The Drawing Archive to the Chelsea Special Collections, London

The Drawing Collective - Manca Bajec, Michele Drascek, Emma Moore and Milia Xin Bi - has donated The Drawing Archive to the Special Collections at Chelsea College of Art & Design Library.

The Drawing Archive Box contains:
The Drawing Archive Book (see image above), 450 pages book where every detail and idea, each interview conducted with artists, gallerists, professors, auctioneers and collectors, are archived;
The Drawing Archive Artbook, with images from the Wimbledon Space exhibition in March 2011 (see: http://micheledrascek.blogspot.com/2011/03/drawing-wimbledon-space-london.html);
an unsigned drawing by a well-know contemporary artist: it is a challenge for the researcher to find out who is, searching through the 450 pages of The Drawing Archive Book).


Chelsea Snapshot The Drawing Collective:
http://blogs.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/snapshot/2011/10/27/the-drawing-collective/

Chelsea Special Collection:
http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/ccwgraduateschool/archivesandresources/chelseaspecialcollections/

MA Curating Final Show - Chelsea College, London

MA Curating Final Show

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Chelsea Summer Shows 2011: Postgraduate

Private View + VIP Breakfast*: Friday 2 September 2011 / 18.00 – 21.00 and 8.00 – 11.00
Open to public: Friday 2 September – Thursday 8 September
Opening hours: Saturday and Sunday: 10.00 – 16.00 / Monday – Friday: 10.00 – 19.00

• MA Art Theory
• MA Curating
• MA Fine Art
• MA Graphic Design Communication
• MA Interior Spatial Design
• MA Textile Design

Venue: Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU
For more information email: info@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
Twitter – @ccwlondon / hashtag – #summershows11
*Please note VIP Breakfast is by invitation only

Frozen Events; a simple act of being - Flat Time House

presents

Frozen Events; a simple act of being

a project by Manca Bajec, Michele Drascek and Emma Moore.


Flat Time House
Friday 5th - Friday 12th August
Preview Friday 5th, 6 - 8pm

This show presents the work of two emerging artists, Nicholas Johnson and Haruka Hashiguchi. Both artists address the issue of the immaterial and the absent presence that lingers in Flat Time House. Hashiguchi uses found objects and textiles in her delicate, intricate installations. Johnson creates beautiful music compositions, drawing inspiration from natural objects.


Preview Friday 5th August, 6 - 8pm.
Exhibition opening times: Friday 5th, Saturday 6th, Sunday 7th, Thursday 11th, and Friday 12th August, 12 - 6pm.


Flat Time House
210 Bellenden Road
London SE15 4BW
+44 (0)20 7207 4845
info@flattimeho.org.uk
http://www.flattimeho.org.uk/

Flat Time House is the home and studio of the late British artist John Latham.

 Flat Time House (detail)
Installing the exhibition, 1st July 2011

Flat Time House is a few minutes walk from Peckham Rye and East Dulwich British Rail stations. There are regular, fast trains from London Bridge & Victoria. Buses to Peckham Library or Rye Lane.

The John Latham Foundation

RELAY Book Launch in Peckham Space

RELAY  BOOK LAUNCH

24 June 2011

6-8:30pm

Relay is the third in the Bright Series of publications.

Relay works through cross-course collaboration between MRes Arts Practice, MA Art Theory and MA Curating. By showing how research is carried out in projects practice, Relay brings the relationship between creative practice, research and teaching to life.

Featuring Michele Drascek's contribution in the chapter Art & Society.

The launch coincides with David Cotterrell’s exhibition, Slipstream.
This evening is also a Last Friday with over 90 South London Art Map venues open ‘til late.

 

 












24 June 2011
6-8:30pm
Peckham Space
89 Peckham High Street
London SE 15 5RS

Peckham Space / Relay Book Launch:

http://www.peckhamspace.com/

http://peckhamspace.com/project/slipstream/publication-relay

South London Art Map:

http://www.southlondonartmap.com/

Isolated Figures in Royal Academy of Arts, London

 

I assume a passive attitude and I wait
from the series Isolated Figures
selected
from Royal Academy of Arts
for the Summer Exhibition 2011


I assume a passive attitude and I wait
form the series Isolated figures
mixed technique on canvas
20x15x2 cm.




Summer Exhibition 2011
7 June - 15 August 2011

Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD

for more information:
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/



The Summer exhibition 2011 is a unique presentation of recent and new work by both artists from open submission and from the Academicians. Gallery 3 (the largest in the Academy and traditionally used for the display of work by Royal Academicians and Honorary RAs) will be hung in the style of a ‘salon hang’. The aim is to exploit the grandeur of the Academy’s principal room with a memorably dense and rich visual experience.

