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For those of you who missed the ‘N for Negri ‘ event (Thinking Through Practice series) there will be a DVD of N for Negri in Chelsea library shortly. Carles Guerra has also given a copy of the DVD to Critical Practice Research group which can be copied freely. Please ask either Andrew or Isobel if you’re interested.

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

* Registration is open for: ‘Touching On: Derrida and Nancy’ *

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

‘The Afterlife of Memory: Memoria/Historia/Amnesia’

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

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* 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

Announcing the next International Exhibitionist artists’ film screening:Zineb Sedira, He Chengyao, Farah Bajull, Katarzyna Kozyra, Hayley Newman and Gill Addison, Charlotte Ginsborg, Candice Breitz, Flavia Muller Medeiros

Curated by Cyril Lepetit

SATURDAY 13 MAY
6 – 7pm
Curzon Soho cinema
Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1
Box office:0870 756 4620
Book Now: £5.50 / £4.50 concessions

The fifth in a series of events showing the work of a range of International artists working in a variety of media, including film, video and performance. Artists are asked to choose the way they wish to exhibit themselves and their work on screen or in the cinema space. This programme will present work from a range of female artists.

The past programme has included internationally renowned artists Orlan, Adrian Piper, Grayson Perry, David Medalla, Jacques Lizène, Brian Catling and Ma-Liuming. More info: www.international-exhibitionist.org

All welcome / Student Volunteers needed

The TrAIN Research Centre is collaborating with Reaktion Books for the London launch of Gannit Ankori’s new publication, Palestinian Art.
Examining the work of contemporary Palestinian artists working in the Palestinian territories, in Israel and in exile, Ankori’s unprecedented and original overview is in sympathy with both the transnational research focus of the Centre and its wider aim to contribute to both creativity and cultural understanding. The launch will take place at one of TrAIN’s constituent colleges, Chelsea College of Art & Design, from 6pm to 8.30pm on Monday 22nd May. It will begin with a discussion by the author, to be held in the Chelsea College of Design Lecture Theatre, and will be followed by a wine reception in the College’s Red Room.
We are looking for Chelsea students to help manage the event and reception, there will be rewards! Please email i.whitelegg@chelsea.arts.ac.uk for more info.

On 2nd May I initiated what I hope will become a lively debate about what we at Chelsea see as research and the ways in which this activity might rub shoulders with the non academic artworld. Time and tiredness brought a natural end to the discussion on the 2nd but clearly there was more to say. I hope to continue the debate through regular meeting. However, now we have a blog, so we can use this as well. So, if anyone wanted to follow up on Tuesday’s discussion fire away.

9 May 17.15 Dr. Wessie Ling: Mapping Motifs

23 May 17.15 Dr. Amanda Meyer Stinchecum: Bashofu – Japan’s Folk Movement and the Creation of a New Okinawa

6 June 17.15 Dr. Raimi Gbadamosi: Celluloid Penance – Cinema and the Salvation of Whiteness

20 June 17.15 Susan Stockwell: This and That

All lectures take place at Chelsea’s Lecture theatre. For a pdf copy of the programme please email Dr. Isobel Whitelegg at: i.whitelegg@chelsea.arts.ac.uk

Chelsea Research Exchange

Monday 8th May 5.15 – 7.00, Room AG07

Invitation to all Chelsea staff, research students and MA students.

Presentations will be given by Clare Rose and Gwendolyn Leick.

Clare Rose, theory co-ordinator on the Textiles MA, will be talking about her PhD methodology, `Material, visual, and textual: making sense of disparate historic sources’.

Gwendolyn Leick, lecturer in theory, Interior and Spatial Design, will be talking about ‘some red threads in teaching and researching. From Assyriology to Design Theory, back and forth. With something crucial in the middle’.

For further information, contact Mary Anne Francis maryannefrancis@hotmail.com or Tim O’Riley t.oriley@chelsea.arts.ac.uk

A rare screening of ‘N for Negri: a conversation with Toni Negri’. (Carles Guerra, Spain, 2000, 130 mins, Italian, English subtitles)

Saturday 20^th May 2006, Lecture Theatre, Chelsea School of Art & Design, 10.00 – 15.00hrs.
Entrance free, no booking required.

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.

Hi, here is the Summer Term timetable PhD program Summer Term 2006.doc