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1Day Salon Event "At the still point of the turning world..."


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"At the still point of the turning world..."
- a salon event curated by Gina Buenfeld (Camden Arts Centre, London)
Saturday 21st February, 2015
Time: 15:30 - 21:00 (Doors open at 15:00)
Venue: SHIBAURA HOUSE (Tokyo)



For this two-part salon event, curator-in-residence Gina Buenfeld (Camden Arts Centre, London) will present a programme of live performance, screenings of artists' film, encounters with sound and objects with open discussion in the incomparable setting of SHIBAURA HOUSE, designed by Kazuyo Sejima & Associates. As a project that emerged from Buenfeld's curatorial residency with AIT last year, and her ongoing research, "At the still point of the turning world..." is a selection of works that proposes questions about sculptural and dynamic form with a particular focus on dance and ceramics - two craft traditions with a strong historical and contemporary presence in Japan. Drawing out the tensions between seemingly inanimate objects and fugitive yet perpetually reiterated movement, the event proposes questions about form and the varied ways in which its characteristics prevail as they are reexpressed and re-created.

Divided into two acts whose atmospheres are inspired by Noh and Butoh, the event will feature video works by international artists: Manon de Boer; Trisha Brown | Babette Mangolte; Jefford Horrigan; Joachim Koester; Simon Martin; Ursula Mayer; Jeremy Millar; Fernanda Muñoz Newsome and Ina Dokmo; Hiraki Sawa; Sriwhana Spong; a live performance by Mildred Rambaud who will be in Japan especially for this event; and contributions from AIT artists-inresidence Jesse Wine and Caroline Achaintre, who will be based in Tokyo for two months commencing in late January.



Summary
Title: "At the still point of the turning world..."
Date: Saturday 21st February, 2015
Time: 15:30 - 21:00 (Doors open at 15:00)
Venue: SHIBAURA HOUSE(Level 5, 3-15-4 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo)[Access]
Admission: Free (refreshments will be available for purchase)
Capacity: 50 people No reservations needed
Organisers: Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT] , Camden Arts Centre
Supported by: Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2014,
British Council, SHIBAURA HOUSE
Curator: Gina Buenfeld (Camden Arts Centre)


Time table
15:00 Doors open
15:30 - 17:00 Introductory presentations and discussion
- Intermission -
17:30 - 18:30 Act 01
Theme: Noh (screening)
- Intermission -
18:45 - 20:00 Act 02
Theme: Butoh (screening, live performance)
20:00 - 21:00 Open Discussion


Participating artists
Live Performance: Mildred Rambaud
Talk: Caroline Achaintre Jesse Wine

Screening:
1: Theme / Noh (45 min)
Hiraki Sawa
Jeremy Millar
Jefford Horrigan
Ursula Mayer
Manon de Boer
Joachim Koester

2: Theme / Butoh (45 min)
Mildred Rambaud
Simon Martin
Trisha Brown | Babette Mangolte
Fernanda Muñoz Newsome and Ina Dokmo
Sriwhana Spong


[Artist Profile]

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Mildred Rambaud
Mildred Rambaud is a London-based French artist whose practice encompasses a range of media including sculpture performance and film to explore archetypal imagery, fragility and the impossible. She has exhibited and performed at galerie Gabriel Rolt, the Place, Oto, Shunt, Moot gallery, Point Ephémère, 54éme Salon de Montrouge, Wysing Art Centre ... beyond others.



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Caroline Achaintre
Caroline Achaintre (FR, 1969). Born in France and raised in Germany, Achaintre trained as a blacksmith before travelling to London with the prestigious DAAD scholarship to study at Chelsea School of Art & Design and Goldsmiths College, London. Solo exhibitions include the Present / Future Illy Prize at Castello di Rivoli, Turin, IT from November 7 and currently at Tate Britain, London, UK until June 2015 as part of the BP Contemporary Spotlight programme Her works belong to Museum collections that include FRAC, Aquitaine, FR, Musée d'Art moderne de al Ville de Paris, FR and the Southampton City Art Gallery, UK. The artist lives and works in London.



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Jesse Wine
Born in 1983, and now living and working in London. Jesse Wine gained his BA Fine Art from Camberwell College of Art (2007), and his MA Fine Art at Royal College of Art (2010). His work combines humour, biography and art history. While Wine's work is multidisciplinary, he often describes himself as a ceramicist. His recent work, mostly using clay, has an erudite take on the medium, using its history, its alliance with craft and its placement within the visual arts. His works reveal a fascination with the medium and the process of making, as well as underlining issues of form and display. Recent and forthcoming solo shows include BALTIC Centre for Contemporary art, Gateshead, UK; Galerie Hussenot, paris, FR; Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow, UK; Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, UK (All 2014); BolteLang, Zurich, CH; Offspaceprojekt, Bernkastel, DE (all 2015); South London Gallery, London, UK; Limoncello, London, UK; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK (All 2014)


[Curator Profile]

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Gina Buenfeld
(Exhibitions Organiser, Camden Arts Centre)
Gina Buenfeld has an MA in History of Art (20th Century) from Goldsmiths College (2004). Following a period working with gallerist and leading art consultant Emily Tsingou, she moved-on to be Programme Director at Alison Jacques Gallery, focusing on cultivating relationships with artists and fostering commercial and curatorial context for their work. In 2009 she began working at Camden Arts Centre where she continues to work as Exhibitions Organiser, realising ambitious exhibitions with international artists, including João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Simon Starling, Jeremy Deller, Nathalie Djurberg and the estates of seminal 20th Century artists Pino Pascali, Hanne Darboven and Dieter Roth.











       

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