Wednesday evening talks - October 2010 at 6pm

Making and Unmaking
 in Contemporary Sculpture

Angus Fairhurst, A magazine – Everything removed except 1cm border.  Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ

This series of four Wednesday evening talks accompanies the exhibition Undone - openingin the Henry Moore Institute main galleries from September. Led by art historians, curators and artists, each talk investigates the ways in which sculpture incorporates the fabricated and the found, using materials that evoke processes of skill and de-skilling, to rethink understandings of sculpture in a post-readymade era.

Wed 6 October: Professor John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton)
Art After Deskilling

Wed 13 October: Joanne Lee (Nottingham Trent University)
Make do and bend: the ad-hoc in sculptural practice

Wed 20 October: Dr Glenn Adamson (Victoria &Albert Museum)
Affective Objects: The Re-Invention of Craft

Wed 27 October: Mary Redmond (Artist)
The Floating World

Talks are free of charge, open to all and it is not necessary to book

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Henry Moore Institute Annual Academic Open Day - Friday 15 October

with guest lecture from artist Claire Barclay

The Institute's annual academic open day will include behind-the-scenes tours of the exhibitions, collections, library and archive, as well as an introduction to our forthcoming events programme. If you are a tutor or a student with an interest in sculpture, this is the ideal introduction to the Institute and an opportunity to find out how our resources and academic events can enhance your work. The event will begin at 2.30 with a schedule of talks and tours from Henry Moore Institute curatorial staff.

The day will conclude at 5.30pm with a guest lecture from artist Claire Barclay at Leeds Art Gallery Lecture Theatre.

To book a place for yourself or a small group for the afternoon tours, or for more information, please contact Kirstie Gregory, kirstie@henry-moore.org

Annual Open Day lecture with sculptor Claire Barclay

Leeds Art Gallery Lecture Theatre
Friday 15 October 2010, 5.30-6.30pm
Claire Barclay’s practice reflects an important strand in contemporary sculpture, engaging with questions of making and the role of ‘craft’ in art.  Barclay will discuss her own work, picking up on themes from the concurrent Henry Moore Institute exhibition, Undone - a group show which brings together sculpture balanced on the threshold between the made and unmade. 
Barclay creates sculptural environments, immersive installations which combine carefully crafted objects with more improvised elements, often constructed in-situ and responding specifically to a given space. A fascination with the material world of objects and the processes of their making lies at the heart of her practice. The objects in her installations recall the paraphernalia of the real world, but are never drawn directly from it – they are either hand-made by the artist, using traditional craft techniques, such as weaving, wood turning, glass-blowing and ceramics, often learnt for a particular project, or manufactured by specialists to her own specifications.

Claire Barclay has represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale (2003), shown at The British Art Show 6 (2005), Art Now at the Tate (2004) and has exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows since graduating in environmental art from Glasgow in 1993.
This talk is open to all and it is not necessary to book

http://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/research/research-events/annual-academic-open-day

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CONCENTRATIONARY MEMORIES
THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION
AHRC Research Project 2007-2010

Wed  6 October: Why do good people do evil?
Zygmunt Bauman (Leeds)
16.00-18.00 Chemistry LT A (2.15)

Wed 13 October  Screening  The Specialist
Director: Eyal Sivan
16.00-18.00 Michael Sadler SR (LG.15)

Wed 20 October  Challenging the 'myth of silence'. A new look at postwar responses to the destruction of European Jewry.
David Cesarani (Royal Holloway, London)
16.00-18.00

Wed 27 October:  Archaeology of the Document in the work of Alain Resnais before and around  Nuit et Brouillard/Night and Fog 
Adrian Rifkin (Goldsmiths) and Eyal Sivan (UEL)
Michael Sadler Building LG.15   15.00-18.00

Fri 27 November Day Seminar on Paul Gilroy Between the Camps:  
with Paul Gilroy (LSE)
9.30-5.30  venue to be confirmed

Thurs 16  December: Day Symposium on Chris Marker
Sarah Cooper, Carol Mavor, Jon Kear, Marcel Swiboda
Screening Day  Wed 15 December
Clothworkers North Building LT (Cinema) (2.31)

Directors:  Profs. Griselda Pollock (CentreCATH) and Max Silverman
 (Centre for French and Francophone Cultural Studies)

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C e n t r e for
Cultural Analysis, Theory & History
 A Transdisciplinary Initiative @ the University of Leeds
Director: Professor Griselda Pollock

Concentrationary Imaginaries/
Imaginaries of Violence
in
Contemporary Cultures and Cultural Forms

April 13 - 15 2011

Keynote Speakers: 
Andrew Benjamin (Monash) Adriana Cavarero (Verona) Paul Gilroy (LSE)  Ian James (Cambridge) Paul Willemen (Ulster) Samuel Weber (Northwestern)
With a plenary by Zygmunt Bauman (Leeds)

An international transdisciplinary conference
organized by the AHRC Research Project
Concentrationary Memories: The Politics of Representation
 directed by
Griselda Pollock
 (Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History)
and
Max Silverman
(Centre for French and Francophone Cultural Studies)

More information and call for papers

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