Further information, courtesy of the Royal United Services Institute:

Details:

Date: Wednesday, 10 Mar 2010
Time: 7.00 - 9.15 pm
Location: RUSI, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2ET (view map)
Book your place: Please follow link.

About the event:

The Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies and The Art Fund, Britain’s leading art charity, would like to invite you to a reception and debate on the topic of “Commemorating our Armed Forces: Remembrance in a Modern Society”.

Set against the backdrop of the Wootton Bassett phenomenon, a high-profile panel of speakers will come together to discuss our country’s historical approach to remembrance.

Chaired by Channel 4 television presenter, Jon Snow, the debate will hear contributions from:

• Former UK Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt GCB CBE MC
• Director General of the Imperial War Museum, Diane Lees
• Director-General of the Royal British Legion, Chris Simpkins
• David Cotterrell, Artist and Professor of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University

The debate will be preceded by a canapés reception between 1900-2000, where people can view Official Iraq War artist, Steve McQueen’s, Queen and Country artwork.

To attend this event, please register online using the "Book your place" link above. If you have any queries please contact Deanne Prudden, Events Manager, at deannep@rusi.org or call +44 (0)20 7747 2619.

Details:

Date: Thurs 19 November,
Time: 6.30-8pm
To book: email: caitlin.heffernan@artistresource.org.uk
Location: View Map

Fabrica is an art gallery in the heart of Brighton, on the South Coast of England. It is situated in the former Holy Trinity Church on the corner of Ship Street and Duke Street.

Travel Information:

TRAIN - Fabrica is close to Brighton station (10 to 15 minutes walk).

TAXI - If you are coming to Fabrica by Taxi, ask for the bottom of Duke Street, opposite Brown's Restaurant. Taxi ranks can be found at: Brighton station (10 minutes walk); junction of East Street and North Street (10 minutes walk or less); near the Clocktower at Queen Square (5 minutes walk).

BUS - Fabrica is 5 to 10 minutes walk from bus stops on North Street and at Churchill Square.

CAR - Finding parking space in central Brighton can be difficult, especially at weekends. Nearest car parks are: Churchill Square, Russell Road, Cannon Place, Church Street, West Street (10 minutes walk or less) North Road, Black Lion Street (10 to 15 minutes walk) Regency square (15 minutes walk) On street parking (using voucher or digital meter systems) can be found along the Seafront and on Middle Street, Duke Street and throughout the lanes. Car Parking for Drivers with Disabilities Fabrica is within 1 minutes walk of 2 spaces reserved for orange badge holders. Orange badge holders may also park on double yellow lines immediately outside the entrance. The gallery entrance in Duke Street is ramped.

The Trustees are pleased to announce the results of the 2009 competition for Philip Leverhulme Prizes. These Prizes are awarded to outstanding young scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field, are recognised at an international level, and whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise.

Further details can be found at the Leverhulme Trust website.

Further information, courtesy of Jes Fernie, follows:

"The programme will coincide with the showing of Steve McQueen's Queen & Country project at the University of Essex Gallery.

Internationally acclaimed artists Paul Seawright and David Cotterrell will be talking about their experiences of working in Afghanistan as representatives of the Imperial War Museum and the Wellcome Trust.

Seawright visited Afghanistan in 2002 where he created Hidden, a powerful series of photographs which depict minefields and battle sites devoid of people, highlighting the fact that so much of the conflict in Afghanistan is invisible. Cotterrell spent time in Helmand Province with the Joint Forces Medical Group in 2007 witnessing operations on combat trauma victims in the field hospital at Camp Bastion."

Bearing witness: the role of war artists in the 21st century
Speakers: Paul Seawright and David Cotterrell
Chair: Jes Fernie, Associate Curator, firstsite
26 October 2009, Headgate Theatre, Colchester
7.00 - 8.30pm

The festival will showcase works from international artists in the form of video installations, video art, experimental, VJ and live audio visual perfomances.  In addition they will host the Skype symposium series where scholars and video artists from around the world will lecture and participate in panel discussions on a wide range of topics from art to technology.  There are also a series of workshops scheduled to coincide with symposium topics, focusing on techniques and innovation.  The philosophy of Videokills and the international festival is accessibility, open exchange of art and ideas and a dedication to the preservation, invention and evolution of the medium of video art.  The location is in the underbelly of Stattbad, a re-appropriated swimming complex, come cultural venue.

