REWIND Screening Event

REWIND Screening Event

Date: 15 February, 7 - 8.30pm

Gallery: Centrespace, Visual Research Centre

The Self and Surroundings

REWIND Collection screening programme, selected by REWIND/DJCAD Archivist Adam Lockhart.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, 7 - 8.30pm

To book a space for this fee event please visit this link: http://rewind-self-surroundings.eventbrite.co.uk/

To resonate with the RECORD>AGAIN! 40yearsvideoart.de - Part 2 Exhibition, a selection of works from the REWIND|Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s collection at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design will be presented for this screening programme. The selected works span the period from the 1970s to the early 1990s and draw on themes revolving around the relationships between the self , the state, the media and the environment. Highlights include the influential British video artist David Hall’s work that interjects throughout the screening programme, Hall has recently received a lifetime achievement award at the Samsung Media Art Awards. Details of the programme are at the base of this page.

RECORD>AGAIN! 40yearsvideoart.de - Part 2 is the second phase of a remarkable project40jahrevideokunst.de, initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation in 2006. Under the direction of ZKM Karlsruhe (Centre for Art & Media Technology), five leading German museums have worked in collaboration for the realisation of the project, which aims to preserve, restore and disseminate one of the most influential art forms of the 20th century; Video Art.

Including many works that have not been seen for decades, the exhibition features over 40 outstanding video pieces made between 1968 and 2008. Highlights include a rare work by Ulrike Rosenbach with her partner at the time, Klaus vom Bruch, the boxing match from 1972 that Joseph Beuys participated in at the documenta 5, and the first video synthesizer collages by Walter Schröder-Limmer.

The exhibition focuses exclusively on the medium of video and the core mission of the project, which is preservation, not canonisation. Many works from the history of video were considered untraceable, lost or no longer playable. The project’s main concern is to save these works from deteriorating while at the same time reconstructing the history of the video movement as a whole.

The REWIND: Artists’ Video in the 70s & 80s research project at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design provides a meaningful context for this exhibition to be shown at Centrespace at Visual Research Centre, DJCAD. The REWIND project through its focus on video works of the 1970s and 1980s provides a resource to address the gap in historical knowledge of the evolution of electronic media arts in the UK. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) it has investigated, conserved and archived over 450 single screen and installation works from the first two decades of artists’ works in video. Building upon the success of REWIND UK, a new funding support from the AHRC enables the project team to embark on REWINDItalia; a 28-month project that explores the important history and narratives of video art activity in Italy between 1968 and 1994.

* The exhibition and In-conversation event are presented in association with Goethe-Institut Glasgow      

More about REWIND:

REWIND project website  http://www.rewind.ac.uk/  includes a database with detailed information, technical information, ephemera, reviews and critical texts on the artists & works, paper archive, interviews, oral testimony, clips and still images from all the works with searchable index. The masters viewing copies  form the basis of REWIND I Artists’ Video Collection, for curatorial, scholarly and public access at the Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts and Central St Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London.

A REWIND publication will be produced in 2012 (published for UK by John Libbey Publishing; and for USA by Indiana University Press), with contributions from Sean Cubitt, Grahame Weinbren, Yvonne Spielmann, Malcolm Dickson, Stephen Partridge, Adam Lockhart, Jackie Hatfield, Emile Shemilt and Mike Leggett, with Foreword by Brian Winston.

Following the successful research and archiving of UK video art through the REWIND research project, a new £209,000 grant from the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), will enable the project team to embark upon REWINDItalia. This 28-month project will explore the important history and narratives of video art activity in Italy between 1968 and 1994.

Stephen Partridge is an artist and academic researcher. He is the principal investigator on the research project REWIND funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC). He exhibited in landmark video shows including Video Show, Serpentine (1975), Installation Show, Tate (1976) and The Kitchen, New York (1979). During the eighties he became interested in works for broadcast television and was commissioned by Channel 4. With Jane Rigby, he produced the innovative Television Interventions project, Channel 4 (1990). He has also curated a number of influential video shows and touring tape packages:Video Art 78 in Coventry; UK TV New York; National Review of Live Art 1988-90; 19:4:90 Television Interventions; Made in Scotland I,II, Semblances, Passages. 
Other major collaborations include installations and prints with the artist Elaine Shemilt. He established the School of Television & Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (University of Dundee) and is presently Professor of Media Art and Dean of Research.

Programme: 

David Hall, TV Interruptions 93 – reacTV, 1min, 1993

Ian Breakwell/Mike Leggett, One, 15min, 1971

David Hall, TV Interruptions 93 – contexTV, 1min, 1993

Mick Hartney, State of Division, 5min 38secs, 1978

Chris Meigh-Andrews, Continuum, 4min 40secs, 1977

Madelon Hooykaas/Elsa Stansfield, Running Time, 6min 4secs, 1979

INTERLUDE - with a live performance from The Devotionalists

David Hall, TV Interruptions 93 – withouTV, 1min, 1993

Clive Gillman, Electrical Development, 10min, 1986

Judith Goddard, Celestial Light and Monstrous Races (Multiscreen Version), 4min 40secs, 1985

David Hall, TV Interruptions 93 – exiTV, 1min, 1993, 

Rik Lander, Trial By Media, 6min 22secs, 1989

Mike Stubbs, The Sweatlodge, 6min 54secs, 1991

David Hall, TV Interruptions 93 – ecstaseeTV, 1min 30secs, 1993

Total Running Time: 65mins (Part 1 33m, Part 2 32m)

Centrespace, Visual Research Centre is part of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and is located on the lower floors of Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee.

