Still from promo for Tribes’ “When My Day Comes” directed by Mickey Voak & Dan White.
Tribes nominated for NME Best New Band award 2012.
Tribes, (“Camden’s urchin grunge…indie rock of the most rebellious kind” The Guardian) featuring CSM BA Fine Art graduate Dan White, and backed by promos directed by Dan, and a team of other BA Fine Art graduates including Giorgio Bruni, Toby Ross-Shouthall, Towa Noel Shimizu and Ralph Fuller, have been nominated for the NME’s Best New Band Award 2012.
The other nominees are: The Vaccines, Lana Del Ray, Wu Lyf and Foster the People. The winners will be unveiled at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on February 29, 2012.
Find out more: -Vote for Tribes on the NME website
-BA Fine Art course page
We’ve had lots of exciting events take place so far at CSM, including BA Product Design’s ‘Dirty Washing’ project, which drew attention to correct use of the recycling bins at King’s Cross, and volunteers helping out at the King’s Cross Central Skip Garden. We have many more events still to come; for more details see the Green Week 2012 schedule.
To coincide with Green Week 2012, we’ve launched a new sustainability area on our website. The new area contains information about the college’s sustainability policies, the energy efficiency of our new building, examples of student projects addressing sustainability, including MA Communication Design’s Fish Factory project in Iceland and much more.
Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann and Max Jorge Hinderer discuss their controversial exhibition ‘The Potosi Principle’ on the circulation of art and wealth during Spanish colonial rule. Moderated by Melissa Gronlund.
Potosí, the famous silver-mining city in Bolivia, synonymous with immense wealth and unbridled exploitation, was the capital of the mining industry in Latin America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and played a crucial role in the development of European capitalism and the migrations associated with it. Even today, the expression ‘vale un Potosí’ / ‘worth a fortune’ is commonly used in Spanish.
‘The Potosi Principle’ offered a critical approach to the Bicentenario – the two hundredth anniversary of the independence movement in Latin America. It addressed the relationship between trade structures and ways of thinking in Latin America and Europe and their social effects on both continents, both before and after the citizens’ revolutions of the nineteenth century.
On Making is a a Two-Day Seminar Workshop in Art Theory and Philosophy.
These seminars shed light on some historical conditions and lineages that are often overlooked. Initially, the seminars will look at how Greek philosophy (Heraclitus, Socrates/Plato and Aristotle) contributed the fundamental concepts of knowledge regarding how something comes about and how it changes while maintaining identity or the kind of knowledge which enables us to produce things. Thereafter, with Romanticism, a different concept of history and making emerges in which notions regarding education (in Greek ‘paideia’) are mixed together with Christian theological overtones. Romanticism engenders the modern utopian thinking of the ‘making’ of history as salvation where the ‘material’ of the artist is the whole of human society (most evident in the Bauhaus and Soviet Art). Following the failure of ’68 the notion of the tinkerer/bricoleur was taken up as a post-modern alternative to the capitalist mode of production, In this regard we shall look at the ideas of Levi-Strauss, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari, and de Certeau. Of relevance here is the work of the curator Harold Szeemann who formed the Prinzhorn collection in the 1920’s and curated the exhibition “Der Hang zum Gesamtkunstwerk” in 1933.
Professor of Ceramic Art and Design Rob Kesseler received support from NESTA as part of their fellowship programme (1999-2005) which supported the development of talented individuals working across science, technology and the arts.
During his fellowship, he worked with botanical scientists at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, and used his artistic and technical skills to capture stunning images of microscopic plant material. Rob was recently invited by NESTA to discuss his work at their Innovation in the UK event. Details of his fellowship and the event can be found here.
London is the only city in the world where you could ever find Gilbert and George sharing space with the Gherkin and the Globe while the Great Fire burns and a gin drinker glugs her favourite tipple, and where a burlesque dancer hails a black cab while barrage balloons hover over Broadcasting House during the Blitz.
In An Alphabet of London, CSM BA Fashion tutor Christopher Brown presents a series of linocuts illustrating every aspect of London past and present, including personalities, buildings, monuments, legends, historic events and other metropolitan icons. From Dickens, Dr Johnson, Tower Bridge and the Shard to the Diamond Jubilee, Wimbledon, pigeons and jellied eels, all London life is here. A born-and-bred Londoner, Brown recounts his own memories of growing up in the capital, and also describes how he creates his distinctive prints.
Rubbish Duck is a sculpture made from 2000 plastic bottles collected from The Thames and London’s canals.
In many parts of London the canals and rivers are the only high quality public spaces. The waterways are also one of the last natural habitats for wildlife in the city but no organization is in charge of keeping them clean. The waste poses a real threat to birds, fish and other wildlife.
Help us to clean up London’s waterways and build Rubbish Duck sculpture. Follow us and join the Regents Canal clean up on Wednesday 22nd February from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm!
The event is part of Big Waterways Clean Up 2012 project. All the collected bottles will be used to build the Rubbish Duck.
I AM NOT A POET: TAMARIN NORWOOD’S THESE ARE NOT POEMS, ‘Each to Each’ sculptural installation created for the ‘Citations Lifted Loose’ exhibition, part of the ‘Concrete and Glass Festival’ (2008)
CSM BA Fine Art graduate Tamarin Norwood is currently working as Artist in Residence at Modern Art Oxford.
Tamarin’s project is exploring the gallery’s Legacy Fellowship, a programme of new visual arts commissions and live events to mark the Olympic year) to develop a visual vocabulary of choreography, instruction and transcription. As part of her ongoing investigation of the gaps between words and things, rules and games, intentions and accidents, she will track the progress of the Fellowship to create a new body of text and video work.
The Residency runs until 19 February, with an open studio, an Artists’ Talk and culminates in an exhibition.
Martin Clapp’s film The Magic Piano made the Oscar Animated Short final 10 shortlist. Martin has worked in the animation industry since graduating in 2000, mainly with 3D computer animation. He also worked on the 2006 Oscar winning film Peter and the Wolf, produced by Breakthru Films.
Find out more:
- MA Character Animation course page
We all know that sustainability isn’t just about going to talks and events – it’s about embedding environmental thinking and practice into our everyday lives.
This year at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, Green Week brings together creative people to inspire positive actions for a sustainable and ethical future.
Contribute, join us on a journey exploring the possibilities for a sustainable future.
We need your thoughts – email Nick Gorse with your ideas, plans and questions. We look forward to hearing from you!
