past community projects
Kate
Grenyer: Roving Window
Artist Residency Project for St Denys Community
Centre, 6 February - 31 March 2007.
past exhibition talks
What is Painting For?
A panel discussion led by:
Professor Gerard Hemsworth Head of MA in Fine
Art at Goldsmiths College
&
Dr Andrew Renton Art Critic for the Evening
Standard and Director of the MA in Creative Curating, at Goldsmiths
College
Chaired by Dr Bernadette Buckley Head of Education
& Research at the John Hansard Gallery,
there was a full house for this discussion and members of the
audience joined in heated debate both with invited panel speakers
and exhibiting artists. Amongst the topics discussed were some
of the most recent new trends in ‘British painting’
and in particular, the relationship between contemporary and
‘Modernist’ painting. Painting’s capacity
to evoke a ‘quasi-spiritual’ or ‘mystical’
response in the viewer was also considered and was both advocated
and disputed in equal parts. Allied to this was the question
of whether or not, the languages available to describe and understand
contemporary acts of painting were now anachronistic.
What is the Role of the Artist in Times of War or Crisis?
Accompanying the Intervention exhibition, (30 September –
15 November) a panel discussion/public debate was held at the
John Hansard Gallery. Exhibiting artists, Rashad Salim,
Vanda Playford, Shez Dawood, and Foreign Investment
came together to debate whether or not the artist ought to have
a particular function in times of war and/or crisis. The terms
of the debate were also informed by the many remarks which viewers
to the exhibition had posted in the Reading Room during the
course of the exhibition. Discussion was also informed by a
special Intervention newspaper which was distributed throughout
the exhibition. The newspaper featured artists’ written
statements declaring their position on their roles in times
of war and also, an essay entitled ‘Art
and Expression After 9/11’, written by Dr Bernadette
Buckley, Head of Education and Research at the John Hansard
Gallery. The panel discussion/ public debate was also chaired
by Dr Buckley.
20 Million Mexicans Can't be Wrong
Art Historian, critic and exhibition curator Cuauhtémoc
Medina, led an introduction to his exhibition and discussed
the issues behind it during the preview event.
Teresa Gleadowe, Head of the Royal College
of Art's Curating Contemporary Art MA, spoke to gallery audiences
about art production in the Mexican context.
Professor Dawn Ades, Director of the University
of Essex's Collection of Latin American Art, reflected upon
both the artistic practices illustrated in the exhibition and
upon the social and political issues imbued in the works. Her
talk gave a full house, an insight into the conditions under
which art is practiced in Mexico and prompted debate about the
nature of cultural transferrence achieved via their exhibition
in the UK.
Wong Hoy Cheong
Lecturer in Human Geography (University College, London) and
practising artist, Dr. Divya Toila-Kelly, spoke to a full house
about the connections that her research into identity, ecology
and nature within British imperial and colonial history, shares
with those reflected in the works exhibited by Wong Hoy Cheong.
Once Again
Once Again Curator and participating Artist,
Jane Harris, led a tour of her exhibition and discussed the
ideas behind it. The talk was in association with Gallery Go.
past workshops
Ergin Çavusoglu:
Point of Departure
Storyboard Journeys
Saturday 20 May, 11.30am-3.00pm
In this workshop, participants learned how to create a film
storyboard. Based on an imaginary or real journey, participants
devised and drew the stages of their story using the methods
of filmmakers.
Panacea: Children’s Workshop
Saturday 13 August 2005
Based on the First Aid Kit, this FREE workshop asked children
to create a ‘ONE WORLD HAPPY AID KIT’. Participants
were asked to put in all the things that make them feel better
and happy, redesigning the function of bandages and plasters!
The kits are on display in the Education Room and serve as
a ‘Happy Aid’ kit for everyone!
There Where You Are Not
CREATIVE PLACES
A Temporary Drop-In Centre Project for Young People
Summer Half Term: 30 May – 3 June 2005
Supported by the University of Southampton, this project provided
children and young people with an opportunity to be creative
in a temporary space located outside of the front entrance of
the John Hansard Gallery.
