Arena Festival of Contemporary Art 8th November

Dear Steering Committee
We are nearing the end of the road. The Long and Winding Road has been invited to make one more pit stop. Next weekend, the car will be towed to Leicester for a special guest appearance at the ARENA Festival.
ARENA Festival of Contemporary ArtSaturday 8 November 20081pm - 3pm / 5pm - 7pmPhoenix Arts, LeicesterParked on the plaza outside Phoenix Arts, I invite passengers to join me in the car for a travel sweet and a one-to-one road story. The film of the journey so far is on show in the venue as part of the ARENA Festival.
For Mirror-Signal-Manoeuvre style reflections on the journey and images of the car at The Basement please go to www.acarhistory.blogspot.com. Safe driving Steering Committee. See you on The Long and Winding Road.
All bestMichaelDriver

Broadway Lecture 31st October

Fine Art at NTU presents
The Live Lecture at the Broadway Cinema and Media Centre
Anna Dumitriu
31 October, 2008


Anna Dumitriu will explain her approach to transdisciplinary art practice, what working collaboratively means to her, why she ‘talks’ to bacteria and why unnecessary research is so important. As Einstein said: “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Anna’s highly experimental work is involved with the nature of trans-disciplinary practice-based research. She has collaborated with scientists on at least 10 major projects over the past eleven years and often tends to go very deeply into her chosen area of research.


Please be seated @ 11am sharp – late comers will not be admitted
First come first served basis
@
Broadway Cinema
14 – 18 Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL

Glug

ENTRIES WILL BE JUDGED BY A PANEL
INCLUDING:
VAUGHAN OLIVER (V-23)
PHIL STUART (PRELOADED)
ADAM JENNS (MAINFRAME)
MICHAEL C PLACE (BUILD)
JON BURGERMAN
LAURA JORDAN BAMBACH (GLUE)
GINA LOVETT (DESIGN WEEK)
GUY FEATHERSTONE
(WEIDEN & KENNEDY)
HELEN BAYNES (NET A PORTER)
IAN HAMBLETON (STUDIO OUTPUT)
NICK CLEMENT (MADE STUDIO)
THE RULES:
THE ONLY LIMITATIONS ARE THAT IT NEEDS
TO BE RELATIVELY EASY TO DISPLAY AND
ALSO JUDGE.
ALL ENTRIES WILL NEED TO BE EITHER
SENT VIA EMAIL, VIA FTP OR BY POST. IF
YOU’RE CREATING AN OBJECT, ITEM OR
INSTALLATION PLEASE DON’T THROW IT
AWAY AS WE MAY WISH TO DISPLAY THIS
ON THE NIGHT.
PLEASE SEND ENTRIES NO LATER THAN
MONDAY 1ST OF DECEMBER TO:
‘ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS...’
STUDIO OUTPUT; LONDON
109 BLACK BULL YARD
24-28 HATTON WALL
LONDON EC1N 8JH
OR EMAIL GLUGLONDON@GMAIL.COM
USING THE SUBJECT: ALL I WANT FOR
CHRISTMAS IS...
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE ALL
CONTACT DETAILS AND SUPPORTING
INFORMATION YOU THINK WE MIGHT
REQUIRE TO JUDGE THE WORK.
PLEASE ALSO MAKE SURE YOU’RE
AVAILABLE ON THURSDAY 11TH DECEMBER
HOW TO BUY TICKETS:
TICKETS FOR THE EVENT CAN BE PURCHASED
VIA OUR WEBSITE WWW.GLUGLONDON.COM.
TICKETS ARE PRICED AT £5 BUT YOU’LL
RECEIVE A FREE DRINK ON ENTRY.
TICKETS GO ON SALE FROM THE 1ST OF NOVEMBER
FURTHER INFORMATION, QUESTIONS AND QUERIES:
IF YOU REQUIRE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE
EVENT, THE BRIEF OR THE RESTRICTIONS, PLEASE EMAIL
GLUGLONDON@GMAIL.COM
THANKS IAN & NICK

