The Homebodies Conference takes place at Birkbeck College on 9th and 10th November. The conference has been organised by students from the London Consortium and the School of Art History, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck.

HomeBodies is about complex situations of not feeling-at-home. International artists, curators, and architects are contributing to this process-oriented project to reconfigure the notion of ‘home’. Starting with a conference, the results of productive exchanges will determine how the project further develops into 3 basement exhibitions in San Francisco, Frankfurt am Main, and London. On the first day of the conference, thinkers such as Frederick J. Kiesler and Gaston Bachelard will be revisited in the light of discourses surrounding ‘the home’. On the following day, meanings will be made through dialogue with curators and visual and performing artists about what it means to be ‘at-home’.

FRIDAY | 09 November | Body in the Home
Room B036 Birkbeck building Malet Street WC1

3-5pm| Presentations
Shumon Basar, Writer / Curator / Lecturer
B. A. Irawati Firth, London Consortium
Ida Wentzel Winther, Department of Educational Anthropology, Danish School of Education, Copenhagen

7-9pm| Film screening
Centre for Film and Visual Media, 43 Gordon Square WC1
‘The Secret Beyond the Door’ (1948), 99 minutes, Fritz Lang
Teresa Gilepse, ‘On Gordon Street’ (Installation), 2007

SATURDAY | 10 November | Home in the Body
Room B035 Birkbeck building Malet Street WC1

11am-6pm | Presentations
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery
Marko Daniel, Curator Public Programmes, Tate Modern
Linda Gieres, Dancer / Choreographer, London Consortium
Aura Satz, Artist / Writer, London Consortium

To find out more and to register go to:
http://www.annabelleshome.eu/

Tate Britain, 19th & 20th October 2007.

Recently, the notion of the sublime has received a new lease of life, enjoying attention from major writers in diverse disciplines. In this context, the 250th anniversary of the publication of Edmund Burke’s “Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime
and Beautiful” (1757), a key work that cemented the importance of the term in modern thought, offers an occasion for celebration, reappraisal and critique.

This symposium asks: Why the Sublime now? What is its legacy today? In what ways has the Sublime acquired an added urgency in our new millennium? And to what extent is this concept a useful or dangerous tool for the understanding of contemporary culture and history?

Friday 19th October (6.30-8:30pm)
‘The Ecological Sublime’: with Jane Bennett, Esther Leslie, Cornelia Parker.

Saturday 20th October (10am-6pm)
‘Experiencing the Sublime’: with Cornelia Klinger, Jan Rosiek
‘Sublime Bodies’: with Marina Wallace, k r buxey, Jamal Jumá
‘The Sublime and the Politics of Terror’: with Gene Ray, Iain Boal
The day will also include an introduction by Peter De Bolla, a screening of Isaac Julien’s True North (2004), and a final panel discussion.

Tickets £35 (£25 concessions). Book online via the Tate website.

This symposium has been jointly organised by Tate, and students and faculty of the London Consortium and Middlesex University.

Take a deep breath
A conference at Tate Modern, in association with the London Consortium
15 - 17 November 2007

Call for Submissions

Nikos Navridis, Difficult breath #9, 2004. Courtesy Bernier/Eliades Gallery
© The artist

Breathing is a vital practice, yet most of us hardly ever think of the process. Recent environmental and ethical developments are calling for a rethinking of the value of breath and its manifestations in culture and beyond.

Take a deep breath is an interdisciplinary conference on the social, cultural and scientific ramifications of breathing. It will explore the influence of breath on the work of various theorists and practitioners and encourage a critical discussion by featuring talks, visual art projects, performances, film screenings, and musical events.

We would like to invite contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including: visual and performing arts, literature, architecture, music, philosophy, theology, biomedical and environmental sciences and sports.

Deadline for submissions: 10 September 2007

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Tate Modern, 15.00-17.00 Sunday 27 May 2007

This panel discussion, taking place to accompany the performance Sleep: Warhol/Cage/Satie, examines the little-discussed relationship between the work of Andy Warhol, John Cage, and the composer Erik Satie. The panel includes Gavin Bryars, art historian Branden W Joseph, Cage expert Professor David Nicholls, John Giorno and will be chaired by art historian, Professor Pamela M Lee.

The panel and the performance and screening form part of Tate Modern’s Long Weekend. Full details and booking information are available on the Tate website.

Friday 25th May, 2007, 1.30-4.00pm
Room 101, 30 Russell Square
Seminar open to all

One of the largest growth areas in the arts and humanities is ‘practice research’ (also known as ‘practice-led research’, ‘practice-based research’, ‘research by practice’ and other terms). In practice research, creative practice, for example in the making of visual, literary, sonic, performative, conceptual or installation works, constitutes the principal method and outcome of the research.

This raises some intriguing questions and possibilities, which we will explore in this seminar.

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The 2007 European Summer School will take place in Giessen and Heidelberg, between 30th July and 4th August. This year’s theme will be ‘Ways of Worldmaking: Narratives, Archives and Media’.

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Up to 6 members of each collaborating institution will attend to present papers, with travel and accommodation expenses paid. London Consortium students and recent postdoctural graduates wishing to participate should submit titles and abstracts for proposed papers to the Consortium office by 31 March.

The European Summer School is a collaboration of The Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, The Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, The London Consortium, The University of Oslo, and The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at the University of Giessen. Between 2007 and 2010 the venture is supported by funding from the European Commission.

For further details, visit the European Summer School website.

24th-25th November 2006

A collaborative graduate conference organised by Queen Mary, University of London and The London Consortium, supported by funding from the AHRC. View the conference website here.

6th-8th October 2006

In association with Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths College, the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise and Tate Modern.

During the centennial year of his birth, this collaborative conference looked at Samuel Beckett’s influence on the arts. View full information here.

7th-11th August 2006

The European Summer School is a collaboration between the London Consortium and four other European graduate institutions institutions: the Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, The Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, the Programs in Arts and Culture in Norway, and the Giessener Graduiertenzentrum. Each year, one of the institutions acts as hostand up to six students from each institution attend to present paper and take part in other activities. The 2006 Summer School, themed ‘Climates and Territories: Human Environments in Art and Culture’, took place in Oslo. View full details here.

20th March 2006
In association with NODE.London and the ICA

A panel of professionals with differing relationships to media arts considered the significance of the apparent prevalence of networks in media arts. Speakers included Ruth Catlow, artist, co-founder and co-director of Furtherfield.org and HTTP [House of Technologically Termed Practice]; Kelli Dipple, integrated media and performance artist and Webcasting Curator at Tate; Shu Lea Cheang, digital artist working in the field of net-based installation, social interface and film production; Tom Corby, artist, writer, curator, academic at the University of Westminster, and editor “Network Art: Practices and Positions,” (Routledge); and Helen Sloan, director of SCAN, the new media art agency in the South of England. This event was organised as part of the NODE.London media arts festival taking place during March 2006.