Announcing Happiness

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Sam Dub

Announcing Happiness

Don’t let your happy thoughts reverberate in cyberspace alone! As part of the ‘Happiness Happenings’ event, the Hayward Huddle invites you to tweet about what makes you happy. These tweets of joy, composed in the comfort of your own home, will be announced on a megaphone outside the Royal Festival Hall as little bursts of inspiration.

Happiness Happenings

Royal Festival Hall, Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th November, 12-4pm

Allan Kaprow’s happenings make us question how our every day tasks and gestures make us feel and think. Artist Oriana Fox is collaborating with the Hayward Huddle, the gallery’s group of 16-19 year olds and their mentor, artist Davina Drummond, to create a series of large and small scale ‘Happiness Happenings’ that will take Kaprow’s work one step further. Day-to-day activities will be re-examined and re-performed not only to take us out of step with the everyday, but hopefully to bring us a little closer to joy.

To Take Part

To have your Twitter message broadcast to the South Bank via megaphone this weekend just tweet the thing that makes you happy adding the hashtag #makesmehappy

To get the latest on this and all of our artistic projects at Southbank Centre follow @southbankcentre on Twitter.

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Project Space – Ron Terada: Who I Think I Am

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Cliff Lauson


Photography: Roger Wooldridge

Ron Terada’s exhibition opened last week in the Project Space. Have a look either now when it’s quiet or come after MOVE: Choreographing You opens to see both at the same time. The story of Jack Goldstein is a really intense one and you can get a view into his troubled life through the suite of text paintings that Ron is showing. It is unfortunately ironic that his work is undergoing a resurgence of interest only after his death. During the opening of the show, we were also made aware that the book Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia is also going to be re-published, which is fantastic news as the book is currently out of print and hard to come by. For the exhibition, Ron has also produced a limited-run poster work which, following on from interest in the ‘secondary materials’ of an exhibition, is essentially a smaller version of the exhibition poster on the front of the gallery. Be sure to pick one up in the gallery when you visit – they’re free.

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See a Brazilian favela… in London

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Joe Heaney

Come and explore the outdoor spaces around Royal Festival Hall.

The Pterosaurs may have moved on, but in their place something new is starting to take shape in the shade of Royal Festival Hall. So far, its form is masked by protective railings and blue plastic sheeting; but the pyramids of sand busily being worked on mark the start of Southbank Centre’s Project Morrinho.

As part of Festival Brazil, we are building our own model favela (Brazilian Portuguese for slum) with help from young people local to Southbank Centre.

Project Morrinho is a Brazilian social project that takes the form of a miniature city created by young people in Rio de Janeiro. Using brick, paint and other found materials, their model metropolis is inspired by the landscape, architecture and everyday life of the favelas that span the city.

‘Our aim,’ the creators explain, ‘is to bring positive change to our local community, as well as challenge the popular perception of Brazil’s favelas.’

The project has become a world-wide phenomenon, including exhibiting at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

Here at Southbank Centre, the Project Morrinho team are helping us creating our own model with young people from London. Together they are creating a landscape that fuses places and stories – real and imagined – from the tower blocks of Lambeth to the backstreets of Rio de Janeiro.

What tales will they choose to tell? And what will it look like? Come down and find out from Saturday 17 July.

And keep Thursday 22 July free in your diary, when we hold a Baile Funk Night party to mark its completion from 7pm to 9pm.

Read more about Project Morrinho at Southbank Centre.

Discover more about the artists behind Project Morrinho.

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Lazing at the Edges the of the world

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Jon Norton

Looking across the London skyline from the Hayward’s terrace, I felt I knew something that the people walking over Waterloo Bridge didn’t. Drifting lazily in Neto’s pool in my lunch break was a wonderful way to relax and clear my mind. Walking back into the exhibition the smells of lavender and chamomile seemed to have intensified.

Find out more about Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World

Jon Norton is Senior Designer at Southbank Centre

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Deschooling Society Podcasts – Episode 9 – Conclusion

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Sam Dub

Jointly organised by the Serpentine Gallery and Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery, Deschooling Society brought together writers, artists and curators to discuss the changing relationship between art and education over two days at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room.

We are pleased to now be able to offer a series of podcasts of these presentations and discussions.

Episode 9


Photography: Mark Blower

Conclusion
Summary by Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson
Closing Statement from Ralph Rugoff
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Paul O’Neill spoke of the curatorial as a form of knowledge production rather than staging. He sees education as a contested ground that has the potential for social reconstruction and preservation.

Mick Wilson emphasised that since the 1960s there has been a systematic project of education within government policy. He suggested that the problematic of the educational turn was a question of form, wherein pedagogy has been unhooked from the specific programme of the political. He posited that political agency needed to be achieved within and without the state, and within and without the institution.

