Ed Humphrey reads with Lucas Battich at 12-Hour Jamming Symposium, Cooper Gallery DJCAD 2014
12-Hour Jamming Symposium
Friday 25 July 2014
Studio Jamming: Artists' Collaborations in Scotland
Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, University of Dundee
Filming & Editing: Rob Page, 2014
Filming Assistant: Lucas Battich
Wm. Cooper of Hamilton, England 1810 Oak Tall Case Grandfather Clock C-C3028
Hand crafted about 1810, an understated oak tall case or grandfather clock is signed William Cooper, Hamilton, a hamlet that is now part of Leicester, near Nottingham and northwest of London.
The fine grained oak case has a satiny finish in excellent condition, waxed and buffed, it needs only an occasional wipe with a soft dry cloth to maintain its antique luster. Brass mounts on the pediment and tapered columns with brass capitals also appear original, as does the worn hand painted pendulum.
Artistically hand engraved, the brass dial is beautifully detailed. Wrought iron hands appear original, the lower door has a working lock and key.
The 8 day brass movement keeps accurate time and strikes the hour. Cooper, a noted British clockmaker, worked from 1808 to 1824. One of his clocks sold in Edinburgh in 2005, another is offered in Canada for $6500 US.
Size of this historic foyer furniture is 21 wide, 10 deep and 7' 1 tall.
Episode 1: Palasthotel, Edgar Schmitz - Surplus Cameo Decor, 18 Oct - 14 Dec 2012, Cooper Gallery
Video documenting the 24 hour live feed cameo appearance of Tobias Berger Curator at M+ Museum of Visual Culture in Hong Kong and its part in episode 1: palasthotel of Surplus Cameo Decor, an exhibition by Edgar Schmitz at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, Dundee. The artist Edgar Schmitz interacts with the cameo appearance. Ross Fraser McLean is also pictured taking still photographic documentation.
Readings, Roundtable Discussion on 29 November 2014, Cooper Gallery, DJCAD
Readings from art writers in Scotland as part of the Roundtable Discussion 'The Process of Content: on a temporality in contemporary art' on Saturday 29 November.
Introduction by Dr. Lisa Otty and readings by Alex Hetherington, Frances Davis, Richard Taylor, Kirsty Hendry, Catherine Street & JL Williams.
This event accompanied the exhibition Anna Oppermann: Cotoneaster horizontalis at Cooper Gallery, 17 October - 13 December 2014.
Cooper Gallery is part of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at University of Dundee. This project was supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland, The Henry Moore Foundation and Goethe Institut Glasgow.
Sidney Cooper Gallery 2018
Jasmina Cibic, The Pleasure of Expense, 2019. Performance documentation.
The performance, The Pleasure of Expense, took place 17 October, 5.30–7.30pm at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, University of Dundee, and featured Soprano singers: Rosie McDonald, Beatrix Milan and Eilidh Thomson. Score for The Pleasure of Expense written in collaboration with composer Dejana Sekulić.
Part of the exhibition, The Pleasure of Expense, 18 October – 14 December 2019, Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, University of Dundee.
The exhibition is funded by Creative Scotland.
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The Pleasure of Expense, a film installation with live performance commissioned by Cooper Gallery - Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design - University of Dundee.
The Gift, Act II (2019), (part of the exhibition The Pleasure of Expense) single channel HD video.
Co-commissioned by Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network, steirischer herbst ‘19 and macLYON.
Co-produced by FLAMIN Productions through Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network with funding from Arts Council England, steirischer herbst ‘19, macLYON and Waddington Studios London.
Supported by Cooper Gallery - Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design - University of Dundee, Northern Film School - Leeds Beckett University, UGM Maribor Art Gallery, Museum of Yugoslavia, United Nations Geneva, Espace Niemeyer.
Curatorial advisors for The Gift: Matthieu Lelièvre, Alessandro Vincentelli. Spaital design assistant Mateja Šetina. Score for The Pleasure of Expense in collaboration with composer Dejana Sekulić.
Politics of Small Places | In Conversation: Lorens Holm, Paul Noble and Louise Reid
In Conversation event at the opening of the exhibition 'Politics of Small Places' with contemporary artist Paul Noble, Lorens Holm, Director of Geddes Institute for Urban Research at the University of Dundee and Dr. Louise Reid, researcher in Sustainable Development and Geography at the University of St Andrews.
