Giant Step 4 – Critical Regionalism: Eindhoven as a Common Ground
Saturday 3rd November
16.30 – 17.00
Alfredo Cramerotti – Director MOSTYN – Closing Remarks on the Concept of Model
The Giant Step project aims to discover the place of institutions within contemporary culture. It involves two internationally established institutions, Van Abbemuseum and MOSTYN I Wales, and two that are less rigidly institutional, vessel (Italy) and Galeria Labirynt (Poland). The goal of the project is to establish what roles institutions can play in the cultural production of a specific area that responds to the needs of the area itself. This fourth and final workshop will be held at the Van Abbemuseum.
Alfredo Cramerotti’s “Closing Remarks on the Concept of Model” for Giant Step 4 will consider the Van Abbemuseum’s location in Eindhoven, in the North Brabant region of the Netherlands as the starting point of Giant Step 4: Critical Regionalism – Exploring the Gap Between the Local and the International.
Aiming to expose the diverse network of cultural producers working in the area, the conference will investigate the relationship between the local arts community and the international contemporary art museum.
MEDIA, REVOLT AND CRITICISM: Encounter of 3rd degree between art and media
November 2, 2012
Auditorium of the SCHOOL OF MEDIA ART, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
Schools of Visual Arts, Charlottenborg, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1050 Copenhagen, Denmark
Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of MOSTYN, Wales’ Contemporary art Centre and writer of the book Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing on how the artist can find ways not only to ‘import’ journalism into art, but also re-insert an artistic approach into the information industry.
Alfredo will reflect on the concept of public opinion. Does it work as an aggregate and is it open to critical understanding?
Further contributions by Jasmina Metwaly artist and member of Mosireen collective in Cairo, and Truls Lie, documentary filmmaker, editor-in-chief of DOX European Documentary Magazine and a film critic at Le Monde Diplomatique, Scandinavian edition. Final discussion
lead by the hosts: Carsten Juhl, Head of Department for Art and Theory and Tijana Mišković, Academic Research Project Coordinator.
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About the seminar MEDIA, REVOLT AND CRITICISM: Globally we are being confronted with new encounters between visual art and information practices. In urgent and tense situations like the Arab Spring the moving images become important means of communication, especially because of their manipulative nature.
This seminar is the 2nd part of Arab Spring art seminar at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, that started in October 2011. The next seminar will take place December 14, 2012 including presentations by: Seamus Kealy, museum director at The Model, Aida Eltorie from Finding Projects Association and visual artist Rabih Mroue.
For more information, please send an email to:
tijana.miskovic@kunstakademiet.dk
Wales in Venice: “Bedwyr Williams one of the artists of the moment”
a-n Magazine
16 Oct 2012
by Stephen Palmer
The countdown to Wales in Venice/Cymru yn Fenis at next year’s 55th Venice Biennale of Art notched up a gear during a preview for Bedwyr William’s new show Dear Both at Ceri Hand Gallery in London.
The opening was attended by the artist along with Wales in Venice curators Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of MOSTYN, and Amanda Farr, Director of Oriel Davies Gallery, as well as David Alston, Director of Arts at Arts Council of Wales, which is supporting the project.
The artist introduced his presentation for Wales in Venice via a performance titled The Astronomer that took the audience – who were asked to imagine themselves as moles – on a journey from the gallery to the house and garden of an amateur astronomer in Suffolk.
Williams said: “The performance introduces parts of the work, but I’m not giving too much away! [The work for Venice] is going to be quite site specific. In the performance I mentioned astronomy and the telescope – which although not invented there was first premiered in Venice – and terrazzo flooring, which was invented in Venice and through its pattern might be seen to reflect the structure of the universe; it’s also something I noticed at the former convent (Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice) where the show will be held. The performance was quite humorous, but probably the work for Venice isn’t going to be that funny.”
Williams, who is based in Caernarfon, North Wales is best known for his comedic and poetic live performances and installations that deal with Welshness, otherness and difference. In the past he has assumed different personas in his work – a one-eyed preacher, a Grimm Reaper and Count Pollen.
Curator Amanda Farr said: “Bedwyr truly epitomizes that very rare being – an artist whose vision and clarity of thought forces us to look at the world differently. I can think of no better artist at this moment and of our particular time to represent Wales at the Venice Biennale.”
Alfredo Cramerotti added: “Bedwyr is one of the artists of the moment – not only of Wales, but of the UK art scene as a whole.”
Farr went on to discuss the importance of Wales in Venice for artists and audiences: “Since first taking part in the Venice Biennale in 2003, to my mind Wales’ presentation has always been a game changer in terms of the effect it’s had upon the contemporary visual arts in the country. I believe that it has been an important catalyst for a vital strengthening and growth in confidence for artists, curators and audiences, and almost a coming of age for Welsh contemporary art.
“The ‘collateral exhibitions’ – of which Wales in Venice is part – present an increasingly distinctive and edgy presence at the Biennale, which frequently trumps the official national pavilions at the Giardini.”
Williams’ exhibition at Ceri Hand Gallery features sculpture, video and sound installations and drawing. While the downstairs gallery space is inhabited by a series of works that feature customised garden furniture – a shell encrusted barbecue, a plastic patio set riddled with drilled holes, and a giant black parasol – upstairs there are works that reflect on what it is to be an artist including Research Fellow, an institutional looking door with attached name plaque, and Artist/Artist, a sound work that questions the public’s perception of the artist.