Based on the ‘There Where You Are Not’ exhibition,
the project aimed to consider how ‘outdoor’ spaces
provide places for quite contemplation and creativity.
Garden sheds, tents and gazebos have all been viewed as temporary
places in which people can escape, relax and connect to the
natural environment. With a gazebo and two person tent erected
outside of the John Hansard Gallery over a period of three days,
children and young people were invited to drop-in to use freely
available art materials and also sign up to take part in scheduled
artist-led activities.
All art materials were provided for participants to use and
create art works of their choice in the main gazebo, supported
by the John Hansard Gallery Education Team. Participants also
worked with local artists on specific art workshops.
Creative Arts Project: Astro Black Morphologies
Working in partnership with Highfield Primary and Bassett Green
Primary School, the John Hansard Gallery provided young pupils
with the opportunity to participate in a large scale art-science
project, based on its recent exhibition, Astro Black Morphologies.
The project, lasting ten days, led over 300 children, between
the ages of 4 and 11, on a journey through outer space. The
children started their journey by exploring the innovative,
multi-sensory exhibition of sound and visual transformation
of Black Hole data at the John Hansard Gallery. Through open
discussion, the young pupils considered how art and science
complement each another before creating their own art-science
work. Supported by the expertise of Museum Studies, Physics
and Astronomy/Astrophysics student volunteers from the University
of Southampton, artist Ratna Begum worked with pupils to depict
designated themes of the solar system on 8ft tall panels. A
total of 15 wall panels were designed by the pupils to display
in their schools. The panels, once linked together, materialized
into one large scale painting of Earth to the edge of the Universe!
This project was been financially supported by a Community
Fellowship grant (made possible by the Higher Education Active
Community Fund) from the University of Southampton, and has
helped the John Hansard Gallery continue its commitment to Education
and Outreach in the community.
Citizenship and Art Workshop
Pupils of class 4b at Portswood Primary School joined the education
team for a hald day workshop to examine the relationship between
citizenship and art. The workshop, held in conjunction with
the Gallery's reterospective of recent works by the prominent
Malaysian artist, Wong Hoy Cheong, explored the artist's focus
upon migration and identity. This was achieved via disucssion
of selected works within the exhibition and the production of
a group collage. In so doing, the workshop developed the children's
awareness of how artists use their creativity to reflect ipon
personal beliefs and social and cultural values.
Once Again Workshop
Pupils of Highfield Primary School joined the Education team
for a half day Double Take workshop
during the Gallery's Once Again exhibition.
The activity was designed to aid understanding
of how artists make copies of images and children were invited
to use printing and craft techniques (such as tracing and stenciling)
to gain hands on experience of duplication in an artistic context.
During the same exhibition, students of Southampton City College
participated in a half day Replicate workshop
during which they replicated their favourite works in the exhibition
using sketch and paint techniques.
Potential: ongoing archive Workshops
During the summer of 2002, exhibiting artists Ella
Gibbs and Jakob Jakobsen led workshops
with students of Portswood Primary School and Southampton Institute
respectively. Ella Gibbs’s workshop allowed
children to add to her Horse Collection
by composing their own stories or contributing objects relating
to the horse theme. In addition to adding to the collection
itself, the children’s accounts of their completed ideas
and stories were recorded.
Jakob Jakobsen’s series of workshops
with students in the Faculty of Media, Art and Society at Southampton
Institute, created an opportunity for participants to collaboratively
produce an emotional map of Southampton. Reflecting these ideas,
the Emotional Mapping workshop led
by Una Dawkins during July of 2002,
created an opportunity for the teenage gallery visitors of Mary
Hare School, Newbury, to explore parts of the campus environment
in which the Gallery is located and reflect upon their personal,
sensory and emotional responses to it. Using writings, photographs,
sketches, rubbings and artefacts to communicate these responses,
participants sorted, ordered and assembled them into a collage
to produce their emotional map of the campus.
Interpreting Perception Workshop
The issues of sight, vision and framing raised by the
2002 exhibition almost Cover to Cover
by Canadian artist, Michael Snow, provided
another opportunity for the Gallery to widen participation in
the visual arts amongst individuals and organisations working
and/or living with disability.
