GLAADH
Newsletter
Issue
number 3, March 2002
CONTENTS
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Overview
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News
·
Workshop
·
Events
This month sees the
beginning of an exciting phase in the GLAADH project.
Following the success of
our workshop at the University of Sussex in
November, a wide response
came to our call for bids of support from GLAADH.
Competition has been
strong, with far many more bids received than we are
able to support. We are
now pleased to announce ten sub-projects focused on
curriculum change at HE
institutions throughout the UK – comprising more
than one fifth of the
AADH departments assessed under the recent round of
QAA subject review.
Details on these
developments appear below, followed by listings of
relevant exhibitions,
conferences and events. For a full round up see
www.glaadh.ac.uk
The Glaadh Sub-Projects
We are very pleased to
announce details of ten sub-projects being launched
under GLAADH over the
coming months. The sub-projects represent diverse
ways of enacting
curriculum change across a broad scope of topic areas, as
well as sharing the aim
of embedding change in ways that will continue
beyond the scope of the
GLAADH project. They are as follows:
Anglia Polytechnic
University:
A wide-based change in
the BA (Hons) Art History degree, accommodating a
range of African,
American and Asian topics into seven existing modules at
levels 1, 2 and 3. Visual
media include architecture, film, art and other
artefacts. The changes
will involve accessing museums, collections and
historic buildings in the
southeast of England.
Birkbeck College:
A project to develop film
resources for teaching World Cinema at
postgraduate level.
University of Central
England, Birmingham:
A two-strand project
introducing multi-media applications for one of the
school’s key
globally-focused courses, whilst developing staff and
resources for Chinese and
Japanese art and design at levels 1 and 2.
De Montfort University,
Leicester:
A two-strand project
which introduces a focus on South Asian contemporary
crafts to an existing
level 2 and 3 module, whilst making accessible the
visual archive of PRASADA
(Practice, Research and Advancement in South
Asian Design and
Architecture). The project will also access craft
expertise and material
found locally in the city of Leicester.
University of Edinburgh:
Initiating a level 3 and
4 course on Latin American Modernism, and other
lectures at levels 1 and
2, using visual material relevant to modernist
architecture and public
art in Mexico. The materials are to be created
through a field trip to
Mexico City, and will be disseminated.
University of Glasgow,
University of St. Andrews and Aberdeen
University:
A collaborative project
of the three universities to develop teaching
resources and an academic
network of specialists dealing with the material
culture of Central and
Eastern Europe. The project involves developing a
web-based teaching
resource, and a new team-taught Honours course.
University of Kingston:
A broad-based project to
integrate diversity at all undergraduate levels in
AADH and in the MA Design
History, including material drawn from outside of
Europe, diasporic spaces
and Southern and Eastern Europe. Dissemination of
materials and methods
will also take place within the University and
beyond.
University of Manchester:
A strategy to unlock
existing museum resources in the northwest of England
relevant to African art,
to introduce such material at level 3 and
postgraduate level, and
to widely disseminate these teaching resources.
University of Plymouth:
A two-strand project to
broaden two existing modules (at levels 1 and 3)
toward more diverse
topics, and to create a level 2 module using the World
Cultures collection at
the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter. This new
module will emphasise
artistic culture in 19th century Africa, the Pacific
and Native North America.
Sheffield Hallam
University:
A project to establish an
undergraduate module focused
on ‘transculturation’ and
the visual arts, and to develop on-line
resources.
THE GLAADH WORKSHOP, November
2001.
The GLAADH workshop
(University of Sussex, November 2001) was an
interesting opportunity
to bring together the GLAADH community. Group
sessions took place on
the themes of ‘Resources’, ‘Diversifying the
Curriculum’, and ‘Context
and Histories of Teaching’, accompanied by key
speakers recounting their
own experiences and offering initiatives for
change. The enthusiasm of
participants helped to make this a worthwhile and
enjoyable event, and we
are very grateful for the valuable feedback and
support from all those
who took part.
Material related to the
GLAADH Workshop held at the University of Sussex in
November now appears on
the GLAADH website. Overviews of some of the
sessions can be found at:
http://www.glaadh.ac.uk/sessionnotes.htm
Feedback from
participants at the Workshop appears at:
http://www.glaadh.ac.uk/feedback.htm
Shortly available on the
site will be a list of the participants at the
GLAADH Workshop,
including every participant’s name, institution and email
details. Many of those
attending the Workshop expressed the desire to have
access to this list as a
means to get in touch with colleagues. If you
attended the workshop but
do not wish to have your details appear online
please let us know at
v.narotzky@open.ac.uk.
On 4th April a session of
lectures will take place on the topic of ‘Trade
and Empire’ as part of
the conference ‘Enlightening the British: Knowledge,
Discovery and the Museum
in the Eighteenth Century’, to be held at the
British Museum, 4th-6th
April. Speakers include John Mack (Senior Keeper,
The British Museum) on
‘“Ethnography” and the Enlightenment’, and Partha
Mitter (History of Art
Department, University of Sussex) on ‘Early European
Responses to Indian Art’.
