The University of the Arts Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation is a forum for historical, theoretical and practice-based research in architecture, art, communication, craft and design. Find out more about TrAIN.
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TrAIN Open Series
The TrAIN Open series is a forum for invited speakers to present exhibition, publication, and research projects in the form of lectures, discussions and screenings.
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TrAIN Conversations
What makes a transnational practice or perspective in art or curating? TrAIN Conversations are informal conversations with invited artists and curators, followed by round-table discussions with the participants.
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TrAIN Associate Projects
Tap aims to identify relevant research across the University of the Arts London and support its development. TrAIN allocates seed funding and in-kind support to up to five projects each year.
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TrAIN/Gasworks Artists' Residency
The TrAIN residency is open to emerging artists based outside the UK who are interested in researching the archives and special collections held at the Chelsea College of Art & Design Library.
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TrAIN and KSB Artist in Residence Exchange
TrAIN and the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral collaborate on a Artist-in-Residence exchange programme.
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The Birth of Cool
The Birth of Cool considers the individual and group stylepractices in different parts of the African as prisms of cultural and social commentary. Based on case studies of either complete looks or a single garment, with a daterange from the late 19th century to the 21st century, thebook considers expanded notions of place, heritage and auto/biography.
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Website Issues
Due to some technical issues the TrAIN website was offline from Saturday 21st April until Wednesday 25th April.
TrAIN would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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TrAIN Open Lecture
TrAIN Open Lecture | Leah Gordon and Nadine Zeidler | Ghetto Biennale Open Lecture
Date: Wednesday 09 May 2012, 17:15 to 19:00
Location: Lecture Theatre – Chelsea College of Art and Design, SW1P 4JU (Atterbury Street entrance)The second edition of the Ghetto Biennale took place in November 2011 in Haiti. It was hosted once again by the Atis-Rezistans, the Sculptors of Grand Rue, who work and live in the slums of the red-zone in Port-au-Prince. This is referred to as, a Salon des Refusés for the 21st century, and it is an ambitious instance of marginalized artists seizing the initiative. They are asking the question ‘what happens when first world art rubs up against third world art. Does it bleed?’. That these artists have achieved visibility in the art world is due to their ability to take the structures that had excluded them, and deploy their strategies for their own ends. The Ghetto Biennale has, over its 2 installations, brought their work to the world’s attention without big budgets and big name artists.
UK based curator Leah Gordon, who pioneered the Biennale with the artists, and Nadine Zeidler, Assistant Curator at Nottingham Contemporary, discuss the Biennale, its impact, as well as different curatorial approaches and exhibitions featuring the work of Atis-Rezistans like the upcoming exhibitions of Haitian art at Nottingham Contemporary in 2012.
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TrAIN Open Lecture | Jacopo Crivelli Visconti | JUST THE WALKING: DRIFTING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE FROM THE ‘60S UNTIL TODAY
TrAIN Open Lecture | Jacopo Crivelli Visconti |
JUST THE WALKING: DRIFTING AS AN ARTISTIC PRACTICE
FROM THE ‘60S UNTIL TODAYWeds 7th March 2012, 17:15 – 19:00
Lecture Theatre – Chelsea College of Art and Design
This event is free and open to all
Places are strictly limited
RSVP to n.tatchell@arts.ac.ukSince the end of the 1960s, the act of drifting, walking or strolling gradually established itself as a complex and fascinating artistic practice, which, in the course of the last four decades, underwent significant changes, thus maintaining its basic premises. The emphasis on the physical act, instead than on the creation of an object; the (utopian) will to turn that very act into the beginning of a transformation of both the artistic milieu and society as a whole; the contradictory nature of the photographic or video documentation that often results from the action; the recreation of a space for narrative in contemporary art: these are some of the issues, intrinsically related to the idea of the drifting, that will be touched upon in this lecture.
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Announcement
TrAIN/Gasworks Artist 2012
TrAIN is pleased to announce Sean Lynch as the TrAIN/Gasworks Artist in Residence for 2012.
More information coming soon!
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Gavin Fernandes
TrAIN Associate Project Partner
Gavin Fernandes’ photographic images are at once seductive and subversive; in series such as ‘Monarchs of the East End’ and ‘Empire Line’, he has used the visual language and techniques of fashion direction to confront attitudes towards gender, religion and identity. With TrAIN Associate Project (Tap) seed funding he will research and develop a new series of work that begins with an exploration of his own ancestry.
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