The Photography Degree Show returns!
Visit unit 12 in Weston-super-Mare’s Sovereign Shopping Centre to see the amazing work on display form our fantastic students studying Photography and Visual Cultures, BA (Hons).
Saturday 7th May – Thursday 12th May 2022
Guest Seminar - Sam Francis - Creative Producing, Curating
Sam Francis joined us for another guest seminar, this time focussing on working as a Creative Producer and Curator. Recording of session is on Teams, see links and notes from this session below. For notes from yesterday’s Experimental Media Arts workshop go to this page
‘I am a creative producer, maker and doer now living in Weston Super Mare after 15 years in Bristol.
I am interested in engaged, live work that is not bound by a singular art form, and am currently project producer for Outlands experimental music network, a member of Supernormal Festival and arts collective Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF).
I also create things and make stuff sometimes. I like to observe and experience things through sound, image and words; snippets and moments, as a way to connect with place, space and spirit. I like working collectively and collaboratively, building and being part of communities, connecting people and responding creatively to contexts.
I am a creative producer, maker and doer now living in Weston Super Mare after 15 years in Bristol.
I am interested in engaged, live work that is not bound by a singular art form, and am currently project producer for Outlands experimental music network, a member of Supernormal Festival and arts collective Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF).
I also create things and make stuff sometimes. I like to observe and experience things through sound, image and words; snippets and moments, as a way to connect with place, space and spirit. I like working collectively and collaboratively, building and being part of communities, connecting people and responding creatively to contexts.’
Notes and Links from Session
Supernormal Festival
SUPERNORMAL is a three-day, experimental arts and music festival taking place at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire. It offers a platform for artists, performers and musicians to work collaboratively and creatively for a new kind of audience seeking experiences out of the mainstream. It is determinedly small and intimate with an audience of 1,500. It has been born from a place that values the currency of ideas and imagination, as well as the inclusivity of artists and audiences alike, rather than commercialism and profit. Read more
Trailer:
Short Film (2015) by James Hankins & Richard Edkins
BEEF - Bristol Experimental Expanded Film
Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (BEEF) is a film and sound collective supporting experimental practice in Bristol since 2015.
BEEF provides an independent platform and much needed resource for artists’ production, distribution and critical engagement, predominantly focusing on experimental and analogue practices. BEEF members collaborate and work together to organise a regular programme of events, screenings, performances, exhibitions, residencies, and film & sound workshops. Read More
Why you Shouldn't be an artist
LINKS - Weston super Mare
Weston Artspace: a studio hub and workshop space for Weston’s creative community, on the High Street.
https://www.westonartspace.com/
Culture Weston: develop inspiring cultural initiatives and events
https://cultureweston.org.uk/
Creative Meet Ups for young and emerging artists and creatives. The next one is 13 April. Book here: https://cultureweston.org.uk/listings/creative-meet-up-emerging-artists-creatives/
There will be event volunteer opportunities, and specific student opportunities.
Keep an eye out on FACEBOOK: Culture Weston / Weston Artspace.
FURTHER INFO + LINKS:
•Curating Context – Beyond the Gallery and Into Other Fields, edited by Magdalena Malm, 2017
•What Does an Art Producer Do? by Grace Bordelon
•BFI Future Film Festival film industry festival for young, emerging filmmakers
•BFI Film Academy - opportunities for young creatives aged 16 to 25:
Further Viewing:
Day in the life of a film programmer
Curator talk: curating in context - making exhibitions work
How to succeed as an artist
How to get your short screened at film festivals:
The fifth sense: making exhibitions
See more of Sam Francis’s work at: https://samfrancisco.co.uk/
London Trip - Friday 7th December 2018
Careful reconstructions … The Long Duration of a Split Second by Forensic Architecture at Tate Britain. (Turner Prize 2018). Photograph: Dinendra Haria/Rex/Shutterstock
The Photography department is running an educational visit to London to visit the exhibition ‘All I Know is What’s on The Internet’ at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. The Photographers’ Gallery also has an excellent Photo Book shop and Print Sales library which students can view.
Interested students can also join staff to see the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at The National Portrait Gallery or take the opportunity to photograph/ film London in the run up to Christmas.
Another option is to see Turner Prize 2018 at Tate Britain (£11 concs) which has a considerable amount of artists using video, film, moving image.
This is an opportunity for students to engage in primary research relevant to their upcoming final major projects.
We will be meeting outside Loxton Campus no later than 6.50am for a prompt departure at 7am. We will be leaving London at 7pm to return home around 11pm.
It is essential to bring a notebook, pens and a camera.
The cost of the trip is £25, which includes return coach journey and entry to the Photographers’ Gallery. Entry to the Taylor Wessing Prize will cost £3.50 with a student card.
It is also advisable to bring enough food to last a full day or sufficient funds to purchase lunch and dinner.
The trip is open to Photography and Film students. Book via the shop
A Struggle for Democracy: Images by Shahidul Alam
University Centre Weston is participating in a Mass Exhibition of work by award winning Photographer, human rights activist and digital pioneer Dr Shahidul Alam in support of the campaign to free him. #FreeShahidulAlam
‘Dr Shahidul Alam was arrested, tortured and imprisoned in Dhaka Bangladesh at the beginning of August. Shahidul is an internationally respected photographer, journalist and activist and a good friend and colleague to many of us working in the photography and the academic worlds here in the UK.
University of Sunderland, where Shahidul has been a visiting professor for many years, Autograph and Drik have proposed a mass exhibition of Shahidul’s work in support of the campaign to free him (#FreeShahidulAlam).
Shahidul has been a significant force both in photography and in photographic education and we feel it is essential that we raise our voice in support of him. On 28 October Shahidul is due to be awarded the Lucie Award at Carnegie Hall, New York.'
We invite as many organisations as possible to participate in an exhibition (8 – 28 October 2018) across the UK, in solidarity with the works recently shown at Drik Gallery Bangladesh, under the exhibition title ‘A Struggle for Democracy’. ‘ NEPN
UCW will be exhibiting Dr Shahidul Alam’s work in our Gallery space at University Centre Weston, Loxton Campus, Loxton Road, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 4QU
Monday 15th October - 28th October 2018. Tel: 01934 411 600
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