Reflecting on Research: DRU Dialogues

Design Research Unit 1942-72: DRU Dialogues

Jo Bletcher: PhD Research in Design at DJCAD

Back in December, I ventured into the Cooper Gallery for my first public outing as a ‘Research Student’. With the blessings of Sophia and Laura, I set myself up within the space, to encourage conversations with visitors, and gain a deeper insight into the practices of the Design Research Unit. DRU Dialogues was an early research exercise, evaluating curatorial practice in terms of ‘curating innovation’, in relation to the exhibition ‘Design Research Unit 1942-72’, a touring exhibition curated my Michelle Cotton. I used my time in the gallery to take notes, sketch, take photographs, create mind maps, and read more about the origins and working methods of the DRU. Michelle Cotton’s book that accompanied the exhibition is an account of the history of the DRU and its members, from the end of the 1920s up until the 1970s. It contextualizes the objects that were shown at the exhibition, to a greater depth than was possible within the limits of the exhibition space.

The main benefit to creating a research space within the gallery was the possibility of approaching visitors, and hearing their thoughts and opinions. I think it is important to be able to access the superb facilities we have here. Creating a conversational space: having the opportunity to use the gallery, as a site for research and interaction, was hugely beneficial for my continuing development as a researcher. A collaborative approach to learning and development is encouraged throughout DJCAD: Exhibitions already work with a student curatorial team, who last year produced exhibitions such as Collections Part 1 and Part 2. Throughout the remainder of my time as a researcher, I hope to be able to work again with Exhibitions, as well as staff and students from other departments.

During DRU Dialogues, students, staff and members of the public all visited the exhibition, for various reasons and durations. Several comments made by visitors related to their pleasure at seeing a design exhibition within the Cooper Gallery. As a space predominantly used for fine art practices, the situating of design here was significant, and an act that curator Sophia would look to repeat. Original photographs, letterheads and physical objects, were other aspects that were of major interest to some viewers, and these went some way to developing a narrative of the historical period in which the DRU were active.

For me, the discussions that arose around curating and viewing design, and how this seems to differ from curating and viewing fine art, were significant. Do you require more, or less explanation of design works in a gallery space? Does your approach to interpreting design differ from interpreting ‘art’? What is the essence of design, the product or the designer’s processes? How do you convey the research process, through exhibition, in an engaging, relevant way for the viewer? Is using the term ‘viewer’ or ‘audience’ too passive for exhibitions that encourage an engagement with design processes? These are questions that will be cropping up again and again throughout my research, and I hope to continue the conversations that attempt to address them, and produce responses to them. No final solutions were forthcoming during DRU Dialogues, so the conversation will have to continue…

RECORD/REWIND In-Conversation Event, February, 3 - 4.30pm

RECORD/REWIND In-Conversation Event

Gallery: Centrespace, Visual Research Centre

RECORD/REWIND In-Conversation Event: 2 February 2012, 3 - 4.30pm

To book for this event go to: http://recordrewindinconversation.eventbrite.co.uk/

To accompany this exhibition of an extraordinary selection of video works from Germany, an In-conversation event will take place at the Visual Research Centre of DJCAD; the home of the REWIND research project. Featuring researchers, curators and artists from Germany and Britain, this discursive event provides a unique opportunity to scrutinise the histories of the video art movement in both countries and to unpack the propositions, approaches and outcomes of these two prestigious historic European research projects.

Speakers include Malcolm Dickson, Holger Mohaupt, Dorcas Müller and Stephen Partridge, chaired by Deirdre MacKenna. (see biogs below)

* We would like to thank Goethe-Institut Glasgow for supporting us to invite the keynote speaker Dorcas Müller to contribute to this event.

The Preview of the exhibition follows the In-Conversation event and takes place between 6 – 8pm on the 2 February. The exhibition continues 3 February – 4 March 2012, Mon – Sun 12 – 4.30pm. There will also be a REWIND Screening Event on 15 February, 5.30 – 7.30pm.

RECORD>AGAIN! 40yearsvideoart.de - Part 2 is the second phase of a remarkable project40jahrevideokunst.de, initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation in 2006. Under the direction of ZKM Karlsruhe (Centre for Art & Media Technology), five leading German museums have worked in collaboration for the realisation of the project, which aims to preserve, restore and disseminate one of the most influential art forms of the 20th century; Video Art.