Led by William Kirby, (President of Museums and Galleries Disability
Association), the workshop examined Snow’s concern with
perception and vision in art. This focus offered participants
alternative ways of reading and thinking about many of the works
exhibited. In so doing, the workshop raised awareness of how
personal experiences of peripheral sight can impact upon an
individual’s interpretation of contemporary art. It also
created a forum for participants to discuss with fellow contributors,
exhibiting artist Michael Snow, and workshop leader William
Kirby, their own interpretation of the works in the exhibition.
Disabling Places Workshop
During the 2001 exhibition featuring the
work of artists Andrew Cross and Dan
Holdsworth, disabled and non-disabled participants
from across the Wessex region joined this one day workshop.
Developing the exhibition’s concern with ‘non-places’,
participants used photography, collage and critical debate to
explore the social and physical barriers many disabled people,
face their impact upon the individual’s lifeworlds and
their access to the visual arts.
past seminars and symposia
Symposium:
Landscape and Photography
8 May 2008 / 4.30 – 6.30pm / Meet in the Gallery
FREE / Booking Essential
All are welcome to this public discussion exploring art,
landscape, photography and archaeology, organised in conjunction
with O.G.S.
Crawford. We are delighted to welcome an
outstanding panel of speakers, whose divergent approaches
to the idea of landscape promise a lively and insightful
debate.
Book tickets by emailing info@hansardgallery.org.uk or telephone
023 8059 2158.
Panel:
Matthew Johnston (Chair)
Professor of Archaeology, University of Southampton and
author of Ideas of Landscape (2007)
Kitty Hauser
Research Fellow, University of Sydney, curator
of O.G.S. Crawford and author of Shadow Sites: Photography,
Archaeology and the British Landscape (2007) and Bloody
Old Britain: O.G.S. Crawford And The Archaeology Of Modern
Life, (Granta, 2008)
Jem Southam
Professor of Art and Media, University of Plymouth. His
latest work, Upton Pyne continues his investigation into
the Romantic landscape
Roger Palmer
Professor of Fine Art, University of Leeds. His
exhibitions Shanty (2007) and Plume (2006) continue his
explorations into the politics of landscape. |
Bradbury Rings, Dorset, seen from
the air, from O.G.S. Crawford and Alexander Keiller, Wessex
from the Air (1928).
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Live Art on
Camera: Panel Discussion
Alice Maude-Roxby (Chair),
Kathy O’Dell, and Babette Mangolte
Friday 26 October 7.30 - 9pm |
Yvonne and the Box, 1972, Yvonne
Rainer, photograph by Babette Mangolte © Babette
Mangolte All Rights of Reproduction Reserved |
Join us at the Gallery
for an evening of discussion concerning Live Art
on Camera, its themes, problematics and wider
contexts.
We are delighted to welcome
a distinguished international panel: exhibition curator
Alice Maude-Roxby is an artist and Course
Director of BA Photography, Kingston University,
whose ongoing research explores performance photography.
Alice will be joined by Dr Kathy O’Dell,
Associate Professor and Associate Dean, College
of Arts & Sciences, University of Maryland,
who has lectured and published widely on contemporary
art and performance, with writings appearing in Artforum,
Art in America, Art & Text and Performance Research.
Also joining the panel will be film-maker and photographer
Babette Mangolte, whose work features
within Live Art on Camera. Mangolte has
played a pivotal role within performance art documentation
since the 1970s and her films and photo work were included
in “The American Century” show in 1999 at
the Whitney Museum, New York.
To book: call the Gallery on 023
8059 2158 or email info@hansardgallery.org.uk
Find out more about
Live Art on Camera
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Journeys through
the Holocaust:
A symposium
Monday 11 December 2006
11am - 8.30pm
John Hansard Gallery |
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Griselda Pollock writes that the main difference between those
who originally wound up at places like Auschwitz Birkenau and
today’s visitors is that today’s visitors are free
to leave. So what motivates people to visit Europe’s most
notorious sites of mass extermination, many of which have become
must-see destinations on Europe’s 21st century grand tour?