Paul O’Neill is a curator, artist and writer based in Bristol. He is Great Western Research Alliance (GWR) Research Fellow in Commissioning Contemporary Art with Situations at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Mick Wilson is Dean of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media, Dublin. He is an artist, writer and educatior who has exhibited and published his work widely.

Ralph Rugoff is Director of the Hayward Gallery. Since his appointment in May 2006 he has curated the acclaimed exhibitions, Psycho Buildings: Artists Take On Architecture, The Painting of Modern Life and most recently, Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting.

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Deschooling Society Podcasts – Episode 8 – ‘Pedagogy of Place: Local Models and Knowledges’

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Sam Dub

Jointly organised by the Serpentine Gallery and Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery, Deschooling Society brought together writers, artists and curators to discuss the changing relationship between art and education over two days at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room.

We are pleased to now be able to offer a series of podcasts of these presentations and discussions.

Episode 8


Photography: Mark Blower

‘Pedagogy of Place – Local Models and Knowledges’
Presentations by:
- Pablo Helguera, New York
- Jeanne van Heeswijk, Rotterdam
- Gediminas Urbonas, Vilnus
- Marcelo Expósito, Barcelona
Introduced by Janna Graham
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Pablo Helguera is an artist based in New York. Heis currently Director of Adult and Academic Programs of the Education Department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he organised the conference Transpedagogy: Contemporary Art and the Vehicles of Education in May 2009.

Jeanne van Heeswijk is a visual artist who creates contexts for interaction in public spaces. Her projects distinguish themselves through a strong social involvement. With her work van Heeswijk stimulates and develops cultural production and creates new public (meeting-) spaces or remodels existing ones.

Marcelo Expósito is an artist whose practice usually expands towards the territories of critical theory, editorial work, curatorial activities, teaching and translation.

Janna Graham is Projects Curator at Serpentine Gallery where she oversees The Edgware Road Project, an international research-based arts programme in a London neighbourhood and Skills Exchange, through which artists, care workers and older people collaboratively respond to urban change.

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Deschooling Society Podcasts – Episode 7 – ‘Theatres of Education’

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Sam Dub

Jointly organised by the Serpentine Gallery and Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery, Deschooling Society brought together writers, artists and curators to discuss the changing relationship between art and education over two days at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room.

We are pleased to now be able to offer a series of podcasts of these presentations and discussions.

Episode 7


Photography: Mark Blower

‘Theatres of Education’
Dialogues with Hannah Hurtzig, Suzanne Lacy and Pablo Helguera.
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Pablo Helguera introduced the session by setting out the problem of common language pedagogy versus education as performative practice.

Suzanne Lacy spoke about critical pedagogy framed with respect to the liberation of education as a site for struggle and as a tool for change making. She spoke of education in terms of embodiment and as set of relational encounters. For her, neo liberal environments are typified by a lack of spaces for exchange, as such her work aims to create these spaces and engage with communities. She spoke of the public gaze as a form of community witnessing and how in some contexts the political necessitated pedagogy. She posed the questions: what is curriculum? what does it look like outside the school?

Hannah Hurtzig spoke about here Mobile Academy project and how it endeavoured to infiltrate public space with narrative and knowledge transfer. She saw her Black market project as being based on an economy of excess, which plays with the dichotomy of expectation and disappointment.

Pablo Helguera is an artist based in New York. Heis currently Director of Adult and Academic Programs of the Education Department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he organised the conference Transpedagogy: Contemporary Art and the Vehicles of Education in May 2009.

Suzanne Lacy is an artist and writer whose work is focused on interventionist art, policy and the public sphere. Her large-scale public performances and installations, videos, photographic series and texts explore issues relevant to social equality and art’s role in social change.

Hannah Hurtzig has been directing MOBILE ACADEMY since 1999, a temporary institution with frequently changing locations, which is concerned with the construction of public spaces in which narrative formats of knowledge-transfer are staged.

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Deschooling Society Podcasts – Episode 6 – ‘Protest in Art School: Rituals of Power and Rebellion since the Sixties’

Posted on June 9, 2010 by Sam Dub

Jointly organised by the Serpentine Gallery and Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery, Deschooling Society brought together writers, artists and curators to discuss the changing relationship between art and education over two days at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room.

We are pleased to now be able to offer a series of podcasts of these presentations and discussions.

Episode 6


Photography: Mark Blower

‘Protest in Art School: Rituals of Power and Rebellion since the Sixties’
Panel discussion with Dave Beech, Adrian Rifkin and Lisa Tickner, moderated by Cliff Lauson.
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Cliff Lauson introduced the session by posing the question: How do teachers and professors exercise their own micro politics in their teaching?

Dave Beech spoke about the occupation of Portsmouth University which he attributed to an impulse within the student cohort to take themselves militantly and seriously. Within his own work as a tutor Dave attempts to overturn the conventional roles of teacher-student via the technique of perplexity/ignorance.

