What art have I seen?
“Cheer up! It’s not the end of the world…” (or ‘we’re a’ doomed’)
at Edinburgh Printmakers
Ricky Allman, Martin Barrett, Gordon Cheung, Etienne Clement, Jake & Dinos Chapman, David Faithfull, Damien Hirst, Konstantin Kalinovich, Kris Kuksi, Lori Nix, Andy Warhol.
Curated by Norman Shaw and Sarah-Manning Shaw
In recent years there has been a great deal of interest amongst health researchers in the role of social stigma in affecting health. Social stigma can be articulated as a majority view that works to spoil the identity of others on the basis of a discriminating characteristic such as race, gender or class. The social stigma associated with some minority groups has been shown to have health salience in terms of providing an obstacle to gaining access health care, housing provision, welfare, employment and other underlying factors affecting health. Groups that have been the subjects of research include disabled, homeless and itinerant populations and this body of work has revealed the multitude of interpersonal and institutional factors linking discrimination with health. Stigma has also been adopted as a deliberate strategy in health promotion initiatives, most notably in tobacco control with recent work beginning to question whether the denormalisation and stigmatisation…
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Collaborate Creatively
Workshop in association with World Event for Young Artists (WEYA) and a-n.
Nottingham, 12-3pm, 13th September 2012 open to participants in the WEYA event.
Presenters:
Drawing on his text for a-n Reflections on Collaboration, Chris Fremantle will explore with guest artists the principles and approaches to creating great collaborative relationships amongst artists and into other disciplines and contexts. Includes informal and facilitated discussion exploring how artists can realise their ambitions and a hands-on workshop highlighting contexts for innovation and guiding good practice.
Collaboration is one of those hot topics. Missions, Models, Money have had a whole stream of work around the issue over the past few years, Grant Kester‘s new book The One and the Many theorises the subject, and a-n has been tagging articles as ‘Collaborative Relationships‘ for about five years.
Donald Campbell 1942-2012 RIP
Donald Campbell, Garden Villa I Tatti, Gesso, tempera and graphite on panel
Donald Campbell was one of the best painters I ever had the privilege of knowing. He was also one of the most sensitive and intelligent people. He will be sadly missed.
Arts and Health Projects
Bio-hacking highlighting three different individuals exploring the augmentation of their own bodies (on the back of the Wellcome exhibition Superhuman):
Superhuman: The artist, the scholar and the zealot « Wellcome Trust Blog.
W.A.G.E. – 7pm on 18 September, Glasgow
W.A.G.E. (Working Artists for the Greater Economy) are speaking at a public meeting at The Art School (New Vic) 468 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, at 7pm on 18 September on their ‘exhibition fees’ campaign.
There will be an introduction by Charlotte Prodger and Corin Sworn and an open discussion.
This event has been organised by Transmission and the Scottish Artists Union.
Circulate the poster WAGE event 180912
Arts and Health Projects
I never saw the Montreal based Canadian Centre for Architecture’s exhibition on the medicalization of architecture, but the book is excellent. Art Agenda announcement.
What art have I seen?
Donald Urquhart and Gerry Loose Orchard at the Scottish Poetry Library
Arts & Health projects
Alexander Melamid’s ironic project on the health benefits of exposure to art.
He wanted to know the specifics about the patient’s malady, and about any museums he had visited recently. Told that the patient had been looking at a lot of Whistlers, be nodded and said, “Not enough masterpieces.”
Alexander Melamid’s Art Healing Ministry in SoHo – NYTimes.com.
What art have I seen?
Attended an outstanding seminar with Tim Rollins and the K.O.S. at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. Saw the exhibition being installed and the workshop working with Darwin’s Origin of Species.
CHRIS FREMANTLE 
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