CAS Curator Susan Francis is pleased to invite you to enjoy the culmination of CAS:AIR Themes of Life from 27 September. A repeating, annual, community programme focused on involving Andover people in the arts, the CAS:AIR project this year saw Scottish artist John McDonald lead a group of local artists to explore the social history […]
Amanda Bates on different forms of carbon in art and science
CAS Research and Drawing Group 2020; Drawing languages for Dissent Session 5; reading Miriam Cahn I was thinking about Cahn’s softer lines and the indeterminate gender of some of her figures. I tried to draw a figure that was neither male nor female and I used (blue) soluble graphite* and splashed it with water and […]
Peripheral thinking workshop in pictures; don’t defend the centre
CAS Research Group; Drawing Languages for DissentMonday 1 June 2020 Live Session Notes: Mathematics and circles – WJ “There is value in the ramble” ML “Are we aware of the moments of resisting coherency?” YNG “A clear idea of what I’m doing makes me get stuck” YNG ML intention – notice how the two aspects […]
Garage Party; a gathering of artists
On Thursday 11 June, artists who have been showing work in the contemporary HOUSEBOUND exhibition on Instagram gathered online for a garage party. Hosted by CAS Engagement Manager, Maija Liepins, the party was an opportunity to meet, and discuss the exhibition as a group (replay available below). After five weeks, the HOUSEBOUND exhibition has reached […]
References to dissent and language in a redraw of folklore
To: CAS Research Group chat, Drawing languages for Dissent [09:48, 6/13/2020] Amanda Bates writes: Interesting (?) snippet from a novel: “Baba Yaga is a ‘dissident‘, beyond the pale, isolated, a spinster, an old fright, a loser. She has never married, and, apparently has no friends. If she ever had any lovers, their names are not […]
Session five; preparation for discussion
Drawing Languages for Dissent. CAS Research Group, July 2020 Artist Miriam Cahn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-GkCS3Z8mMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU6XPqUKCvAhttps://frieze.com/article/miriam-cahn Badischer Kunstverein writes about Miriam Cahn. The artist creates ‘transitions rather than borders; diffusion rather than difference.’ More information about Cahn.Link to Cahn’s exhibition I As Human at Museum of the Vistula, Warsaw 29.11.2019 – 01.03.2020 Artist Miriam Cahn said: “When I […]
Guest Artist Interview with Phill Hopkins
View this post on Instagram Maija Liepins, Engagement Manager at CAS, interviews Leeds based artist Phill Hopkins as part of the weekly series accompanying Housebound the exhibition at @houseboundart A post shared by CAS (Chapel Arts Studios) (@casartists) on Jun 4, 2020 at 11:51pm PDT
Lines, Strings and Knots
CAS Research Group; Drawing Languages for Dissent 5/6/2020, Will Jackson Whilst I’m “here” I’ll post a few notes I made after the first session at The Lights, but was distracted by a spell of good gardening weather: Ingold writes: “A thread is a filament of some kind, that may be entangled with other threads, or […]
Session 4; Places, Reflection and diffraction, Dissenting
Yonat Nitzan-Green5.6.2020 Here are brief thoughts about places; reflection and diffraction; and dissenting, following CAS research group session four (Drawing languages for Dissent, June 2020) Places The group’s first session took place at The Lights (Andover) at the beginning of March, but due to COVID 19 the other three sessions took place via zoom. This […]
“Don’t Defend the Centre”; preparation for discussion
Drawing Languages for Dissent, session four, 4th June 2020 William Kentridge on ‘Peripheral Thinking’ A Richie Lecture for Yale University Art Gallery, 13 November 2015Available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79FuROwzRvs What happens at the edges? Kentridge opens his lecture with the question “what happens at the edges?” and then starts talking about mangos. “I am aware this is of […]
