Joana Bastos artist's site

This artist does interesting work which relates to cleaning and other jobs, flick through the pages of her site at:

http://www.joanabastos.com/

View from your desk

Work in Admin or an Office?

Get involved in Pippas project by sending us a view from your desk. It could be the view out your window, a view you love or one you would like to change.

Send photos to ninetrades@dundee.ac.uk

Photos thanks to Caroline Peters, Ramanee Peiris, Daryl Smith, Jonathan Weyers & Louise Soutar

6 Projects Selected

The final six artists have been selected and we are looking forward to the development of their projects. Those selected were:

• Clare Thornton who will work with a range of tailors, outfitters and other textile related trades to collectively research and produce objects and/or live social events.
• Chris Dyson who will work with an industrial company to put on and document a drive-in cinema event.
• Debbie Lawson who will create an artwork involving fellow journalists that is not just physical but also escapist and surreal.
• David Yu who will create an installation inspired by conversations between staff and patrons in a pub or bar setting.
• Ange Taggart who will work with those involved in childcare and support to develop a performance were play is a key concept.
• Pippa Koszerek who will work with secretaries to explore the tools of their trade through a lunch club which will result in a series of artworks .
  

Artists Selected

Excitingly Stage 2 of the project is now underway. Seven artists have been shortlisted to develop a detailed proposal. David Yu (Cocktail Bartender), Debbie Lawson (Journalist), Ange Taggart (Childcare), Mark Brogan (Market Research), Pippa Koszerek (Secretarial), Chris Dyson (Welding) and Clare Thornton (Tailor) were all successful. Proposals deadline is 6 November and commissions will run from December to June.

Ben Robinson and his colleagues have now installed their beautiful screen prints at the meeting room at HBoS and will be on display until 23 October.

Elke Reinhuber event in New South Wales

Experimentum Mundi

Experimentum Mundi

8 September 

The Space

Employers, artists, participants of the Nine Trades and DJCAD students attended a fascinating performance by Experimentum Mundi. Composed by Giorgio Battistelli, who wanted his music to reflect life, sixteen Italian artisans, including cobbers, knife grinders, bricklayers and coopers, play the tools and materials of their trade. The noises blend into a symphony of sound, conducted in a musical score by Battistelli.

Cheryl, crack screenprinter and call centre worker taking part in Ben Robinson's project, commented that to understand the tradesmens' activity as music she kept on watching the

conductor, and then she could follow each section as a piece of music. Eggs were cracked, shoes re-soled and the foundry sent flames to the roof. 

Experimentum Mundi was brought to Dundee through the 'Sharing the Festival' strand of Edinburgh International Festival. 

DCA Critical Action Group

Hi there,

 

We are starting a new project at DCA called Critical Action Group, which I thought you might be interested in. This project will be running from 6-7pm every Wednesday evening from September 30^th-4^th November. Could you pass this info on to anyone in your group who you think might be interested?

 

We would like to stimulate more debate around DCA's exhibitions. With the formation of the Critical Action Group we are supporting the expression of diverse discussion, independent thought and the voicing of various perspectives. Our aim is to build up a group of visitors who can critically engage and produce opinions and interpretations about an upcoming exhibition that will be presented in the DCA gallery, the Thomas Hirschhorn show It’s Burning Everywhere, which is running from 19^th September to 29^th November 2009. Hirschhorn's artwork is controversial and thought-provoking, and incorporates many meaningful and socially important themes into the context of conceptual art. We would like to investigate these themes in an effective way, considering their real-world context with people who are interested in exploring them.

The project will consist of discussion groups about various themes in the artist’s work (for example: genocide, alienation in Western society, consumerism, media images), which will include talks from invited speakers. The group will then get a chance to view Hirschhorn’s artwork and create their own audio interpretation material to support it, giving the public an alternative perspective on the exhibition.

The project is open to adults aged 18 and over. Don’t worry if you have no experience with art – we are asking you because we believe it will be a more stimulating project if we can establish a diverse group of people who like to chat about thought-provoking topics, are eager to learn a bit about contemporary art, and are interested in world issues. Through this project we hope participants will get to meet lots of different people, enjoy themselves and learn something new.

We have only 8 places available for the Critical Action Group, so are asking anyone who is interested in joining to get in touch with us as soon as possible. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me – I would be more than happy to discuss the project with you.

Thank you and hope to hear from you!

All the best,

Suzie Scott

^{DCA Education Coordinator}

^{Phone: 01382 909237}

^{Email: community.education@dca.org.uk}