This Monday
we invited Will Cobbing as our guest speaker at Gracechurch Street. He introduced us to his residency
experience at Turquoise Mountain in Kabul (2009/10), and the 'Gradiva Project'
at Freud Museum and Camden Arts Centre (2007/8)- and clay performance. Will
also talked about alternative education: his experience at de Ateliers in
Amsterdam, an alternative MA studio programme founded by Dutch conceptual
artist Jan Dibbets in 1963. Also the 'Anti-University' education programme in
London in the later 60's, featuring artists such as John Latham and Bob Cobbing
(his grandfather). Some of the pamphlets will be on display of the Mental Furniture Industry exhibition at FlatTime House opening next week- highly
recommended. Apart from currently being artists in residence (Lipman Fellowship) at Newcastle University Will is currently working through the legacy
of Bob Cobbing to prepare co-curating an
exhibition at ERC Liverpool.
Big Thank you to Will for a great evening of talking and discussing!
Big Thank you to Will for a great evening of talking and discussing!