Thursday 13 September, 2018
For more information on 'Politics of Small Places' see Cooper Gallery's website:
Filming by Rob Page
Keynote talk by Marina Vishmidt, 12-Hour Action Group, 3 Dec 2016, Cooper Gallery DJCAD
Marina Vishmidt, keynote presentation, 'Social Reproduction as Problem and Medium'.
Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event?
International Symposium
12-Hour Action Group
Saturday 3 December 2016, 11:00am - 11:00pm
Cooper Gallery, DJCAD
Keynote Speakers: Amelia Jones, Lynda Morris, Laura Mulvey, Adele Patrick and Marina Vishmidt.
Contributors: Anne Bean; James Bell; Tessa Berring; Anne Laure Coxam; Lynn Davidson; Cullinan Richards; Gordon Douglas; Rose English; Laura Edbrook and Sarah Forrest (Sick Sick Sick); Georgi Gill; Marjorie Lotfi Gill; Althea Greenan; Jane Goldman; Victoria Horne; Kirsty Logan, Linder; Katharine Meynell; Rachel McCrum; Jane McKie; Theresa Munoz; Annabel Nicolson; Su Richardson; Hannah O’Shea; Sarah Smart; Catherine Spencer; Alice Tarbuck; Amy Tobin; Karen Veitch; JL Williams.
Ringmistresses: Beth Bate, Cullinan Richards, Sophia Hao and Catherine Spencer.
Martin Boyce, talk for Cooper Gallery, 1 December 2011
Artist's Talk by Martin Boyce at DJCAD in 1 December 2011, invited by Cooper Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Design Research Unit:1942 - 72. (Martin Boyce_YouTube.mp4)
British Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
This is one of the British galleries at the V & A on Saturday, 30 August, 2014. These galleries are almost never crowded even at weekends.
Wolfgang Suschitzky - Making a documentary in Scotland (25/36)
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Born in Austria, Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912-2016) trained as a photographer and became one of the first in his field to take portraits of animals. After coming to England he worked with Paul Rotha as the cameraman on various documentaries and films such as 'Ulysses' and 'Get Carter'. [Listener: Misha Donat]
TRANSCRIPT: The documentary movement in the ‘30s was a very progressive movement. They showed up terrible living conditions. The first film I made was about delinquent children in Scotland called 'Children of the City', and I had never seen slums like that. In Dundee we filmed in a large tenement building ten floors high, and there was one lavatory on each floor, and about four or five families lived on each floor, and one tap — one cold tap – I could see on the... on the landing, on the balcony outside. And the stink of the lavatory was terrible, and the people were very, very poor, a lot of unemployment. The children were of course not delinquent children but chosen for their acting capability. It was the first film for Budge Cooper who was one of Rotha’s people and married to Donald Alexander later on, who headed our cooperative when they split up from Rotha. And she was very anxious, and I didn’t have much experience. It was my first film as a proper cameraman, but I didn’t know the grammar of film, and she was worried when somebody goes around the corner, which way should they look and so on, and had to phone Donald Alexander in London to find out how it’s done. But it turned out well, and it’s still at recent — not so recent — some years ago I had an exhibition in Edinburgh of photographs, and it happens that they could curtain off part of the hall where it was... where the exhibition was placed, and they showed this film there. It was very well attended, the exhibition, because it was on the way to a very popular cafeteria this museum... this gallery had. It was the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. So they had to walk through my exhibition to go to the... to the cafeteria, and a lot of people working around the museum were very interested to have a look at it before lunch or after.
Anyway, after the opening of the exhibition when they had shown the film and the photographs, three women came up to me and said... well, one of them said: ‘I was the wife of one of these boys you showed in the film, and these are his two daughters’. And she had a photograph I had given the boy at the end of the film, or sent it to him, of just his portrait, so I was very glad to meet them, and the boy wasn’t alive anymore, unfortunately, and sent them more prints to give to relatives. It’s nice if something like that happens after so many years. On the Charing Cross Road series, I photographed a knife grinder, and many years later I had a letter from America that she had seen my little book on Charing Cross Road, and the man pictured as the knife grinder was her father, could I send her a print, which of course I did. He had an Italian name, or she had an Italian name. She may be married to an Italian, I don’t know. Well, it’s nice if things like that happen, and I often meet people who say: Oh, you photographed me when I was a child’. That is nice if you get old if you find you have some connection with people in the past.
