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Blind Date with Barnaby Barford (UK)
Blind Date with Barnaby Barford
October 22.10.11-26.10.11, Bergen National Academy of the Arts is happy to invite BA and MA students to an exciting and energetic week-long visual arts project exploring narrative and appropriation with artist Barnaby Barford.
We will be exploring the use of found objects and ready-mades in conjunction with conceptual thinking. The week will aim to develop work that is interesting, exciting and thought provoking using objects that would otherwise be dismissed. There will be no material or process boundaries.
The aim of this project is to introduce and develop a practice based discourse on the readymade/the found object in contemporary art. It creates an interface to K-Values conference ‘making or un making’ 27-29.10.11 and all the major venues connected.
Participants will need to bring a large selection of found objects that can be shared with the group. Please be as broad thinking as possible, they might be 2D or 3D, old or new, trash or antique, multiples or unique objects, mass produced or crafted objects, they may be mundane or not. It is essential we have a large selection of items. KHiB will also be helpful in collecting items.
Please apply with a short motivation letter (max. half page) and send it to anne.mydland@khib.no, questions can also be directed to the same address. Deadline 9.9.10
This is a Cirrus Course so there will be students form from the Cirrus network institutions participatiing.
Barnaby Barford is an artist who works primarily with ceramics to create unique narrative pieces. He works with both mass-market and antique found porcelain figurines, cutting up and exchanging elements or adding to them and repainting them, to create sculptures which are often sinister and sardonic but invariably humorous. With irony, he draws a portrait of our contemporary lives.
In Barford’s world a kitsch figure of a 19th century peasant boy becomes a 20th century teenage thug in a hoodie; rustic maidens dancing on a bed of roses brandish guns; a charming scene of a Victorian family sharing a meal is undermined by the copious buckets of KFC fried chicken which they’re laying into. Through his unique works, Barford explores all aspects of our society. Following in the tradition of Hogarth, Chaucer, Dickens and Shakespeare; with a dark sense of English humour and satire, Barford's work explores and celebrates the human condition.
Barnaby Barford (b. 1977) graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2002. His work is part of Public and Private Collections, he has been the subject of several solo exhibitions in the UK and Europe, and has shown in exhibitions internationally.
http://www.barnabybarford.co.uk/image_gallery/
Please notice that the K-values conference fee is not included.
‘Making or Unmaking?’
The Contexts of Contemporary Ceramics
Terminus Hall, Bergen, Norway
Oct 27. - 29. 2011
With Glenn Adamson, Barnaby Barford, Marek Cecula, Monica Gaspar, Tanya Harrod, Ben Highmore, Gitte Jungersen, Søren Kjørup, Carol McNicoll, Kevin Murrey, Andrew Livingstone, Michael Petry,
Mike Press, Paul Scott, Ezra Shales, Richard Slee, Caroline Slotte, Linda Sormin, Hans Stofer, Clare Twomey, Jorunn Veiteberg, Anne Britt Ylvisåker. http://www.k-verdi.no/english/home.html
Arbeidsform:
Workshop based, discussions, tutorials
Krav til forkunnskaper:
none
Kurset starter 22.10.2011 / Uke 42, og varer til 26.10.2011 / Uke 43
Sted: Strømgt 1. kl.10
Tilbyder: Keramikk
MÃ¥lgruppe: Alle studenter
Årstrinn: Alle årstrinn
Antall plasser: 15
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