TALENTED PERFORMERS NEEDED!

We are looking forward to performances from Stella Mandella and Markus Lloyd - plus more of our regulars - at next week's Aspex After Hours - AHH.  This is the first in our new series of aspex late night events which will take place on the first Thursday of the month throughout the summer.  These eclectic evenings of poetry, sound, performance, spoken word and comedy are scheduled for 5 May, 2 June, 7 July and 4 August - so make sure the dates are in your diary.
We still have places for performers next week - so email me if you would like to take part - phyl@aspex.org.uk!  Otherwise just come along and join us for a drink in our cafe bar.
www.aspex.org.uk

CURATORS AS JESTERS?

To what extent does the curator need to be a responsible storyteller?  That's the question posed by The Jester-Curator Symposium taking place at UCA Canterbury on Friday 20 May.

Tom Morton, Co-curator of the 2010 British Art Show 7 will lead a panel in a day of presentations and discussions which address the ideas of playfulness and responsibility in curatorial practice - the notion of the curator as jester!
To find out more and book your place, see www.trifariousprojects.com.

THE JESTER-CURATOR SYMPOSIUM
CHAIRED BY:
Tom Morton, Co-curator of the 2010 British Art Show 7
PAPERS FROM:
TJ Demos, Critic and author, The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp
Dave Beech, Critic and co-author, The Philistine Controversy; member of the art collective Freee
PANEL:
Pablo Leon de la Barra, Artist and curator; editor, Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution
Sally O'Reilly, Author, The Body in Contemporary Art
Matthew Poole, Curator and writer, Programme Director of the Centre for Curatorial Studies at the University of Essex
Gilda Williams, Lecturer, MA Curating, Goldsmiths College, London correspondent for Artforum magazine
PERFORMANCE FROM:
Richard Layzell, Artist and researcher with ResCen

Admission: £17.50 full price, £12 concessions