NEXT TUESDAY - 2 NOVEMBER - LIFE DRAWING CLASS

Do you know that Life Drawing classes regularly take place at aspex on the first Tuesday of every month?  Led by artist Melanie Rose they provide an informal, relaxed environment in which both beginners and those with experience can develop their drawing skills. Melanie Rose specialises in drawing, but with a conceptual approach, in as much that she will use whatever is needed to communicate what she is exploring. In the past she has used super8 film, paint, installation, photography, sound and digital imagery. She is drawn to the bespoke and how it fits with the digital age and how education can benefit from technology, but also how audiences are exhausted of it. Consequently her fascination lies with the politics of delivery, seduction and the value of technology compared to that of the hand made. £15 per person and all materials are provided. Email info@aspex.org.uk or call 023 9277 8080 to reserve your place. www.melanierose.org.uk

CALL FOR ARC ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS TREE Closing Date: Wednesday 17 November

Apologies for mentioning Christmas at the beginning of November, but arc is once again looking for original and creative ideas for an ‘alternative’ Christmas Tree.  It could be sculpture, installation, intervention, decoration - the only limit is your imagination.  Jo Bushnell, Director of aspex, has  kindly agreed to make the selection and the selected artist will be awarded £200 to use in whatever way they wish to realise the project.  Short proposals clearly describing and illustrating your ideas should be emailed to arc@aspex.org.uk  by Wednesday 17 November.  We would like to have the Christmas Tree on display by mid December.  Final details will be negotiated with the selected artist.
Image arc Christmas Tree 2009, Jane Kilford

APPLICATIONS INVITED FOR STANDPOINT FUTURES 2011. Closing Date: Tuesday 30 November

In place of our own arc award for 2011, arc will be supporting the Standpoint Futures Development Residencies for regional UK visual artists. Applications are now invited for this new national residency scheme for emerging/mid career artists from across the UK - who are based out- side of Greater London. Standpoint Futures offers artists 4-6 weeks working at Standpoint in East London. Alongside studio practice the residency offers a tailored programme of professional and practice development opportunities including studio visits from leading artists, curators and writers; gallery visits; peer network opportunities; a public talk and presentation. One residency per year is reserved for artists working in the public realm and/or socially engaged practice. This residency will include realisation of a public project alongside all the development opportunities in the broader scheme. Jonathan Parsons will be involved with the selection process for this project.  For further information and application details visit: www.standpointlondon/futures.html or send an SSAE to: Stand- point Futures, 45 Coronet Street, London N1 6HD. Deadline for applications is Tuesday 30 November. http://www.standpointlondon.co.uk/Futures.html

Freelance Artist Tutor Opportunity

Turner Contemporary are currently seeking two practising artists to work together to deliver creative, fun and inspiring sessions within the Art Works 15 week course that will enable participants to understand more about contemporary, modern and historical works and their relevance to everyday life.

Closing date for applications:
12pm midday Friday 29 October
Interview date:
Tuesday 2nd / Wednesday 3rd November

Turner Contemporary has received funding from Thanet Works to deliver a 15 week course for 30 local unemployed people with the aim to increase skills and awareness of working in a gallery.  They hope that course participants will become more skilled at understanding artists’ ideas and ways of seeing and representing the world, and in turn, develop skills to discuss these with members of the public. The artists will be responsible for planning and delivering these sessions, which can include making, thinking, talking and visits to other museums and galleries, and can also draw on the support and specialisms of the wider team at Turner Contemporary. The project will need to engage participants with a variety of different levels of ability, interests and learning styles.
Post holders will need to be available to start in the second week of November (date TBC)
Hours will be based upon 60 delivery hours* across the duration + planning hours. *The exact number of expected hours will be confirmed at interview.

To apply for the post please provide a statement no longer than 300 words outlining why you think you are suitable for this post and an up to date CV.
Please also provide images of up to 6 pieces of work that you have recently produced.
If successful, you will be asked to provide evidence of a Police Check obtained within the last two years.
Applications accepted by email to Steve Kreeger at: artworks@monkeysbrother.co.uk
And by post to Steve Kreeger at:
Turner Contemporary
17-18 The Parade
Margate
Kent CT9 1EY
For full details about the position, click here to visit Turner Contemporary's website

'Great (Cultural) Expectations' Seminar, Turner Contemporary

Designs for the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

Tuesday 26 October, 11 am to 5 pm
Can we meet the political, social and educational expectations that are placed on major cultural projects and at the same time meet our own expectations?
This seminar looks at the development of major new institutions and the evolution of significant cultural projects that thread their way in to the existing infrastructure of a town or city.

Join the discussion – book your ticket by email: nationalprogrammes@contemporaryartsociety.org or call 020 7831 3221.

Droit House, Stone Pier, Margate
Free to Contemporary Art Society members
£15 to non members

Organised by the Contemporary Art Society, Turner Contemporary Director Victoria Pomery and Head of Exhibitions Sarah Martin will be joined in the seminar by Ana Janevski, Curator, New Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, Andrea Schlieker, Curator, Folkestone Triennial and Joanna Warsza, Artistic Director, the Laura Palmer Foundation.


For full details and seminar schedule click here

LINDSAY SEERS, IT HAS TO BE THIS WAY 1.5

The installation of Lindsay Seer's exhibition at aspex is well under way and on schedule for the Preview on Saturday. It has to be this way 1.5  is a new commission by aspex and marks Lindsay Seers’ continued attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her stepsister, Christine Parkes.  The work takes full advantage of the gallery space and already looks like an exhibition not to be missed.

