Opening up and daring to fail

Day of student sessions in The Museum of Loss and Renewal, considering ‘ephemeral practices’ and ‘art, science & visual thinking’. Discussing the merging of art, research and education – the need for a radical shift in the function of learning towards a central position for art within collaborative approaches, the fostering of networks, partnerships and play – opening up and daring to fail.

All closely related to our MFA discussion this afternoon in the site of your proposed collaborative exhibition 'A Matter of Process'.

Conversation raging

The temporary public studio for the fusion of exhibition, production, education and research is up and running.

Conversation is raging on the interrelationships between death, memory, material culture and recycling. Sessions with students are well under way, prodding and provoking issues including the value of stuff and curatorial positions. Blue-skies thrash with GSA's Dr Ken Neil on the impact on art education, by situating it at the heart of our practice.

All welcome to hold discussions on related issues in the site of 'The Museum of Loss and Renewal' at Centrespace.

We invite you to visit the Public Studio to strike up a conversation 12 - 4.30pm Monday - Friday

http://www.mackenna-and-janssen.net/mackenna-and-janssen/The_Museum_of_Loss_and_Renewal.html

events The Museum of Loss and Renewal

Hi MFA students, starting install tomorrow of second stage of 'The Museum of Loss and Renewal'. Will work with various undergrad student groups through modules 'ephemeral practices', 'art, science & visual thinking' and of course with you, focusing on research-practice interlinks. Will also make new text blanket, through conversation with visitors talking about project themes.

And good speakers contributing to the public events - Paul O'Neill and Arnd Schneider and David Reilly! You don't have to book a place through DJCAD Exhibitions - we've held places for you.

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=bec5c83c5721068bccd072abe&id=244771e25d&e=6ea50bf18e

"The New Museum"

While in Tate Modern yesterday I looked in detail at the plans for their extension, of space and role.

Chris Dercon, new Director of Tate Modern describes the remit of Tate Modern Project -
"to redefine the museum for the twenty first century, integrating learning, display and social functions.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/transformingtm/default.shtm

The ability of the museum to integrate presentation, production, collecting and research with learning has implications for the future of the art school - any thoughts about this?

The Exhibition-as-

On 22nd Nov artist, curator and theorist Dr. Paul O’Neill will be in conversation with Edwin and me, talking about The Museum of Loss and Renewal, in Centrespace, VRC.

In the meantime, and in relation to your proposed collective exhibition, have a look at this:

"The Exhibition-as-Medium, the Exhibition-as-form: Three Principal Categories of Organisation: the Background, the Middle-ground and the Foreground

The group exhibition-form has become the primary site for curatorial experimentation and, as such, represents a relatively new discursive space around artistic practice. Paul O'Neill will describe how cumulative and expanding exhibition-forms can constitute an investigation into how the curatorial role is made manifest, through cohesive and co-operative exhibition-making structures applied through close involvement with artists during all stages of the exhibition production. This lecture will look at how a series of exhibitions create spatial relations between different planes of interaction for the viewer, and how three spatial categories of organisation upon which the group exhibitions can represent this in the final exhibition-form."

http://www.monash.edu.au/news/events/show/dr-paul-oneill-the-exhibition-as-medium-the-exhibition-as-fo