Fay Nicolson

An-artist, Unlearning @ DRAF, 14 May 7pm

May 11, 2013 § Leave a Comment

Slide from (In search of) The Perfect Lecture, Fay Nicolson, 2010

An-Artist, Unlearning, a series of talks, screenings and performances at David Roberts Art Foundation May -July 2013, programmed by Louise Garratt. With Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson, Robert Morris/Babette Mangolte, Fay Nicolson, Paul Rooney, Peter Suchin, Tate Research Group, Richard Whitelaw, Aaron Williamson.

An-artist, Unlearning. 1: Lecture as performance. 14 May 7pm. Robert Morris/Babette Mangolte, Fay Nicolson, Aaron Williamson

An-artist, Unlearning is a series of film screenings, performances and discussions animating aspects of pedagogical address in the shadow of the gallery, academy and art school. The programme encompasses enactments and presentations engaging forms, sites and practices connected to ‘undoing,’ ‘unlearning’ and ‘not-knowing,’ coinciding with the frame of experimental educational modes since the 1960s. ‘An-artist’ suggests a radical and continual repositioning of the artist vis-à-vis prevailing discourses: an on-going and urgent resistance to received representational structures. Allied to this is the process of actualization inherent in ‘unlearning’ conventional codes and operations, and creating alternative discursive environments.

The first installment of An-artist, Unlearning plays on the performative character of the lecture as a form. With a screening of a film by Babette Mangolte/Robert Morris and performances by artists Fay Nicolson and Aaron Williamson.

Programmed by Louise Garrett.

http://davidrobertsartfoundation.com/category/projects/

WORK WITH MATERIAL – solo show – Künslerhaus Vienna

April 30, 2013 § Leave a Comment

WORK WITH MATERIAL – a Solo Exhibition by Fay Nicolson - part of in.print.out International Print Triennial - Kunstlerhaus Vienna - 19.04.13 – 12.06.13

WORK WITH MATERIAL is solo exhibition of new works by London based artist Fay Nicolson at the Künstlerhaus Wien. WORK WITH MATERIAL: an imperative – a call for action; a fabric based object; a reference to Anni Albers’ 1937 text which, when referenced, cuts across its own desire and channels action back into the archive and the written word.

Photograph: Thomas Peintinger

List of works:

Work with Material (red), digital print on silk, 2013; Work with Material (yellow), digital print on silk, 2013; Graph/Gram (within set limits), framed hand-printed photograph/photogram, 2013; Graph/Gram (come down from the clouds), framed hand-printed photograph/photogram, 2013; We have to learn to respond to conditions productively, OHP, assorted wire, plinth, 2013; Work with Material: a talk, performance, 2013.

SOLO EXHIBITION: WORK WITH MATERIAL

April 10, 2013 § Leave a Comment

WORK WITH MATERIAL

A solo Exhibition by Fay Nicolson

As part of in.print.out International Print Triennial

Kunstlerhaus Vienna

19.04.13 – 12.06.13

Opening Event 18.04.13 7pm

WORK WITH MATERIAL is a solo exhibition of new works by Fay Nicolson at the Kunstlerhaus Wien, taking place as part of in.print.out, Vienna’s International Print Triennial. To accompany the exhibition, a specially commissioned performance, WORK WITH MATERIAL: A TALK will take place at 5pm on 19.04.13 followed by the opening of Interaction of Colour an exhibition of works by modernist artist and teacher by Josef Albers.

WORK WITH MATERIAL

An instruction or imperative;

a strong call for a manual and

non-academic way of working.

A succinct description of an object;

something that has been made

with material, with fabric.

The title of a pre-existing text by Anni Albers;

cutting across its own desire it channels

the possibility of action back

into history and the written word.