Workshop and conference with Daniel Young, and exhibition of the Young & Giroux collective, Z Plan

The artist Daniel Young visits the Campus that Altea and offers students a workshop, a conference, and finally we can see an exhibition of the group to which Young & Giroux belongs.

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The program of activities will be developed in December 2019 at the Altea Campus.

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Tuesday, 10 december / 17:00 h

WORKSHOP:

Conceptual Art as an Engineering Diagram, or an Engineering Diagram as Conceptual Art.

The workshop will show what is exciting in the diagram from mapping historical processes to its possibility as a work of art or being an artwork’s ‘back of house’.

Some inspiring readings of Manuel Delanda texts will be analyzed in relation to Young & Giroux’s art practice. Some examples of diagrams will be showed, emphasizing its differences from Fred Jameson’s cognitive mapping, and Mark Lombardi’s ones, focusing on the interest of pulling in narratives from the philosophy of science and economic history, among others.

The practical part of the workshop will include the use of software to produce either drafts of artworks, or prototypes of artworks.

Software: https://www.draw.io/

Reading:

Manuel Delanda: A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. Pages 57-70, and Pages 215-226.

Fredric Jameson: Cognitive Mapping

Viewing:

Manuel DeLanda. Assemblage Theory and Social Institutions. 2011:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZePCx8YUys&t=172s

IMPORTANT NOTE:

THE STUDENTS INTERESTED IN TAKING PART IN THE WORKSHOP WILL HEVE TO SEND AN EMAIL TO SO THAT THEY WILL GET THE AFORMENTIONED MATERIALS

Wednesday, 11 december / 12:00 h

ARTIST TALK;

Young & Giroux: from sculpture to an app, in under 60 min, a brief arc of almost two decades of work.   

Descripción:

Young & Girouxproduce cinema installations, public artworks, sculptures and books. Solo exhibitions of their work have been presented at the Prefix Institute for Contemporary Art, Toronto; the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal; the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; and The Rooms, St.John’s. Christian is an Associate Professor in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph. Daniel splits his time between Berlin and Toronto.

Thursday, 12 december / 20:00 h

OPENING;

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Exposición “Girth and Girdle” del artista Canadiense Sean Whalley en el Campus Altea, dentro del Plan Z

El artista canadiense Sean Whalley, procedente de la University of Regina, Canadá, ofrece una exposición en el Palau Altea Centre d’Arts, dentro del ciclo de exposiciones del Plan Z del Campus Altea.

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El proyecto artístico lleva como título: “Girth and Girdle”, y el propio artista lo define así:

Girth and Girdle (Circunferencia y ceñidor) es un proyecto basado en la representación del espacio que los primeros colonos británicos generaron tras la tala de árboles longevos. Cuando éstos eran demasiado grandes para ser talados, y despejar así el terreno; se cortaba la circunferencia exterior de cada árbol y se le despojaba del cambium, la capa de tejido vegetal entre la corteza y el leño, provocando su asfixia, tras lo cual se eliminaba la copa para permitir el crecimiento de los cultivos alrededor. Este trabajo reclama aquel espacio perdido al documentar tanto árboles longevos como otros de crecimiento posterior en el sur de Ontario.

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El proyecto puede visitarse el 3 de diciembre de 2019 en el Espai Navarro Ramón del Palau d’Altea Centre d’Arts.