Posted: July 14th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Actions & Activism, Events - Pedro Lasch, Exhibitions-Pedro Lasch, Haiti | No Comments »
TELEGETO (PT 1)
Morpeth School, Portman Place (off Globe Road), London E2 OPX
An exhibition of video works by young people from the Grand Rue area of Port-
au-Prince, Haiti and sculptures made by pupils from Morpeth School under the
guidance of artists from Atis Rezistans, Haiti.
Curated by John Cussans
EXHIBITION July 16th - 20th
OPENING (with Pedro Lasch) Thursday, July 16th, 4pm - 8 pm
Opening times Thu. - Fri. 4 - 7 pm, Sat. 1- 6pm
To learn more about Portman Gallery and Morpeth School, visit:
Posted: July 1st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Events - Pedro Lasch, Exhibitions-Pedro Lasch, Phantom Limbs | No Comments »
Pedro Lasch Phantom Limbs
A series of installations, paintings, and drawings commemorating September 11, 2001.
Budapest
Posted: July 1st, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Events - Pedro Lasch, Public Proposals, Publications | No Comments »
Issue #33-44 of Romanian art and theory magazine IDEA has just come out and it includes a full-color 20 page project related to the Naturalizations series (arhiva section), as well as a special poster and text related to the project ‘Evo in Istanbul’ (2009)
Lasch - 'Poster for a Presidential Visit' from 'Evo in Istanbul' (2009)
Posted: April 28th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Art, Story-Telling & the Five Senses / El Arte, El Cuento y los Cinco Sentidos, Events - Pedro Lasch, Exhibitions-Pedro Lasch | No Comments »
Purcell Room
DESCHOOLING SOCIETY
Conference
Thursday 29 April 2010 - Friday 30 April 2010
This two-day conference brings together international artists, curators and writers to discuss and debate the changing relationship between art and education. Please note that a ticket for 29 April includes entry to both days of this conference.
Deschooling Society takes its title from Ivan Illich’s seminal 1971 book, one of the most influential radical critiques of the education system in Western countries. Issues at the heart of that critique have been increasingly debated within the art world in recent years, and the subject of education has attracted renewed attention from artists, curators and collectives. Pedagogical models are currently being explored, re-imagined and deployed by practitioners from around the world in highly diverse projects comprising laboratories, discursive platforms, temporary schools, participatory workshops and libraries. Simultaneously, progressive globalisation has led to a revaluing of the collective knowledge and agency of local communities.
Speakers have been invited to present critical ideas on collective and participatory practice, pedagogical experiments and how such art can be understood and discussed. The conference is a collaborative event marking the start of a Hayward Gallery research project culminating in the transformation of the gallery space into an alternative art school during summer 2012. It also addresses the urgent issues that have arisen from the Centre for Possible Studies, part of an ongoing Serpentine Gallery project in the Edgware Road neighbourhood, and is the second part of the Serpentine’s collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, following the conference Transpedagogy - Contemporary Art and the Vehicles of Education at MoMA in May 2009.
Programme
Thursday 29 April
10am Greetings and Introduction by Ralph Rugoff and Sally Tallant
10.15am Keynote lecture by Christopher Robbins ‘Escape from Politics - The Challenge of Pedagogy and Democratic Politics in the De/schooled Society’
10.45am Response and Q&A moderated by Sally Tallant
11.15am Panel discussion - ‘From Discursive Practices to the Pedagogical Turn’, with Carmen Moersch and Irit Rogoff, moderated by Sally Tallant.
1pm Break
2pm Dialogues - ‘Insertions, Alterations, and Rearrangements within Existing Institutional Frameworks’, with Tania Bruguera, Harrell Fletcher and Nils Norman. Opening statement and moderation by Claire Bishop.
3.30pm Break
4pm Presentations - ‘Pedagogy of Place - Self-Organized Education’, featuring Artschool UK, London, Free University Warsaw (Janek Sowa), 16 Beaver, New York (Pedro Lasch), The Public School, Brussels (Sonia Dermience), Experimental Drawing Class, London (Terry Smith), introduced by Rafal Niemojewski.
