Discussion: What is Going On?
A discussion drawing on Braziers’ connections with the Sigma Project and the Antiuniversity:
‘Above all, we must do away with artificial splits and divisions between disciplines and art forms and between theory and action. We raise no a priori barriers to membership in the Antiuniversity other than a desire to find out or relate ‘what is going on’.
.. projecting possibilities from these key moments in radical 60s counterculture into the future and wondering what is going on.. with invited contributors including artists John Cussons (Free School), artist Margareta Kern (Strike 1984), writer and curator Gareth Evans (Veritgo), writer and critic Sacha Craddock, gallerist Fred Mann, Marcus Cope and Stephanie Moran from the ‘Marmite Prize for Painting’, Karl England and Ben Street from Sluice Art Fair and Michael Keenan from Studio 1.1 as well as members of the Braziers Park community.
Curated by Gareth Evans with Anne Robinson:
A programme of film work in response to in Saturday’s Supernormal discussion event on Sigma and the Anti-university connection with an introduction by Gareth Evans and the filmmakers.. on social performativity and bringing the city to the country…
‘Above all, we must do away with artificial splits and divisions between disciplines and art forms and between theory and action. We raise no a priori barriers to membership in the Antiuniversity other than a desire to find out or relate ‘what is going on’
Ah Sunflower, dir.Iain Sinclair, 2007, 60mins
Estate, a reverie (pilot), dir. Andrea Luka Zimmerman, 2013, 12mins
Melior Street, dir Charlotte Ginsborg, 2011, 65mins.
‘The anti-university at Braziers’ – film to be announced..
Whose World? – 1) The State of/and the Body 2) The Body Economic, new work by artist Margareta Kern, 2013, 20mins
Gareth Evans is a writer, curator, presenter and the Film Curator of London’s Whitechapel Gallery and was editor of the international moving image magazine Vertigo from 2002 – 2009.
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