Scottish artist opens solo exhibition at Venice Biennale
Scottish artist opens solo exhibition at Venice Biennale
A Dundee artist has opened Scotland's representation at the Venice Biennale arts festival in Italy.
Graham Fagen, a lecturer at Dundee University, has launched a solo exhibition at the show, which is one of the world's largest and most prestigious visual arts events.
Millions of people are expected to visit the Biennale over six months.
Mr Fagan's collection of sculptures, drawings and audio-visual installations was put together in Arbroath.
The university lecturer and contemporary artist was chosen to represent the Scotland + Venice partnership, a linkup between Creative Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and the British Council Scotland, which has been contributing to the Venice Biennale for seven years.
Staff Favourites: Paul Kane Paintings
Technician Liliane Lortie talks about the Paul Kane paintings on display at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
Norman Foster interview: Sainsbury Centre had crisis moments | Architecture | Dezeen
British architect Norman Foster recalls the challenges of designing the UK's pioneering high-tech art gallery, in this exclusive video interview filmed by Dezeen as part of our high-tech architecture series.
Located on the campus of the University of East Anglia in Norfolk, UK, the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts is a 135-metre-long lattice steel structure with glazing at each end.
Completed in 1978, it was the first public building designed by Foster Associates – the architecture practice founded by Foster and his wife Wendy, which is now called Foster + Partners.
The gallery takes its name from the supermarket owners Robert and Lisa Sainsbury, who commissioned the building to house their extensive art collection alongside the University of East Anglia's art faculty.
With works spanning 5,000 years of creative history and ranging from Henry Moore sculptures to cultural artefacts from Asia and Africa, the collection operates as both an ancillary to the art school and a public exhibition space.
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Winkie the Pigeon - Object of the Month - October 2018
In February 1942 a pigeon named Winkie rescued an RAF crew of 4 men. Curator Carly Cooper explains why Winkie is The McManus' object of the month.
Pots in the Victoria + Albert Museum London
Created on March 28, 2012 using FlipShare.
H.S. TRUE BLUE - Launch Night of True Blue collection by Hayley Scanlan
Film by Dylan Drummond
H.S. Hayley Scanlan: hayleyscanlan.com
CREDITS & THANKS:
DCA – Venue
H.S Studio girls
H.S MODELS
Kay McIntyre & Mcintyres Dundee – Hair
Jill Sime MUA, Carol Paterson, Jada Murray - Mac Cosmetics - Make Up
Dylan Drummond – Film
Tammy Shaw – T Shawts Photography
Russell Stewart – Graphics
Ado – Music
Kerrie Alexander
Holly Scanlan
Mhairi Stewart
The Scanlan family
Film by Dylan Drummond: sonofthesea.co.uk
Purple Music Night London September 18 at Club N65
The Meissen Man @ the Victoria and Albert Museum
via YouTube Capture
Scottish Georgian 1820 Antique Oak Grandfather Clock, Signed Th. Ivory of Dundee #25386
A wonderful Georgian period long case or grandfather clock was hand carved of solid oak for a country Downton Abbey type manor about 1820. The signature on the dial is visible with a black light, and reads Tho. Ivory of Dundee. The fourth largest city in Scotland, Dundee is on the east coast near St. Andrews.
The fine old finish is very well preserved and has been waxed and buffed, so all that is needed to maintain the warm patina is an occasional wipe with a soft dry cloth. There are shrinkage separations from age, see photos.
The brass movement runs accurately for a week on a winding and operates a second hand and calendar dial. A bell strike counts the hours on this British antique clock.
Hand painting is original on the iron dial, chips on the dial show that there is no later repainting. There is another signature, Wilson on the inside of one brass plate on the movement, so it would be seen by future clockmakers when oiling the mechanism. This could be a maker of the brass plates.
The brass pendulum, iron weights and crank all appear original, the lower door locks.
Measurements are 20 1/2 wide, 10 deep and 86 tall.