Shadowboxing Issue Four/Five Launch
Friday 22 JULY 6–8PM
X MARKS the Bokship
Unit 3 / 210 Cambridge Heath Road
London E2 9NQ
A Structure that Wants and To be Another Structure has been conceived as a double issue, where the content of the publications run in parallel. As a whole it both reflects, and confronts the terms used throughout SHADOWBOXING. Including a text by Wendelien van Oldenborgh and interviews with Lis Rhodes and Rainer Ganahl. Edited by the graduating students on the MA Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art, 2011. Designed by James Langdon.
The series of publications as part of SHADOWBOXING has made visible the processes of discussion, collaboration and production between the artists and curators at different moments between February and July 2011. The dialogue prompted by Giorgio Agamben’s text What is an Apparatus? has been central to the development of SHADOWBOXING. Issue one reproduces this text including questions posed to the artists as part of the invitation to collaborate with the Curating Contemporary Art students and Marysia Lewandowska’s annotations, which displays her reading of the text in response to the invitation. Issue two refl ects through images and texts the research and the production process of SHADOWBOXING. It also includes the exhibition guide, the programme of events and fi lm screenings. Issue three is focused on the act of publication. As defi ned by the writer Matthew Stadler, ‘publication’ constitutes a deliberate political strategy, which enables the formation of a public space through an ongoing circulation of ideas, texts and conversations. The contributions in this issue refl ect upon the boundaries between private and public spaces, and how these can be tested or made contingent.
Each issue is also available to download from here.
The Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much
Saturday 19 March, 11 am – 6.30 pm
Henry Moore Gallery
Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Sean Dockray and Marysia Lewandowska discuss their projects for Shadowboxing in a seminar focusing on issues of self-organisation, forms of resistance and their representation. The event includes additional contributions by Rod Dickinson and Janna Graham, as well as a screening of The Hornsey Film (Patricia Holland, 1970). Made with the students and staff of Hornsey College of Art the film reconstructs the arguments that led to their 1968 occupation of the school.
Speakers bios
Sean Dockray (b. 1977, Boston, USA) studied architecture at Princeton University before receiving his MFA from University of California, Los Angeles. Dockray has exhibited at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA and is one of the founding directors of the non-profit institution Telic Arts Exchange. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Marysia Lewandowska (b. 1955, Szczecin, Poland) received her MA from the University of Warsaw. Between 1995 and 2008, she collaborated with Neil Cummings in a series of projects exhibited at Tate Modern, the V&A Museum and the Whitechapel Gallery, and has recently shown at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. She is Professor of Fine Art at Konstfack, Stockholm, and lives and works in London.
Wendelien van Oldenborgh (b.1962, Rotterdam, the Netherlands) graduated from Goldsmiths College, London. Her work has been exhibited at the Generali Foundation, Vienna; Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the 10th Istanbul Biennal (2009); and the 29th Bienal of São Paulo (2010). She was Guest Professor at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst (Vienna) from 2009 to 2010, and lives and works in Rotterdam.
Janna Graham Janna Graham is an researcher, educator and activist who works as Projects Curator at Serpentine Gallery (UK), where she overseas the Edgware Road Project. Based at the Centre for Possible Studies, the Project is an international artist residency that enables site specific projects about migration and urban space politics. She has worked on writing curating, artistic and education projects with 16 Beaver Group (NY); Fuse Magazine (Toronto); Project Arts Centre (Dublin);the Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff);Mercer Union (Toronto);Vannabbemuseum (Eindhoven); Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto);Whitechapel Art Gallery (London); Plymouth Arts Centre (Plymouth) and Debajehmujig Theatre (Wikwemikong). She is one of 10 members of the international sound collective Ultra-red and works with the Carrot Workers Collective on the rights of cultural workers in London.
Rod Dickinson Rod Dickinson (b. 1965, UK) is a visual artist and lecturer in media and cultural studies at University of West England in Bristol. His art work explores ideas of control and mediation and focuses on the way in which our behaviour is moderated by feedback systems. Using detailed research into moments of the past and present, he has made a series of meticulously re-enacted events that represent various mechanisms of social control. He lives and works in Bristol.
All events are free. To book a place email: shadowboxing@rca.ac.uk
Film Programme
Henry Moore Galleries, 10 am to 6 pm daily
A changing programme of artists’ films and documentaries looking at ways in which forms of social control can be exposed, infiltrated or resisted. Screened in a structure designed by MA Architecture students at the Royal College of Art.