Loughborough School of Art event 29th October

The Loughborough School of Art Contemporary Art and Theory Research Group has invited various artists, curators, cultural activists and provocateurs to present a talk, lead a discussion, make a performance or create an event with a view to instigating and generating critical debate and experimental forms of practice.The first talk/event is Wednesday 29th October, 2008 – Pil and Galia Kollectiv ...from 2.00pm - 4.00pm in the Fine Art Studios Gallery SpaceIf your own practice or studies specifically involves performance or film you might be interested in this first event. Pil and Galia Kollectiv are London based artists, writers and curators who work primarily with film, video and performance. They explore choreographed movement and theatrical ritual, drawing on a range of art movements and ideas from Bauhaus to punk. They recently curated The Institute of Psychoplasmics at the Pump House Gallery in London and performed No Haus Like Bau at the fifth Berlin Biennale. They were also recipients in 2007 of the London Artists’ Film and Video Award. Other projects include Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet at The Showroom, London and the Biennale de Montreal (2007). They have a show opening at S1 in Sheffield on Friday 10th October - see www.kollectiv.co.uk and http://www.s1artspace.org/homepage.htm From 2.00pm - 4.00pm in the Fine Art Studios Gallery SpaceGillian WhiteleyContemporary Art and Theory Research GroupOther events will be...more info coming shortly but see CAT website belowWednesday 26th November, 2008 – Heath Bunting Wednesday 4th March, 2009 – Sally O’Reilly Wednesday 25th March, 2009 – Holly Crawford see http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/mainpages/Research/staff%20groups/provoking.htm r work is

Event on 29th October

Fresh - Future short film festival

Glug event - text 24th Oct

WE’RE PUTTING TOGETHER A SPECIAL ‘BIG CHRISTMAS GLUG’ ON THURSDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2008. FOR THIS ONE OFF (TICKET ONLY) EVENT WE’RE ASKING DESIGNERS AND CREATIVES FROM ALL TYPES OF DISCIPLINES TO RESPOND TO THIS STATEMENT:
‘ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS...’
ENTRIES WILL BE JUDGED BY A PANEL INCLUDING:
VAUGHAN OLIVER (V-23) PHIL STUART (PRELOADED) ADAM JENNS (MAINFRAME) MICHAEL C PLACE (BUILD) JON BURGERMAN LAURA JORDAN BAMBACH (GLUE) GINA LOVETT (DESIGN WEEK) GUY FEATHERSTONE (WEIDEN & KENNEDY) HELEN BAYNES (NET A PORTER) IAN HAMBLETON (STUDIO OUTPUT) NICK CLEMENT (MADE STUDIO)

RESULTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE NIGHT, SO YOU’LL HAVE TO COME ALONG TO SEE WHETHER YOUR WORK HAS MADE THE FINAL CUT. THE TOP 10 FINALISTS WORK WILL BE DISPLAYED AT THE EVENT AND WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE TOP 3 ON THE NIGHT. FINALISTS WILL THEN BE ASKED TO CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING PRIZES:
SIGNED FRAMED ‘PIXIES’ PRINT BY VAUGHAN OLIVER SIGNED FRAMED ‘BUILD’ PRINT BY MICHAEL C PLACE INTERNSHIP AT EITHER STUDIO OUTPUT OR MAINFRAME JON BURGERMAN HEROES OF BURGERTOWN MINI FIGURES 3 COURSE EVENING MEAL FOR 2 AT BLUU MOORGATE INCLUDING BOTTLE OF HOUSE WINE A YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION TO DESIGN WEEK
PLUS FURTHER PRIZES TO BE ANNOUNCED..
WE’RE LOOKING FOR ALL TYPES OF CREATIVES TO TAKE PART. FASHION DESIGNERS, GRAPHIC DESIGNERS INCLUDING WEB, PRINT AND MOVING IMAGE, ART DIRECTORS, FILM MAKERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, INTERIOR DESIGNERS AND ARTISTS. THE BRIEF IS MEANT TO BE VERY OPEN ENDED SO PLEASE HAVE SOME FUN WITH IT.
THE RULES:
THE ONLY LIMITATIONS ARE THAT IT NEEDS TO BE RELATIVELY EASY TO DISPLAY AND ALSO JUDGE.
ALL ENTRIES WILL NEED TO BE EITHER SENT VIA EMAIL, VIA FTP OR BY POST. IF YOU’RE CREATING AN OBJECT, ITEM OR INSTALLATION PLEASE DON’T THROW IT AWAY AS WE MAY WISH TO DISPLAY THIS ON THE NIGHT.
PLEASE SEND ENTRIES NO LATER THAN MONDAY 1ST OF DECEMBER TO:
‘ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS...’ STUDIO OUTPUT; LONDON 109 BLACK BULL YARD 24-28 HATTON WALL LONDON EC1N 8JH
OR EMAIL GLUGLONDON@GMAIL.COM USING THE SUBJECT: ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS...
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE ALL CONTACT DETAILS AND SUPPORTING INFORMATION YOU THINK WE MIGHT REQUIRE TO JUDGE THE WORK.
PLEASE ALSO MAKE SURE YOU’RE AVAILABLE ON THURSDAY 11TH DECEMBER
HOW TO BUY TICKETS:
TICKETS FOR THE EVENT CAN BE PURCHASED VIA OUR WEBSITE WWW.GLUGLONDON.COM. TICKETS ARE PRICED AT £5 BUT YOU’LL RECEIVE A FREE DRINK ON ENTRY.
TICKETS GO ON SALE FROM THE 1ST OF NOVEMBER
FURTHER INFORMATION, QUESTIONS AND QUERIES:
IF YOU REQUIRE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT, THE BRIEF OR THE RESTRICTIONS, PLEASE EMAIL
GLUGLONDON@GMAIL.COM
THANKS IAN & NICK

New Arts Exchange Event

Glug Competition

Broadway Lecture 24th October

Fine Art at NTU presentsThe Live Lecture at the Broadway Cinema and Media CentreAnge Taggart 24 October, 2008 Founder of the website 'My Dads Strip Club', Ange Taggart is known for her collaborations creating hybrid live art actions, quirky videos and delivering performances. She has utilised her demographic to successfully carry out un-authorised, issue-based interventions, Tescos, Starbucks, Virgin and Coke have all been subjected to her creativity. She's fucked coke machines, interrogated shoppers, bought everything and returned it, telling stores why their products are crap. Coming from Nottingham UK she's taken a fresh look at the shopping experience and invested it with all the thrills you get as a shoplifter, but this time its legal. Image: Coke Fuck Please be seated @ 11am sharp – late comers will not be admittedFirst come first served basis@Broadway Cinema14 – 18 Broad StreetNottinghamNG1 3AL

Backlit Grand Opening Event

Backlit Grand OpeningEvent DetailsTime: October 17, 2008 at 7pmLocation: BacklitStreet: Dakeyne St, SneintonCity/Town: NottinghamWebsite or Map: http://www.backlit.org.ukContact Info: 07702828123Event Type: Exhibition, OpeningOrganized By: BacklitLatest Activity: 1 day agoEvent DescriptionBacklit are proud to present the grand opening of the gallery, studios and project space and host Annexinema.Exhibition featuring DAN TOMBS, performance by SIMON RAVEN and DEFUNCT, a project curated by TOM DUGGAN and ALIA PATHAN.

Useful links: -
Next We Change Earth - http://www.thenewartexchange.org.uk/exhibitions/nextwechangetheearth.php

Hetain Patel - http://www.hetainpatel.com/

Keith Piper - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Piper_(artist)

Cultivate @ NTU

Rhubarb-Rhubarb is pleased to announce the second Cultivate. Held in conjunction with Nottingham Trent University on the 21st and 22nd November 2008. Cultivate has been designed for graduates or students in their final year of a specialist photography course. The aim is to bring insightful and up to the moment information about the current photography industry. We have sourced some of Britain’s best curators, agents and freelance photographers to present a series of seminars and one to one portfolio sessions. Bookings are now open. Please go to www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net for more information and bookings. Places are limited, so it’s a first come first served basis. Please feel free to pass on this mail.

