Tuesday 25 March 2008

one night stands



one night stand #1
14th April 2008, 6-9pm
the gallery at wimbledon college of art
Merton Hall Road, London SW19 3QA

Three teams of curators, three provocations and one space. The gallery at wimbledon college of art is pleased to present One Night Stands, a series of three one night events hosted by the MA Critical Writing & Curatorial Practice students of Chelsea College of Art and Design in collaboration with the MA Fine Art Curating students of Sheffield Hallam University and the students of the MA Gallery Studies and Critical Curating course at the University of Essex.

The three curatorial groups will take turns to deliver a provocation to one another and respond to a given stimulus. The first event will feature a group show curated by the students of Sheffield Hallam University (Sheffield Hallam Curators Forum) exploring the theme of ‘defamiliarization’ in response to Victor Shklovsky’s text ‘Russian Formalist Criticism’. The provocation given to them was to take into account the nature of time-specificity.

List of artists and artworks:

- David Thomas Crawley: Born in Liverpool and living in Nottingham. David will show his ongoing project Photo booth (DVD, 20m), exploring the performative act of sitting in front of the camera by collecting rejected passport images from the UK Passport Office.

- Andy Roe: Born in Kingston-Upon-Hull and living in Oxford. A short word about you aims to give members of the public the opportunity to momentarily convey something about themselves through the use of one simple word: 'Me'.

- Felix Gumpoltsberger (born and living in Austria) and Cameron Craig (born and living in the UK). The collaboration between these two artists is an installation named Preservation and it deals with text and language in the context of the anonymity of chatroom conversations and how this offers many possibilities to play with identity and configurations of truth and exaggeration.

- Diana Ali: is a British-Syhleti artist based in the UK. She is currently exploring the visual and the verbal as an artform by involving artists’ responses locally, nationally and internationally, inviting them to respond to the word 'defamiliarization'.

- Xin-Shu LI: Born in Hangzhou, China, and currently working and studying in Sheffield. Xinsgu works with the roles and responsibilities as artist-curator and how to be a medium connecting the Asian and European contemporary art markets.

To view the outcome of the first stage of this exciting collaboration, we look forward to welcoming you to the gallery at wimbledon college of art on the night of the 14th of April.

Curated by:
David Thomas Crawley, Diana Ali, Xin-Shu Li and Cameron Craig
Sheffield Hallam Curators Forum, Sheffield Hallam University.

Organized by: MA Critical Writing & Curatorial Practice, Chelsea College of Art & Design

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