Physical Thinking
Tate Modern, London
Course Duration: 5 weeks
Study mode: Short Courses
Start Date This course last started on 04-Feb-08
Please contact the college to enquire about new start dates.
Course Qualification: No qualification or certificate
Timetable: 18.30-20.00
Course Description
After the crowds have gone home, discover the Tate collection through movement and performance. Let yourself literally be ‘moved’ by the work of artists including Munoz, Beuys, Salcedo and Rothko. Engage with ideas of theatricality, architecture, space, action and embodiment in visual art by investigating these ideas physically. This gentle course encourages participants to respond to the work through a series of structured exercises. No performance or arts experience necessary. Led by visual artist Liz Ellis and Suzy Willson, Artistic Director of acclaimed performance company the Clod Ensemble
www.clodensemble.com
Course Fees: £75 (£60 Concessions), booking required, places are restricted. Price includes drinks afterwards
Course Venue: East Room, Tate Modern, Bankside
London SE 1 9TG
Seven Ways of Thinking about Art
Tate Modern, London
Course Duration: 7 weeks
Study mode: Short Courses
Start Date This course last started on 04-Feb-08
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Course Qualification: No qualification or certificate
Timetable: 18.30-20.00
Course Description
Led by Nigel Warburton, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at The Open University, this seven-week course explores the philosophical basis of our attempts to understand works of art. Topics covered include: the question of whether works of art are simply catalysts to purely subjective responses, the relevance of an artist's intentions, a work’s historical context, its originality, and its context within the gallery. Participants have the opportunity to explore a range of positions from a theoretical perspective and to test their application against particular works of art in the gallery.
Course Fees: £100 (£85 Concessions), booking recommended, places are restricted. Price includes drinks afterwards.
Course Venue: Seminar Room, Tate Modern,
London, SE 1 9TG
Surreal Art, Magical Poetry
Tate Modern, London
Course Duration: 6 weeks
Study mode: Short Courses
Start Date This course last started on 11-Feb-08
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Course Qualification: No qualification or certificate
Timetable: 18.30-20.00
Course Description
Starting in Poetry and Dream, and then working in the Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia exhibition, this six-week course invites you to write magical poetry from surreal art. Creative writing exercises will be offered to respond to these innovative artists and free the imagination. We will explore some of their techniques, such as collage, the use of chance, ready-mades, and unexpected juxtapositions of images, to inspire new poems that disturb, surprise and transform.
Course Fees: £95 (£80 Concessions), booking recommended, places are restricted. Price includes entry to the exhibition and drinks afterwards.
Course Venue: Seminar Room, Tate Modern,
London, SE 1 9TG
Life Drawing Workshops
Tate Modern, London
Course Duration: up to 7 weeks
Study mode: workshop
Start Date This course last started on 4-Feb-08
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Course Qualification: No qualification or certificate
Timetable: 18.30-20.45
Course Description
These workshops provide a unique opportunity to take part in an innovative and inspirational life-drawing class amongst Tate Modern’s Collection displays. Each class is different and inspired by the work of artists and movements from Surrealism to Minimalism, and Henri Matisse to Roy Lichtenstein, with fun and challenging exercises to suit all levels. The works on display not only provide an inspiring backdrop to the classes, but are also used in imaginative ways to influence both the models’ poses and the participants’ response. Participants work with specific poses, props, movement and with a range of drawing materials to make inspired drawings and gain insight into and understanding of the art and artists.
All levels of ability are welcome.
Course Fees: £15 per session, booking recommended, places are restricted. Price includes material and refreshments
Course Venue: Through the gallery, Tate Modern
Bankside, London, SE19TG
Live Art Workshop: Around Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth
Tate Modern, London
Course Duration: 2 sessions: 23 Feb and 8 March
Study mode: workshop
Start Date This course last started on 23-Feb-2008
Course Qualification: No qualification or certificate
Timetable: 10.30-13.30
Course Description
This workshop, conducted by artist activist The Vacuum Cleaner will concentrate on the body as a site for political resistance taking as inspiration Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth. Issues such as the ability of art to address the long legacy of racism and colonialism underlying the modern world will be tested with physical and conceptual tools during the workshop. The vacuum cleaner is a cultural resistance collective pursuing radical social and ecological change. By working in-between the poetics of art and the pragmatics of activism the vacuum cleaner attempts to disrupt concentrations of power and reverse our journey towards ecological collapse.