5pm End
Friday 30 April
10am Greetings
10.15am Keynote lecture by Martha Rosler
10.45am Martha Rosler in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
11.15am Panel discussion: Protest in Art School: Rituals of Power and Rebellion since the Sixties, with Dave Beech, Marion von Osten, Adrian Rifkin and Lisa Tickner, moderated by Cliff Lauson
1pm Break
2pm Dialogues - ‘Theatres of Education’, with Hannah Hurtzig, Suzanne Lacy and Pablo Helguera
3.30pm Break
4pm Presentations - ‘Pedagogy of Place - Local Models and Knowledges’, featuring Marcelo Expósito, Barcelona, Janna Graham, London, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Rotterdam, Pablo Helguera, New York, Gediminas Urbanos, Vilnus, introduced by Nicola Lees
5pm Summary by Paul O’Neill, closing statement by Ralph Rugoff, plenary session, questions from the audience
6pm End
Schedule subject to change
Podcasts from the conference will appear on the Hayward Gallery blog.
Posted: April 19th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Actions & Activism, Events - Pedro Lasch, Events-Recommended, Exhibitions-Pedro Lasch | 1 Comment »
Art & Labour Summit: Cultural Workers, Artists, Students, and Interns Meet to Organise, Name Names, and Coordinate Demands
Thursday April 22nd, 6pm-9pm
Cell Projects Space
258 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9DA
Free entry and all welcome
We’d like you to join us for a special event and organisational party open to all who are interested in the better understanding and active transformation of the way art, free labour, and education work. Crises are moments of great opportunity, as we all know, and those defunding and devaluing our labour have been busy applying this knowledge.
We invite your active participation in an evening of events:
1. ‘Show and Tell’ - bring evidence of your current research, campaigns or projects dealing with art and labour to share with the group.
2. ‘Name and Shame’ - collectively create a map of power structures on the wall where we name our exploiters, quantify their exploits, draw the hidden or overt links between them and chart the ideas that legitimise their subsistence.
3. ‘Coordinate Demands’ - engage in small group discussions to identify your demands.
4. ‘Publish and Get Organised’ - we will end the evening by having a look at what we have created to decide where and how we want to publish a map of our most urgent demands and discuss the experimental, pragmatic and sustainable organisational techniques we can use to co-ordinate the next steps.
This event has been developed as a response and dialogue with the newspaper and website “Art Work: A National Conversation about Art, Labor, and Economics” recently published by Temporary Services. Pedro from 16 Beaver has brought forty free copies of the paper from the US to distribute to participants at the event in London, but you can also download the newspaper as pdf or read the articles online here:
http://www.artandwork.us
This summit is co-organised by Carrot Workers Collective, Micropolitics Group, Lottie Child, Ecosophy Group, Temporary Services, Free School, Short Term Solutions, Independent Art School, ARTSCHOOL/UK, Sophie Hope and Pedro Lasch (16 Beaver)…
If you cannot attend the event, but would like to participate in the making of the map long-distance, just send us an email at the addresses below.
For any messages, comments, or questions related to this event, contact Sophie Hope - sophiehope[at]mac.com, or Pedro Lasch - plasch[at]duke.edu
Posted: March 17th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Events - Pedro Lasch, Exhibitions-Pedro Lasch | 2 Comments »
Sound Threshold presents
Veiled Conversation No. 9 by Pedro Lasch
An Irreverent Listening Engagement with John Cage’s Empty Words.
This is the First Session of The Listening Project curated by Sound Threshold (Daniela Cascella and Lucia Farinati).
Where a space for collective listening, for sharing stories, songs and thoughts about the social production of sound is created.
Wednesday 24 March 2010, 6.30 pm – 9 pm
The Showroom
63 Penfold Street, London, NW8 8PQ
About this session
The compositions of John Cage’s are talked about so often that they have become canonical. Paradoxically, they are rarely physically experienced, especially in collective settings. For this special Listening Session on the social production of sound, Pedro Lasch invites us to remedy the situation by listening together to a recording of Cage’s Empty Words (1977).
Originally performed for a large Italian audience and lasting two and a half hours, Cage’s musical reading of manipulated words and syllables begins with the conventionally solemn silence of classical music halls. The work’s simplicity and iconoclasm, however, eventually causes a riot to break out. This crescendo of support and resistance to the artist, as well as the audible manifestation of the social tensions produced by the formalism of the work, are beautifully registered in the recording that Lasch is sharing.
Some of the social and perceptual modalities we will use to listen to Cage’s work belong to Lasch’s Veiled Conversations, an ongoing project that creates unusual conditions for both formal and casual conversations as it limits the visibility of those who speak and those who listen.
