A small contribution.....

Hi reading the current posts thought this could be of use.

I have had past involvement with

http://asylum-arts.co.uk/

Contact - Dido Halett.....

For reference www.southlondonartmap.com

Also
http://www.artinemptybuildings.com/
Is a project set up by Simon Mc Andrew.....a very positive and inclusive individual
Julia Vaci is an ex FA Found sculpture student who might well be worth speaking with......


best as ever

Pierpaolo

Names for our group

Let's start a post about names. Add comments with your suggestions, so we'll have a list.

1. Robin suggested '215' (after the sculpture room at Back Hill).

2. I suggested 'Bureau of things' (connecting with the title of this blog).

Next...

Hey Fellas

Hey guys

I had a start looking around for places this eve and got some starting points for down south to see what kind of spaces people like???

the Bear in Camberwell is pretty nice but quite small maybe a little too small but I think i'd be able to get a cheap price on it above a busy nice pub

The old police station in Deptford is pretty swish from the sound of it, 60£ a day for 2 weeks (maybe too long) includes 4 cells and interview room. Has some nice character! maybe too much character? Also has 42 artist studios which increase likelihood of arty folk we don't know seeing the work.

Also theres the bun house in Peckham which is quite famous but a bit of a crack den, is never open and doesn't have a website but its well known...

Also I emailed a community art council lady about getting an abandoned space or something but she always takes ages to reply so I'm still waiting on that. (could be a while!)

I agree with Caroline on another meet soon!!

HEY GUYS.

So, after a very successful meeting last week (and oh how it was nice to see you all again!).....we must get to work!

You know the drill...

1. We need a name.
2. We need a space.

SO LET'S GET ON IT.

(and you better start reading this blog often again...we'll be using it for a while).

I PROPOSE another gathering the first weekend of March, or the week after. Thoughts? I'll send an obnoxious and demanding facebook message in the near future.

Love,

C

ps. if you didn't come last Thursday, but what to know what we're talking about, send me an email!

!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RRDLzxFXjY




Robin

Future present?

http://precariousworkersbrigade.tumblr.com/

Regards and best wishes.
Pierpaolo

Privacy is dead and happy christmas!

http://www.documentary-log.com/d2373-privacy-is-dead-%e2%80%93-get-over-it/




Robin

Happy Christmas all

Hi everyone (anyone who still reads the blog)

Thought by way of Christmas greeting send you a couple of pics of my snowman-efforts on Saturday..."Alfred" (so named as half way through making he looked like Alfred Hitchcock) and a 7 ft tall cat a group of us made...a bit like Koons' puppy I thought. We had to build a ramp to roll the head up it was so heavy!

Am hopefully going to tick off one of those 'you should do this once in your life' type things—build an igloo.

Hope you are all enjoying studies and life.

Happy Christmas!

Adrian

This Christmas' top single

Four and a half minutes of beautiful, riveting, X Factor-crunching silence:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2010/dec/13/cage-against-the-machine

Happy Christmas!

For anyone that want to show/talk bout their work

http://www.showmethemonet.tv/




R

Day of Action

On Wednesday 10th November over 50,000 students and education workers marched through central London: the biggest protest for education since Margaret Thatcher tried to introduce tuition fees in 1985. On Wednesday 24th students are walking out and demonstrating in a day of civil disobedience.

Funding cuts and fees of up to £9000 will burden students with debts of up to £50,000. The message from the Con-Dem government is clear: education is for the privileged only. We must fight for the principle: education is a right, not a privilege. Fund our future.

Current students may also be affected by staff cuts, fewer resources and a decline in quality of teaching.

The government claims cuts are a necessity while banks propped up by public funds rake in profits and pay out billions in bonuses and Britain’s highest earners have been allowed to dodge up to £40 billion in tax payments through a government agreement with Swiss banks. The cuts are an attack on all but the most privileged members of society, and on the public services that we rely on. Unite to fight the cuts.

On

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171608436200048

mdxagainstcuts@groups.facebook.com

Artist documentaries

Don't know if you guys heard of Art:21, documentaries on contemporary artists.
Check http://www.pbs.org/art21/ out.


Hope to see you guys soon!

XR

Welcome to our new course 2010/2011

The Team Sculpture School of Art is one of the biggest in Europe. It boasts an infinite campus and the combined facilities of Chelsea, Goldsmiths, St. Martins, Byam Shaw, Camberwell and Cambridge. There are no tutors but enough students to keep track of what we are doing, organize shows, pay each other visits, share tips and make drinking appointments. It would be the school's pleasure if you joined us for this life-long degree. Say yeah?

Opportunity

Hello and for those of you that are starting anew welcome back and good luck.

I have had some delightful contact with some, thank you. Please let me know when you are showing work, I would like to be able to come along.

Best

Pierpaolo

I came across this and thought that there may be amongst you some who might be interested.....

http://www.creative-choices.co.uk/opportunities/art-of-influencing-change

CSM Sackler Centre Show

Dina, Robin, Robert and Caroline are showing work in the CSM foundation show at the Sackler Centre in the V&A--opening on October 4th and running until early January.

Private view: Friday, October 8th at 6:30....come along! It might be interesting.

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talk at the TATE

Marina Abramovic is doing a talk at the Tate Modern on October 16th...

"Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade during the early 1970s Marina Abramovic is considered a major figure in performance art. She discusses her recent four-decade survey MOMA exhibition Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present which included a piece that marked her record for endurance after seating in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition totalling over 700 hours while facing a chair for visitors to seat.

Coinciding with her first solo show at Lisson Gallery in London, Abramovic analyses her interest in the preservation and the restaging of performance which motivated her founding of the Marina Abramovic Institute for Preservation of Performance Art in New York. She is in conversation with Iwona Blaswick.

In collaboration with Art Monthly

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£9 (£5 concessions), booking recommended"

The comeback

Hi everyone, how was your Summer? I saw Marc and Caroline the other day at Caroline's, which was great. The sad news is that I heard that maybe Emmeli and Julieta could be staying in their countries instead of coming back to London for next course. Is that right? No, let me tell you, that's not right.
Anyway, let's cheer up. There's this great Wolfgang Tillmans show at the Serpentine which closes on Sunday 19th. I've already seen it but I'll be going again. Maybe see you there.

Emmeli's Leaving

For everyone who doesn't know, Emmeli is leaving London for 'Kalle's Kaviar', 'Keso' and 'filmjölk' (which means Sweden!). I was therefor thinking that we should meet up a final time in 'my' gallery for drinks and hugs on Sunday at 9 o' clock!
I'm aware of that people are away these days but I really hope as many as possible can make it!
See you guys there (and don't forget to bring your Turkish rugs!).

XXXrobinXXX

Images from the RCA show

I really enjoyed this year's RCA sculpture show. One of the criteria when they select future students is to represent a broad spectrum of what's going on in sculpture and maybe that's the reason why the show felt really diverse in materials and concerns. There was a bit of institutional critique (the guy who broke one of the walls of the building). There was performance and video. There was bronze. There was foam and wax and silicone and crap and glossy kitsch paint. There was construction. Interactive pieces. Machine-making. Secret narratives. Non-narrative. Simplicity. Complexity.