From September 20 to December 13, 2009 the Hyde Park Art Center presents the exhibition featuring the video work of eighteen international artists who explore aspects of Shanghai’s rapidly evolving urban culture. Held in the Art Center’s Black Box Gallery, the exhibition, Shanghype! dismantles perceptions of the city’s identity, stimulating complicated visions of the Far Orient and asking the public to reevaluate notions of neoliberalism and globalization.

Focusing on a city that is constantly in flux—having been built from scratch, rebuilt, and overbuilt—the exhibition reveals a generation’s dramatic achievements while questioning the sustainability of existing urbanism. Using the notion of China at its height as a beginning metaphor, the exhibition works to explore Shanghai’s aspirations and desire to regain its once legendary reputation, the reflected need of China to be recognized as international and modern, and the power struggle between Shanghai’s local and global identity. Organizers of Shanghype! worked closely with selected artists on specific projects “pushing the place of Shanghai in the imaginary”.

All artists involved with the exhibition have spent significant time in China conducting conceptual and visual research on cultural authenticity. Artists include: Sun Xun, Qiu Anxiong, Tang Maohong, Bu Hua, Song Tao, Cao Fei, Zhang Ding, Yang Fudong, David Cotterrell, Xu Zhen, Yang Zhenzhong, Pierre Giner, Olivo Barbieri, D-fuse, Jin Shan, Speedism, Mathieu Borysevicz, and Zhou Xiaohu. The works were selected by Davide Quadrio, a Shanghai-based curator and founder of BizArt, one of China’s oldest and most renowned independent spaces for contemporary art. Co-curating the exhibition is Dan S. Wang, a widely published Chicago-based writer and artist.

Shanghype! will be held in conjunction with the exhibition Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Both exhibitions explore the cityscape of Shanghai as conceptual terrain. This program is part of a college-wide initiative at Columbia called Eyes on China. This exhibition and related programming has been supported in part by The Center for The Arts of East Asia at the University of Chicago, Dr. Samuel Wang, and anonymous donors.

Shanghype! will be on view from September 20 to December 13, 2009 at the Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 South Cornell Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60615; 773.324.5520 and www.hydeparkart.org. Hyde Park Art Center exhibitions are always free and open to the public.

Exhibition Reception: Sunday, September 27, 3–5 pm

Black Box Gallery Hours:
Monday – Thursday: 10 am – 8 pm
Friday – Saturday: 10 am – 5 pm
Sunday: 12 pm – 5 pm

Artist’s Talk: Sunday, September 27, 2 pm
Peggy Wang and Qiu Anxiong will discuss the current state of video art in China.

Sponsored by the Center for the Arts of East Asia at the University of Chicago.

David is intrigued by the ex-industrial landscape of the forest, seeing it as "one of choreographed and manipulated tranquillity and contemplation." He is considering the use of ‘gabions’, used for military and land fortification, which he saw in Afghanistan. "I would like to investigate construction techniques, which could provide a structural addition designed to be readily appropriated by the forest environment and a platform to consider the contradictions between human manipulation of landscape and the natural passage of time."

Project Director for the Sculpture Trust, Carolyn Black, commented “This is fantastic news for the Sculpture Trust. David’s work is always sensitive and considerate of the people and the places where he works, and the Trust encourages people to become involved in some way. David will present his proposal to the public in the autumn of 2009, as part of programme of artist’s talks we are planning. We can’t wait to see the outcome!”

Searchlight is the story of a politically influential art event. Offering an alternative public art model to the monumental sculpture traditionally aligned with inner-city regeneration, it is an experimental journey through technology, contested territories and fragmented communities.

This publication celebrates the risk and uncertainty of the project, drawing attention to unresolved questions being explored by Britain’s public art community as it seeks to re-evaluate its relationship to context.

Details:

Event: An Evening with David Cotterrell
Date: Tuesday 23 June
Time: 6.30 - 8.30pm (refreshments from 6pm)
Location: The Place, Athenaeum Street, Sunderland SR1 1QX
Free (booking required): bookings@northernarchitecture.com

Further information about the publication may downloaded as a one page document here.

In September of 2009 the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, is opening an exhibition curated by Davide Quadrio entitled Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture. The city of Shanghai is known for its impressive population growth, the increasingly rapid rate of its cultural and environmental transformations, and the tension between Western and traditional Chinese values, lifestyle, and work habits. Within this environment, the role of the artist becomes ever important as they look to interpret the experience of inhabiting a city and a time that’s looking to define itself between the contradictory natures of its past, present and future. The participating artists in this exhibition take various approaches in capturing a city that from day to day seems to transform before our eyes.

