The group is open to all CCW postgraduate students and Chelsea BAs. You can come to as many or as few sessions as you like – they are relatively free-standing. If you are interested in attending just turn up or contact one of the co-ordinators. The group is run by Chelsea Research Fellows Isobel Bowditch and Mary Anne Francis with contributions from others…

Programme for Jan – March 10
1. 19 and 26 Jan: ‘Subject – Object’ introduced by Marsha Bradfield
2. 2 and 9 Feb: ‘Writing dialogue and communicology’ introduced by Scott Schwager
3. 16 and 23 Feb: ‘Authorship: I, you, me, they’ introduced by Caroline Rabourdin
4. 2 and 9 March: ‘The choice between writing and making’ introduced by Barbara Zanditon

Our wiki with further discussion, links and documents can be found on the CCW graduate school wiki:
http://ccw-graduate-school.wikispaces.com/

Past sessions (Autumn 09) :
1.Tuesday 3 and 10 November: Site/context/place specific writing
2. Tuesday 17 and 24 November: Translation
3. Tuesday 1 and 15 Dec: ’specialised professional language’ v ‘natural language’. This is particularly pertinant to art school environment /art research where we often have to deal with highly specialised terminology in art/critical theory and philosophy.

The discussion afterwards with Neil Cummings, Carles Guerra and the audience was very lively and thought-provoking. A DVD of this will also be in the library soon. It will also be available as a podcast on the Critical Practice website, due to be launched soon.

The next ThinkingThrough Practice meeting is scheduled on Wednesday 7th June, 5pm, Red Room. What we’d like to do at this meeting is to reflect on the project so far, and to discuss how we can develop ideas for the future. Anyone who has proposals or ideas for future events or who is simply interested in joining in discussions is very welcome to come along.

Andrew: a.chesher@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
Isobel: i.bowditch@chelsea.arts.ac.uk

A conference at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural
Studies, University of Leeds with Jean-Luc Nancy, Christine Irizarry,
Geoffrey Bennington, Tom Cohen, Marc Froment-Meurice, Peggy Kamuf

14-15 September 2006
More information here:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/fine_art/events/2006/0914/index.html

2006, 5 – 8 July 2006.

A conference at AHRC CentreCATH, University of Leeds, UK with Akbar
Abbas, Zygmunt Bauman, Laura Malosetti Costa, Bracha Ettinger, Marianne
Hirsch, Horst Hoheisel and Molara Ogundipe

More information here:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/congress/2006/
Please note there is a reduced rate for reservations received by 26 May

AND

* Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture *

Professor Stephen Frosh (Birkbeck, London) will speak on
“Psychoanalysis, Nazism, and ‘Jewish Science’”

10 May 2006, at 17.30 in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and
Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
More information here:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/events/2006/0510/index.html

This astonishing exchange, structured by the alphabet – a form previously deployed in a famous interview with Gilles Deleuze – produces a dynamic collision between philosophy and a committed, passionate, and engaged personal politics.

The screening will be followed by a conversation between Carles Guerra and Neil Cummings.  Carles Guerra is an artist, writer and critic living and working in Spain.  Neil Cummings is an artist, writer and Professor in Fine Art Theory & Practice at Chelsea.

N for Negri review: http://www.unia.es/arteypensamiento03/ezine02/ezine07/oct03.html 

This event is part of the Thinking Through Practice series funded by Chelsea Research and supported by Critical Practice at Chelsea, http://www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk/22071.htm.
Contact: Isobel Bowditch:i.bowditch1@chelsea.arts.ac.uk , Andrew Chesher: a.chesher@chelsea.arts.ac.uk.

Thanks to all of those who came to first Thinking Through Practice meeting and to those who couldn’t make it but expressed an interest.