Fine Art lecture at the Broadway Cinema

Fine Art at NTU presents
The Live Lecture at the Broadway Cinema and Media Centre
Alex Farquharson
17 October, 2008

Alex Farquharson, Director of Nottingham Contemporary, will speak on the subject of making exhibitions. To illustrate this he will discuss two recent exhibition he curated, ‘If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition’ at Tate St Ives and CAPC Bordeaux, and ‘Le Voyage Interieur’ at Espace Electra in Paris.
Please be seated @ 11am sharp – late comers will not be admitted
First come first served basis
@
Broadway Cinema
14 – 18 Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL

Graphic design visiting speaker Bruce Ingman Illustrator Writer Educator Wednesday 15 October 2008 Djanogly Lecture Theatre Nottingham Trent University Bruce writes and illustrates children's books. He is a graduate of Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham (now Nottingham Trent University) and the Royal College of Art. His work is recognised internationally, has won many awards in the field of children's book publishing, and has been reviewed in the international press in the UK and USA, such as the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Times

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An Investigation by John Newling

Make a piano in Spain
‘What do you do to make yourself feel better?’
An Investigation by John Newling
‘Out loud’
Saturday 18th of October
Installation
15th of October to 14th of November
At Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London
On the 6th through 10th of May 2008 Nicola Martin, Kerry Howarth and John Newling met 500 people between Euston and St Pancras stations. From each of them they collected a written response to the question, ‘What do you do to make yourself feel better?’ The response was overwhelming, giving the project a narrative that was both revealing and moving. ‘Make a piano in Spain’ is a project by artist John Newling that investigates and transforms these responses.
The project comprises a list of 50 situations constructed from the material (presented in the large wall-based work), a public reading ‘Out loud’ of all 500 accounts, and a book that demonstrates the investigations and transformations that Newling pursued.
Treating the text as material subject to changes in meaning and form, Newling trawled through the 500 responses, isolating all the references to actions, places and objects. As blocks of text the collected stream of events, sites and materials seemed akin to a chant of what we do, where we go, and which objects we prefer to use to restore our sense of self. Common references were gathered from the texts as a numeric order of frequency and, subsequently, calculated as percentages of occurrence.
This data provided the lists from which Newling compiled the top 50 actions, places and objects. The lists in turn became the material from which he constructed the 50 imagined ‘situations.’ They emerge from a diagnostic process that distilled the responses, while simultaneously forming a text that possesses its own autonomy. Newling explains: “Each situation becomes a potential event that makes for a very human kind of medicine; both a cartography of us and a conceivable territory to experience. They represent a programme of possibilities and a series of dramas made possible through the generous engagement of 500 people…”
Help yourself to a copy of ‘Make a piano in Spain’
The first 500 copies of the publication are free to people visiting Wellcome Collection. These gifts repay the generosity of the original 500 instances of public engagement, now reflected in the citations, investigations and transformations that constitute the project ‘Make a piano in Spain.’
For further information visit:www.john-newling.comwww.wellcomecollection.org

Saatchi Gallery invitation

Dear Art Student,
The Saatchi Gallery would like to invite you to join Saatchi Online Student Artists – the world’s largest free online Student Art gallery www.saatchigallery.com/stuart
Following the success of Saatchi Online – our online exhibition space for professional artists with over 110,000 registered artists - we have launched this new section of the site dedicated to Art Students from around the world.
The Saatchi Student Artists site, which already has profiles of 35,000 art students from around the world, allows each individual to have their own page to display their work. The aim is provide a free forum for you to showcase your art and make connections with other students, dealers, curators and collectors from around the world.
Registering for and using the site is a free service, with no costs involved at all.
We have heard numerous success stories from students who have been invited to exhibit at international exhibitions and art fairs and who have been approached through the site by collectors from around the world interested in their work. We have also received international acclaim from the world’s press who have featured the work from our Saatchi Online Student Artists artists in a number of press articles.
Saatchi Online Student Opportunities
Each year we run a competition for students graduating from UK colleges entitled New Sensations http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/4ns/ . The four finalists from this competition are given £1000 to produce a piece of work in response to the theme. These four finalists also featured in a series of 3 minute documentaries broadcast on the Saatchi Gallery website and on Channel 4 in the UK in October. The overall winner of the competition receives £3000 to fund her artistic career. Last year the 20 shortlisted artists were invited to exhibit at the Truman Brewery (Brick lane, London) in a show that coincided with this year’s Frieze art fair. As a direct result of this competition Marcus Lanyon’s and Mark Melvin’s pieces were acquired by the Zabludowicz Collection and Mie Olise Kjaergaard sold her work to a private collector and has been offered her first solo show in London next March at the Alexia Goethe Gallery.