The event will be structured in three parts and most determined by the event’s participants. Empty Words by John Cage will be played throughout the evening, functioning as a ‘durational’ material to listen and react to. While we will listen silently to Cage for some time at the beginning, the second part of the event will consist in the overlapping presentation of audio recordings, texts or ‘sound gestures’ brought by specifically invited individuals, materials that may make our listening or non-listening visible or, in any non-harmful way, alter the social conditions of our listening.
In the third part of the session, everyone in the audience will be invited to bring their own sound-generating devices (e.g. CD player or props) and voices, to add another uncontrolled aural level to the recorded composition. The event will be ended with a group discussion as the sounds keep playing.
About Sound Threshold
Sound Threshold was established in 2007 by Daniela Cascella and Lucia Farinati, as a long-term research project which explores the relationships between site and sound. The project is grounded on a shared background and interest in literature, experimental music, art history, and over a decade of experience in writing and in curating visual and sonic arts projects.
Sound Threshold investigates the idea of threshold as an extended metaphor of boundary, frontier, track, border and difference – not only visual traces but also natural elements, literary references, acoustic phenomena.
Since its inception Sound Threshold has initiated and developed a programme of events and artists’ commissions in collaboration with international scientific research centres, as well as with museums and art galleries: Music and Sound Through The Landscape, Trentino - Italy 2007-2008; The Listening Project, London, 2010.
Sound Threshold is a no-profit organisation based in London.
To learn more, visit:
About Pedro Lasch:
Pedro Lasch is an artist, educator, and cultural producer whose preoccupation with the theory and practice of a socially engaged art has led to the formulation of an aesthetics based on public interventions, social interactions, games, and temporal rearrangements. In addition to his individual work in a wide range of disciplines including drawing, painting, video, installation and performance, he leads ongoing projects with immigrant communities and art collectives, such as the 16Beaver Group.
Born and raised in Mexico City, he usually splits his time between New York City and Durham (NC), where he is Assistant Research Professor of Visual Art in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. He is currently on leave from Duke, and based in London.
To see images and texts on specific projects, visit:
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Thursday, March 18th, 2pm-3:30pm
Games, Non-Habitual Habits and Temporal Rearrangements: An Artist Talk by Pedro Lasch
Lecture Theatre at Chelsea College of Art and Design, Millbank (next to Tate Britain, Pimlico tube)
This talk is free and open to all
Pedro Lasch is an artist, educator, and cultural producer whose preoccupation with the theory and practice of a socially engaged art has led him to the formulation of an aesthetics based on public interventions, social interactions, games, and temporal rearrangements. In addition to his individual work in a wide range of disciplines including drawing, painting, video, installation and performance, he leads on-going projects with immigrant communities and art collectives, such as 16 Beaver Group.
His individual work and his collaborations with 16 Beaver have been shown internationally at both alternative and mainstream institutions such as, Sean Kelly Gallery, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Queens Museum of Art, The Walker Art Center, MASS MoCA, The Nasher Museum of Art (U.S.A), Baltic: The Centre for Contemporary Art and The Royal College of Art (England), Centro Arte Alameda, Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico), The Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), and The Gwangju Biennial (South Korea), among others.
Appearing in numerous exhibition catalogues and edited collections, his art and writings have also been published and reviewed in specialized journals across disciplines, such as October Magazine, Saber Ver, Art Forum, ARTnews, Cultural Studies, and Rethinking Marxism, as well as diverse and international news media like The New York Times, The Philadelphia Weekly, El Diario de México, El Universal, and La Jornada. His projects have received awards, recognitions, and support from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2007 Painters & Sculptors Award), the Dedalus Foundation, The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, and Asociación Tepeyac de New York. He is represented by Stephan Stoyanov Gallery in New York City, and galerieofmarseille in Marseille, France.
Lasch was born and raised in Mexico City. He currently divides his time between New York (NY) and Durham (NC), where he is an Assistant Research Professor of Visual Art in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. He is a former Duke Latino/a Studies Director and present Community Liaison. Having served on multiple juries and selection committees, he is also a board member of the North Carolina Arts Council (2007-2010), the Chiapas Media Project/Promedios (2007-present), and Mexicanos Unidos de Queens (2006-present). For the academic year of Fall 2009 and Spring 2010, Lasch will be based in London, UK on a research leave from Duke University.