Thursday 17 March (Private View)
Teatrino Clandestino, Progetto Milgram – L’alba di un torturatore (Milgram Project – The Dawn of a Torturer), 2005, 35 min
Friday 18 March
Harun Farocki, Leben – BRD (How to Live in the German Federal Republic), 1990, 83 min
Screened at 10am, 11.30am, 1pm, 2.30pm, 4pm
Sunday 20 March
Johanna Billing, Project for a Revolution, 2000, 3 min
Monday 21 March
Chris Marker, L’ ambassade (The Embassy), 1973, 22 min
Tuesday 22 March
Peter Watkins, La Commune (Paris 1871), 2000, 165 min
Screened at 10am, 1pm, 4pm
Wednesday 23 March
Tamás St. Auby, Centaur, 1973-75, 30 min
Thursday 24 March
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, R… Ne réponds plus (R… No Longer Answers), 1981, 52 min
Screened on the hour
Friday 25 March
María Ruido, La memoria interior (Inner Memory), 2002, 33 min
Saturday 26 March
Teatrino Clandestino, Progetto Milgram – L’alba di un torturatore (Milgram Project – The Dawn of a Torturer), 2005, 35 min
Sunday 27 March
Adam Curtis, Century of the Self, 2002, episodes 1–4, each episode 60 min
Monday 28 March
Pier Paolo Pasolini, La rabbia (The Rage), 1963, 53 min
Screened on the hour
Tuesday 29 March
Patricia Holland, The Hornsey Film, 1970, 63 min
Screened on the hour
Wednesday 30 March
Jean-Luc Godard, La gai savoir (The Joy of Learning), 1969, 95 min
Screened at 11am, 1pm, 4pm
Thursday 31 March
Jean-Pierre Gorin, Poto and Cabengo, 1979, 77 min
Screened at 11am, 1pm, 2.30pm, 4pm
Friday 1 April
Dora García, La lección respiratoria (The Breathing Lesson), 2001, 16 min
Saturday 2 April
Claire Denis, L’intrus (The Intruder), 2004, 130 min
Screened at 11am, 1.15pm, 3.30pm
Sunday 3 April
Robert Kramer, Ice, 1970, 130 min
Screened at 11am, 1.15pm, 3.30pm
All films are screened in their original language with English subtitles where applicable
Marysia Lewandowska in Conversation with Anthony Spira
Tuesday 22 March, 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Lower Gulbenkian Gallery
Artist Marysia Lewandowska discusses her project Subject to Change in the context of her practice with Anthony Spira, Director of Milton Keynes Gallery.
Speakers bios
Anthony Spira (b. 1970) was appointed Director of Milton Keynes Gallery in May 2009, where he has presented solo shows by Marcus Coates, Andrew Lord and Gerard Byrne, among others. From 1999 to 2009 he was Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, where he curated the project Enthusiasm by Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings (2005).
Marysia Lewandowska (b. 1955, Szczecin, Poland) received her MA from the University of Warsaw. Between 1995 and 2008, she collaborated with Neil Cummings in a series of projects exhibited at Tate Modern, the V&A Museum and the Whitechapel Gallery, and has recently shown at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. She is Professor of Fine Art at Konstfack, Stockholm, and lives and works in London.
All events are free. To book a place email: shadowboxing@rca.ac.uk
Artists’ Film Night: Wendelien van Oldenborgh
Thursday 24 March 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Henry Moore Gallery
No False Echoes (2008) and Instruction (2009), two films by Wendelien van Oldenborgh that examine the colonial past of Indonesia, screened with Joris Ivens’ influential 1946 documentary Indonesia Calling.
All events are free. To book a place email: shadowboxing@rca.ac.uk
Never Odd or Even
Thursday 31 March, 6.30 – 10 pm
Henry Moore Gallery
A book club initiated by Mariana Castillo Deball with new contributions by Tim Etchells and Alun Rowlands. The discussion will be followed by a screening of Lis Rhodes’ Light Reading (1978) and Jean Cocteau’s Orphée (1949).
Speakers bios
Tim Etchells (b. 1962) is an artist and a writer based in the UK. He has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the world renowned performance group Forced Entertainment. His work spans performance, video, photography, text projects, installation and fiction. His first novel The Broken World was published by Heinemann in 2008 and his monograph on contemporary performance and Forced Entertainment, Certain Fragments (Routledge 1999) is widely acclaimed. In recent years, Etchells has exhibited widely in the context of visual arts, with solo shows at Gasworks and Sketch (London) and Künstlerhaus Bremen (September 2010). His work has appeared in the biennales Manifesta 7 (2008) in Rovereto, Italy, Art Sheffield 2008, Goteborg Bienale (2009), October Salon Belgrade (2010) and Aichi Trienale, Japan 2010.
Alun Rowlands (b.1972, Merthyr Tydfil) graduated from Royal College of Art, London, co-curated The Dark Monarch, Tate St Ives, 2010, publications include 3 Communiqués, Bookworks (2007); Communiqué 4, ICA (2008) and is co-editor of Novel a journal of artists writing and curatorial project most recently at dépendance, Brussels and Sculpture Centre, New York. He is Head of Art at the University of Reading, and lives and works in London.
All events are free. To book a place email: shadowboxing@rca.ac.uk