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The Modern Language Experiment, has been invited to be a part of Urban Encounters a photography and Urban Culture's symposium initiated by Goldsmiths, University of London and Tate Britain. Which is a part of Urban Photo Fest, initiated by Paul Halliday, which will engage with the political and social issues surrounding notions of materialities within the urban context. This engagement will be realised through the following themed panels: Forensics, Object hood and Disappearances.
For Urban Encounters we have collaborated with artist Leslie Deere where we will be focusing on the presence and absence of materiality in relation to image, cities, architecture and aesthesis. This will take the form of three radio broadcasts hosted on Resonance 104.4FM. where will debate further our curatorial concepts as well as develop a new mode for artistic exhibition. Featuring discussions with Ami Clarke, Paul Halliday, Paul O'Kane, Celine Lunsford, Mark Jackson, John Driver, Mark Harris and Carmen Billows and Steven Ball.
8th October 2013 8-9pm EPISODE ONE KEH NG
9th October 2013 8-9pm EPISODE TWO MATTHEW STOCK
10th October 2013 8-9pm EPISODE THREE LESLIE DEERE
EPISODE ONE
This conversation will centre on the materiality of urban environments, and how artists reflect upon them through their works. Keh Ng from the Modern Language Experiment will draw upon his own ideas that permeate his artistic practice where he researches and redeploys urban mythology in his works.
Keh will be hosting this conversation in two parts. In the first part, Celine Lunsford of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt will highlight current issues and trends within the realms of photography art making in conversation with the artist Paul O’Kane who will be discussing his own photographic based practice in relation to ideas of capturing volume in urban environments. The second part of this show will be in conversation with Mark Jackson of IMT Gallery and Ami Clarke of Banner Repeater where they will be discussing audio, materiality and art practice from the perspective of artist and gallerist.
This one hour episode will serve as a snapshot, soundbite and debate about how artists today are dealing with this topic.
EPISODE TWO
“As we map the territories and create zones these divisions only symbolise our failed attempts at any such mapping” Sam Basu, The Treignac Project.
It is possible to speculate that there is disquiet at the heart of any understanding of the city, Indeed Freidrich Engels the German social scientist expressed dismay about a London that embodied both wonder and hideousness. Engels found the speed and aggression of a 19th century London’s populous at odds with his accepted social understanding. In contrast Charles Baudelaire embraced this speed and aggression in his writings about the crowd in a Paris that to him was full of wonder. What is interesting in these two examples is that they are both attempts at mapping or zoning the city so as to enable connections with it.
John Rajchman, in his series of essays entitled ‘Constructions”, is also engaged in a similar process of mapping connections and ‘unseen relations’ by focusing on the philosophy of the city through artistic space, time, vision, technology and architecture.
Interestingly Rajchman maps a possible future city and a future architecture.
Engels, Baudelaire and Rajchman offer ways in which a possible understanding of the city can be revealed by enabling new connections through the process of zonal mapping that in extension aims to demystify the relationship between society and the materiality of the city.
This conversation will be Hosted by Matthew Stock of The Modern Language Experiment and will be in three parts. Artists and educator John Drever will be discussing his recent sound art and its composed utilisation of the dyson public toilet hand dryer. Artist and educator Mark Harris will be discussing the materialty of sound in relation to the urban environment as well as his own sound works. The final part will be a conversation with curator Carmen Billows about her recent project London Seizure, a film screening and discussion series across different London sites. The conversation will be interspersed by sound samples from film works presented within this project. London Seizure is an ongoing series of film screenings and talks responding to issues of replacement, disappearance and loss in contemporary urban structures and will spread to other cities in 2014.
EPISODE THREE
Leslie Deere will take reference from the following sources and present a show that aims to map unusual places in London, paying particular attention to the acoustic terrain and sonic properties of the place. This will include field recordings, musical passages, interview samples and soundscapes.
Specific inspiration for this radio show will come from Brandon Labelle’s essay about his work The Sonic Body in the publication Parole #2 Phonetic Skin - Salon Verlag (Cologne) & Errant Bodies Press (Berlin / Los Angeles), 2012.
Urban Encounters is a part of Urban Photo Fest initiated by Paul Halliday, Photo Artist and Academic, at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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