Cultural Events - February to June 2010 - University of Ulster

An introduction to Centrifugal VI
Lecture by Susan Kelly and Nicole Hewitt
6.00pm Connor Lecture Theatre Belfast campus
Centrifugal is a project which brings together artists, architects and theorists
from three European cities: Helsinki, Zagreb and Belfast. It focuses on the smaller
centres of artistic practice in Europe and questions persisting dichotomies such
as centre/margin and global/local.
The project has had 4 sequences across London, Helsinki, Zagreb and Belfast,
with exhibitions, workshops, talks, screenings and events. Sequence V included
the production of a book The Centrifugal Book of Europe which will be launched
at this evening’s event. The book investigates the spatial, political and economic
forces and pressures that produce contemporary ideas of Europe. The book’s
form itself constitutes a ‘map’ of the social, cultural and political space of
contemporary Europe.
The range of events over the coming days are designed to reflect the
collaborative, multi-disciplinary nature of the book and the lecture given
by Susan Kelly and Nicole Hewitt will outline the Centrifugal project
and its aspirations for the Belfast Sequence VI.
Supported by the University of Ulster
Cultural Development Support Scheme.
Centrifugal Sequence VI
Thurs 18 Mar
art&design
The Role of Networked Curation and Criticism
Seminar with Taru Elfving and Susan Kelly
11.00am Brown & Bri, 11 Lombard Street, Belfast
Dr Taru Elfving is a curator and writer based in London and Finland.
She recently completed a PhD on contemporary video installation.
Her curatorial practice focuses on critical encounters.
Susan Kelly is an artist and writer based in London. Her work is concerned
with the relationship between art, rhetoric and the micro-political and
has been included in exhibitions at the NCCA, St. Petersburg; the
Prague Biennial; The Lenin Museum, Finland; Art in General, New York;
Krasnoyarsk Museum Siberia; and the pm Gallery Zagreb. She is
currently a lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, London.
International Window Shopping Tour
Tour led by Kalle Hamm
2.00pm Belfast Exposed, Donegall Street, Belfast
This is a shopping tour in Belfast where people try to find products from
different countries and photograph them. A slide show of the work will
be shown towards end of Centrifugal.
Platforma
Invisible Cities
Open workshop swapping case studies and methodologies
2.30pm Venue TBC
On Broadway
Lecture by Daniel Jewesbury and Robert Porter
6.00pm Conor Lecture Theatre, Belfast campus
This presentation expands on the chapter in the book of the same title,
co-authored by the presenters. It looks at the Broadway roundabout in
West Belfast, its dynamics as a site and the influences and interaction
of its hinterland.
Centrifugal Sequence VI Fri 19 Mar
art&design