The Politics of Encounters

06/09/2011

Exhibition: 22- 23 September

I am looking for new understandings of democracy in art practices and new productions of subjectivity for the parties (beings/things) involved: the role of the artist, its function in the respective projects and the different modes of ‘relationality’ with either engaged or removed ‘publics’.

“Many of my projects start by reading, taking notes, looking for specific imagery online and drawing. Most of these first imagery will never leave the studio, and is to be transformed, so it doesn’t really matter so much which materials are being used, normally is just stuff lying around. In the case of the drawings (State Drawings) there was a pad of quite thin paper that I bought on a college sale, so I use that, and yellow pencils. There are always yellow pencils lying around. I got the habit of drawing in yellow from a project I have done in 2004 (Blood 4Oil) where I would first draw in yellow and then fill the figures with India Ink, the underlying drawing became consequently quite invisible. At some point (Again about State Drawings) I attempted to reproduce them in better quality paper, but they just lost the sketchy quality of the first ones. The thinness of the paper was also quite useful in the process, and that could not be repeated in a thicker paper. I made some other models in plasticine, but then again, they don’t add much more for me to the constructions already made in the drawings themselves, (pause) even though two-dimensional they reproduce ideal three-dimensional shapes. (long pause) I don’t know to which extent they (State Drawings) became the thing itself.”

(notes from ‘Claire Smith in conversation with Carla Cruz’)

September 22: 3pm-8pm

September 23: 11am-1pm

Goldsmiths – Lewisham Way – New Cross SE14 6NW

RHB 312 = Richard Hoggart Buidling, 3rd Floor

Coisas
- AC research collective
- All My Independent Women updates on feminist / art / gender issues / work by female artists et al.
- António Contador Collaborating with António for the second time on the ‘street money’ project
- Associação dos Amigos da Praça do Anj@ facebook da Associação – pede amizade / become a friend!
- Associação dos Amigos da Praça do Anj@ a AAPA exige saber o que aconteceu à sua lápide comemorativa.
- Caldeira 213 Espaço dedicado à Associação Caldeira 213 (1999-2002), onde se pode ler o manifesto, ver documentação dos projectos e ler os artigos que lhe foram dedicados
- ESCOLA do ALTO da FONTINHA em solidariedade com o espaço colectivo autogestionado do Alto da Fontinha
- Guimarães 2012 collaboration for REAKT: Olhares e Processos, Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012, with the collective ‘Rastilho’
- Hospitalfield – AIR Interdisciplinary Residency March 2016
- MissOPO My collaboration with Miss’OPO, designing a floor for their space in Porto, is ready. Check out their website
- Miúda Books Miúda is an online bookshop based in the UK dedicated to children’s books written in Portuguese.
- Oficina Arara colaboração com a Oficina Arara para uma exposição sobre as “Novas Cartas Portuguesas” – Espaço Campanhã – Porto
- porto Público in London thinking about public sphere and participatory practices
- Reakt Olhares e Processos look out for RASTILHO
- The Mill Cultural Engagement Researcher at The Mill, supported by Goldsmiths University of London and AHRC, 2016.
- THIS Studio at Tottenham Hale International Studios
- Walthamstow Cooperative for Performing Arts An Independent performing arts space in Walthamstow? Join us for the first meeting. 17 June 7pm, Chequers, London E17 7BX

Carla Cruz

The Politics of Encounters

Coisas