Barby Asante is an Artist, Curator and Educator based in South London. She studied Fine Art at the University of East London, where she began making work in film, photography and installation, placing herself in the frame as a means of confronting the audience with the perceived problem of her image. Asante is interested in creating works that stimulate dialogue around the cross-cultural and multicultural and how we view and frame these questions in contemporary Britain, often using familiar or popular culture triggers as a means to begin the dialogue. Recently Asante has been working on projects exploring music and its cultural and social significance, with particular emphasis on black music and it’s importance in the creation of a post-war British cultural identity.

Sonia Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning black British art-scene of that time – becoming one of the youngest artists of her generation to have her work purchased by the Tate Gallery, with paintings that spoke about racial identity and gender in Britain. Since the 1990s Boyce’s practice has taken a more multi-media and improvisational approach by bringing people together to speak or sing about the past and the present. Since 1983, Boyce has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and internationally and has completed an AHRC Research Fellowship at Wimbledon College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London with her concluding research project the Future is Social.

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‘Mixing It Up: An Intergenerational Perspective’ interrogates the sustainability of artists’ practices (financial, motivational, environmental, political) and creates opportunitiesforintergenerational learning between the artists as well as a better understanding of these practices for audiences.

The last film of the series will be published next week:

21st May: Hunt & Darton – Richard Layzell

Filmed and edited by Fiona Melville. Fiona studied as a fine artist prior to working on documantaries at Carlton Television. Fiona studied Documentary Direction at the National Film and Television School and has since directed, edited and filmed observational documentaries for the BBC, Sky and Channel 4.

Music by Robbie Lockwood.

Supported by Arts Council England, University of the Arts London and Student Enterprise & Employability

a dialogue between the two artists Yoko Ishiguro and Fiona Templeton, filmed by Fiona Melville.

Yoko Ishiguro is a performance maker, performer and actress. She studied psycholinguistics  at the University of Tsukuba and has worked with theatre companies in Japan. In 2005, she started to make her own site-specific pieces and to explore the relationship between time and distance as well as presence and absence, self and non-self, and the functions of those dichotomies. She has performed in Japan, China, Indonesia, UK and other parts of Europe and is currently studying on  the Contemporary Performance Making MA course of Brunel University.

Fiona Templeton‘s work includes poetry, installation and performance. She is director of the New York-based group The Relationship, specialising in experimentation in language, relationship with the audience, and use of site.  Current work includes Aguas Dulces, Aguas Saladas, in the San Juan Estuary in Puerto Rico, and a 6-part performance epic, The Medead, forthcoming in New York in December. She has received awards in various disciplines and has published 12 books. Fiona leads the MA in Contemporary Performance Making at Brunel University.

‘Mixing It Up: An Intergenerational Perspective’ interrogates the sustainability of artists’ practices (financial, motivational, environmental, political) and creates opportunitiesforintergenerational learning between the artists as well as a better understanding of these practices for audiences.

A new film will be published online each week:

14th May: Barby Asante – Sonia Boyce

21st May: Hunt & Darton – Richard Layzell

Filmed and edited by Fiona Melville. Fiona studied as a fine artist prior to working on documantaries at Carlton Television. Fiona studied Documentary Direction at the National Film and Television School and has since directed, edited and filmed observational documentaries for the BBC, Sky and Channel 4.

Music by Robbie Lockwood.

Supported by Arts Council England, University of the Arts London and Student Enterprise & Employability

Robbie Lockwood is a Hackney based artist working mostly with sound and video. In collaboration withLucie Galand, he has been working with the local civil rights group Hackney Unites and is a member of a non-hierarchical art education group AltMFA.

Stefan Szczelkun is an artist interested in culture and democracy. In the early Seventies he was fortunate to be part of the Scratch Orchestra. His doctoral research into Exploding Cinema collective was completed in 2002. Recently he has produced the collaborative project Agit Disco, published as a book by Mute.

