Un:Place at the Jerwood · May 30th, 2009
Un: Place – A curation by Beatrice Jarvis, exhibition opens 3 June – 20 July at the Jerwood café
Alys Williams / Benjamin Bailey / Seecum Cheung / Ilona Sagar / Dana Macpherson / Inzajeano Latif
An exhibition of personal cartographies and urban responses
Six artists have each created a piece of work that responds directly to the landscape of Jerwood Space, an iconic building situated in the heart of bustling Bankside. This reclaimed area between London Bridge and Waterloo is steeped in fragmented traces of lingering history, where passages of time are lost in hidden corners and marked histories are glimpsed on decaying facades.
The city has and will always remain a myriad of inspiration, This exhibition explores the creative relationship between the city and the individual to develop unique personal cartographies ; relearning mapping as an intricate interaction of the imagination in a diversity of forms and media.
Jerwood Space
171 Union Street
London
SE1 OLN
www.jerwoodspace.co.uk or www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
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June 20th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Thank you for adding this to your site. I curated a one day seminar at Jerwood Space, exploring the City as creative resource; which i would like to talk a little more about
I wanted to create a platform to stimulate active debate and discussion as to the realties of using the city as stimulus and resource. There has been an upsurge over the past twenty years of activity in the form of degeneration and regeneration. This workshop will explore and expand upon the ways in which one can utilise the city as creative spring board. The event drew together artists, architects, London residents, tourists, urban designers, town planners, live artists, and cultural researchers The event drew from the disciplines of photography, drawing, urban planning, architecture, psychogeography, drawing and installation to explore the limitations and boundaries of traditional cartographic methods.
How do artists function, flourish and create in the city? How does the city inspire a creative response? How does the everyday life of the city become an inspiration? Does the nature of this inspiration change as cities expand, develop and transform?
This event attempted to make a platform to encourage connections between people and place through investigation, exploration, pilot projects and the arts. London was effectively a live laboratory for social and spatial research of urban space use developing from this research innovative and interactive future space use programmes.
This seminar was created to support and develop the Jerwood Café space Curation; Un;Place, the six artists featured in this exhibition alongside an academic panel inclusive of) Dr Bob Jarvis (LSBU) Alex Hamilton (Tate) Jack Riccards (RCA) Imogen Lee (PhD Historian Goldsmiths) and Santiago Escoba, a columbian archiect and Photographer CUCR
I am developing projects currently wihich develop personal cartographies of the urban realm, developing intricate maps of the imagination manifested in a diversity of forms.
The city is the choreography of life, and it can be used as resource for artistic practice; it can form a productive and substantial input for the creative mind. The motifs of human form repeat on the streets, to be observed, interpreted, or simply left in their flux. Crescendos and diminuendos of the bustling street rise and fall with the breath of the city, a living organism which one can walk upon, in, beside and amongst.
I am now setting up a new venture: Urban Research Forum: This will start with quarterly seminars and a series of collaborative exhibitions and performances. I am keen that to create space for cross over collaboration and conversations which are free from constraint of departmentalization. I am keen to develop a platform that encourages debate, discussion and discourse and remains as open as possible.
This forum will attempt to make a platform to encourage connections between people and place through investigation, exploration, pilot projects and the arts. We can aim to present solutions through experiment and plausibility studies to develop user based, public participation projects by means of a consultation process to enrich the meaning of architectural space. Collaboration, discourse and intellectual enquiry are seminal to this concept
to join this forum, please send expressions of interest to urbanresearchforum@googlemail.com
with kindness
Beatrice