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Aaron Head: Tour of Failure

Posted: 31 Aug 2012 02:44 AM PDT

Thursday 27.9.2012
Scratch Nights

Film Screening and Talk Aaron Head: Tour of Failure

Thursday 27 September / 7pm / Free

A new film and talk meditating on the notion of failure, introduced by artist  Aaron Head.

 

Edited entirely from amateur online footage, this film assemblage of sound and image meditates on the languages of failure and personal validation -  two themes which abound on the internet.

Featuring over five hundred  found clips,  Head's film includes broken clocks, bad violin recitals, glitching TVs, drunken karaoke and broken lights. Largely unplanned and circumstantial, the film's evolving narrative plays with its own form and associations. The slippery language and relative notions of self, success and failure are explored through methods of editing and appropriation.  Casting a net over a directionless drift of images, the film plucks out the beauty of the malformed and seemingly failed and puts them into new pockets of meaning and sense.

Aaron Head introduces his film by describing the journey towards its making. He will also outline the larger Tour of Failure project, including how to submit entries to the Archive of Failure,  an unselected and unedited series of photographic /t ext responses to the idea of failure in its broadest possible sense or deviations.

Exhibition Opening: James Welling

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 07:50 AM PDT

Thursday 13.9.2012
Exhibition Events

Exhibition Preview: James Welling – The Mind on Fire 

Thursday 13 September 2012 / 6-10pm / All welcome

Join us for the launch of our James Welling exhibition.  See seminal works by Welling from the 1980s, charting the development of his abstract language and photographic experimentation.

6pm – Exhibition opens

7pm – Welcome from MK Gallery Director, Anthony Spira

8pm -  DJs and refreshments

We hope you can join us.

Find out more about the exhibition

Click here to let us know you're coming

Travelling from London? MK Central Station is 30 minutes from London Euston on the Birmingham / Manchester / Glasgow main line served by Virgin and London Midland services. Allow c.25 mins to walk to the Gallery from MK rail station. Plan your journey

Exhibition Supporters

With thanks to Maureen Paley and David Zwirner for their support.

Henri Cartier Bresson -The Impassioned Eye

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 06:36 AM PDT

Friday 21.9.2012
Friday Night Films

Henri Cartier Bresson – The Impassioned Eye Dir. Heinz Bütler (Unrated, 1 hr 12 mins)

Friday 21 September / 6.30pm / £5 (concessions £3), including a free drink for advance bookers.

Pre-book on 01908 676 900

 

A wonderful, evocative biography of the man considered the greatest photographer of the last century. Cartier-Bresson's life reads like a history of the century. World War II, China, Egypt, Mexico, India, Sartre, Matisse, Ghandi (minutes before he was killed), and Cuba all became subjects of his famous "decisive moment" style. Interviews with Cartier-Bresson, Isabelle Huppert, Arthur Miller and other luminaries are woven into this indelible portrait of an icon of both photography and the world.

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More Art Courses & Workshops at The Stani Studios

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 08:23 AM PDT


Introduction to Oil Painting
Course : 4 weeks Wed 10 - 1230 pm Begins 17 Oct
Workshops : 1 day : 10 - 4 pm Thurs 21 Nov
Click here for further details


Pastels for Animal & Wildlife Paintings
Course : 4 weeks Mon 1.30 - 4 pm Begins 17 Oct
Workshop : 1 day : 10 - 4 pm Wed 3 Oct
Click here for further details


Paint Abstract
Course : 4 weeks Fri 10 - 1230 Begins 19 Oct
Workshops  : 1 day : 10 - 4 pm Fri 28 Sep
Click here for further details


Watercolour Intermediate
Course : 4 weeks Fri 10 - 12.30 pm Begins 12 Oct
Click here for further details


More One Day Workshops from 10 - 4 pm
Silk Painting for All - Thurs 20 Sep & 25 Oct
Life Drawing - Sat 29 Sep, 13 Oct & 10 Nov
Print Making Taster - Wed 26 Sep & 21 Nov
Mixed Media Madness - Wed 17 Oct & 12 Dec
Painting Without a Brush ! - Wed 5th Dec


For  PHOTOGRAPHY + JEWELLERY + POTTERY + STAINED GLASS + BEGINNERS WATERCOLOUR + LIFE SCULPTURE + DRAWING & PAINTING see also Workshops & Courses


and New Fun Card Making Classes
From 10 - 12.30 pm on Wed 12 Sep, 10 Oct or 14 Nov
or From 6 - 8.30 pm on Thurs 27 Sep, 25 Oct & 29 Nov
See Card Making for more details.


See www.thestanistudios.co.uk for further details or call 01908 567656 or visit The Stani Gallery @ 61 High Street. Stony Stratford.

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DepARTures Exhibition

Posted: 30 Aug 2012 04:45 AM PDT


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New-Media Writing Prize 2012

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 06:07 AM PDT

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suicidal notes

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 09:53 AM PDT

Suicidal notes is a (e)mail art project that is dealing with relation between ethics in politics and terrorism of society_ We are searching 4 fictional suicidal notes of political leaders from all around the world to establish new ethics in politics and to question how the world...

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Call for Entries: Swedenborg International Short Film Festival 2012

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:10 AM PDT

Curators: Stephen McNeilly & Nora Foster | Judges: Jeremy Millar & Gareth Evans | Deadline for Submissions: 19 October 2012 | Festival Screenings: 30 November 2012 | Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH, UK The Swedenborg International Short Film...

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We Are Poets

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 05:30 AM PDT

We are looking for poets to perform before the We Are Poets screening on Monday 3rd Septembers at 8.30pm.

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Charnwood Creative Business Surgery

Posted: 28 Aug 2012 09:02 PM PDT

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The Gentlemen Press Writing Competition

Posted: 29 Aug 2012 04:55 AM PDT

The Gentlemen Press will be running a competition from 2012-2013 for young writers aged 16-26. It will be for poetry and prose writers and is open to anyone in the UK.

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Posted: 29 Aug 2012 03:41 AM PDT

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Former mmu campus Alsager

Posted: 27 Aug 2012 09:23 AM PDT

Noticed these buildings had become disused so decided go for a closer look and bumped into security but was allowed to take a few shots around the campus



























Word was they were going to knock all these buildings down to build homes on but i think now they will be renting the buildings out and the recreational grounds and pitches will be rented to AFC Football club

Thanks for looking...:cool: