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Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities Newsletter
Image credit: Yellow House, by John Devane
CAMC Curates is the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities newsletter with suggestions and news from our expert and engaged researchers.
Carolina Rito and Antonia Alampi, co-director of SAVVY Contemporary, explore the role of art organisations as a site for critical thinking at contemporary art organisation La Casa Encendida (Madrid) online public talks. This conversation is part of a series of online talks Towards a decalogue for the institution yet to come, curated by Ane Rodríguez Armendariz, with international curators exploring the role of visual art institutions today and the opportunities of the digital to devise the roadmap for the institution yet to come.
Photo: BREATHING TEST: Dying Melody, photographs by: Luke Pickering.
George Saxon’s Breathing Test: Dying Melody is an autoethnographic work physically revealing and amplifying breathing difficulties and the struggle for breath. Saxon utilises his own body to navigate through his childhood respiratory illnesses and ongoing effects on his health, recalling the fear and distress that surrounds illness as an isolating experience.
The live performance also featured surviving fragments of video salvaged from 1978, 'Respirator', where Saxon performed an earlier 'breathing test' in a gas mask. 'Respirator' was looped on a video monitor, for the duration of the performance, determining a rhythmic beat and live sound score.
The lockdown has transformed life for the homeless — but what happens now? by Anthony Luvera and Robert Wright
Anthony Luvera’s work is featured in the FT Weekend Magazine in the Financial Times newspaper last weekend. Writer Robert Wright and Luvera worked on a story about homelessness and the coronavirus crisis. To accompany the text by Wright, Luvera produced assisted self-portraits with / of people experiencing homelessness in London through the pandemic, and people working for homelessness charities and grassroots organisations to provide much needed services.
Plate Setting #2 by Jill Journeaux
Photo: Jill Journeaux, Place Setting, 2020
Jill Journeaux uses practice to consider how the table settings that we use in our own homes can bring together a range of places, people and remembered experiences. As the boundaries of my own home of shrunk in recent weeks and travel has been severely curtailed I have been aware of the items that I have selected for place settings. These have come from other countries that I have spent time in and have travelled to my home on airplanes and boats, have been made by people I love, or were selected and used by my parents and grandparents. I have brought them together as reminders of other places, times and experiences, and through the physical experience of eating from and with them I can expand the places that I currently occupy beyond the limitations of my front door.
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Image: Sandro Botticelli, Primavera, Tempera on panel, late 1470s early 1480s
Museums Post-Coronavirus – Art Beyond ‘Distance’
The world-famous Uffizi Gallery in Florence is no stranger to crowds. But in an era of ‘distancing’ post-Covid-19, it has embraced the latest technologies in an effort to connect new audiences to its great works of art, known and unknown. In a special edition of Front Row (BBC Radio 4, broadcast, Mon. 29th June), Uffizi director, Eike Schmidt explains his new vision. A latecomer to social media, the Uffizi has harnessed talents within its museum community, using Tik-Tok and other social media platforms to connect with young audiences, encourage diversity and pitch for a revitalized ‘localism’. From its first opening in 1769 on St John’s Day (24th June), the Gallery has the ‘local’ in its DNA. As Schmidt sees it, sustainability, travel and climate change – these will be the drivers of how museums and galleries world-wide will adapt and reach publics beyond coronavirus.
Opportunities with Culture Reset
CULTURE RESET is a practical rapid response programme to inspire more relevant and impactful cultural organisations and practices. Born out of the devastating impact of Covid-19 and inspired by the urgent need to accelerate change and respond to the experiences of a broader diversity of people, it will provide expert support and dynamic stimulus for 192 arts and cultural producers, makers and directors across the UK. Applications are open until 5pm on Thursday 9 July. The programme runs 20 July to 11 September 2020.
