The AA is organising a series of Artist Talks which will take place on Friday evenings at 6:30pm, from the 2nd of February. ----------------- ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION Artist’s Series (supported by the London Consortium) Friday 2nd February ARTIST’S TALK hosted by Parveen Adams BERND BEHR He is currently showing at Danielle Arnaud Gallery. He will discuss the idea of performing architecture with particular reference to his film ‘House Without a Door’ – German House in Utah built by Eric Mendelsohn for the US military in 1943. He develops a fictional interior through connections with German expressionist cinema. ------------------ Friday 9th February ARTIST’S TALK hosted by Olivier Richon RYAN GANDER In 2005 won the Baloise Art Statement Prize at Art Basel and in 2006 the ABN AMRO prize of the Netherlands. He will discuss practice around unfinished and unrealizable projects – in particular an architectural and educational model for a combined Arts Centre and School of Art with a variable distribution of privacy. ------------------ Friday 23rd February ARTIST’S TALK hosted by Parveen Adams JÁN MANČUŠKA A Czech artist who has shown at the 2005 Venice Biennale; together with Jonas Dahlberg in Bonner Kunstverien and Kunsthalle St. Gallen , ‘The first Minute of the Rest of the Movie’; and in the 2006 Berlin Biennale. He will discuss the organisation of space in text installations, its connection to the linear structure of film; and our orientation in space. ------------------ Friday 9th March TALK hosted by Parveen Adams RALPH RUGOFF Was Director of CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts since 2000 where he curated many exhibitions. He is a winner of the prestigious Ordway prize (arts writer and curator). Currently he is Director of the Hayward Gallery. He will give us a brief history of invisible art. All sessions are 6.30-8.00 at the AA, 34-36 Bedford Square, WC1 Mark Cousins’ 5.00 lectures on The Ugly will precede all talks except the first one
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