News & Events December 2009

Suzanne Mooney exhibition

04 December 2009 - 15 December 2009
ffloc Gallery, Caerleon Campus, Newport

Display Systems is a new series of photographic work that explores the rhetoric of display and the various systems, structures, and methods of presentation that are employed within consumer frameworks.

When the mechanisms and techniques for staging the object are fore-grounded, the display object itself gets pushed to the background becoming secondary, obsolete and invisible. Its purpose is to generate desirability for other things, never for itself. By confiscating the objects of display, this body of work concentrates on specific structural devices full of empty and unfulfilled promises.

Suzanne Mooney is a Lecturer in Photography in FAMD. For more information on the exhibition of Suzanne Mooney, visit here.

Newport School of Art, Media & Design Appoints Leverhulme Fellow

Dr Jane Simon will be joining UWN's School of Art, Media & Design and as a Leverhulme Fellow from January-December 2010. Dr Simon will be based in eCPR to work on research for the project DOMESTIC DETAILS. This project explores the material details of domestic life pictured in both found ‘amateur' photographs and fine art photography.

Jane received her doctorate from the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney in 2007. Her work involves practice-based research and critical writing that brings together art, photography and film (including home movies) with methodological debates in cultural studies.

There will be several opportunities for under-graduates, post-grads and staff to engage with Jane's research in the forthcoming year through seminars and lectures.

Research Update: Andre Stitt

In December and January, Professor Andre Stitt will be exhibiting work in Ireland and presenting his work at the Live Laboratory Symposium in Plymouth.

Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, New Work by Andre Stitt is an exhibition running from 10th December 2009 - 23rd January 2010 at the Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Ireland. The commissioned new works were developed through a series of site visits and explorations at Craigavon. Stitt has used his personal experiences of this environment to invoke journeys using the constant process of accumulation and eradication of memory through painting activity. His approach has been informed by Stitt's experience as a performance artist, using layering, erasure and ‘scouring' techniques that consider the performance of painting as a physical manifestation of the post-colonial condition.

The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow, Live Laboratory Symposium and Performances, Exhibition and Publication will be held on 23rd January 2010 at the Plymouth Arts Centre. Curated by Marina Abramović, the symposium will explore the preservation of performance art. Durational performance is the defining aspect of Marina Abramović's work for the past forty years. Legacy and cross-generational concern is the curatorial underpinning for this exhibition and live art symposium. Through her new Institute, Marina Abramović now looks to encapsulate this art form and provide space for the future of such practice.

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