THE DRAWING - Wimbledon Space, London

the drawing collective

// Michele Drascek  Manca Bajec  Emma Moore  Milia Xin Bi //

present

Collective / Interview / Gallery Visit / Money / Value / Authorship / Misunderstandings / Determination / Unfinished / The impossibility of the display of absolute knowledge-understanding.

"You don't understand the meaning of my gesture". We have been caught up in an endless cycle of idea, pursuit, discovery and advancement - how to convey the fact that for four months four individuals worked consistently with the idea of purchasing one artwork. Throughout this process, the act of doing/pursuing becomes all consuming and overshadows the act of presentation or exhibition. In a desperate attempt to reconcile the two, 'doing' exhausts itself to the point of displaying incomprehensible lines of enquiry and discovery.

Tangled in a mess of correspondences and miscommunication lie an archive of lived experience: impossible to be accurately displayed, unlikely to be repeated, definitely to be continued.



http://forthedrawing.blogspot.com/ 

the drawing at Wimbledon Space:

http://www.wimbledon.arts.ac.uk/

the drawing collective would like to thank the following for their contribution to the project:

Donald Smith
David Medalla
Stephen Farthing
Hans Ulrich Obrist
Jason Brown
Rober Lee
Nicola Shane
Haroon Mizra
Antony Hudek
Isobel Whitelegg
Joseph Heatcott
Donald Moore
David Dibosa
Richard Boyd
Clare Mitte
Mary Doyle
Philip Athill
Oisin Merrins
Neil Cummings
Guy Brett
Tom Rooth
Ellie Pitkins
Rydal Hanbury
Sarah Catherine Gifford
Christina Gassner
David Garcia
Gustavo Grandal-Montenero

COMING SOON

WLSRP exhibition set up in Chelsea Space

present

THE WEST LONDON SOCIAL RESOURCE PROJECT PUBLIC MONITOR 1972

by Stephen Willats

In the early 1970’s Stephen Willats developed a new project which revolutionised art and its reception and created a prototype for the future of art practice. The work was called The West London Social Resource Project and its aim was to be socially responsible, self organising, inclusive, and community-based to reflect societal values, behaviour, contextual language, and environment and to encourage those normally excluded from “high” culture to participate.

This is a unique opportunity to see this work, that has informed the agenda of much of current art practice, on display in London for the first time in over thirty years. Stephen Willats has generously collaborated with us and Special Collections Librarian, Gustavo Grandal Montero, to create a new installation of the Public Monitor devised especially for CHELSEA space.

(excerpt from Chelsea Space press release)

Installing WLSRP in Chelsea Space 

THE WEST LONDON SOCIAL RESOURCE PROJECT PUBLIC MONITOR 1972
Stephen Willats

Director of exhibitions: Donald Smith
Assistant curators: Michele Drascek, Barbara Elting


Private view: Tuesday 8th March 2011, 6 – 8.30pm

08.03.11 - 09.04.11
Opening time
Tuesday - Friday: 11am - 5pm
Saturday: 10am - 4pm


Visit the Chelsea Space official website:
http://www.chelseaspace.org/

Monitoring Stephen Willats on Chelsea Space Blog:
http://www.chelseaspace.org/blog/archives/504

"The Fourth Wall" in Living Space - 2nd AllArtNow Festival, Syria

Michele Drascek
The Fourth wall
Performance / video
2008-2009
Theatre Kud Preseren
Ljubljana, Slovenia

camera Maja Slavec
assistant Ursa Vidic
sound Sebastien Fraboulet

The artist performs at the centre of the stage, hanging on the roof.
In front of him “The fourth wall” (in the theatrical language it is the imaginary wall that separates the stage from the audience). He tries to dismantle this wall with his still look and presence. He replaces himself in the temple of representation. Liturgical value of the action, mysterious dimension of the space and slowness of the performance are stressed by the sound of a church that carries a certain feeling of the ineffable.

3.KANAL: MALA ZVEZDA

MALA ZVEZDA
by Robert Srebrnič

The artist has received the student Prešeren award for his diploma work titled Mala zvezda [Little Star].
The simple story narrated in the animation provides interesting answers relating to our current human attitude towards nature. Representing the main idea, the narrative Little Star exposes two messages appearing in the story as two central developments, mutually intertwining, supplementing each other and unfolding the contents in cooperation. The first message is about ethics, about what an attitude the individual and the society should have towards nature. The second message explains the role of the main actor representing a boy, a child who has only just begun to shape his world. And he starts to be aware of his existence.

