Discussion: The Real World: A Welcome Guest?

Thursday 7 February, 2013 - 8.30pm

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Many artists take residence in organisations with structures, systems and priorities that challenge them. This discussion asks how artists can use both restrictions and opportunities to affect both institutions and their own practice. Featuring Whitechapel Gallery Artist in Residence Lucy Cash and artist Richard Layzell.

In association with Artquest.

Lucy Cash is an artist and filmmaker. She is drawn to beginning with the extraordinary appearance of ordinary things – things that are already in the world, and that invite small interventions between the poetic and scientific, philosophical and humorous, intimate and political. Her background in performance making and choreography informs her approach to the work she now makes in different media, and she continues to explore innovative forms of collaboration – working with people from a range of communities and fields of expertise.

Between 2005 – 2009 she was an associate member of Goat Island performance, making four moving image works with the company as well as contributing to writing and live performance. Her moving image work has been shown on television, (Ch4, Filmfour, BBC4 and BBC2) and internationally in both galleries and at film festivals. In 2009 she was awarded a fellowship from South East Dance for her work creating choreographies for the screen. In 2010, alongside, Becky Edmunds, Chirstinn Whyte, Claudia Kappenberg and Gill Clarke she co-curated the What if… festival at Siobhan Davies Studios. In 2012 she co-curated What Matters and Small Matters with Becky Edmunds as straybird (www.straybird.org). She has been an associate artist with Artsadmin since 2007. In 2010 – 2012 she was an associate artist with South East Dance. Cash worked with Whitechapel Gallery and a group of year 10 Art and Design BTEC students at Central Foundation School for Girls, Tower Hamlets, from September 2011 to October 2012. Her project My Body Folded Like a Map is currently on display in Galleries 5 & 6.


Richard Layzell’s extended residency in industry as a ‘visionaire’ led to the promotion and profiling of Olaf Gunderssen and ultimately the Gunderssen Building, alongside several other interventions into corporate culture. His subsequent collaboration with Tania Koswycz developed, through her early appearances in Colchester and Wagga Wagga, into the Talking to Tania dialogues and their compilation as Cream Pages (pub ResCen 2008). Their work together then took physical form as The Manifestation, a dialogic installation which toured the UK in 2008-9.

His Square Mile residency in Shanghai, hosted by the mythical Shanghai E Arts, spawned a series of interventions and an ongoing performance The River Flows, shown in Glasgow, London and the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai. His recent work includes Dataography at the Knowle West Media Centre in Bristol for the Whose Data project and the promotion and profiling of Pivotal Dave for the legendary Key Notes, already experienced by the many and the few in London, Belfast, Glasgow, Norwich and Colchester. 

He is the author of Cream Pages and Enhanced Performance, is an honorary associate of the NRLA and a ResCen associate artist.


 

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