Artist included:
Olivo Barbieri, Isidro Blasco, David Cotterrell, Su Chang, Yang Fudong, Xu Zhen, Shi Guorui, Xu Xixian and Xu Jianrong, Birds Head–Song Tao and Ji Weiyu, Speedism–Julian Fridauer and Pieterjan Ginckels, Hu Yang, Ma Liang, Zhu Feng, Zhou Xiaohu, Jin Shan, Cao Fei, Mathieu Borysevicz and Lu Yuanming.

Exhibition Dates:
September 24 – December 23, 2009.

The New Silk Roads is a highly constructed and symbolic subject that keeps fascinating East and West alike as a source of never ending story-telling. The New Silk Roads are a variable place for instable connections and uncertain achievements: leading all to cultural hybridity. ArtHub, a Hong Kong based non-profit dedicated to art creation in China and the rest of Asia, is organizing a four-day symposium Friday, August 27th through Sunday, August 30th to take place in Bangkok University Gallery (BUG), in collaboration with the Prince Claus Fund, Bangkok University (BUG) and National Research Center of the Kingdom of Thailand.

Arthub’s summit will examine the recent rapid developments in Asia, its cast of characters, issues and mediums as the impetus for artists, curators, and cultural thinkers from a wide array of viewpoints to imagine, challenge and transform our visions for arts and culture in progress in Asia in relation to the rest of the world.

A select group of China and Asia’s leading academic and cultural institutions will present lectures and works in a semi-public forum. The panels will be designed to provide a channel for dynamic, cross-disciplinary conversations among artists, curators and scholars in order to expound on strands of investigation pertinent to the subjects such as cultural development, and non-profit management. Arthub will explore connections between cultural circulation, activism, and social/political issues by creating an international platform for the examination of and response to Asia’s cultural issues. The organizations individuals invited will present artworks/ presentations/ installations that can summarize or represent a possible story-telling about a specific condition.

The symposium will be orchestrated by Arthub as a two day happening where each of the participants will perform/ present a specific condition/ angle of the already specific area (both physical and artistic) in which they operate.

The event will be staged within the 250m2 exhibition space of BUG. At the end of the symposium, the space will be opened as a public exhibition. The process will be video recorded and a film + catalogue will be produced. The exhibition will then tour internationally later in 2010.

Participants include:

Ark Fongsmut, independent curator, Bangkok University Gallery , Thailand, Agung Kurniawan, artist/curator, Indonesia, Alexander Ugay, artist, Kazakhstan, David Cotterrell, artist, UK, Els Silvrants, Curator, Belgium/Beijing Theatre in Motion, Gary Pastrana, artist, Philippines, Ho Tzu Nyen, artist, Singapore, Howard Chan, Artist/Curator, Hong Kong, Iani Arahmaiani, Artist, Indonesia, Jiang Jun, Urban China, Beijing China, Kyong Park, Architect, University of California USA/Korea, Lina Saneh artist, Lebanon, Mu Qian, Ethnomusicologist, China, Nikusha Chkhaidze (Nika), artist, Georgia, Onno Dirker, artist/ Architect/ Researcher, The Netherlands, Pratchaya Phinthong, artist, VER Gallery , Thailand, Rahraw Omarzad artist, Afghanistan, Samah Hijawi, artist, Space Makan, Jordan, Shaarbek Amankul, artist, Kyrgyzstan, Stefan Rusu, Artist/ freelance Curator, Project Manager Center for Contemporary Art, Chisinau, Moldavia, Hakan Topal, artist/curator Xurban.net, Turkey, Zoe Butt, curator, Long March Project, Beijing/South East Asia, Seph Rodney, Ph.D. candidate at the University of London- Birkbeck College, UK, Veronica Sekules, Head of Education at the Sainsbury Centre, UK, Adeline Ooi, curator and arts writer, RogueArt, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Agung Hujatnikajennong, artist, Indonesia, Nguyen Trinh Thi, filmmaker, Hanoi, Vietnam, Supersudaca, architect/artist collective, South America/ The Netherlands, Edwin Zwakman and Liu Gang, the Netherlands/ China, Speedism, collective, Belgium/ Germany.

at the Architectural Association, London : AAIS Salon

26th May 6.30-8.30pm.

AA School Director Brett Steele hosts a conversation between pairs of collaborators who discuss their joint projects as well as the joys and pitfalls of working together. With Dr Ken Arnold (Wellcome Collection) + David Cotterrell (Artist); Patrick Dickinson (film director) + Andrew Graham Dixon (art critic); Richard Wentworth (artist) + Kit Grover (designer); Gavin Turk (artist) + Deborah Curtis (artist).

