Wednesday, 28 July 2010
17:30 Sound Art, Durational Performance & Buffet
This evening event set in a cinema begins with a buffet meal alongside a piece of audio art by Jon Aveyard. The piece uses recordings of the preparation and eating of food. The chopping, slurping, sizzling, crunching and bubbling piece will be presented over speakers as ambient sounds in the space and over headphones for closer listening. Headphones can also be used to listen to a live durational performance by the artist.
About the Artist:
Jon Aveyard is a composer and audio artist based in Preston, UK. His work often combines skills drawn from studio composition, interdisciplinary improvisation and binaural recording.
Check programme for location details.
19:00 Screening of Betting on Shorts programme “Mad or Bad”
Betting on Shorts (BoSs) was first organized as a one-off event at the ICA as part of the European Summer School 2005, “Playtime!”, which was run by Ricarda Vidal and Louise Höjer (both London Consortium students at the time). As the event proved popular we developed it into an annual competition. A collaboration with a Berlin-based artist group in 2006 led to the creation of “More than a Eurovision of Shortfilm” in 2007, an annual short film festival/competition which brings together cutting-edge venues and film festivals across and beyond Europe in a unique simultaneous screening.
Each year a themed open call for submissions is posted worldwide. 10 – 15 shorts of any genre are selected to take part in the competition, which is screened simultaneously in all participating cities. A local winner is chosen by a jury of critics, curators and other film professionals in each city. Once all juries have compared their results the overall winner is awarded glory, fame and cash. So the audience can have some fun as well, we invite everyone to bet on which film will win. Bets must be placed before the screening. Trailers of all participating films are screened in all participating venues and on the website a week in advance of the competition. Those who have placed their bet well, can win cinema tickets, dvds, books and the like.
BoSs is now run by Ricarda, Irini Marinaki, Konstantinos Stefanis and Sarah Sparkes. Besides “More than a Eurovision” we also operate a large archive of short films and curate programmes for galleries, pubs, museums, events etc.
For the European Summer School 2010 we have chosen to show the programme of the first pan-European collaboration, “Mad or Bad”, which was originally screened on 28 November 2007 at the ICA in London and simultaneously in Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Istanbul, Maribor, Novi Sad, Paris, Poznan and Rostov-on-Don. Only four of the ten juries managed to agree on the same film as best film. ‘Bet’ which film this was and win a small prize. Betting will take place immediately after the screening and winners will be announced soon after!
More details about the betting procedure will be announced on the day of the screening.
Each year a themed open call for submissions is posted worldwide. 10 – 15 shorts of any genre are selected to take part in the competition, which is screened simultaneously in all participating cities. A local winner is chosen by a jury of critics, curators and other film professionals in each city. Once all juries have compared their results the overall winner is awarded glory, fame and cash. So the audience can have some fun as well, we invite everyone to bet on which film will win. Bets must be placed before the screening. Trailers of all participating films are screened in all participating venues and on the website a week in advance of the competition. Those who have placed their bet well, can win cinema tickets, dvds, books and the like.
BoSs is now run by Ricarda, Irini Marinaki, Konstantinos Stefanis and Sarah Sparkes. Besides “More than a Eurovision” we also operate a large archive of short films and curate programmes for galleries, pubs, museums, events etc.
For the European Summer School 2010 we have chosen to show the programme of the first pan-European collaboration, “Mad or Bad”, which was originally screened on 28 November 2007 at the ICA in London and simultaneously in Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Istanbul, Maribor, Novi Sad, Paris, Poznan and Rostov-on-Don. Only four of the ten juries managed to agree on the same film as best film. ‘Bet’ which film this was and win a small prize. Betting will take place immediately after the screening and winners will be announced soon after!
More details about the betting procedure will be announced on the day of the screening.
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Monday July 26th 19:00. A bagel, a burfi, a beer
Join us on a gastronomic stroll down East London’s famous Brick Lane, where an unlikely kaleidoscope of bankers and artists work, pose and play amidst the curry houses and cobbled streets. Our gourmet pitt-stops will index the ever-evolving cultural mix of an area that’s hosted successive waves of immigrants over the centuries. Hot salt beef bagels and traditional Indian burfi will all be washed down with a pint – or two – as we end our tour at a traditional cockney boozer.
Check programme for location details.
Tuesday July 27th,14:30. English Picnic
You are cordially invited to a modern English picnic with a distinctly traditional flavour.
"Picnic. Originally, A fashionable social entertainment in which each person present contributed a share of the provisions; now, A pleasure party including an excursion to some spot in the country where all partake of a repast out of doors"
---Oxford English Dictionary [Clarendon Press:Oxford], 2nd edition, Volume XI (p. 779)
Check programme for location details.
Thursday July 29th, 17:30. Sound Art and Film Screening
This evening event set in a cinema begins with a buffet meal alongside a piece of audio art by Jon Aveyard. The piece uses recordings of the
preparation and eating of food. The chopping, slurping, sizzling, crunching and bubbling piece will be presented over speakers as ambient sounds in the space and over headphones for closer listening. Headphones can also be used to listen to a live durational performance by the artist.
About the Artist:
Jon Aveyard is a composer and audio artist based in Preston, UK. His work often combines skills drawn from studio composition, interdisciplinary mprovisation and binaural recording.
Check programme for location details.
Friday July 30th, 18:45. Conference Dinner
As part of the main programme the conference will end with a grand reception and dinner. This will be held at Tate Modern with a lovely view over London. The seasonal menu hopes to encapsulate the finest ingredients that July has to offer the British Isles. Food will be matched with wines for each course and will be followed by coffee and fresh mint tea. The caterers for the dinner have been chosen for their emphasis on building strong relationships with regional suppliers and artisan producers from across the UK and Europe.
Consult programme for location details.
Friday, 16 July 2010
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
European Summer School in Cultural Studies 2010
- The 2010 European Summer School in Cultural Studies is titled "The Cultures of Food, Eating and Cooking" and will be hosted in London by the London Consortium on 26th-31st July. The European Summer School in Cultural Studies is a network-based seminar for interdisciplinary research training in the fields of art and culture, organized by the Danish Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at the University of Giessen, the London Consortium, and the University of Oslo. The School offers a European platform for the development of cultural studies with a focus on new research methodologies, models for interdisciplinary research organization, and presentation of exemplary topics that address seminal problems and perspectives in contemporary cultural studies. The ESSCS is hosted each year by one of the five partner institutions and accommodates 8 keynote speakers, including representatives from the five collaborating institutions, and 50 junior researchers from Europe and abroad. The London Consortium is a unique collaboration between the Architectural Association, Birkbeck College (University of London), the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Science Museum and TATE. It offers rigorous postgraduate programmes in the Humanities and Cultural Studies.
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