About this Event
Please join us at the UAL Doctoral School, for an open talk by artist Sarah Kate Wilson and conversation with Catherine Wood (Director of Exhibitions & Programmes Tate Modern) to coincide with the launch of Edition 9.2 of the Journal of Contemporary Painting.
Wilsons’s paper addresses the shape that painting becomes through its relationship with performance. She attends to the ways in which painting embraces the double meaning of the term performance; firstly, as live art and secondly, how well an activity is done or how something performs (such as economic productivity). Here she draws upon Claire Bishop’s theory of delegated performance, Miwon Kwon’s writing on certificates of authenticity, Peggy Phelan’s theory of performance’s ontology and RoseLee Goldberg’s writing on performance histories. Exhibitions and texts by Catherine Wood that focus on what she calls painting’s entanglement with performance and Wilson’s own curatorial projects are also drawn into her discussion. The inauguration of a performance programme at Bauhaus in Germany, Black Mountain College in America, the formation of the Gutai Art Association in Japan and paintings by Kerstin Brätsch, Daniel Buren, Carlo Crivelli, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, and performances by Ei Arakawa are each woven into this paper and reveal painting’s relationship with performance.
Sarah Kate Wilson completed her MFA in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art (2010), and AHRC funded Practice based PhD at University of Leeds (2017). Wilson has had solo exhibitions at BALTIC 39, Newcastle, Armory Center for the Arts, California and CAVE Leeds. Her Painting Performances have been staged at: Palais de Tokyo, Royal Academy of Arts (London), Museum of London, BALTIC 39. In 2019 as part of the Bauhaus Centenary Celebrations she undertook a research residency at Bauhaus, Dessau focussing on the Stage Curriculum. Her research culminated in performances staged to launch the new Bauhaus Museum made in collaboration with her colleagues and students from Camberwell. She curated Painting in Time, 2015-16, Tetley, Leeds, UK which toured to the Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago, USA. She is Senior Lecturer of BA Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.
The Journal of Contemporary Painting (JCP) is a discursive peer-reviewed publication concerned with the practice of contemporary painting in its broadest sense. JCP treats painting as a context for discussion, exploring its sphere of influence, rather than as a medium-specific debate and is particularly interested in research emerging from practice-based projects.
This event is organised by Professor Daniel Sturgis, principal editor of JCP, in partnership with MA Painting at Camberwell College of Arts
If you have any questions, please email [email protected]
Image credit: Rainbows, Royal Academy (2018) by Sarah Kate Wilson with 'Beata Viscera Iridis acc.’ by Piper Haywood and Toby O’Connor, performed in tandem by Musarc.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London, United Kingdom
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