June 2010

KINO ŠIŠKA

Center for Urban Culture

Ljubljana (Slovenia)

3rd video screen in upper lobby

during public events in the Katedrala hall

http://www.kinosiska.si/

3.KANAL: AUDIOCREACTIVE + KIAKOSHI

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AUDIOREACTIVE + KIAKOSHI
by JORINNA SCHERLE

curated by Michele Drascek

Based on the principles of minimal music, AUDIOREACTIVE visualizes microtonal events such as frequency, duration, tone pitch and sound volume in 3-dimensional environments.

At first developed and designed independently, the 3d-setups reveal their connection to the sound through the animation in many different ways. The audio influences and controls variables such as position, size, color, light, texture or physical principles like gravity or magnetism.

AUDIOREACTIVE encompasses following pieces:

POLY:GON - sound: Tim Hecker

E-LINES - sound: DACM, Tim Hecker

MAGNETO - sound: Tim Hecker

SW - sound: Radiohead

CHENILLE - sound: Fennesz

"KIAKOSHI – come alive" is a corporate film for the autumn/winter 09/10 collection of KIAKOSHI – a newcomer fashion label from Berlin with Japanese roots. Themed "come alive" five sleeping fashion ikebanas awake and enfold delicately their own worlds until they end up in an awake position. The film shows an intimate and emotional expression of the designers taste, one that explores the contradictions and dualities in vintage and modern fashion.

Jorinna Scherle is a motion designer and director from Berlin, Germany. Besides commercial design jobs, she tries to spend as much time as possible on creating digital art and design.

Starting in 2002 she has been attending the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden for communications design and media informatics, where she studied everything from graphic design to photography, painting and programming. She graduated 2009 Magna Cum Laude.

Her films have been shown at festivals, galleries, magazines, TV programmes and blogs worldwide.

http://www.jorinna.com/

KINO ŠIŠKA

Center for Urban Culture

Ljubljana (Slovenia)

3rd video screen in upper lobby

during public events in the Katedrala hall

http://www.kinosiska.si/

3.Kanal:

http://www.kinosiska.si/en/events/exhibitions-and-film/2010-05-07/3rd_channel_audioreactive_kiakoshi/151/

3. KANAL: THE IMAGINARY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC TRANSFORMATIONS

"The Imaginary of Electromagnetic Transformations"
by Maja Smrekar

This time 3rd Channel presents video material that has been created in the third/last series of the original project The imaginarium of electromagnetic transformations, which was executed on 26 November 2009 by Maja Smrekar and Luka Prinčič within the project CIRKULACIJA 2 and Net.Art Community Convention/MediaLab Graz.
The dialogue happened in real time as a live-stream performance linking MMC Kiberpipa in Ljubljana and Kunsthaus Graz in Austria. While conceiving and executing her projects, the intermedia artist Maja Smrekar seeks to rearticulate the use of new and old technologies from a socially critical viewpoint, as well as expose interdisciplinarily and interactively the synergy of mutual relations between fields of science, art and technology in relation to the systems of subjective perception of space and repressive systems of power and control. She thus wishes to reinterpret diverse phenomena of past and present media environments in an analytic manner, as well as warn critically of potential images of future realities of media and the society.

Curator: Michele Drascek





KINO ŠIŠKA
Center for Urban Culture
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
From 1st to 30th April 2010
http://www.kinosiska.si/

3rd video screen in upper lobby
(during public events in the large Katedrala hall)

3. KANAL: REVALUATION IN KINO ŠIŠKA

present

3. KANAL:
Revaluation by Maja Slavec
curated by Michele Drascek

Maja Slavec [Slovenia] Maja Slavec (1979) graduated in art pedagogy from the Faculty of Education, Maribor in 2005. A year later she entered the masters programme in photography at the Academy of Fine Arts, Ljubljana, mentored by Prof Milan Pajk. As she completed her undergraduate studies, an exhibition in Media Nox gallery hinted at a typical feature of her work, i.e. the objects that are featured in her art photography are never revealed in full. Rather, the artist presents us with a concealed view through the peephole, neither voyeuristic nor objective, but multilayered and well considered. The artist particularly attracted the attention of general public last year, as she was included in the review of Slovenian feminist art Women are coming! which was organised within the City of Women festival. She presented performance video documentation Woman Beauty Power Less, which she enacted in the centre of Ljubljana. The artist doesn't idealise the role of the woman, nor is she looking for the 'natural' original woman's role, rather, she is looking for a woman that is aware entirely of her relationship towards her social role.
http://maja-slavec.blogspot.com/




REVALUATION
Performance in public space
video
42'