More details about this year’s competition can be found at http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/4ns/.
Our aim for this year is to continue to give our student artists similar opportunities internationally with opportunities to take part in group exhibitions and Art Fairs around the world. Upcoming events include SCOPE Art Fairs, Concrete and Glass as well as opportunities to exhibit at the new gallery and other events outside the UK.
By registering with Saatchi Online Student Artists are also able to enter our SHOWDOWN section of the site, where artists can upload their work for viewers to vote on. The overall winner of the Showdown receives £1000 prize money and the runner up £750 and the winning works will go on display when the new Saatchi Gallery opens October 9th in Chelsea, London. A new round of SHOWDOWN is about to start if you wish to enter.
We hope that the Saatchi Online Student Artists site will enable you to network with other students from around the world, to share your inspiration and ideas, thus strengthening your work during your time at college. We also hope it will provide a unique method of networking with those outside your college to help unite young artists as they venture into the professional art world.
You can also keep up to date with news and reviews of exhibitions from around the world featured in our online Magazine and view the collections of the world’s leading galleries and museums. The viewers of the site are also encouraged to contribute their own views and reports to our blog and every week we publish a new essay from a leading art critic or artist. Saatchi Online members can also share their essays and read others in our visitors’ essays section. Over 3000 of the world’s leading art colleges are also represented on the site with details of their courses and showcases of their students’ artwork.
You can include up to 50 images in your portfolio and add information about your interests, favourites and hobbies and images of Art work’s you like. You can also choose your privacy setting on the site allowing your profile to be viewed by everyone or only by your friends or those from your university / college or city. You also decide how much of your page people can see; ranging from just your work, to your whole profile. The link to the site is http://www.saatchigallery.com/stuart and is now ready for you to start uploading your work, videos, photos, images etc by registering here http://www.saatchigallery.com/stuart/register
We have also recently confirmed that there will be a permanent space in our new gallery located in Chelsea, London dedicated to showing the work of art students on Saatchi Online Student Artists.
The Saatchi Gallery site now receives over 60 million hits a day and our Saatchi Online gallery has received worldwide press coverage including the New York Times, the Independent and The Sunday Times. Links to the stories can be found on the Stuart page or here:
http://www.saatchigallery.com/current/newyork_times.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2517822,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2027070.ece

We look forward to seeing your work online.
Best wishes,
Alice
The Saatchi Gallery
alice@saatchigallery.com
Saatchi Online Student Artists – Student art, photos, profiles videos etc
http://www.saatchigallery.com/stuart

Michael Pinchbeck - more events

Dear Steering Committee
As it nears the end of its four-year journey, The Long and Winding Road has been invited to take more unexpected slip roads. Next weekend, the car will be towed to Brighton for two performance pit stops in one day.The Basement, BrightonSaturday 11 October 2008Jubilee Square 2pm - 5pmThe Basement 8pm - 11pmParked in Jubilee Square in the afternoon, I offer passengers a travel sweet and invite them to join me for a car history. In the evening, the car is relocated to its natural habitat - spotlit on a stretch of wasteland surrounded by graffiti. The film of the journey so far is shown on screens around the venue as part of The Supper Club.
Watch this space for news of a forthcoming pit stop at ARENA Festival of Contemporary Art in Leicester. For Mirror-Signal-Manoeuvre style reflections on the journey and images of the car at The Public please go to www.acarhistory.blogspot.com. Safe driving Steering Committee. See you on The Long and Winding Road.All bestMichaelDriver