Course Fees: £50 (£35 concessions) booking required.
Venue: McAulay A, Tate Modern,
Bankside, London, SE 1 9TG
The Art of Haiku and Senryu Poems
Tate Modern, London
Course Duration: 2 sessions: 23 Feb and 8 March
Study mode: workshop
Start Date This course last started on 23-Feb-2008
Course Qualification: No qualification or certificate
Timetable: 10.30-13.30
Course Description
This workshop by artist Hana Sakuma explores the potential of using short forms of poetry such as Haiku and Senryu in art practice. It presents an introduction to the philosophical and cultural background of Haiku and Senryu and examines the employment of language, in juxtaposition with images, in contemporary art practice. Participants are encouraged to write and work across media.
Course Fees: £50 (£35 concessions) booking required.
Venue: East Room, Tate Modern,
Bankside, London, SE 1 9TG
Against the Avant-garde: Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
Tate Modern, London
Course Duration: 1 session
Study mode: study day
Start Date This course will take place on 8 March 2008
Course Qualification: No qualification or certificate
Course Venue: Tate Modern, London, SE1 9TG
Timetable: 10.30-17.00
Course Description
This study day explores different ideas of avant-garde art in the early twentieth century, and in contemporary practice. Taking as its point of departure the major new exhibition Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, it looks at utopian beliefs in the power of art and culture to transform society, and explores differing approaches to the concept of a radical art. It includes discussion of collaborative and activist strategies, with contributions from art historians Paul Wood, TJ Demos and Jason Gaiger from the Open University and Tate Modern curator Jennifer Mundy. Artists Dave Beech, Carey Young and Richard De Domenici discuss their different approaches to the concept of the avant-garde in their work.
This Study Day will be of particular interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of modern and contemporary art, and those studying Open University courses AA318 (Themes in Contemporary Art), A216 (Art and its Histories) and the MA in Art History.
Course Fees: £15 (£12 concessions) booking recommended. Price includes entry to the exhibition.
Venue: Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern,
Bankside, London, SE 1 9TG
Appreciating Art and Aesthetic Knowledge
Tate Britain, London
Course Duration: 1 session
Study mode: study day
Start Date This course will take place on 8 March 2008
Course Qualification: No qualification or certificate
Course Venue: Tate Britain, London, SW1P 4RG
Timetable: 14.00-17.30
Course Description
Art criticism and even general discussions among friends often assume that aesthetic knowledge of justification is possible. We do not argue about mere taste, but we do argue about mere taste, but we do argue about what a work achieves and how good it is as art. But how do we know if our judgements are justified? How can we know if we are making a proper aesthetic evaluation, and does it matter if someone’s appreciation is naïve, sophisticated or snobbish? All these questions and more are considered at this study day.
Course Fees: £20 (£15 concessions) booking required. Price includes refreshments
Venue: Manton Studio, Tate Britain,
Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG
Modern Painters: Creative writing workshop
Tate Britain, London
Course Duration: 2 sessions
Study mode: study day
Start Date This course will take place on 15 March 2008
Course Qualification: No qualification or certificate
Timetable: 10.30-16.30
Course Description
This two day creative writing course takes the paintings of the Camden Town Group as inspiration. Themes of modernity and change will be considered alongside responses to technology, the growth of popular entertainment and the long shadow of the First World War.
The preoccupation with a changing urban environment, sensational criminal cases and the domestic effects of conflicts have strong contemporary resonances. Through practical writing exercises and entry to the exhibition participants will be encouraged to explore contemporary dilemmas and anxieties with the written word.
Course Fees: £90 (£70 concessions) booking required. Price includes materials, entry to the exhibition, tea and coffee
Venue: Manton Studio, Tate Britain,
London, SW1P 4RG
The Lives and Letters of the Camden Town Group
Tate Britain, London
Course Duration: 1 session
Study mode: study day
Start Date This course will take place on 27 March 2008
Course Qualification: No qualification or certificate
Timetable: 14.00-17.00
Course Description
This study day will explore the social and art historical context of the Camden Town Group with a lecture from Tate curator, Nicola Moorby, and an archive visit with Emily White, Tate Archive curator. In conjunction with the exhibition Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group, the afternoon will present an opportunity to examine letters, photographs and other original archive material and to learn more about the Group's fascination with modern society and Edwardian London
Course Fees: £20 (£15 concessions) booking required.
Venue: Manton Studio, Tate Britain,
London, SW1P 4RG