Dear Both continues at Ceri Hand Gallery Project Space, London until 3 November.
Wales in Venice/Cymru yn Fenis at the 55th Venice Biennale of Art will open in June 2013.
Alfredo Cramerotti: curating across disciplines
Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of Mostyn, Wales, and next co-curator of the Wales in Venice Pavilion 2013 will give a talk about his curatorial work across different disciplines, and will revisit his endeavour of art & media curating for Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art which took place in the region of Murcia, Spain, in 2010.
2pm, Tuesday 16 October 2012
H6, Rathmell Building,
Caerleon Campus
Newport
NP18 3QT
Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator and artist based in the UK. His cultural practice explores the relationship between reality and representation across a variety of media and collaborations such as TV, radio, publishing, internet, media festivals, photography, writing and exhibition curating. Cramerotti is Director of Mostyn, the leading publicly funded contemporary art gallery in Wales, and was co-curator of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art (2009-2010) and Senior Curator, QUAD Derby (2008-2011). He co-directs AGM Culture, roaming curatorial agency; CPS Chamber of Public Secrets, media and art production unit and is Visiting Lecturer in various European universities among others NTU Nottingham Trent University, University of Westminster and DAI Dutch Arts Institute. Cramerotti is also Editor of the Critical Photography book series by Intellect Books, and his own recent publications include Aesthetic Journalism: How to inform without informing (2009) and Unmapping the City: Perspectives of Flatness (2010).
Exhibitionist: The week’s art shows in pictures on the Guardian Guide
Exhibitionist: The week’s art shows in pictures
From Fernando García-Dory and Radovan Kraguly’s study of dairy farming in Llandudno to existential photography in London, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the country.
Fernando García-Dory And Radovan Kraguly, Llandudno
It’s about time the 76-year-old Yugoslavia-born Radovan Kraguly’s aesthetically subtle and thematically powerful art gained wider recognition, and these two shows might just do the job. Kraguly’s The Milky Way (starts 20 Oct) is an installation that tackles ecological concerns by focusing on dairy farming. Kraguly intensifies the focus to such an extent that the theme seems as vital and primal as humankind’s dysfunctional relationship with all of nature. In tribute, Fernando García-Dory, who is less than half Kraguly’s age, has built a dairy museum scaled-up from the master’s drawing and members of the local young farmers clubs have been invited to contribute their experiences.
Oriel Mostyn, to 6 Jan
RC
A Dairy Museum, by Fernando Garcia-Dory
Jo Longhurst’s Other Spaces 10-page special in The Gymnast
Other Spaces’ 10 page review in The Gymnast (p43-52)
by Tim Peake
Bedwyr William: Dear Both & Wales In Venice 2013
BEDWYR WILLIAMS: DEAR BOTH
8 OCTOBER – 3 NOVEMBER , CERI HAND GALLERY
As recently posted it by Margaret_ London, who have been appointed to run the PR campaign for Wales in Venice / Cymru yn Fenis at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, the very excellent Bedwyr Williams will be representing Wales in 2013, curated by MOSTYN and Orield Davies Gallery.
Things kick-off next week with the opening of his exhibition Dear Both, at Ceri Hand Gallery in Covent Garden, coinciding with Frieze London.
Dear Both includes new sculpture, film, drawings and photographs by the artist, and follows his recent show at IKON Gallery in Birmingham. It’s a great opportunity to see his work and join his ever-growing fanbase, before the big Venice show next year. Drawing on his own experiences, Williams uses humour to reveal both his and our own complex neurosis and idiosyncrasies, with this show offering an investigation into individual and cultural mythology and identity.
Giant Step 2 Conference, talk by Alfredo Cramerotti: Expanding (Almost) Everything
Giant Step 2 (The Centre of the Periphery & The Periphery of the Centre)
21-23 September 2012
Hosted by MOSTYN, this conference looks at the role of institutions within contemporary culture. We bring together artists, curators, creative practitioners and others to discuss and debate how institutions or individuals stimulate and encourage the cultural dynamics of a location or society, particularly in areas with a less prominent critical audience.
more info here
Expanding (Almost) Everything
Alfredo Cramerotti
Saturday 22 September 4pm
Alfredo Cramerotti provides an overview of issues and matters encountered at MOSTYN, linking to his previous curatorial experience and artistic/media practice.
Questions chaired by Emrys Williams, visual artist and lecturer based in Conwy.
Liverpool Biennial 2012, City States / Copenhagen: Alfredo Cramerotti in Conversation
Copenhagen: Alfredo Cramerotti in Conversation – Liverpool Biennial
15 September 2012
2PM – 3PM
LJMU Copperas Hill Building, Liverpool
liverpoolbiennial.co.uk
Alfredo Cramerotti has been invited to give his perspective on the different aspects of the journey and its importance within contemporary art practice.
The questions that we have asked him to reflect upon are:
– How do you define the journey as a concept?
– What is the importance of journeying within the contemporary art in an increasing globalized world?
– How has travelling effected your work as a curator? – and was it a journey?
The talk will be followed by an open discussion.
Exhibiting artists and the curators were present.
Organized by Helene Lundbye Petersen and Tijana Miskovic,
Related to the Liverpool Biennial, 2012 City States exhibition Approaching Journey presenting works by Jens Haaning, Yvette Brackman, Jen Jin Kaisen, Ismar Cirkinagic.
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