TrAIN Open Lectures Schedule Spring 2009

TrAIN (Transnational Art, Identity & Nation) is a centre for research
at the University of the Arts London. Members of TrAIN are artists,
art historians, curators and writers who share an interest in
transnational processes of artistic production, reception and
interpretation. Through practice, as well as by investigating history
and theory, TrAIN aims to make a direct and critical contribution to
discourses of post-colonialism, migration, and translation.

The TrAIN Open Lectures are held in the Lecture Theatre of the Chelsea
College of Arts and Design and start at 5.15pm.

13 January - Lecture
Erosion and Dissolution of the Object: Peruvian Art of the 1960s
Miguel Lopez

In collaboration with Emilio Tarazona, artist Miguel Lopez has
researched and curated a series of exhibitions retrieving ephemeral
art practices in Peru of the 1960s/70s. Lopez is now working towards a
collectively curated exhibition investigating experimental and
conceptual art practices under conditions set by military
dictatorships and communist regimes in both Europe and Latin America.
For his TrAIN Open lecture, Lopez focuses on experimental exhibitions
of Peruvian art in the 1960s - and he aims to draw a wider discussion
concerning experimental art in the political context of sixties Latin
America.

27 January - Discussion
The 28th Bienal de Sao Paulo: a post-mortem

Aiming to offer a platform for observation and reflection upon the
culture and system of biennials within the international art circuit,
the 28th Bienal de Sao Paulo (Oct-Dec 2008) proposed a different
format from previous editions.
After the event, Moacir dos Anjos, Michael Asbury and Isobel Whitelegg
will each focus on different aspects of the edition that was titled
'In Living Contact' and colloquially termed the 'Empty Bienal'. In
turn, they will each review and raise for open discussion its
curatorial concept, critical reception, and the unplanned intervention
that marked its opening to the public.

10 February - Lecture
Paradoxes of Black Urbanism
Paul Goodwin

This lecture addresses themes explored in the Revisioning Black
Urbanism Project at Goldsmiths College since 2006. 'Black Urbanism'
seeks to explore the way that multiple cultures of 'blackness' have
shaped and are shaping contemporary urban life in the West. Drawing on
elements of urban theory, cultural geography and architecture, the
lecture will explore the paradoxical entanglements of globalisation,
images and practices of 'blackness' (in urban protest movements, music
and visual art practices) and shifting notions of what it means to be
'urban' in places like London, Paris and New Orleans since the 1990s.

Paul Goodwin is the Associate Research Fellow, at the Centre for Urban
and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and
Curator of Cross Cultural Programmes, Tate Britain

24 February - Artist's talk
Do you remember Olive Morris? the art of collective remembrance.
Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre

Ana Laura Lopez will discuss her practice in the context of ongoing
project entitled 'Do You Remember Olive Morris?'. At the forefront of
political struggles in the 1970s, Olive Morris was a member of the
Brixton Black Panthers Movement and a founding member of several Black
women's organisations. Initiated by Ana Laura Lopez in 2006, the
project is an investigation of Morris' life and legacy,and is the
result of a collaboration with community activist Liz Obi, together
with a group of women meeting monthly as the ROC (Remembering Olive
Collective).

10 March - Lecture
'Sensing Cities: Tokyo - London': An international collaborative project

Part 1: Introduction to the project:
Professor Izumi Kuroishi (Aoyama Gakuen University, Tokyo) and
Professor Toshio Watanabe (TrAIN)
Part 2: Lecture
Speaker: tbc