Events Archive
A selection of past events and exhibitions held in Special Collections and the Constance Howard Centre.Speculative Objects
Curated by Sophie Carapetian, MFA, 12/6/2010 - 20/6/2010
Doing the needful
Susie Vickery, 14 June - 15 July 2010
We read about others in books, see films charting their lives and look at photographs of them. But how to give more texture to what they have to say? Susie Vickery’s latest body of work looks at people of the cloth, those who work with fabric every day. She literally adds texture to their images with fabric appliqué and embroidery. Susie has photographed and interviewed tailors, garment factory workers, fabric salesmen and ironing wallahs in India, China and the United Kingdom. Glimpses into their lives were then recorded using the materials and techniques of their work, including khadi, the hand-woven fabric of India, and Tibetan brocade.
Susie worked for many years as a theatrical tailor until she moved to Nepal and studied embroidery, which led to a degree in embroidered textiles, completed in 2009. Susie’s previous work ‘On the Melancholy of Tailors: An essay by Charles Lamb’ won the 2009 Christine Risley Award, which consisted of £500 plus two exhibitions. Doing the Needful was the second of these exhibitions.
Allow the gaps!
Sandra Erbacher, 1st March - 30 April 2010
Artist, curator and Goldsmiths graduate Sandra Erbacher investigates the resonance between language, learning and power through site-specific interventions in the library building.
'Allowing the gaps to speak' asks questions about the function of academic discourse itself and tests the architecture of the building as an articulation of institutional language.
On the Melancholy of Tailors: An Essay by Charles Lamb
Susie Vickery, 2nd - 25th March 2010
Exhibition, animation and performance. Winner of the 2009 Christine Risley Award, Susie was selected from the Graduate Showcase at the Knitting and Stitching Show organised by Creative Exhibitions Ltd. It is the first time that the award has been offered outside of Goldsmiths and in partnership with Creative Exhibitions.
Susie Vickery will be having a 2nd exhibition at the Constance Howard Centre for Textiles in June 2010.
'In her shoes'
art exhibition in the Women's Art Library, 22nd-26th February 2010
This was launched on 22nd February, with artists Oriana Fox and Lydia Maria Julien talking about their experiences as female artists.
Pirate paths
a project by Chris Rea, December 2009 - January 2010
Micro-pages, curated by Abigail Thomas
A touring book art exhibition on microfilm, 2nd November - 11th December 2009
The curator, Abigail Thomas says "'Micro-Pages' will start a conversation about the issues surrounding the display of artists' books.
A series of selected artists' books have been turned into a reel of microfilm for a touring exhibition. The work will be accessed through microfilm readers in participating libraries and archive centres. The books selected relate to the history of artists' books, archives and libraries, or challenge the preconceptions of the future of preservation and display."
'Once More With Feeling' 27th June 2009, Tate Modern
Organised by Oriana Fox, recipient of the Art in the Archive: Living with Make Bursary 2009
Presented at the Tate Modern by the Women's Art Library/Make and the Feminist Review, the evening consisted of new work and a series of tableaux vivants illustrating an oral history of feminist performance art. There were also performances by invited artists and the event was accompanied by a publication 'The Moon'. Copies of this are still available from The Women's Art Library. Contact us and we will post a copy to you.
Research carried out with the Art in the Archive bursary formed the basis of Bodytracks, an interactive website developed by Oriana Fox which ‘tracks’ the history of feminist performance art. It is a timeline linked to descriptions of live acts alongside video and photographic documentation and links to further information.