Monday 7 June 2010

Keynote at Writing Around the Kitchen Table: Spatial Writing Practices, a One Day Symposium: supported by Geoplaced Knowledge; SARU, Monash University; Architecture, UniMelb; curated by arch+phil.

Wednesday 9 June 2010

Leading a MA/PhD student spatial writing workshop. RMIT University School of Architecture and Design, Architecture and Interior; SARU, University of Melbourne, Geoplaced.

Thursday 10 June 2010

Arch+Phil public lecture, RMIT, 6.30pm, 8.11.68.

Defensive Buildings in Offensive Times

7.30pm, 18 November 2009

Redgrave Suite, Level 4, Barbican

Protection, shelter, fortress… How does our understanding of fortification differ from that of landlocked Europe in relation to the Cold War and the lifting of the Iron Curtain? What can we learn from surviving bunkers here and abroad? With Wayne Cocroft, senior archeological investigator at English Heritage, David Heathcote, design and architectural historian, and Professor Jane Rendell, Director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett. Chaired by Brian Dillon, UK Editor of Cabinet Magazine.

The discussion relates to a new art commission:

Robert Kusmirowski Bunker 30 September 2009 – 10 January 2010 The Curve Gallery, Barbican

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=8909

Speaker at 
Public Art Needs Time Limits and Bristol launch of One Day Sculpture book

Project Focus: One Day Sculpture
Seminar Venue: Spike Island, 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UX
Date: Thursday 3^rd December 2009, 10.30am – 4.30pm (registration 10.00am)

http://www.ixia-info.com/training/public-art-needs-time-limits/

Session Chair for Architecture, Fiction and Other Stories

Constructing Knowledge/Das Wissen der Architektur

5-6 November 2009

RWTH Aachen Germany

http:/candide.arch.rwth–aachen.de/en/constructing

Friday 10 July at the Jerwood Space, Union Street, SE1

Following on from last summer’s successful Research Workshop at the Jerwood Space near Tate Modern, we’re returning there on 9 and 10 July. And once again, the aim of this year’s Summer Workshop is to review current research across the range of fields and practices with which our research students are engaged.

To this end, we’ve arranged two panels of guest speakers, who will address some key issues in these fields. We hope that you’ll be able to attend both days and both panel sessions, not least because it’s important for your own research training to find out about other kinds of research-how these compare with your own, what overlaps there are between them, and what you can learn from them.

The panel session on Friday is on Crossing boundaries: interdisciplinary research and creative practices. The panellists are:
* Professor Jane Rendell, Director of Architectural Research at the Bartlett, UCL. An architectural designer and historian, art critic and writer, her work has explored various interdisciplinary intersections: feminist theory and architectural history, fine art and architectural design, autobiographical writing and criticism. She is author of Site-Writing: The Architecture of Art Criticism (forthcoming 2009), Art and Architecture (2006), and The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002) among many other works.
* Dr Frank Millward, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston. Frank’s research explores the connections between scientific and artistic visualization processes and their relationships to sound, acknowledging that each can inform the other and that the blurred divide between technical and artistic is interdisciplinary territory where innovation and new knowledge is created. Frank has recently composed and musically directed a number of site-specific works for major U.K. festivals including: Dining With Alice and The Perfect Day. He has also written, arranged and/or performed on a number of documentary film scores for ABC, BBC, Channel 4 and independent producers in Australia and the UK.
* Dr Paul Micklethwaite, Senior Research Fellow in FADA. From academic beginnings in philosophy, Paul gradually moved into social research, then design research, and then into ’sustainability’. His PhD investigated the question ‘what is design?’, incorporating a large-scale interview study. Paul now teaches, supervises research students, and undertakes research projects and knowledge transfer activities, all in the area of Design for Sustainability and often using social research methods. He is the current editor of Kiosk, a multi-disciplinary annual of art and design.

Each day will also feature three work-in-progress presentations by PhD students, and a discussion about research practices and policies in the Faculty.

The programme for each day will begin at 10 am, and end at 4.30, and lunch at the Jerwood is included. If you want to be sure of a place, please book as soon as possible with Emerald Day at e.day@kingston.ac.uk as numbers are limited.

For more information on the work of Rosa Nguyen:

http://www.nguyen-ceramics.co.uk/

Michael Pinsky: A comprehensive survey of projects from 1998 – 2008. Hard Cover, 17 x 24 cm, 128 pages, full colour. Published by the John Hansard Gallery. Funded by the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England. Designed by CHK Design. Essays by JJ Charlesworth and Jane Rendell.
Available from the John Hansard Gallery and Cornerhouse. £9.95 + P&P
http://www.michaelpinsky.com/

For more information about the work of Michael Pinksy:
http://www.michaelpinsky.com/

1, Michael Pinksy, Lost O, (2007) Ashford. For more information: http://www.losto.org/
2, Michael Pinksy, Viral Planting, (2006) Panacea, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK and Centre d’Art Contemporain Le Parvis, Ibos, France. For more information: www.panaceaproject.org

3, Michael Pinksy, Healing Wall, L’Appât, (2006) Residency Mas d’azil, France.
4, Michael Pinksy, Crawl, (2004) Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK and Centre de Création Contemporaine, Tours, France.

For more information:
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts/hayward-exhibitions/psycho-buildings

‘The Gas Pipe was a site-specific installation in Giardini park, one of the main venues of Venice Biennale. Inspired by the planned NordStream pipeline project, the installation comprises a real scale gas pipe set between the pavilions of Russia and Germany. The purpose of the project is to test the possibilities of critical art and architecture, addressing various issues of contemporary spatial environment, landscape of politics, infrastructure, and energetics.’

For more information about the project:
http://biennaal.arhliit.ee/

To download the publication:
http://biennaal.arhliit.ee/catalogue/