Homage to Bauhaus
Study Day - The Kirkland Collection: A Closer Look
This Saturday morning session provides the opportunity to gain a greater insight into some of the Bauhaus exhibition artists and their works, particularly some lesser-known figures from Latin America and Japan. Conversations will explore the influence of the Bauhaus in art education, art practice (especially photography), and through the works of artists and photographers represented in the exhibition. Invited speakers from different subject specialist areas will present short papers allowing time for audience questions and discussion.
Kerstin Shutterheim (Co-director of the documentary film: Bauhaus: Model and Myth (1998), will discuss the formation and then reinvention of the Bauhaus as it moved from Weimar to Dessau and then Berlin. Following this, Sam Thorne (Director of Nottingham Contemporary, and co-founder of Open School East) will explore the enduring legacies in art education of the Bauhaus, especially the Preliminary Course. Shaoir Mavlian (Director, Photoworks) will address the importance of photography for the Bauhaus and the ways in which it influenced photography across the globe. Finally, photographer, Freddy Griffiths will offer a practical guide and introduction as to how many of the experimental photographs in the exhibition were made.
The event will be chaired by Mark Rawlinson (History of Art).
Participants
Kerstin Shutterheim, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Director, Centre for Film and TV Research. Co-director of the documentary film: Bauhaus: Model and Myth (1998).
Kerstin Stutterheim is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Bournemouth University’s Media Department / Faculty of Media and Communication, and author, dramaturg and filmmaker, a member of the German Film Academy. Formerly Professor of Dramaturgy and Aesthetics of Audio-Visual Media at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Potsdam/Germany, where she was founding director of the Institute of Art Research 2008-2011. Prior she was Professor of Film, Video and Media at University of Applied Science Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt, Faculty of Visual Communication. She is elected Deputy Chair of the international Screenwriting Research Network. Her films are screened at Festivals and in cinemas worldwide, broadcasted in Europe (arte, ZDF), distributed by ArtFilms and released on DVD
Shoair Mavlian, Director, Photoworks.
Shoair Mavlian is director of Photoworks and curated the 2018 Brighton Photo Biennial 'A New Europe'. From 2011 - 2018 she was Assistant Curator, Photography and International Art at Tate Modern, London, where she curated the major exhibitions ‘Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art’ (2018), 'The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection' (2016), 'Conflict, Time, Photography' (2014), 'Project Space: A Chronicle of Interventions' (2014) and 'Harry Callahan' (2013). While at Tate Modern she also researched acquisitions and curated displays from the permanent collection including ‘Dayanita Singh’ (2017), 'Lynn Cohen and Taryn Simon' (2017), 'Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen' (2016), 'Close Up: Identity and the Photographic Portrait' (2015), 'Charlotte Posenenske and Ursula Schulz-Dornburg' (2014), 'Lewis Baltz and Minimalism' (2012), and 'New Documentary Forms' (2011).
Sam Thorne, Director, Nottingham Contemporary.
Sam Thorne is a writer and museum director. Since 2016, he has been the Director of Nottingham Contemporary, one of the largest centres for contemporary art in the UK. Prior to that, he was artistic director of Tate St Ives. Sam is a contributing editor and columnist at Frieze magazine, and has written widely about art, music and literature. He is also the author of a book about art education, titled ‘School: A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education’ (2017). In 2013, he co-founded Open School East, a free-to-attend art school in East London, which in 2017 moved to Margate. Sam is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Nottingham.
Freddy Griffiths, Photographer
Freddy Griffiths has shown work at Ffotogallery, The Austin Centre for Photography, and Signal Gallery in NY. Griffiths’s work deals primarily with the recognition and exploration of the physicality of photography. It seeks to illustrate connections between the image and its physical manifestation. He considers photography to be entering a new realm of use, in which the paper support previously so essential is now hardly relevant. Griffiths aims to consider what implications this has for photography as a medium, in an increasingly dissipated post medium world. These investigations into photographic materiality are often process led, frequently centred around performative actions, such as long walks, or other physical explorations such as rock climbing or riding a bicycle. By taking this approach Griffiths hopes to demonstrate a relationship between physical effort and the tangible production of material meaning. He works between Nottingham, London and South Wales
Free. Book places through Lakeside ticket office.