November 21st
We
would like to invite you to the first in a series of workshops and
lectures, which will consider questions of feminist art practice; what
the role of feminism is in contemporary
art practice, how we relate to feminist genealogies, critiques, methods
and theory as practising artists, writers and critics, how might we
resituate knowledge as feminist, and how feminist practices and
methodologies have and continue to influence contemporary
art practices.
The
workshop structure is intended to test a historical model in an
academic context now, which has influenced much contemporary practice
(to include alleged socially engaged and
relational practices). We imagine challenges and critiques of the workshop as feminist pedagogical structure to form a part of the series.
Our
first day’s session considers the particular relationships between
reading. writing and artmaking within the framework of feminist
practices.
It is essential that you book a space for the workshops. To do so please contact Linda Stupart or Karen Henderson:
NOVEMBER 21st PRACTISING THEORY
Both
workshops will take place in The Women's Art Library (MAKE) which is
located in the Special Collections Suite on the ground floor of the
Library.
11:00 – 13:00 Workshop with Melissa Gordon
14:00 – 16:00 Workshop with Sharon Kivland
17:00 Public Lecture by Sharon Kivland NAB LG02
19:00 followed by Goldsmiths Launch of PERSONA with Marina Vishmidt and Melissa Gordon presenting
Studio B Room 005
Studio B Room 005
Future Events
2 more day long workshop events are planned for the Spring term, dates TBC.
The next will look at the
institution of feminism in relation to art institutions, and the
historicization of feminism. Specific questions to be addressed are who
decides what is and what is not a feminist practice?
How do these practices operate within institutions, and what can they
achieve politically?
The final
event will look at feminist practices in relation to activism. We will
consider how feminist strategies of protest are being deployed in
contemporary political events and consider various
forms of embodied and other protest practices.
Supported by Art Research Programmes, Department of Art, Goldsmiths
Sharon Kivland
is an artist and writer working in London and France. Reader in Fine
Art at Sheffield Hallam University, she is also a Research Associate
of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, London, and editor of
the journal Transmission Annual. She is a
keen reader, considering what is put at stake at the intersection of
art, psychoanalysis,
and politics. She has described her practice is one of stupid
refinement, trapped in archives, libraries, the arcades, and the
intersection of public political action andprivate subjectivity. For
some years she has been following Sigmund Freud on holiday, rewriting
Zola's novel Nana, and assembling a number of (shall we say) private
collections. Her work is represented by DOMOBAAL, London, Galerie
Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Galerie des petits carreaux, Paris, and
Johan Deumens Gallery, Amsterdam.
Melissa Gordon
is an American artist based in London. She studied at De Ateliers in
Amsterdam and currently is a Lecturer in Fine Art on the BA at
Goldsmiths. She
has recently exhibited at Spike Island, Bristol, Martin Gropius Bau,
Berlin, and S1 Artspace in Sheffield. She co-edits LABOUR and PERSONA,
independent publications on art and work with a feminist perspective
with Marina Vishmidt.
PERSONA is an
artist-led magazine co-edited by Melissa Gordon and Marina Vishmidt. It
is the second in a series of magazines that grew out of the need to
respond to a series of questions that arose during four
meetings of female artists entitled "A conversation to know if there is a
conversation to be had" held in New York, Amsterdam, Berlin and London
in 2010-11. The first journal, LABOUR, addressed the question of women's
work, and used the lens of the feminist
critique of unpaid labour to look at the contemporary condition of the
artist as precarious worker. PERSONA as a jumping off point looks at the
condition of self-presentation for the contemporary artist, and in an
expansive manner encompasses discussions on
refusal, interiority, friendship, candor, and embarrassment.