Lindsay Seers, It has to be this way 1.5
Preview: Saturday 23 October, 2 to 4 pm
Exhibition: 23 October 2010 to 2 January 2011
 

In 1999 a young woman was involved in a moped accident. She suffered damage
to both her short and long-term memory and was left unable to decipher her
experiences. A year later she went missing in Rome and has subsequently not been
found.
It has to be this way1.5 is a new commission by aspex and marks Lindsay Seers’
continued attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the
young woman, her stepsister, Christine Parkes.
The artist, obsessed with the transformative powers of photography, follows
streams of associations; her stepsister’s boyfriend’s diary, her mother’s memories
alongside a shared archive of images and papers, determine the outline of her
ongoing journey and the form for the unfolding narrative of the work. The viewer
enters a structure in which everything is connected, a memory theatre painted
blue, a giant star, a doubled video, and a documentary and novella that weave
together a complex set of relationships which shift at every turn.
What constitutes the artistic practice of Lindsay Seers is not mere storytelling,
but a matrix where there is no formal separation between the conceptual
investigation of the act of photography, the camera as apparatus, the common
desire for film and photography to act as evidence of events, and the complex
historical and personal synchronicities of the events themselves. What we are
witnessing in the work of Seers is not so much a detached systematic outline of
these relationships, but the unfolding of the creative process, where the act of
observation and understanding influences the outcome of events.
Through Seers’ photographic explorations the past is constantly reconfigured, as
if it contains an infinite virtual potential for different outcomes, which are all
already embedded in one another.
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, will also be exhibiting the work of Lindsay
Seers. The installation It has to be this way2 will be exhibited from 9 October
until 11 December 2010.
Lindsay Seers is based in London. She was recently awarded the Derek Jarman
Award with a commission of four short films for Channel 4. Her recent
exhibitions include It has to be this way2, at the National Gallery of Denmark
(2010), Persistence of Vision, FACT (2010), Steps into the Arcane,
Kuntsmuseum, Thurgau, Switzerland (2010), Altermodern, Fourth Tate
Triennial, Tate Britain (2009), It has to be this way, Matt’s Gallery, London
(2009), and Event Horizon, (performance/screening), Royal Academy of Art,
London (2008).
EVENT INFORMATION
Gallery Talk
Thursday 11 November, 6pm
Artist David Burrows will give a critical response to Lindsay Seers’ work.

aspex is open 11am – 4pm daily, admission is FREE.
t: 023 9277 8080, e: info@aspex.org.uk, www.aspex.org.uk

In Conversation With Suki Chan and Haroon Mirza.

Tuesday 26 October, 5.45 to 6.30 pm, The Lightbox

Suki Chan and Haroon Mirza in conversation with ARC Lead Artist, Jonathan

Parsons.

The Ingram Collection: Contemporary Art featuring Suki Chan & Haroon Mirza

will showcase contemporary video and installation artworks from The Ingram

Collection for the first time.

Expanding the collection in new and interesting

ways Chris Ingram has recently begun to support emerging contemporary

artists.

The Lightbox is proud to present these new works that push the boundaries of sculpture, new media and

installation art.

The exhibition Private View in the Upper Gallery will follow the in conversation event from 6.30 pm to

8.30 pm.

The exhibition continues until 21 November.

Preview: Lindsay Seers, It Has To Be This Way 1.5

Saturday 23 October, 2 to 4 pm, aspex

"Following an accident, a chain of events takes us on a journey through history where everything is connected. It has to be this way 1.5 continues Lindsay Seers’ filmic and photographic search for her lost stepsister, Christine Parkes, in which she reconstructs a past in which characters move across history. By recasting photography as an act that actually creates experiences, rather than explores them, Seers’ work extends the boundaries of photography."

Lindsay Seers is based in London, she lectures in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. It has to be

this way was originally commissioned by Matt’s Gallery London in 2009.

It has to be this way 1.5 is a new commission by aspex, Portsmouth.

Email info@aspex.org.uk or call 023 9277 8080 to reserve your place.

Image: Lindsay Seers, It has to be this way, 2009 [installation view at Matt's Gallery], courtesy of the artist and Matt’s

Gallery.

Exhibition Talk: Artists in Residence, Dorking.

Thursday 14 October, 7 to 8pm

Mark Segal, Director of ArtSway, in conversation with the artists in residence, Anne Brodie and Amanda Loomes.

Artists in Residence, Dorking

13 St Martins Walk Shopping Centre

Dorking

Surrey

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In Conversation With Jonathan Parsons.

Saturday 9 October, 7 to 8 pm

Jonathan Parsons, ARC Lead Artist, in conversation with the artists in residence.

aspex After Hours: Have Another Word

 Following the success of Have a Word, the open mic event in June, aspex presents another evening of entrtainment where you get to be the star on Thursday 7 October, 6 to 8 pm.  The event is open to anyone interested in poetry, storytelling, lyrics set to music or word based performance of any kind - or just come to watch and enjoy a drink in the licensed bar.
There is still time to register your interest in taking part or if you would like to reserve a place, email info@aspex.org.uk or call 023 9277 8080.


Photo:  Kara Benford's Live Text performance at aspex.
Photographer:  Fiona Price, arc volunteer photographer.