Between 2004 and 2006, an international group of visual artists embarked on practice-led PhD study at Northumbria University. At weekly meetings, hosted by Professor Chris Dorsett, they developed and exchanged new methodologies beyond text. Now, approximately five years after receiving their doctorates, the group is still eager to exchange new possibilities for artistic research methods.
Doctoring the evidence #1: 10 Cities is the first of a series of travelling exhibitions about what a PhD in visual arts contributes to academia and artistic life. Appropriately, we start out from where it all begun: in Newcastle. Visitors can enjoy the work and stories of twelve artists who obtained their Doctorates at Northumbria University and who now live and work in ten different cities, in eight countries around the globe. The first show addresses the dispersion of the group and the geographical and socio-political situation in which the artist-researchers now find themselves.
Jolande Bosch (NL), Sachiyo Goda (JP), Paul Harvey (GB), Christina Kolaiti (GR/GB), John Lavell (GB/RU), Andrew McNiven (GB/DE), Hiro Oshima (JP), Apichart Pholprasert (TH), Alexandra Rowe (GB), Hadi Shobeirinejad (IR) and Poyan Yee (HK) Guest: Jennine Wilson (GB).
http://www.allmapswelcome.com
Doctoring the evidence #1: 10 Cities is the first of a series of travelling exhibitions about what a PhD in visual arts contributes to academia and artistic life. Appropriately, we start out from where it all begun: in Newcastle. Visitors can enjoy the work and stories of twelve artists who obtained their Doctorates at Northumbria University and who now live and work in ten different cities, in eight countries around the globe. The first show addresses the dispersion of the group and the geographical and socio-political situation in which the artist-researchers now find themselves.
Jolande Bosch (NL), Sachiyo Goda (JP), Paul Harvey (GB), Christina Kolaiti (GR/GB), John Lavell (GB/RU), Andrew McNiven (GB/DE), Hiro Oshima (JP), Apichart Pholprasert (TH), Alexandra Rowe (GB), Hadi Shobeirinejad (IR) and Poyan Yee (HK) Guest: Jennine Wilson (GB).
http://www.allmapswelcome.com
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0415679044/ref=rdr_ext_tmb
Click on the book title link above and use the 'look inside' feature and search 'John Lavell' to see a chapter written by Professor Chris Dorsett about my practice.
A Library Is On Fire http://www.alibraryisonfire.com
Artists respond to literature
A Library Is On Fire is the first collective show by a group of North East based artists; Adam Hogarth, John Lavell, David Reynolds, Carol Sommer and Sebastian Trend. Inspired by literature and libraries as spaces and places with the power to change lives, the project aims to celebrate what can happen when people and inspirations from books come together.
Library collections and archives offer access to layers of history and meaning that offer us insight into familiar and not so familiar worlds. They create opportunities to discover who we may be in those worlds at the same time as opening up potentially vast new horizons. This potential is something that A library Is On Fire seeks to celebrate in all its diversity.
One of the ambitions of A Library Is On Fire is to launch a rolling programme of events in the libraries of Literature & Philosophical Societies as well other libraries and locations across the country. The project has started to develop individual and institutional links in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Durham, Darlington, Middlesbrough, Leeds and Liverpool.
In addition there is an open invitation by A Library Is On Fire to contact us if you are interested in hosting an event or have any suggestions of how to do so.
'Libraries gave us power...' Manic Street Preachers, A Design for Life (1996)
A Library Is On Fire is the first collective show by a group of North East based artists; Adam Hogarth, John Lavell, David Reynolds, Carol Sommer and Sebastian Trend. Inspired by literature and libraries as spaces and places with the power to change lives, the project aims to celebrate what can happen when people and inspirations from books come together.
Library collections and archives offer access to layers of history and meaning that offer us insight into familiar and not so familiar worlds. They create opportunities to discover who we may be in those worlds at the same time as opening up potentially vast new horizons. This potential is something that A library Is On Fire seeks to celebrate in all its diversity.
One of the ambitions of A Library Is On Fire is to launch a rolling programme of events in the libraries of Literature & Philosophical Societies as well other libraries and locations across the country. The project has started to develop individual and institutional links in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Durham, Darlington, Middlesbrough, Leeds and Liverpool.
In addition there is an open invitation by A Library Is On Fire to contact us if you are interested in hosting an event or have any suggestions of how to do so.
'Libraries gave us power...' Manic Street Preachers, A Design for Life (1996)
The Unfinished Business project http://unfinishedbusinessatwallington.weebly.com/john-lavell.html
Wallington Hall, one of Northumberland’s most popular National Trust attractions, celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of William Bell Scott, the 19th century poet, writer, artist and teacher, with an exciting new contemporary art exhibition entitled ‘Unfinished Business’. Under the direction of the artist-curator Chris Dorsett, Reader in Art School Practices at Northumbria University, and the project management of Gillian Mason, Visitor Experience Manager at Wallington, a wide range of imaginative and modern-day artistic responses to Scott will take inspiration from his famous paintings in Wallington’s Central Hall.
Dr. Christina Kolaiti
Christina Kolaiti, Bacon Portrait
Many of the images on this site were taken by Christina and Daniel
http://christinakolaiti.com
http://christinakolaiti.com