Here at Works Without Walls, we like going to Galleries. So do you guys. So, why don't you all check out some of this great stuff for April and May? Click on the listing title to be taken to booking pages.
Male Sexuality and The Female Gaze @ Lewisham Arthouse
Sunday, April 29 at 11 AM - 4 PM
Join London Drawing Group's Luisa-Maria MacCormack at Lewisham Arthouse this April 29th as we turn gender stereotypes on their head with a drawing class like no other. "Male Sexuality and the Female Gaze", is a day-workshop designed to challenge and unpick gender stereotypes within classical painting, exploring gender bias throughout western art-history from the first Grecian sculptures through to Renaissance works such as the Rokeby Venus, and finally, to deeply controversial works such as Allan Jones’ Chair. Nick Harris, a performance artist and model will be tackling poses taken from classical paintings and sculpture that depict the female form, upending the natural tendency for male models to take on ‘manly’ poses, we will be exploring the ideas of sexualization, conformity and the disparity between classical ideas of the female and male nude.
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| The Blood of A Poet |
Sunday, May 07 at 11AM - 4.30PM
Join London Drawing Group this Sunday 8th April as they delve into the world of hand-drawn animation with Jean Cocteau’s seminal 1930 Avant Garde masterpiece ‘The Blood of a Poet’ as our guide. Throughout this unique workshop explore both the idea of the artist in early cinema and how films such as The Blood of A Poet can still influence our creativity in unexpected ways. The workshop will also be examining the context and historical timeframe the film was created in through discussions, lectures and working directly from the iconic images that Cocteau created.
Tacita Dean in Conversation with Nicholas Cullinan @ ACE Hotel Shoreditch
Thursday, May 17 at 7 PM - 8:30 PM
Frieze Academy presents Tacita Dean, who will discuss her life as an artist, her practice, ideas and techniques with National Portrait Gallery’s Director, Nicholas Cullinan. Tacita Dean grew to prominence in the 1990s, and is now considered to be one of the most significant contemporary artists working today. Her three concurrent exhibitions, ‘Landscape’ at the Royal Academy, ‘Portrait’ at the National Portrait Gallery and ‘Still-Life’ at the National Gallery, will exhibit Dean’s comprehensive response to each institution and her varied artistic practice. From her extended exploration of film as a medium to her large-scale drawings, the shows will present new work as well as work that she has curated – often from her contemporaries – alongside pieces from each institutions’ collections.
EXHIBITIONS
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| Five performers on a platform. Handwritten on verso 'Haris Fifi, Zerneck Joe, Gaby Zerkovitz, Stasik Ficzin Mehelyi Mimi’. Hungary, circa 1900. |
Under Cover: A Secret History Of Cross – Dressers @ The Photographers Gallery
23 FEB - 03 JUN 2018
Drawn from the extensive personal archives of filmmaker and photography collector Sébastien Lifshitz, this exhibition of amateur 'found' photographs from Europe and the US explores gender non-conformity and cross-dressing. Dating from 1880 onwards, the photos are mostly of unnamed and unknown figures – having been mainly collected from flea markets, garage sales, junk shops and ebay - and as such offer an unauthorised view into the worlds of individuals and groups choosing to defy gender conventions.
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| Maria McKinney |
08 MARCH–27 AUGUST 2018
Art, science and somewhere in between. Artists Martina Amati, Daria Martin, Maria McKinney and John Walter each collaborated with scientists to explore ideas that are vital to human life – ideas about our food sources, our senses, our sexual health and the limitations of our bodies. Experience these four immersive installations, exhibited together for the first time, which reveal the hidden connections and systems that lie between and beneath us.
Tomorrow's Nipple @ The Photographers Gallery
16 MAR - 06 MAY 2018
Tomorrow's Nipple explores the censorship of bodies by commercial online platforms and probes the politics of showing (or not) one’s nipples on social media. In the last few years, the nipple has become one of the most contested sites on the body and the internet. Images of bare female nipples are reported and removed almost as quickly as they appear. Nipple liberation is seen as a key fight towards gender equality, although it is not without issues around perceived internet freedom and individual (self) exploitation. Movements such as #freethenipple, or the @genderless_nipples have set out to tackle this.
Anthea Hamilton review @ Tate Britain
22 MARCH – 7 OCTOBER 2018
Anthea Hamilton transforms the heart of Tate Britain with sculpture and performance. A solo performer in a squash-like costume inhabits the Duveen Galleries every day for more than six months. Each element of The Squash has evolved from Hamilton’s interest in a photograph she found in a book several years ago when looking at improvisational theatre and participatory art practices in the 1960s and 1970s. It showed a person dressed as what looks like a vegetable lying among vines. The original photograph dated from 1960 and depicted a scene from a dance by American choreographer Erick Hawkins. Hawkins was interested in Native American philosophies and he took the form of this costume from the Squash Kachina of the Hopi culture.
Empower Her Voice: Mothers in the Arts @ The RA
Thursday, April 26 at 7 PM - 9:30 PM
Empower Her Voice is an organisation which aims to promote education and create discussion amongst women around the world; it was set up by Zainab Majid and Amira Fateh in 2017 and since then, has run successful talks and events that aim to increase positive networking between self-identifying women for a charitable cause. For the first ever Empower Her Voice event in London, a group of fascinating women will discuss what it means to be a working mother in the arts today, whilst raising money for girls to attend school in Lahore, Pakistan.
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| Afrique sur Seine + Little by Little (15*) + introduction by Dr Barbara Knorpp. Returning the Colonial Gaze15 May 2018, 18:15 |
May 2 - May 30
With a focus on Francophone African and French cinema, we present work by bold filmmakers that reverses the ‘colonial gaze’ and interrogates the former occupying nation from new perspectives.
This five-part season focuses on the relationship between French and Francophone African cinema and includes work by Moroccan, Mauritanian, Senegalese and Nigerien directors from the 50s through to the 70s. After years of simply being represented or 'spoken for' by Western directors, these African filmmakers asserted the right to represent themselves and reclaimed control of their own images. Their 'coming to voice' was a disruption, and an act of liberation.
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