Including many works that have not been seen for decades, the exhibition features over 40 outstanding video pieces made between 1968 and 2008. Highlights include a rare work by Ulrike Rosenbach with her partner at the time, Klaus vom Bruch, the boxing match from 1972 that Joseph Beuys participated in at the documenta 5, and the first video synthesizer collages by Walter Schröder-Limmer.

The exhibition focuses exclusively on the medium of video and the core mission of the project, which is preservation, not canonisation. Many works from the history of video were considered untraceable, lost or no longer playable. The project’s main concern is to save these works from deteriorating while at the same time reconstructing the history of the video movement as a whole.

The REWIND: Artists’ Video in the 70s & 80s research project at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design provides a meaningful context for this exhibition to be shown at Centrespace at Visual Research Centre, DJCAD. The REWIND project through its focus on video works of the 1970s and 1980s provides a resource to address the gap in historical knowledge of the evolution of electronic media arts in the UK. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) it has investigated, conserved and archived over 450 single screen and installation works from the first two decades of artists’ works in video. Building upon the success of REWIND UK, a new funding support from the AHRC enables the project team to embark on REWINDItalia; a 28-month project that explores the important history and narratives of video art activity in Italy between 1968 and 1994.

 * The exhibition and In-conversation event are presented in association with Goethe-Institut Glasgow       

  

Biographies of the speakers for the RECORD/REWIND In-conversation Event:

Malcolm Dickson is a curator, writer, organiser and Director of Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow. He has curated numerous projects including Lost and Found: video installations from the 70s and 80s (2010);Timeloop – Video Art from Germany (2007) and conferences about video and media art. He initiated the New Visions International Festival of Film, Video & Media and helped establish New Media Scotland. As an artist, he has exhibited at the Third Eye Centre, the Smith Biennale, Audio-Visueel Experimenteel, Arnhem and has played a key role in artist-driven initiatives Transmission, EventSpace and Variant magazine. He is an Honourary Senior Research Fellow at Dundee University.

Deirdre MacKenna has over twenty years’ experience programming contemporary visual art in Scotland and has been Director of Stills in Edinburgh since 2002. She is a jury member of The Margaret Tait Award, an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Dundee Rewind Italia project and runs her own cultural production programme Cultural Documents in Scotland and Italy.

Holger Mohaupt is an artist and filmmaker. He graduated from the Art Academy in Hamburg, Germany and moved to Scotland in 1995 to do a postgraduate diploma in Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. In 2008 he finished a practice-led PhD at the University of Dundee, where he is a visiting lecturer in the department of Time Based Art.His current research is informed by locative media and social networking. He lives in North Berwick on the east coast of Scotland.

Dorcas Müller studied media art at the University of Design Karlsruhe with Professor Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen). She has received recognition for her artwork through stipends from the Kunstfonds Bonn and the Körber Foundation, Germany among others. As research associate at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe since 2004, she participated in numerous productions as video editor, video restorer and author (Thinking in Loop, Boris Groys, Hatje Cantz, 2008; RECORD>AGAIN!, 40yearsvideoart.de – Part 2, Hatje Cantz, 2010).

Stephen Partridge is an artist and academic researcher. He is the principal investigator on the research project REWIND funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC). He exhibited in landmark video shows including Video Show, Serpentine (1975), Installation Show, Tate (1976) and The Kitchen, New York (1979). During the eighties he became interested in works for broadcast television and was commissioned by Channel 4. With Jane Rigby, he produced the innovative Television Interventions project, Channel 4 (1990). He has also curated a number of influential video shows and touring tape packages:Video Art 78 in Coventry; UK TV New York; National Review of Live Art 1988-90; 19:4:90 Television Interventions; Made in Scotland I,II, Semblances, Passages. 
Other major collaborations include installations and prints with the artist Elaine Shemilt. He established the School of Television & Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (University of Dundee) and is presently Professor of Media Art and Dean of Research. 

Centrespace, Visual Research Centre is part of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and is located on the lower floors of Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee.

Share the RAGTALE...

MFA student, Rowan Richardson, is currently interested in the possibilities that come from an artist’s engagement with the public.  Her current project, RAGTALES, is to begin with a fundraising event this Thursday and Friday- selling second hand clothes, shoes and costume jewellery- where she asks RAGTALES shoppers to "Buy a memory and make it yours." Some customer purchases will contain a link to a blogged memory of that item and all customers are invited to contribute to the blog when their purchase becomes a part of their own memories.

Join the event on Facebook where you can confirm your attendance and view taster photographs of the items on sale. 

A Matter of Process: exploring the cyclical nature of creativity.
A presentation devised through collaboration by the 2011 Master of Fine Art group.'

Dear Friends,

We, the MFA group, have reached the end of term and have decided to challenge the assessment process and put on an exhibition where 'process' is the concurrent theme. We open up the process to you after our assessments by invitation to an evening event and a day-long public exhibition.

Come to see our work in process or simply mingle and enjoy the free refreshments.

There is a fourth year exhibition across the hall, on the same night, with live entertainment so it really will be buzzing.

For more information click here or here

Word is out, so spread it.

Hope to see you there.

MFA Students x