Month: February 2023

Join us for REIMAGINING CRITS WORKSHOP SERIES PART TWO

Workshop 2

When: Wednesday 1st March, 2-5PM

Where: Goldsmiths CCA Resident’s Space for the 2nd part in our ‘Reimagining Crits’ workshop series. 

In this session we will be expanding on thoughts that emerged from conversations in our first workshop – to develop some plans, ideas and practical guidelines on how to approach crits through an anti-racist, non-hierarchical and collective lens.

All are welcome – whether you have been to an APR session before or not – across all undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Goldsmiths, Kingston, Manchester & Middlesex.

APR invites students, staff and alumni to join us in reimagining the ‘crit’ through an anti-racist and collective lens. How can we envision these models differently by challenging the individualist and singular positioning that crits often assume? What could a non-hierarchical and caring crit look like? How can we make conversations about art more open and accessible to those who are marginalised by the conventional forms these often take within art education? 

Facilitated by APR members, we will use this workshop to collectively decide how to approach the upcoming ‘alternative crit’ sessions and what new possibilities for feedback and sharing about practice are opened up. We will construct proposals for how presenting, facilitating, observing and participating in crits can be more nurturing and inclusive. We encourage students to take an active role in discussing the place of ‘critique’ in developing their practices, and will work together to imagine ways of embedding anti-racist approaches within these key aspects of art and practice-based learning. 

The final workshop in this series will be taking place on 15th March at Goldsmiths CCA.

Join us for REIMAGINING CRITS WORKSHOP SERIES

Workshop 1:

When: Wednesday 15th February, 2-5PM,

Where: Goldsmiths Student’s Union first floor lounge (former cafe)

With ongoing industrial action at universities across the UK, and 18 days of strike likely to affect many prescribed points of presentation and feedback across arts courses, APR will be holding a series of workshops to reimagine what form crits could take outside the institution. 

For the first workshop, APR invites students, staff and alumni to join us in reimagining the ‘crit’ through an anti-racist and collective lens. How can we envision these models differently by challenging the individualist and singular positioning that crits often assume? What could a non-hierarchical and caring crit look like? How can we make conversations about art more open and accessible to those who are marginalised by the conventional forms these often take within art education? 

Facilitated by APR members, we will use this workshop to collectively decide how to approach the upcoming ‘alternative crit’ sessions and what new possibilities for feedback and sharing about practice are opened up. We will construct proposals for how presenting, facilitating, observing and participating in crits can be more nurturing and inclusive. We encourage students to take an active role in discussing the place of ‘critique’ in developing their practices, and will work together to imagine ways of embedding anti-racist approaches within these key aspects of art and practice-based learning. 

All are welcome – whether you have been to an APR session before or not – across all undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Goldsmiths, Kingston, Manchester & Middlesex.

WORKSHOP DATES:

15/02/2023 – How can we re-imagine crits? @ Goldsmiths Student’s Union

01/03/2023 – Alternative Crit 1 @ Goldsmiths CCA Resident’s Space

15/03/2023 – Alternative Crit 2 @ Goldsmiths CCA Resident’s Space

Join us on Wednesday 8th of February for A Particular Reality visit to Cubitt Gallery. We will meet at the gallery at 2:45pm to view the moving image work in the Cubitt 30 Screening Room : “Abundance in Togetherness” curated by the artist and filmmaker Kadeem Oak, who will be joining us for a tour and talk of his curatorial practice. 

When: 8th of February, from 2:45 – 5.00 pm | Where: Cubitt Gallery, 8 Angel Mews, London N1 9HH                                                                                                                

Please note: if you would like to see the films beforehand please come an hour earlier to engage with the entire show.

The work presented in the show features “A selection of artist’s moving image works exploring collective practices and cooperative methods of art making that centre the work of contemporary black British women artists and their artist testimonies; presented in the form of mediatheque and multi-screen installation, these works showcase methods and tools for self-organisation, resistance, reflection, healing and togetherness, backdropped by a landscape of social adversity, uprooting and isolation. “

In addition to our conversation with Kadeem, we will also be joined by Alison Jones who is one of Cubitt galleries 32 studio artists – she will be giving us a tour of her studio!

The gallery itself has a rich history of being one of London’s oldest artist-led cooperatives. Since the moving image work engages with themes along the lines of collectivity, self organisation and anti racist practice – in the spirit of how we do things in APR, this will be a great way to see this show together!

We hope to see many of you there! 

This invitation is open to all students, tutors and alumni who are a part of the APR network from Goldsmiths, Kingston, Middlesex and Manchester School of Art