More details can be found at
http://thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/visit/events/enlightenment.html
To register,
email the Director’s
Office at directorate@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Presenting the third in
its year-long series of talks on culture and
globalisation, ‘Changing
States: Contemporary Art and Culture in the 21st
Century’, the Institute
of International Visual Arts (inIVA)
presents ‘Protest! Art
and Anti-Globalisation’. Political art is commonly
thought to be a thing of
the past. The discussion will question this
assumption and ask: at a
time of a mass-protest movement such as the anti-
globalisation movement,
can art once again address political questions?
Wednesday 27 March, 2002,
19:00 - 20:30hrs. Ikon Gallery, 1 Oozells Square,
Brindley Place,
Birmingham B1 2HS. Tickets: £4 (£3 concessions) on the
door. To reserve places
call Andrew Tims on 0121 248 0708 or email
chatroom@iniva.org
From the 15th March,
Guyana artist, Hew Locke will take up residence at the
Horniman Museum as the
latest artist in the ‘My Africa, Your Africa’
program, devised to
stimulate discussion on the ‘African Worlds’ gallery.
Hew is known for his
creative dialogues with international art paradigms,
in the form of sculpture
and installation pieces that deal with ideas about
cultural history and
global commodities. The residency has been developed
through consultation with
the 198 Gallery, Herne Hill, and is supported by
London Arts. The Horniman
Museum and Gardens, 100 London Rd, Forest Hill,
London SE23 3PQ. Web site:
www.horniman.ac.uk Email:
enquiry@horniman.demon.co.uk
Further listings appear
at http://www.glaadh.ac.uk/info.htm
From April 18th-20th, in
collaboration with the Chinese Arts Centre, the
British Museum will host
'Chinese Contemporary Arts in the International
Arena' a conference
exploring visual practices and frameworks, and
historical and
theoretical debates currently of issue in contemporary
Chinese arts. A keynote
speech by Prof John Clark will preface the event.
Chairs include Susan
Acret, Katie Hill, Susan Pui San Lok, Karen Smith and
Colin Sheaf. Contact the
British Museum Box Office, Great Russell Street,
London WC1B 3DG, or tel:
020 7323 8181.
Bookings are still being
taken for the Annual Conference of the Association
of Art Historians,
‘Culture: Capital: Colony’ to be held at Liverpool
University, 5th-7th
April. The conference is devised to interrogate the
status of historical and
contemporary art and art writing in a global
context, and to review
the impact of European socio-economic and cultural
development on the
peoples of other continents. Keynote speakers include
Dawn Ades, Tariq Ali,
Partha Mitter and Gerardo Mosquera. Organised in
collaboration with the Tate
Gallery Liverpool and the Walker Art Gallery.
Contact Claire Davies on
020 7490 3211 or email: admin@aah.org.uk For full
details see
http://www.aah.org.uk/confs/2002aah/2002aah/html
‘Craft in the
twenty-first century: theorising change and practice’ will
take place at Edinburgh
College of Art, 15-17 November. The conference will
focus on the role of
theory in contemporary craft, to explore craft theory
as a multidisciplinary
area of research with an international focus. A key
strand includes ‘Craft
and Post-colonialism’ to be convened by Carol
Tulloch (Curator, the
Archive and Museum of Black Heritage, AMBH).
Abstracts are invited of
around 200 words and brief biography to be
submitted by 15th May to
the Conference Administrator, Centre for Visual
and Cultural Studies,
Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
EH3 9DF, email:
craftconference@eca.ac.uk
The Digital Art Resource
for Education (DARE) explores contemporary
international visual arts
and education through digital media, in the form
of a playful, critical
and interactive Web resource. Aimed at secondary and
further education, this
ongoing research project is a collaboration between
Middlesex University and
the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA)
The impressive DARE
website presents a range of interactive features,
enabling an original
display of visual and textual resources organised
thematically. Its
resources section offers a number of related books and
journals, CD-ROMS and
education packs, as well as a full bibliography
supporting the image and
text references used on the site, and indexed web
links.
DARE might be of interest
to the GLAADH community for its attention to
British and international
artists of diverse backgrounds, its physical
accessibility, creative
and scholarly conception, and its expanding range
of resources. Visit DARE
at http://www.dareonline.org or contact Rebecca
Sinker at
r.sinker@mdx.ac.uk for more details.
If you have any questions
or comments about any aspect of GLAADH, please
don’t hesitate to contact
Norma Rosso, Project Manager, at
N.Rosso@sussex.ac.uk.
Please send contributions to this newsletter to
Newsletter Editor and
Project Research Officer, Leon Wainwright, at
L.Wainwright@mdx.ac.uk,
where they’ll be glaadhly received.
As always, further
details on all aspects of the GLAADH newsletter can be
found at www.glaadh.ac.uk
The ‘Globalising Art,
Architecture and Design History Project’ (GLAADH), is
a project of art and
design historians at the University of Sussex, Open
University and Middlesex
University funded by the Fund for Development of
Teaching and Learning
supported by HEFCE.
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