grey area: March 2010

Mar 25, 2010

Martha Rosler reads Vogue, Artist talk, 20/3/10

Alison Jones and Milly Thompson in-conversation at the Grey Area

Bob & Roberta Smith in Conversation

Bob and Roberta Smith in Conversation

19th Mar 2010 6:00pm

Bob and Roberta Smith (aka Patrick Brill) has collaborated twice with Brighton-based curator Daniel Pryde Jarman. He exhibited a 'Floating Studio' at the Grey Area Gallery in 2007, and recently performed at Fabrica Gallery together with Martin Creed in December 2009. Smith/Brill studied at the University of Reading and Goldsmiths, and is perhaps best known for his painted slogans and text pieces. His practice, however, is extremely varied and includes performing music with the group 'The Ken Ardley Playboys' and hosting a radio show on Resonance FM called Make Your Own Damn Music. His work will be familiar to many in the faculty who will have seen examples of it, most recently in 'Altermodern' at Tate Britain in 2009.

He will engage in conversation with Daniel Pryde Jarman about his work, practice and politics.

The conversation will be chaired by Peter Seddon and last approximately one hour followed by a pay bar finishing at 8.30pm.

Martha Rosler reads Vogue, PV, 12/3/10, 7pm

Mar 22, 2010

Martha Rosler reads Vogue, Installation images

Territories – Grace Siregar

Territories – Grace Siregar

10th April – 25th April 2010

Open: Thursday – Sunday, 1-5pm

PV: Friday 9th April, 7 - 9pm

The idea of territory can be seen as a space shaping us as persons and reflected in what we do and create. Beyond this geographical sense of the term, various other aspects can be explored such as the concept of nation, history, politics, domestic space and childhood.

Territories address the construction of identity, investigating the shifting relationship between others and oneself. The construction of identity can be seen as state of flux through exchanging with others, whether with individuals, groups or communities.

‘There are two kinds of identity, identity as being (which offers a sense of unity and commonality) and identity as becoming (or a process of identification, which shows the discontinuity in our identity formation).1

Grace Siregar has developed her own means of reaction and response both individually and collectively through using performance, photography, installation and video to explore issues of identity, reflecting on and investigating differences and possible points in common. The works in the exhibition take global politics, personal themes, conflict and peace as their subjects. They are social observations and commentaries drawn upon experiences from living in Indonesia and the UK, which observe, document, and intervene meanings both historically and contemporarily.

Born in Sumatra, Indonesia, Siregar has lived in Bangka Island, East Timor, Amsterdam and Jakarta she moved to Hove in 2009. Previous exhibitions include, The National Gallery, Jakarta, Dutch Cultural Centre, Jakarta, Yogyakarta Arts Festival and Monas Park, Jakarta. She ran her own art space, Tondi Gallery in Medan, North Sumatra and hosted an arts radio show in Eastern Indonesia.

1, Hall, S. in Rutherford, Johnathan, ed. Identity: Community, Culture, Difference (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1990, 223-237, Chapter Titled ‘Cultural Identity and Diaspora’)

Curator: Clare Sheppeard

Events: Grace Siregar in conversation - 17th April at 7.30pm