Who visits these places? And what might these sites and journeys
represent to visitor, artist, scholar and state?
In addressing these questions Journeys through the
Holocaust brought together an international group of
scholars, visual artists, film makers and curators whose work
focuses on the Holocaust as a contemporary discursive, ideological
and economic phenomenon, as well as a broader set of concerns
related to what has recently been termed ‘dark tourism’.
Journeys through the Holocaust coincided with
Paul
Antick’s itourist?, a multi-media project
that uses billboard art, writing and the internet to pose a
series of questions about the relationship between representations
of the Holocaust, Jewish identities and mass tourism in the
21st century. During December 2006 fourteen billboards were
simultaneously situated in Southampton, London
and Terezin (Theresienstadt ) in the Czech
Republic. An accompanying website
allows audiences the opportunity to comment on the billboards
as well as other related materials featured at the website.
Speakers
• Tim Cole (Bristol University, ‘Selling
the Holocaust: From Auschwitz to Schindler, How History Is Bought,
Packaged and Sold’)
• Elle Flanders (Dir. ‘Zero Degrees
of Separation’) & Kay Dickinson (Goldsmiths College)
• Tobias Brinkmann (Parkes Institute
for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of
Southampton)
• Victor Seedman (University of Luton)
• Richard W. Hill (Middlesex University)
• Paul Antick (Middlesex University)
Journeys Through the Holocaust was introduced
by Professor Tony Kushner (Parkes Institute
for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University
of Southampton)
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itourist?
and Journeys through the Holocaust are presented
in collaboration with John Hansard Gallery
and are supported by Middlesex
University, Center
for Contemporary Art Prague, Parkes
Institute for the Study of Jewish / non-Jewish Relations
(University of Southampton)
and Museum of Domestic
Art and Architecture (MoDA, Middlesex University).
The Archive in Art Practice Symposium
Launching the Potential: ongoing archive exhibition
in June 2002, this symposium explored artists
experiences of working in institutional archives and proposed
alternative, more flexible methods of archiving — the
autonomous archive which allows the artist to continuously sort,
order and scrutinise archival information.
Gina Pane and the Contemporary Context Seminar
Held during the John Hansard Gallery’s 2001/2002 retrospective
of this enormously influential artist, this one day seminar
explored the implications of Pane’s work for contemporary
art practice. The papers presented paid particular attention
to the interventions Pane’s work made with the body, performance
and religious iconography and to her photographic documentation
of her performances.
The Radical Image 1950–1980 Symposium
Held in conjunction with the John Hansard Gallery and timed
to coincide with the Gallery’s gina pane exhibition in
November 2001, this Winchester School of Art symposium addressed
issues of controversy in the arts during a thirty year period.
The Masque Seminar
This section of the site is currently under construction.
For more details, come back and visit us soon.
Gerard Hemsworth Seminar
This section of the site is currently under construction.
For more details, come back and visit us soon.
past lecture series
Golden Jubilee Lecture Series: What Future for
Art?
As part of the celebration of University of Southampton’s
Golden Jubilee, the John Hansard Gallery collaborated
with the Centre for
Contemporary Art Research to host the weekly lecture series
What Future for Art? The series
brought together a number of distinguished thinkers in the field
of art and aesthetics, including Gen Doy and Thierry de Duve,
to speculate on the conditions under which contemporary will
thrive.
Golden Jubilee Lecture Series: Art, Architecture and Community
As part of the Oxford Road Project and in celebration of the
University of Southampton’s Golden Jubilee
in 2002, the John Hansard Gallery co-hosted a two part lecture
series entitled Art, Architecture and Community.
Uniting a number of eminent architects and professionals, including
Will Alsop, Rick Mather, Sue Clifford and David Mayne, the series
explored how different approaches to and interaction with communities
can benefit both artist and public. The lectures also raised
greater awareness of the part that the arts can play in everyday
life.
