Monday 27 April
Monday 27 April
Visiting Speaker - Jane Calow
11am – 1pm G.05
Jane Calow is an artist and writer who has exhibited widely. Performed nationally and internationally, her artwork Traject explored the idea of a ‘moveable site’, highlighting themes of physical and psychic spatialisation informed by the psychoanalytical structure of trauma. Her artist’s book produced as part of Traject is held in Tate Britain library archive. Jane directed the international interdisciplinary conference Public Representation and Private Mourning: Commemoration and Memorial (UWE, 2002). She is currently working on an artwork developed from Traject entitled Mantle, working with mourning and grief. She published as Guest Editor on the 12th edition of the Routledge journal Mortality, entitled Memoria, Memory, and Commemoration and has lectured at the University of Bath on the MSc in Death and Society. She co-directed the international symposium Present: trauma/art/representation at ICIA (2006). Jane has also worked as a curatorial consultant to ICIA on the 2009 programme theme entitled Arts, Spatialisation and Memory for which she co-directed an international symposium. She was Head of Fine Art as Social Practice at the University of Wolverhampton. She was also Research Fellow at the Centre for Contextual, Public and Commemorative Art at the University of the West of England. Jane co-edited the new book, Speculative Strategies in Interdisciplinay Arts Practice (Underwing 2014) with Daniel Hinchcliffe and Laura Mansfield. Jane's Chapter is entitled Shoreline and Sea. Her text is a reflection on her artistic practice (specifically the construction of Mantle) that embraces interdisciplinary research, discourse, collaboration, negotiation and physical making. She draws upon Geology, Geography, Psychoanalysis, Language and Epistemology.
www.janecalow.com
Group Surgeries 2-4pm
1/3 present to rest of yr5
Group Presenting:
Komal Nagar
Niamh Sivertsen
Eleanor Taylor
Yvonne Hamilton
Andy Harrison
Bambi Bains
Jade Bonsey
Talor Thornton
Kemet Tenkamenin
Emma Holliday
Room F.05
LM
What Jane Calow informed students about
Her experience of moving on from being a student to being a professional - She was at art school in the nineteen seventies and it was a very different context back then to the kind of context we find ourselves living in now
She studied fine art painting - at that time she knew nothing about any living artists at all
All the models that they were given through their history and through fine art practice were masculine
