University of the Arts London
TrAIN (Transnational Art Identity & Nation)
Spring Lectures (5-7pm)
Room 205, 65 Davies Street, London W1

11 Jan
Gilane Tawadros
Changing States: Contemporary Art and Ideas in an Era of Globalisation.

Gilane Tawadros is the Director of inIVA (Institute of International
Visual Arts), London, a contemporary visual arts agency that supports and
promotes the work of artists, curators and scholars from diverse cultural
backgrounds, seeking to make their artistic practices and ideas accessible
to new and diverse audiences. Since its foundation ten years ago, inIVA
has established partnerships with a wide range of individuals and
organisations worldwide to realise an innovative and
internationally-renowned programme of exhibitions, publications,
education, research and multimedia projects .

25 Jan
Takeshi Yasuda
If Something Looks Like a Dog and Barks Like a Dog Then It Most Likely is
a Dog, or is It?

Takeshi Yasuda was born and brought up in the suburbs of Tokyo. He was
trained in Daiseigama pottery in Mashiko and began his professional career
as a potter. He moved to Britain in 1972 at the age of twenty-nine, and
over the last thirty years, he established himself as a leading British
potter based in Bath. A few years ago, he was selected by the Independent
Newspaper as one of the five most innovative British contemporary potters
together with Edmund de Waal on the bases of their work that explores a
new art form of ‘tableware’ informed by his rich transnational ideas.

8 Feb
Lesley Millar
Cultural Difference and Contemporary Textile Practice in Britain and Japan.

Lesley Millar is Reader in Contemporary Craft Practice at the Surrey
Institute of Art and Design. She has been a practising weaver with her
own studio since 1975, has work in the permanent collections of both The
Crafts Council and Arts Council England, South East, and is listed on the
Crafts Council Index of Selected Makers. She has exhibited throughout the
UK, in Europe, the USA and Japan. She has worked as an exhibition
organiser and curator specialising in textiles since 1987 and has been
project director for 3 major international touring textile exhibitions
since 1996: ‘Revelation’ (199-98), ‘Textural Space’ (2001) and
‘Through
the Surface’ (2004-05). In 2001 she was awarded a three year Daiwa/AHRB
Research Fellowship in Contemporary Anglo-Japanese Textiles based at the
Surrey Institute of Art and Design. She writes regularly about textile
practice in Britain and Japan, including a monograph on Chiyoko Tanaka.

22 Feb
Susan Pui San Lok
"Trans-"

susan pui san lok is an artist, writer, and Research Associate in the
Department of Film and Visual Culture at Middlesex University. Her recent
exhibitions include 'Cruel/Loving Bodies' (Duolun Museum of Modern Art,
Shanghai and 798 Gallery, Beijing, 2004), 'The Translator's Notes' (Cafe
Gallery Projects, London, 2003), 'New Releases' (Gallery 4A and Art
Gallery New South Wales, Australia, 2001), and 'Cities On The Move'
(Hayward Gallery, London, 1999). She has also been a regular contributor
to Third Text, parallax, and her recent essays include Shades of Black:
Assembling the Eighties (edited by David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom and Sonia
Boyce, London: inIVA; North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2004). In her
art practice and writing, she has been exploring particular tactics and
thematics across visual, sonic, spoken and textual registers through
addressing transnational issues concerning place/placelessness,
location/dislocation, and translation/mistranslation.

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May 2004.