The following message was posted to: dance-tech Apologies for any cross postings Invitation to a Seminar: The Artist as Catalyst Presentedby: ResCen, Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts Middlesex University Date: Monday 9 February Time: 6.15pm (followed by refreshments) Venue: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7QX Closest Tubes: Aldgate East (follow signs for the correct exit on the platform walls). By Rail: Ten minutes walk from Liverpool Street station. For more detailed travel information and directions, please visit the Whitechapel Gallery website: www.whitechapel.org With ResCen Research Associates: Ghislaine Boddington Richard Layzell Rosemary Lee Graeme Miller In conversation with anthropologist: Professor Tim Ingold For over two years the ResCen artists have been meeting in closed sessions to discuss the processes that form and inform their work. This seminar is the third in a series that focuses on themes drawn from their past discussions. This seminar focuses on the artist as 'skilled practitioner' working in a variety of contexts which demand new applications of their skills and knowledge. Each of the ResCen artists has experience of creating catalytic spaces which facilitate interactions and developments intrinsic to the creative process in the performing arts, but which also have important experiential significance for participants. ResCen artists have worked in community settings, schools, higher education and business and have provided the artist's perspective to agencies and government. This suggests that the ability to engage in a variety of contexts, often beyond the professional venue, is important to artists and that there are aspects to artistic practice that serve as 'active ingredients' which drive this work. The seminar will explore the work/behaviour of the skilled practitioner operating in a range of domains and will raise issues concerning the nature, motivation and efficacy of such work. Tim Ingold was born in 1948. He received his BA in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 1970, and his PhD in 1976. For his doctoral research, he carried out ethnographic fieldwork (1971- 72) among the Skolt Saami of northeastern Finland. His research has ranged from studies of northern circumpolar peoples, looking comparatively at hunting, pastoralism and ranching as alternative ways of basing a livelihood on reindeer or caribou, through to research on themes of livelihood, dwelling, and environmental perception and skilled practice. He is also embarking on new research in Scotland on the sociality of walking. He is a published author, his latest book being The Perception of Environment (2002), and was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy in 1997. He is currently involved in research in collaboration with the School of Fine Art at the University of Dundee, on the interrelations between perception, creativity and skill, and looking at the possible applications of studio- based practice in fine art to research and teaching in anthropology. This seminar is being run in conjunction with Rosemary Lee's installation Apart from the Road (details below) which provides an exemplar of the Artist as Catalyst. Entrance to the seminar is free but to reserve a place contact Natalie Daniel. Email: rescen@mdx.ac.uk Telephone: 020 8411 6288/2710 Our most recent seminars are available to view on the ResCen website: www.rescen.net APART FROM THE ROAD Whitechapel an interactive dance, video and poetry installation created by choreographer Rosemary Lee filmmaker Nic Sandiland poet Chrissie Gittins & Shamim Azad visual artist Robin Whitmore With children from Marsh Green Primary School in Dagenham Lena Gardens, St Paul's & Sacred Heart Primary Schools in Hammersmith St Paul's and Shapla Primary School in Whitechapel Tuesday 2 - Saturday 28 February 2004 Whitechapel Library 77 Whitechapel High Street London E1 7QX Information: 020 7247 5272/0265 Runs throughout the library opening hours: Monday/Tuesday/Thursday 9.30 - 8.00 Friday 9.30 - 6.00 Saturday 9.00 - 5.00 Fully accessible and suitable for all ages Choreographer Rosemary Lee has brought together film- artist Nic Sandiland, visual artist Robin Whitmore and poet Shamim Azad and two more classes of 8-9 year olds to create the final phase of Apart From the Road, Whitechapel which can be discovered deep within the confines of Whitechapel Library. Taking the children's spoken and written words with their dances recorded on video, the artists have used the material generated during their residencies at 6 schools across London, to create an enigmatic and inspiring installation. Secreted throughout the library, tiny video screens, TV monitors and handmade books reveal a collection of whispered poems and miniature dances. Apart From the Road, Whitechapel delicately captures momentary portraits of each child as they make their way into the filing cabinets, clamber onto the bookshelves, climb across the benches and into the photocopier. Fully accessible and suitable for all ages For further details contact: Nicky Childs, Artsadmin tel 020 7247 5102 ---------------------------------------- The Dance-Tech mailing list has recently moved to a new address. To post a message, send email to dance-tech@dancetechnology.org. 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