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‘Mixing It Up: An Intergenerational Perspective’ interrogates the sustainability of artists’ practices (financial, motivational, environmental, political) and creates opportunities forintergenerational learning between the artists as well as a better understanding of these practices for audiences.

A new film will be published online each week:

8th May:  Yoko Ishiguro – Fiona Templeton

14th May: Barby Asante – Sonia Boyce

21st May:  Hunt & Darton – Richard Layzell

Filmed and edited by Fiona Melville. Fiona studied as a fine artist prior to working on documantaries at Carlton Television. Fiona studied Documentary Direction at the National Film and Television School and has since directed, edited and filmed observational documentaries for the BBC, Sky and Channel 4.

Music by Robbie Lockwood.

Supported by Arts Council England, University of the Arts London and Student Enterprise & Employability

]]> http://www.newworknetwork.info/learning/mixing-it-up-robbie-lockwood-stefan-szczelkun/feed 0 http://www.newworknetwork.info/learning/mixing-it-up-ellie-harrison-jordan-mckenzie http://www.newworknetwork.info/learning/mixing-it-up-ellie-harrison-jordan-mckenzie#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:38:36 +0000 admin http://www.newworknetwork.info/?p=2177 Read More →]]> New Work Network (NWN) and Artquest are pleased to present the first film of the ‘Mixing It Up: An Intergenerational Perspective’ series: a dialogue between the two artists Ellie Harrison and Jordan McKenzie filmed by Fiona Melville.

‘Mixing It Up: An Intergenerational Perspective’ interrogates the sustainability of artists’ practices (financial, motivational, environmental, political) and creates opportunities for intergenerational learning between the artists as well as a better understanding of these practices for audiences.

Ellie Harrison (b.1979 London) is an artist based in Glasgow shortlisted for the Converse/Dazed 2011 Emerging Artists Award. She studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, Goldsmiths College and Glasgow School of Art.  In 2011 she was artist in residence at Wunderbar festival in Newcastle and at Artsadmin’s Two Degrees festival in London – a week exploring art and activism, climate and cuts. In 2009 she founded the ‘Bring Back British Rail’ campaign and in 2010 became the first individual artist to openly publicise an Environmental Policy on her website.

Jordan Mckenzie is a performance artist who also works with drawing, sculpture and installation. He has exhibited extensively both in the UK and internationally including The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, The Courtauld Institute, London, Museu Serralves, Portugal and DOLL Exhibition Space, Switzerland. He has received research bursaries from both Artsadmin and The LIve Art Development Agency and has had residencies in Oxford, Nepal and the USA. Currently he is a senior lecturer in Drawing at Camberwell College of Art and in FIne Art Practice at Kingston University. He co-curates a performance space LUPA (Lock Up Performance Art) located in Bethnal Green, London.

The five films will be published on-line every Monday:

30th April: Robbie Lockwood – Stefan Szczelkun

8th May:  Yoko Ishiguro – Fiona Templeton

14th May: Barby Asante – Sonia Boyce

21st May:  Hunt & Darton – Richard Layzell

Fiona Melville studied as a fine artist prior to working on documantaries at Carlton Television. Fiona studied Documentary Direction at the National Film and Television School and has since directed, edited and filmed observational documentaries for the BBC, Sky and Channel 4.

Supported by Arts Council England, University of the Arts London and Student Enterprise & Employability

New Work Network (NWN) and Artquest would like to announce the launch of a series of 5 short films: ‘Mixing It Up: An Intergenerational Perspective’.

These films document dialogues between artists / artist groups from different generations exploring how they have sustained their practices over the years both from a practical and critical perspective.

‘Mixing It Up: An Intergenerational Perspective’ addresses the similarities and differences between the contexts, modes and conditions of their respective artistic practices from the generations of some of those who practiced through the late 60′s up until now.

They interrogate the sustainability of these practices (financial, motivational, environmental, political) and create opportunities for intergenerational learning between the artists as well as a better understanding of these practices for audiences.