The movement of the dancer has the intention to create circles in the space. The circles represent the public system (political, cultural, economical, etc.) that has an impact on our life, with or without our approval.
The “tondo” is a micro system of intimate space, a system that exists among others. I see the intimate and the public structures as closed systems in which we could fit in or not. The movement of the dancer creates an intimate story that is trying to fit in a public structure, but the figure is constantly breaking the perfect shape and creating his/her own ones. The figure represents the autonomy of a living being, with the frustrations that he/she develops in the process of growth.
The main shape – the circle - can be seen as an ocular or as a general shape of the life path that I understand as a repetition in general. As Artists, I think that we have the same path to follow, but we have greater autonomy than the others. We constantly revaluate the system, we tighten its borders and we account for our actions under the autonomy of Art.
The interconnections between the space of the dancer and the people involved by chance in the performance represent the relations tied in our society, inside the system. In the end: Are these relations under our control? Or, since they are tied in the system, is it the system itself that controls our relations? Who is the winner? The individual or the system? Is the path we choose to walk ours? Or is it controlled by the system of our political, economical or cultural structures? Are we really free in our decisions?
The second part of the video goes backwards: it is the revaluation of a life that ended. What could we do better? Do we accept the past or we are sorry for the things we did? After all, is the power of being still strong enough to arrive to our life end with a smile? What does it mean to be significant? And to whom? Did our life as artists have an impact on the society?


KINO ŠIŠKA
Center for Urban Culture
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
From 1st March to 31st March 2010
Everyday from 9am till 8pm
+ night screening
http://www.kinosiska.si/

Revaluation:
http://www.kinosiska.si/en/events/exhibitions-and-film/2010-03-03/3rd_channel_revaluation_curator_michele_drascek/108/

3. KANAL: V-ATAK in KINO ŠIŠKA

present

3. KANAL:
V-Atak
curated by Michele Drascek


V-ATAK [France]
Founded in 2002, V-Atak is a label dedicated to audio and visual art.
Made up with a hybrid mix of Vj’s, movie makers and musicians, the label grew year after year and developed an edgy identity on the Audio/Video live scene.
When performing video/audio live art and producing music clips as well, the crew is at its best by taking risks. V-Atak services and products (installations, Vjing, DVDs) reflect that constant questioning that the label has on manner and matter, playing with the ever-changing digital technology and its limits.
While society, corporations and politics use images and media to exert a control on the masses, V-Atak challenges common sense and ideas through images and sounds. The process that has become them trademark, distorting contemporary media icons to recreate an original sense, offers the public an opportunity to question with irony and violence the mass media representations.
http://www.v-atak.com/
The video Death Mariachi, Feeding your back and Fuel tank presented in 3.Kanal are included in the DVD and CD “Tzii - Rotten Friendship”, produced by V-Atak and Night On Earth (audio label). "Tzii - Rotten Friendship" arises from the encounter between Robin Kobrynski (aka RKO) and Eric Desjeux (aka Tzii), respective founders of these two labels.



FEEDING YOUR BACK
(daisy)
Directed by 1n0ut
Music by TZII
Duration: 9’20
Year of production: 2008
Location of production: JAPAN / USA
Production: 1n0ut / V-ATAK
DVD 16/9 PAL
Synopsis: A digital resurrection of poor dead creatures, which accompany a dark musical flow. Morphs of dead taxidermy corps tunnel a vision of dead digital eternity.

DEATH MARIACHI
Directed by RKO
Music by TZII & RKO
Duration: 9’45
Year of production: 2008
Location of production: MEXICO / FRANCE
Production: V-ATAK
DVD 16/9 PAL
Synopsis: Images and sounds collected through Mexico as postcards. Swirling around eclectic scenes of this country, a camera guides us in the inmost depths of a dolls sanctuary...The death is only represented by the support of films, discovering little by little the dark faces of this trip to the country of Mariachis.

FUEL TANK
Directed by TOFF alias Christophe Rannou
Music by TZII
Duration: 6’
Year of production: 2008
Location of production: FRANCE
Production: V-ATAK
DVD 16/9 PAL
Synopsis: Dark echo from the chaos resound into the infinit...

PULSAR 23
Directed by Robin Kobrynski
Music by Pedro Penas Robles
Duration: 10'
Year of production: 2005
Location of production: France
Production: V-ATAK
16/9 PAL
Synopsis:The action is located in a post-apocalyptic world. The war ravaged a part of the humanity. Some survivors persist on this contaminated earth. Teams of human beings locked in bunker send robots to find survivors...


KINO ŠIŠKA
Center for Urban Culture
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Opening 1st February 2010
Everyday from 9am till 8pm
+ night screening
www.kinosiska.si

v-atak agenda:
http://www.v-atak.com/events/01022010-v-atak-screening-kinosiska-lubjana-slovenia

3. KANAL in KINO ŠIŠKA: Night Screening

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