Lisa Tickner detailed Thierry de Duve’s conception of the varying models of art education. She outlined the difference between the academic model of talent-metier-imitation, the Modernist model of creativity-medium-invention, and the post modernist model of attitude-practice-deconstruction.

Adrian Rifkin proposed that the political left must learn how to run backwards. Using the metaphor of the footballer running backwards whilst the game unfolds, he warned that a rethinking of deschooling must be done with a firm eye on the ball and the playing field. He emphasised that the realities on the current context must be prioritised over mythologies, and that perhaps progress was to be found in the affirmation of loss. He outlined how state education is producing ingrained complicity, and how the educational turn had penetrated all cultural realms from television to the museum. A result of this is that consumers/viewers are happy to play the role of the student. He was opposed to this set of relations and posited that the pedagogical turn should exist as a social encounter as opposed to the transmission of knowledge.

Dave Beech is an artist in the collective Freee. He writes regularly for Art Monthly, is Vice Chair of Ixia and teaches Fine Art at Chelsea College, University of the Arts London.

Lisa Tickner trained as a fine artist before completing a PhD in art history in 1970. She is currently Visiting Professor and the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Professor Emeritus, Middlesex University.

Adrian Rifkin is a Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, London. His website is gai-savoir.net

Cliff Lauson is Curator at the Hayward Gallery where he is currently curating an exhibition of work by Ernesto Neto and researching the forthcoming alternative art school project for 2012.

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Deschooling Society Podcasts – Episode 5 – Keynote Lecture from Martha Rosler and discussion with Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Sam Dub

Jointly organised by the Serpentine Gallery and Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery, Deschooling Society brought together writers, artists and curators to discuss the changing relationship between art and education over two days at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room.

We are pleased to now be able to offer a series of podcasts of these presentations and discussions.

Episode 5


Photography: Mark Blower

Keynote Lecture from Martha Rosler and discussion with Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Introduced by Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery
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Martha Rosler spoke of education in terms of creativity versus discipline and order. Rosler labelled education as the doctrine of the age, whose aim was to produce subjects and citizens. Education as such has become a means of elevating empowerment over simple literacy and numeracy. She cited individuals such as Richard Florida’s work on the rise of the creative class as the forbearer of this form of thinking.

In contemporary society museums are a form of mass culture, with this development the concept of advanced art has disappeared. Art no longer has a metaphysical or transcendental function, it is rather linked to consumption, fashion and celebrity – this is evidence of the conflation of art with the taste classes.

Martha posed the question: what can art teach? For her, Art serves to illuminate practically everything we know about, what it can’t do in our times (notably in our museums) is deal with the political.

Martha Rosler’s work centres on the public sphere and landscapes of everyday life – actual and virtual – especially as the affect women. Projects range from housing, architecture, and systems of transport to war and the “national security climate,” connecting everyday experiences at home with the conduct of war abroad.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist has been Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery in London since 2006.

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Deschooling Society Podcasts – Episode 4 – ‘Pedagogy of Place, Self-Organised Education’

Posted on June 7, 2010 by Sam Dub

Jointly organised by the Serpentine Gallery and Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery, Deschooling Society brought together writers, artists and curators to discuss the changing relationship between art and education over two days at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room.

We are pleased to now be able to offer a series of podcasts of these presentations and discussions.

Episode 4


Photography: Mark Blower

Pedagogy of Place, Self-Organised Education

Presentations by:
- Experimental Drawing Class, London (presented by Terry Smith)
- The Public School, Brussels (presented by Sonia Dermience)
- Free University Warsaw (presented by Janek Sowa)
- 16 Beaver, New York (presented by Pedro Lasch)
Presentations introduced by Rafal Niemojewski.The last presentation in this series, a film submitted by ARTSCHOOL/UK, London, is not included in this podcast.

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Terry Smith has has exhibited internationally since the 1990s and in 2008 received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award in recognition of a body of work encompassing site-specific architectural interventions, video installations and sound works.

Sonia Dermience founded Komplot in Brussels in 2002, a curatorial collective concerned with nomadic creative practices, trends of specialisation and the infiltration of space. Komplot initiated The Public School in Brussels in November 2009, in a joint venture with a residency program at Nadine. The Public School is a project that was founded by Telic Arts Exchange in Los Angeles in 2008.

Janek Sowa is a sociologist, writer and acitivist. He holds a PhD in sociology and is currently assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Communication of Jagiellonian University.

Pedro Lasch was born and raised in Mexico City. His solo exhibitions include Open Routines (Queens Museum of Art, 2006) and Black Mirror (Nasher Museum of Art, 2008), he teaches at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. 16 Beaver is a project run by artists, since 1999 its space in New York has hosted hundreds of events, presentations, talks, conversations, screenings and political actions.

Rafal Niemojewski has been programming and producing talks at the Southbank Centre since 2007, prior to that he worked as the curator-in-residence at LBi.

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