Filmed by Fiona Melville, the five films will be published on-line every Monday:

Ellie Harrison – Jordan McKenzie

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Robbie Lockwood – Stefan Szczelkun

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Yoko Ishiguro – Fiona Templeton

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Barby Asante – Sonia Boyce

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Hunt & Darton – Richard Layzell

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Special thanks to Lock Up Performance Art (LUPA) and the venues for hosting the dialogues

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As an NWN intern, Chris will bring to the organisation his experience as a practicing artist and an emerging producer. He will assist with handling the day-to-day running of the office, and with the planning of events and projects. Chris will be working two days a week and can be contacted directly via: info@newworknetwork.org.uk.

We are delighted that Sepake Angiama will be our special guest. Sepake is the Curator of Public Programmes at Turner Contemporary and she will give us an insight into programming work outside and inside the gallery space.

Norwich Castle Museum houses an eclectic mix of contemporary art, taxidermy collections, Egyptian artifacts all housed in a large castle atop a castle mound in the centre of Norwich.

Image: Holly Rumble

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Jess Baines presented the politically motivated printshop collectives that proliferated in the UK in the 1970s and 80s. These were not ‘printmaking’ workshops for ‘limited editions’ but places to cheaply produce alternative critical media. Founded by anarchists, artists, lefties and feminists, Jess will focus on the printshops’ connection with the changing politics of women’s liberation.

Filmed by Fiona Melville as part of Adhocracy, a Mini Festival of DIY Culture: Past and Present, convened by New Work Network (NWN) in association with Rich Mix, London, 6/7 August 2011.

The complete series include:

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David Curtis and Biddy Peppin were involved in both London Arts Laboratories – innovative multi-artform spaces that contributed to the artistic explosion of the 1960s. Both Arts Labs experimented, in different ways, with artist-led collective organisation.  The Drury Lane Arts Lab (1967-9) was founded and led by Jim Haynes. The Robert Street Arts Lab (known as IRAT – the Institute for Research into Art and Technology) (1969-71) was formed by a breakaway group , and attempted a more democratic structure.  Both pursued the vision of a relationship between artists and the public that was unsullied by the art market.  Neither received public funding; instead, as membership clubs, they depended on income from subscriptions and ticket sales from the programmes.  At both sites David ran the film programmes and Biddy co-curated the exhibition spaces. They will discuss London Arts Labs’ artistic, social and organisational successes and failures, and the ideas inspiring them.

Filmed by Fiona Melville as part of Adhocracy, a Mini Festival of DIY Culture: Past and Present, convened by New Work Network (NWN) in association with Rich Mix, London, 6/7 August 2011.

The complete series include:

New Work Network, in association with ]performance s p a c e [, offers you the opportunity to take part in a full day Bohmian Dialogue.

WHEN: Saturday 28th April 2012, 10:30-16:30

WHERE: ]performance s p a c e [ ,  6 Hamlet Industrial Estate, White Post Lane, London E9 5EN

COST: £10 / £8 (NWN Members) to book click here (tea / coffee / biscuits provided)

David Bohm was a world-renowned physicist and philosopher who, late in his career, dedicated himself to the development of a theory on Dialogue employing collective and creative thought as a suggested method by which to combat societal fracturing.  His approach involved participants working together to understand the assumptions underlying their individual and collective beliefs. It is regularly employed in a series of situations including conflict resolution and penal contexts.

Facilitated by Hester Reeve, participants will be introduced to the unique possibilities that Bohmian Dialogue offers in terms of reconsidering our relationship to thought, creativity and its processes as well as having the opportunity to explore the process of ‘thinking together’ with no predefined purpose or agenda.

‘Dialogue is a way of observing, collectively, how hidden values and intentions can control our behaviour. It can be seen as an arena in which collective learning takes place and out of which a sense of increased harmony, fellowship and creativity can arise.’

‘I was interested in the meta-narrative; the dynamic of the group; and my own role in it. It was illuminating.’ Sue Ball

For further information, contact info@newworknetwork.org.uk