Michael Szpakowski
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Works in Harlow United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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Film showing in London tomorrow evening


Hi all
stupidly late notice but if anyone can make it to Bermondsey tomorrow evening there's a showing of a documentary I have been making all year as part of the Furtherfield outreach/education dept with a class of 9/10 year olds and their teacher about their science studies over that period.
It's documentary with a touch of poetry, I hope.
It's the first showing and the kids and parents &c will be there so if you would like to come let me or Ruth Catlow know so we can tell the school ( who are cool with this and would be delighted to have visitors there)
The showing is at Southwark Park School, Galleywall Road ( *not* the Southwark Park School on the A-Z - they're housed at Galleywall Road while the actual school is modified) Southwark SE16 3PB.

It starts at 6:30. They're showing some short school film club work first, then my piece lasts about an hour (an epic by my standards) ...

warmest wishes
michael

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Call For Participants: Interdisciplinary Artists' Workshop


This looks very interesting (Though just theoretically for me, at a distance of three thousand miles).

I like the idea of artist organised & led study outside of a university or otherwise "certified" institutional context. Will it differ in any substantive way from what someone might get there or in art school? You talk of the "inflexibility of university and institution-based.. progams" Do you have -and I mean this not in a negative way - any ideological axe to grind? Do you want to change art education & how?

What, in your view, constitues rigour? Apart from working hard and looking, seeing and thinking & discussing a lot?

Personally I like the idea of people attending for the sake of collegiality and self-development rather than a piece of paper...

And, again, personally whilst I'm massively in favour of artists discussing work in depth both in terms of ideas and techniques (this should be second nature; in one's bones), I'm sceptical about the coherence of something called "theory" and about its incorporation into an increasingly academic model of certifying artistworthiness ( particularly its policing by the ability to reproduce or develop it in writing - the ability to write a good dissertation, whilst commendable in its own terms, seems to me to have nothing whatsoever to do with being able to make interesting and effective art - to append it onto the study of the practice of art represents simply a species of witchcraft or sympathetic magic).

Not that I'm assuming you'd agree with any of that :)

I wish you luck & it would be very interesting to know how things go....

best wishes
michael

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