F—-Future - coming soon with Gareth Owen Lloyd
F—-Future - coming soon with Gareth Owen Lloyd
S- - -∆S (Entropy)
A- - -Z will present a new letter as part of the IMS Project’s residency at Flat Time House.
S- - -∆S (Entropy) - A study on human sensory, the human body becomes the social body.
1. A video work by the artists Berdaguer & Péjus (www.cbmp.fr) will be shown on the Saturday 23rd of February and Saturday the 2nd of March.
2. A presentation will be given on the 2nd of March with a sound recording by Sitraka Rakotoniaina (www.sitraka.co.uk), speculative designer.
A- - -Z
S—-ΔS (entropy)
Coming soon…
![U- - -Undying [ʌnˈdaɪɪŋ] endless; everlasting; immortal Pure your gentle name, pure your fragile life, bees, shadows, fire, snow, silence and foam, combined with steel and wire and pollen to make up your firm and delicate being. (Epitaph by Pablo Neruda for Tina Modotti, 1942)
U- - -Undying celebrates the work of four important researchers and artists dead in 1942 and entering the public domain in Europe from the 1st of January 2013, more than 70 years later. A- - -Z dedicates the word ‘Undying’ to the tribute of Franz Boas, Alan Dower Blumlein, Bronisław Malinowski, and Tina Modotti. U- - -Undying shares a selection of these works now available online. Franz Boas and Bronisław Malinowski, both important anthropologists, pushed forward the research around a modernist way of thinking, combatting race prejudices. - Franz Boas, (b.1858) German American anthropologist, had developed the field into a discipline and fought hierarchisation of civilisations with a relativistic approach based around two questions: “Why are the tribes and nations of the world different, and how have the present differences developed?” The mind of primitive man, a course of lectures delivered before the Lowell institute, Boston, Mass., and the National university of Mexico, 1910-1911 (1911) is one of his most famous compilations of writing:http://archive.org/details/mindofprimitivem00boas - Bronisław Malinowski (b.1884), Polish born and British naturalized, created a social anthropology. He argued that culture was not built from a society as a whole but from the needs of individual. He based his studies on experiencing the everyday life of the people he would research on. He conducted research on the Trobriand people of Papua – the foundations for his groundbreaking ethnography and anthropology is Argonauts of the Western Pacific:http://archive.org/details/argonautsofthewe032976mbp - Alan Dower Blumlein (b.1903) British engineer developped many inventions in television, sound recording, telecommunication and radar. The stereo i.e stereophonic sound or the ‘binaural sound’ as he would call it, was one of his discovery. He participated in the ‘high definition’ quality of television (improving the waveform strucutres) and in the avance of the H2S airborne radar system (to aid bomb targeting). Some of his sound recordings are available here: http://sounds.bl.uk/Sound-recording-history/Alan-Blumlein-recordings And a video of his testing of the stereo:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7537782.stm - Tina Modotti (b.1896) was an Italian actress, model, photographer and political activist in Mexico and later in Spain. She got introduced to photography by being Edward Weston assistant. She started by documenting Diego Rivera and Jose Clement Orozco’s works. She became linked to the Mexican Communist Party, and engaged in various missions on behalf of the International Workers’ Relief organizations and the Comintern in Europe. Some of her photographic work is on view here:http://www.modotti.com/?page_id=24 A- - -Z](http://24.media.tumblr.com/645c66e20f410730e9fa58d96ed50d98/tumblr_mg812ihWEo1ro1mhpo1_r2_500.jpg)
U- - -Undying
[ʌnˈdaɪɪŋ]
endless; everlasting; immortal
Pure your gentle name, pure your fragile life,
bees, shadows, fire, snow, silence and foam,
combined with steel and wire and
pollen to make up your firm
and delicate being.
(Epitaph by Pablo Neruda for Tina Modotti, 1942)
U- - -Undying celebrates the work of four important researchers and artists dead in 1942 and entering the public domain in Europe from the 1st of January 2013, more than 70 years later.
