Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art
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The MFA Fine Art programme at Goldsmiths help students acquire a critical understanding of the creation and reception of contemporary art. Theory and practice are fully integrated with a strong emphasis on open discussion, peer-to-peer learning and the potential of each student to develop their abilities to the fullest. Goldsmiths is located in New Cross Gate, one of London’s most vibrant and interesting areas for emerging art and design.
The Department has a full compliment of state of the art workshops and laboratories staffed by fully qualified technicians. All MFA students full access to the labs and workshops. We also provide projects spaces and encourage students to develop their own exhibitions and projects both in and outside the College.
The MFA Fine Art inhabits a spacious studio complex in a converted Edwardian swimming baths at the center of the Goldsmiths campus. Students set their own objectives and goals for their MFA, with a view to developing a coherent and sustainable individual practice.
The programme is built around one-to-one tutorials and seminars with permanent staff, including John Chilver, Nick Crowe, Ros Gray, Andy Harper, Mark Leckey, David Mabb, Michael Newman, Simon Martin, Lindsay Seers, Ben Seymour, Kate Smith, Mike Sperlinger, Jemima Stehli and Milly Thompson. This is complemented by visiting artists, writers and thinkers chosen by the students themselves. These have included Ed Atkins, Nicolas Bourriaud, Simon Fujiwara, Isaac Julien, Darian Leader, Renzo Martens, Laure Prouvost, Dmitry Vilensky/Chto Delat and Ian Wallace. Intellectual engagement with contemporary theory is facilitated though tutorials, lectures, seminars, workshops and reading groups.
Our student-centred approach to teaching aims at helping students become artists who are independent, articulate, confident and self-motivated.The ethos is interdisciplinary, with students working together across disciplines. The programme encourages students to engage with issues related to what it means to work as an artist today, and to reflect upon their practice in light of art's complex history and its role in wider social and cultural processes. We offer a supportive, highly engaged environment for study and artistic development at the heart of London’s art world.
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ART PG TALKS 2017-18. PROTEST The Transnational Politics of British Black Power Political blackness, anti-imperialism and the white working class Date: Monday, 30 October Time: 5.30pm-7.00pm Location: Stuart Hall Building (LG02) Abstract The history of the US Black Power movement and its constituent groups such as the Black Panther Party has recently gone through a process of historical reappraisal, which challenges the characterisation of Black Power as the violent, misogynist and negative counterpart to the Civil Rights movement. Indeed, scholars have furthered interest in the global aspects of the movement, highlighting how Black Power was adopted in contexts as diverse as India, Israel and Polynesia. This paper will highlight that Britain also possessed its own distinctive form of Black Power movement, which whilst inspired and informed by its US counterpart, was also rooted in anti-colonial politics, New Commonwealth immigration and the onset of decolonisation. Existing sociological narratives usually locate the prominence and visibility of British Black Power and its activism, which lasted through the 1960’s to the early 1980’s, within the broad history of UK race relations and the movement from anti-racism to multiculturalism. However, this characterisation underplays and neglects how such Black activism conjoined explanations of domestic racism with issues of imperialism and global inequality. Through recovering this history the paper seeks to bring to a fore a forgotten part of British history and also examine how the history of British Black Power offers valuable lessons about how the politics of anti-racism and anti-imperialism should be united in the 21st century. Brief Bio John Narayan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. His current research focuses on the global politics of Black Power. His first book John Dewey: The Global Public and its Problems (2016) was published with Manchester University Press. And he is co-editor of European Cosmopolitanism: Colonial Histories and Post-Colonial Societies (2016). Suggested Reading Angelo A.M. (2009) ‘The Black Panthers in London, 1967-1972: A Diasporic Struggle Navigates the Black Atlantic’, Radical History Review 2009 (103): 17-35. Ashe, S., Virdee, S. and Brown, L. (2016) ‘Striking Back Against Racist Violence in East London: 1968-70.’ Race and Class 58(1): 34-54. Bourne, J. (2016) ‘When Black was a political colour: a guide to the literature.’ Race and Class 58(1): Bunce, R. and Field, P. (2013) Darcus Howe: A Political Biography. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Ford, T.C. (2016) ‘ Finding Olive Morris in the Archive: Reflections on the Olive Morris Collective and Community History.’ The Black Scholar 46(2): 5-18. Slate, N. (2012b) Black Power Beyond Borders: The Global Dimensions of The Black Power Movement. New York: Palgrave Macmillian Sivanandan, A. (1982) A Different Hunger. Pluto Press: London. Wild, R. (2016) ‘Black was the Colour of our Fight: the Transnational Roots of British Black Power’ in Tuck, S. and Kelley, G., eds., The Other Special Relationship: Race, Rights and Riots in Britain and the United States. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian.
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