Author: Christian

A lecture by So Mayer:

Excitation, or, Outside Together: Schändaustellungen, WHEREISANAMENDIETA, Forensic Architecture

Tuesday 31 May
A Fine Art Newcastle Event (Online) 
Zoom link below

‘We’re chanting “Oi, Tate, we’ve got a vendetta, where the fuck is Ana Mendieta?” We really mean it. We are vengeful and burning with rage’ — Liv Wynter, 2016

This talk asks what happens when we cite, centre and practice agential forms such as protest, programming and reportage as art writing ‘that really mean[s] it’? What kind of accountability to the communities and practitioners outside institutions does that call us to?

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Industrial Strike Action

I hope you are keeping well and having an enjoyable Semester 2. I am getting in touch to follow up on a previous message to you concerning Industrial Action. It now seems that the planned national strike will go ahead from Monday 14th, and I wanted to explain a bit about what that will look like and what we are doing to help and support. 

Some of us will have seen Industrial Action before, but not everyone, so here is the broad outline of what is likely to happen.

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Fine Art Breakfast Club

Every Wednesday 9-10 AM, Art Cafe, in person. This is an opportunity to speak to the head or deputy head of department. Everybody welcome!

What is Breakfast Club? 

Hosted by the Head of Fine and Deputy Head (Christian & Nick), Breakfast Club is an informal space for conversation, and community. You can pop in for a coffee and chat about anything that comes to mind. We can listen, answer questions you might have and resolve concerns or just chat about whatever is the hot topic that week. Breakfast Club continues every Wednesday 9-10am in the FA Cafe. 

Everyone welcome. 🙂 

Postcard Auction

Newcastle University Postcard Auction 2021
Friday 26th November 
Silent Auction Begins 5pm – Long Gallery, Fine Art Building 
Live Auction Begins 6pm – Fine Art Building 

Thank you for all your amazing submissions, as anyone who has walked through the long gallery will have noticed, the postcard auction is shaping up and we are so excited to officially invite you all to this year’s Fine Art Department Postcard Auction!  

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Funded Study Trip / Open Studio BAUHAUS Dessau, Germany

The Bauhaus is one of the most renowned experimental sites of education in the arts and in design. At regular intervals the Bauhaus Dessau invites international universities and art academies to the historic workshops of the Bauhaus in order to develop and apply contemporary models for education in art and design.

This is an opportunity for 15 Fine Art students (Year 3 and 4) to take part in an Open Studio short residency (3 days) working in collaboration with Northumbria University Newcastle final year interior design students

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