A- - -Z dedicates the word ‘Undying’ to the tribute of Franz Boas, Alan Dower Blumlein, Bronisław Malinowski, and Tina Modotti.
U- - -Undying shares a selection of these works now available online.
Franz Boas and Bronisław Malinowski, both important anthropologists, pushed forward the research around a modernist way of thinking, combatting race prejudices.
- Franz Boas, (b.1858) German American anthropologist, had developed the field into a discipline and fought hierarchisation of civilisations with a relativistic approach based around two questions: “Why are the tribes and nations of the world different, and how have the present differences developed?”
The mind of primitive man, a course of lectures delivered before the Lowell institute, Boston, Mass., and the National university of Mexico, 1910-1911 (1911) is one of his most famous compilations of writing:
http://archive.org/details/mindofprimitivem00boas
- Bronisław Malinowski (b.1884), Polish born and British naturalized, created a social anthropology. He argued that culture was not built from a society as a whole but from the needs of individual. He based his studies on experiencing the everyday life of the people he would research on.
He conducted research on the Trobriand people of Papua – the foundations for his groundbreaking ethnography and anthropology is Argonauts of the Western Pacific:
http://archive.org/details/argonautsofthewe032976mbp
- Alan Dower Blumlein (b.1903) British engineer developped many inventions in television, sound recording, telecommunication and radar. The stereo i.e stereophonic sound or the ‘binaural sound’ as he would call it, was one of his discovery. He participated in the ‘high definition’ quality of television (improving the waveform strucutres) and in the avance of the H2S airborne radar system (to aid bomb targeting).
Some of his sound recordings are available here:
http://sounds.bl.uk/Sound-recording-history/Alan-Blumlein-recordings
And a video of his testing of the stereo:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7537782.stm
- Tina Modotti (b.1896) was an Italian actress, model, photographer and political activist in Mexico and later in Spain. She got introduced to photography by being Edward Weston assistant. She started by documenting Diego Rivera and Jose Clement Orozco’s works. She became linked to the Mexican Communist Party, and engaged in various missions on behalf of the International Workers’ Relief organizations and the Comintern in Europe.
Some of her photographic work is on view here:
http://www.modotti.com/?page_id=24
A- - -Z
More to come by 2013
C—-Chromatic - with an intervention by Frauke Dannert @ Claire de Rouen from the 13th Dec. to the 7th of Jan. 2013
C——Chromatic
PV on Thursday 13th December from 7pm - 9pm
at Claire de Rouen Books with a new work by Frauke Dannert
C—-Chromatic is the 4th experiment by A—-Z
one letter, one experiment, twenty-six times
chro·mat·ic: pertains to color
A—-Z presents a new site-specific work by Frauke Dannert at Claire de Rouen Books.
Starting with the idea of ‘Chromatic’, a precise and at the same time abstract adjective. The artist’s intervention mixes lights, colour and collage. Dannert has created an intrusive and yet composite installation in the bookshop.
www.frauke-dannert.de
www.galerie-pfab.com
www.clairederouenbooks.com
www.abc-z.org
Claire de Rouen Books
First Floor
125 Charing Cross Road
London WC2H 0EW
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Frauke Dannert (b.1979) graduated from an MFA at Goldsmiths in 2011. She has shown in numerous art fairs and galleries, including Art Cologne, B & N Gallery in London, Gallery Rupert Pfab, Konsortium and Schmelabar in Düsseldorf.
Claire de Rouen – run by artist Lucy Moore since April 2012 – is an independent bookshop specialising in photography and fashion. Maintaining a carefully chosen selection of books, Lucy also organises talks, book launches and exhibitions at the shop.
C—-Chromatic - 13th of December with Frauke Dannert
@ Claire de Rouen
The radio interlude E—-Eponym - ‘The Shell filled with Planets’ is now on SoundCloud
