos in the series – www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/wimbledonshots
We have started a new series of short video clips called ‘Wimbledon Shots’ that we hope will give you an insight into life at Wimbledon. The videos will feature students, staff, events and exhibitions.
For our first series we have interviewed some of our Undergraduate students. In this interview we spoke to 3rd year BA Fine Art – Sculpture student Teri Bruno. She talks about her work, the course and visiting lecturers.
See the full series of videos – www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/wimbledonshots
2 Wimbledon MA Fine Art alumni – Lydia Chatzistefanidou and Govinda Sah will be showing at the Recent Graduate exhibition at The Affordable Art Fair in Battersea. Curated by Jotta the exhibition offers a platform for 18 emerging artists whose practices test new perceptions of the archetypal landscape. The artists selected for ‘Land Without A Map’ reconsider natural and spatial elements, while questioning conventional visual assumptions.
Exhibition open: 11-14 March 2010
Curatorial talk: Saturday 13 March, 13.00
www.jotta.com / www.affordableartfair.com
Images top to bottom: Lydia Chatzistefanidou, Govinda Sah.
FILM/ VIDEO/ PERFORMANCE
MONDAY 8 MARCH PROGRAMME 12
PHOTOWORKS
Including work by Sophy Rickett and Ed Hughes, Susan Trangmar
FOUR CORNERS
Ingrid Berthon-Moine, David Birkin, Eloise Fornieles, Vron Harris, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Minou Norouzi, Alicja Rogalska, Cristina Saez, Geraldine Swayne
TUESDAY 9 MARCH PROGRAMME 13
DOCUMENT Documentary Films
For full details, please visit www.experimentaldrawingclass.com
WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH PROGRAMME 14/SPEAKEASY 13
HUMAN RIGHTS TV
JACK ADAMS, Director of Human Rights TV will be leading talks and discussions from 10am in the gallery.
Dreams, Landscapes and Videography of Culture, 10am – 12pm
Angry Voices, Frightened People: The Media of Gaza, 1 – 6.30pm
For full details, please visit www.experimentaldrawingclass.com
THURSDAY 11 MARCH PROGRAMME 15
THE RED TAPES 1, 2 & 3 Vito Acconci
FRIDAY 12 MARCH PROGRAMME 16
THE CUTTING
Toni Grisoni, Brian Catling
CHANNEL 14
A film by Chris Wainwright and David Bickerstaff
Please visit www.experimentaldrawingclass.com for further details.
Wimbledon College of Art
The costume show always happens in the spring term, and it’s a chance for second and third year Costume Students to have their designs worn and displayed in an exciting catwalk show, with music lights and an audience.
The Third Year Costume Interpretation, and Costume Design students have created costumes for an exhibition called ‘The Enchanted Palace’ which is being curated by Wildworks Theatre company, which will be shown as part of a collaborative project at Kensington Palace at the end of April.(further details will follow – keep reading the blog!).
The second year Costume Design and Costume Interpretation projects were based around ‘The Tempest’ and the Victorian project ‘Making it Real’. This year’s show was a huge success, lots of fun for all involved – and a wonderful spectacle for the audience.
Peter Robinson : The Influence of Anxiety (detail) 2010
The Centre for Drawing is delighted to welcome visiting Hood Fellow Peter Robinson to the project space at Wimbledon. Peter’s residency has been funded by the University of Auckland Hood Fellowship as the third in a series of exchanges between fine art practitioners from the CfD, Australian and New Zealand.
Peter Robinson is Associate Professor at the Elam School of Fine Arts, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland. This exhibition, consistent with Robinson’s manipulation and distortion of the gallery apparatus is his decision to disrupt the temporal conventions of the exhibition format.
Exhibition in the Centre for Drawing runs from 18th February to 8th March 2010 – open by appointment only. Please contact centrefordrawing@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk to arrange visit.
March 3rd : 2-3pm
Old Stuff New Stuff
Peter Robinson’s work and processes 1993-2010 PRESENTATION, Lecture Theatre, Wimbledon College of Art