Sociology Lecture
Within the context of Carey Young’s Business
as Usual (October 2001) exhibition, a sociology
lecture by Professor Douglas Harper of Duquesne University,
Pittsburgh, examined the ways in which photography can be used
as a from of social commentary.
past conferences
Recent John Hansard Gallery Conferences have included:-
- Cultural Translations (in collaboration
with Millais Gallery and Southampton Institute, October 2004
- Critical Interventions III: Unprincipled Passions,
February 2002
- Critical Interventions II: Obscene Powers,
Dec 1999
- Contemporary Painting: a new ground,
January 1999
- Critical Interventions I: Evil,
May 1998
- Haim Steinbach and the Uses of Things,
March 1998
- Elsewhere, October 1996 (in association
with Winchester School of Art)
- Imagined Communities, May 1996
- The Artist and the Academy: issues in fine art
education and the wider cultural context, December
1993
- Space Invaders: issues of presentation, context
and meaning in contemporary art, October 1992
past off-site projects
Kranky Klaus BB Spook House – Three films by Cameron
Jamie with Live soundtrack music from The Melvins
In a unique collaboration between the John Hansard Gallery
and Artangel, a rare screening took place of US filmmaker Cameron
Jamie’s work at the Turner Sims Concert Hall on 21 November
2003. Exploring the dark underbelly of the American dream, Jamie’s
three films were accompanied by a live performance by The Melvins
– a cult 3-man band which has been hugely influential
on some on such groups as Nirvana.
Kranky Klaus tracked a herd of Krampus (strange
mythical creatures with shaggy coats) as they worked their way
through a small village in central Austria. While St Nicholas
rewarded the good inhabitants of the village, the Krampus worked
their way through the village mauling and menacing the bad –
taking retribution to the very limits of acceptable intimidation.
Spook House revealed a white working class
suburb in Detroit, revelling in their macabre enactments of
Halloween rituals. Front lawns were transformed into cemeteries,
kitchens became mausoleums and dismembered bodies were prepared
for cannibal feasts.
BB completed the trilogy. Using raw black
and white footage, this acclaimed film of LA teenage wrestlers
featured American kids jumping from the tops of garages and
slamming into each other with chairs and ladders. This unique
footage fused with The Melvins’ pounding soundtrack to
induce what Jamie called ‘a purgatory state of being’
wherein the primal and the pre-modern confronted the ‘civilised’
world with ominous intensity.
Build a Modernist Pavilion
During the exhibition of Simon Starling (2001),
which explored issues of sustainability and globalisation, the
Gallery developed a related off-site project to coincide with
Museums and Galleries month. The project offered Gallery visitors
the opportunity to participate in the construction of a modernist
pavilion using sustainable materials. The temporary structure
was constructed in the grounds of the University of Southampton.
International Waters
International Waters was a John
Hansard Gallery offsite project by Roger Palmer
which remembered sea-trading ties between Southampton and Cape
Town. Also part of the 2001 programme, the project investigated
the colonial history of the Union-Castle shipping line and was
housed in their former headquarters.
Bargate Centre Artist Residency
During 2000 - 2001, the John Hansard Gallery’s
partnership with the Bargate Centre, Southampton, took the work
of video artist, Andrea Nagy, into the commercial centre of
Southampton through a Year of the Artist Residency awarded by
Southern Arts. By bringing sound, video and installation art
into the media oriented shopping centre, the residency gave
the centre’s audience access to contemporary visual art
from which they might otherwise have been excluded.
Other Off-site Projects
The Education programme developed in conjunction with other
John Hansard Gallery exhibitions, including Lie
of the Land (1999), Furniture (1999), Postcards
on Photography (1999), and The
Masque (1998), have also incorporated
an off-site element with a view to breaking the perception that
contemporary art is the preserve of galleries, museums and parks.
access event feedback & policy development
Having recently completed a series of Access Art Project events
the Gallery has established log-term relationships with a number
of local communities, including the Chinese, disabled, South
Asian and African Carribbean communities. These events and the
distribution of an access survey generated vital data to feed
into the Gallery's Access Policy and shape improvements made
during the Gallery's refurbishments. Data will be made available
on this page from mid autumn.
Prize Winner
The Gallery is pleased to announce Dr Kerry Shephard of Lymington
as the Access Survey prize winner following this summer's draw.
