Source: CAFA

Mark Dunhill (fifth from left) is seen above at the opening ceremony of the biennial China Experimental Art Institutional Education Symposium on April 28th at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing

To his right is the renowned painter and President of CAFA, Pan Gongkai who has been selected to exhibit in the Chinese pavilion at the upcoming Venice Biennale. At the microphone (with glasses and long hair) is the artist Xu Bing, CAFA’s Vice-President, whose site-specific installation at the British Museum opens on May 12.

Visit:
- CAFA blog
- CAFA Symposium website (in Chinese)

We’ve been chosen by The Edmond de Rothschild Foundations to participate as academic partner on the highly prestigious Ariane de Rothschild Prize.

The prize, first launched in Portugal in 2005, and then held in Brussels in 2008, is a travelling project. Its aim is to promote the work of unknown young artists (aged 22-35) from the country where that year’s prize is being held. The first prize is an artistic residency at a chosen art school (previously The Slade School of Art, UCL). The second and third prizes are monetary ones.

This year the prize will be held in Milano, during the MiArt fair, April 5-24 2011. Central Saint Martins will work with this year’s curators (Laura Barreca and Marcello Smarelli) and The Foundation, to determine the criteria for selecting the artists. We will also prepare the academic program for the winner.

Visit The Edmond De Rothschild Website

Trompettes Solaires - Laerke Hooge Andersen

We are proud of our Textile Futures MA (2010) Laerke Hooge Andersen, for her collaboration with EDF Energy in the Energy Herbarium Project.

The Energy Herbarium was recently featured at the Design Biennale in Saint Etienne, France. The EDF research and development design team invited Laerke to contribute to the project which proposes future hypotheses for renewable energy production: thermodynamic systems with optimized exchangers, concentric heliotropic photovoltaic cells, millimetric piezoelectric fibres.

The collection includes 5 design probes: ‘Rhizome electriques, Trompettes Solaires, Effloresecences Photovoltaiques , Ecornifleurs a fluide Caloporteur, Evaporateurs Spectraux and Ascendances Convectives’.

Visit:
- The Energy Herbarium on Laerke Hooge Andersen’s website
- The Energy Herbarium on the Textile Futures website
- The MA Textile Futures course page

ESDEGMA and Central Saint Martins - on the runway

We’re proud of our students who participated in the collaborative project between Central Saint Martins BA Graphic Design and ESDEMGA (Escuela de Moda e Diseno de Galicia) BA Fashion Design. This year-long collaboration between second year students at both institutions, culminated in a runway show ‘DEBUT 2010’ in Pontevedra on 25 November.

The graphics students threw themselves into the deep end at Debut 2010, not only designing in an unfamiliar discipline, but also modelling on the runway and producing the music for their element of the show. ESDEMGA invited the Central Saint Martins students to document behind the scenes by photographing and drawing the preparations for the show, and the activity backstage.

Galicia is one of Spain’s key regions for the production and distribution of fashion and textiles. Pontevedra is the administrative centre of the region. The show took place in a newly built museum and was attended by names from the Spanish fashion scene and press. Following the show INDITEX (owners of brands such as ZARA, Pull & Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, etc.) invited Central Saint Martins students to participate in their internship scheme and Central Saint Martins graphic design graduates to apply for print and digital design positions in A Coruna (INDITEX HQ), Barcelona, Madrid, SE Asia and across the globe. ESDEMGA are hoping to extend the collaboration and INDITEX are also forging links with Central Saint Martins.

Congratulations to our participating BA Graphic Design students:

Lolita Do Peso Diogo
Irene Omodeo Zorini
Haya Alabdlkareem
Oliver Mayes
Ariane St-Georges Leblanc
Sophie Westerlind
Romain Arnette
Filip Wieckowski
Cherry Tong

Project management: Marcos Villalba (BA Graphic Design Alumnus)
Tutor: Rachel Cattle (BA Graphic Design Stage 1 Illustration)
Project Leader: Alan Baines (BA Graphic Design Course Director)

Visit:

- BA Graphic Design course page
- The Debut 2010 website (in Spanish, but the  photos transcend language…)
- Debut 2010 on video
- Debut 2010 on the runway

Jonathan Lunn, credit: Anthony Minghella

If you’re a student or a member of staff in a performance-related discipline, you have the chance to work as part of a small group to formulate a proposal for a major event or performance to be worked upon collaboratively over four terms.

The weekend of Friday 16 and Saturday 17 April 2010 will be led by Jonathan Lunn and Carolyn Choa, both of whom have extensive experience as practitioners and artistic directors in dance, drama, opera, film and new media. The event will comprise plenary and break-out sessions in small groups. There will also be access to movement studios, sound equipment, video cameras and a performance studio. Participants will investigate how ideas, concepts, and dreams evolve when they are practically tested through the collaborative creative process.
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AND is a new imprint based at Byam Shaw / Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, dedicated to publishing conceptually driven artist’s books.

AND are looking for proposals that navigate your research, drawing connections that you haven’t been able to make into an artwork – yet. Moments of making connections, encounters, collisions of disparate resources, which light up for a second before they fall into obscurity again. Do you have a trail of these encounters? Or can you build on this experience using actual references that you have found but laid to rest?
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BA Performance Design and Practice alumna Lina B. Frank is set designer for
Cirkus Cirkör whose new show, Inside Out, premieres at Sadler’s Wells in October.

Here’s Lina:

I’ve been designing for circus for a few years and was asked by the company’s director in Stockholm to design for this show and so I said I would like that very much

I’m a bit of a performance octopus. My work in design is quite bold and based mostly on shapes and colours. I think it’s influenced a lot from my upbringing in Sweden with a mum who loves Danish Industrial Design, Finnish Textile Design and Swedish Ceramic Design.

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Three 2nd year BA Performance Design and Practice students have put their stamp on hot new fashion magazine Love.

In December Love editor and former CSM fashion student Katie Grand invited James Barnett, Hannah Jerrom and Ria Menegatos to contribute to a photo shoot after seeing the students perform on the streets of Clerkenwell.

So impressed was Katie – former editor-­in­-chief at Pop magazine and co­founder of Dazed & Confused – with the our trio’s box head costumes, she asked to borrow them for the specially commissioned shoot the students received a credit – and fabulous exposure in the latest Condé Nast style bible. After creating two new box head costumes, James, Hannah and Ria delivered their work to the Love studios where it was photographed for the launch issue of the magazine.

The 3DD curriculum area on our Foundation Studies in Art and Design course has been working very successfully with fashion retail chain Whistles.

The ‘Whistles’ Live Project embraced all five 3DD pathways – 3D Design 1, 2 and 3, Spatial Design, and Jewellery Design. Whistles were looking for the best window display and/or design proposal to be featured in-store while offering a unique opportunity for the successful students to work with their creative team.  11 students were shortlisted for the opportunity.

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