Set in a former Georgian drawing room in the heart of today's Architectural Association, the exhibition Salon aims to restore the room to its original function as a place of stimulating conversation and the pursuit of knowledge. The AAIS is a new AA programme that gives experienced individuals an opportunity to step away from their existing professional or academic activities and enter the unique AA environment in order to see their own field and interests in a new light.

Supported exclusively by the Cultural Leadership Programme, Method focuses its agenda on the development of 21 independent leaders in the cultural and creative industries in the UK, offering participants leadership learning in the context of their own place of work.

The Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP) was set up to address a significant historical under-investment, when compared to other sectors, in the professional development of people operating in the creative and cultural sector. The work of the programme is diverse, exploring a wide variety of approaches to and understanding around what effective leadership means in a diverse and fast-changing set of contexts, and drawing upon relevant models, expertise and thinking. 

It proposes to define and determine new ways of supporting individual artists and practitioners who are seeking to develop their leadership skills and behaviour, exploring how artists might organise themselves to influence through their own practice, often beyond organisational settings. 

The programme is being delivered by Solar Associates and will take place over the next four months.

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Part 4 : 'Other Pages and Functions'

Downloads - The site also contains a growing archive of downloadable documents and media. Reports, Reviews, Interviews and Transcripts can be accessed in the ‘Downloads’ section. As with other indexes you can view the items by text summary or thumbnails.

The details pages for Downloads function in the same way as other details pages except that clicking the image in the right pane will automatically open or download the attached document.

Search - The content of the site is indexed and a plaintext search will produce a list of items from all sections of the website. Eg. If you type the word ‘Afghanistan’ you will be offered an index of works, shows, publications and downloads related to this topic.

The web-address of the generated search result is unique and can be emailed to others if you wish to refer to this subset of information.

Contact - The contact section provides details of phone and email contacts for visitors from varying countries. It also allows you to subscribe to future occasional bulletins about shows, events and publications. You can also choose to hear about updates by subscribing to the RSS news feed or the Twitter updates (links on contact and home pages).

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Or click on the following links to find out more about the functions available in:

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Detail Pages
Other Pages and Functions

Part 3 : 'Detail Pages'

Once you have selected an item from any index you will navigate to a detail page. Regardless of section the controls and buttons are similar.

Basic information is offered in the header section, with a narrative explanation in the left pane. The right pane is used for displaying still and video-based documentation. If there is more than one image/video thumbnails will appear below the pane you can either click the thumbnail to view the full-size image or click the main image to automatically progress to the next one in the series.

If there is video documentation available a triangle will be displayed as one of the thumbnails. Click this to view an embedded Vimeo or YouTube video within the pane.

The most powerful feature of the details page is the ‘Links’ tab. Click the chain link thumbnail to the left of the text pane (beneath the ‘T’) to view a complete set of direct links to other related material within the site. For example from the ‘Becks Futures 2002’ exhibition detail page you will find links to the work ‘Borrowed Time’ featured within the exhibition and the publication produced to document the show.

All detail pages have the ability to generate a printable pdf of the displayed content. This can be accessed by clicking the small ‘document’ icon in the lower right corner of the right pane

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Part 2 : Index Pages

In Icon view items will generally be displayed in reverse chronological order (ie most recent first). You can switch to A-Z view by clicking the ‘A-Z’ link within the header text. If there are more than 40 items within the index you can advance to a the next page by clicking the ‘->’ symbol displayed beneath the Icon grid or to the right of the Icon grid.

Rolling over an Icon displays the thumbnail in colour, displays the name of the Item within the lower information bar (and within a ‘tooltip’ if the mouse is paused above the icon.)

A more selective index may be displayed by clicking one of the Filter Icons in the bottom right of the screen (eg Within the Projects Index, you can choose to view only Projects in Galleries / Public Realm or Proposals). To view the entire index again, simply click the filter once again.

You can toggle between ‘List’ and ‘Icon’ view using the button to the far right of the filters.

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Part 1 : 'General'

The menu tabs at the top of the screen allow access to content sorted in a variety of ways. If you select to view information by ‘Project’ or ‘Exhibition’ you are initially presented with a Thumbnail or Icon-based index. Other menu tabs take you to index’s of content displayed in List view.

Next...

Or click on the following links to find out more about the functions available in:

General
Index Pages
Detail Pages
Other Pages and Functions