HER WAYS AND MEANS – FEMALE PROTAGONISTS IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCE CONTEXTS
AK DOLVEN
in conversation with ANDREA SCHLIEKER organised by Gaby Hartel Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 7pm Hosted by PEER, London, UK. 97 & 99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL |
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Our module VIBRANT MATTER produced the third event of our talk series HER WAYS AND MEANS – FEMALE PROTAGONISTS IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCE CONTEXTS in collaboration with Peer in London, presenting A K Dolven in conversation with Andrea Schlieker.
Artist A K Dolven has raised important questions in aesthetics, ethics, science, politics and society throughout her career. In this talk, she shared with us some insight of the projects echo echo and fishsongs fro the depth of the fjord at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Berlin in 2015, curated by Gaby Hartel. The acoustic interventions used the media of water and air and took place in two different rooms of the museum. Andrea Schlieker lead a an engaging discussion, later on with the audience, about her collaborations with researchers at the museum in all their highs and lows, as well as reflect on the challenges of steering an interdisciplinary collaboration with its potential for both clashing and coinciding visions. Andrea Schlieker is currently Director of Commissions and Special Projects at White Cube, London. |
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A K Dolven, lives and works in London and Lofoten, Norway. She studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Aix-en-Provence and at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo. She works in several mediums and often with collaboration as a source. Dolven lived in Berlin between 1987 and 1997 after receiving a residency in Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, and then moved to London. Dolven has received media attention for numerous public sculpture projects and was the initiator of the outdoor sculpture project Artscape Nordland. She exhibited widely including South London Gallery, IKON gallery Birmingham, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Bergen Kunsthall, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Dublin, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Kunsthalle Bern, Kunsthall Svalbard, CAC Vilnius, Aros Århus Kunstmuseum, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, AGO Ontario and Platform China, Beijing. She was awarded the German Fred-Thieler Prize in 2000 and the Swedish Prince Eugen Medal in 2005.
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Andrea Schlieker is Director of Commissions and Special Projects at White Cube, London. She is currently involved in major commission projects in Oslo, Shanghai, London and Miami. She curated high profile exhibitions including the Folkestone Triennial and British Art Show6 while working as freelance curator and during her institutional career at London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts and the Serpentine Gallery, most recently David Batchelor’s exhibition Flatlands for the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, and Spike Island, Bristol. As artistic advisor she has been responsible for a wide range of permanent public art commissions across London. She has written numerous catalogue texts on contemporary artists and lectured widely in the UK, Europe, the US and Japan.
PEER is an independent arts organisation that commissions, produces and presents the highest quality art for its diverse local community, as well as for wider audiences across London, the UK and beyond. PEER is a truly outward-facing and innovative arts organisation on the local high street, led by ideas, excellence and diversity rather than fashion and marketability. PEER nurtures and provides a platform for the talent of a diverse range of emerging, mid-career and established artists and enables them to take new risks. PEER offer creative experiences and opportunities to local people of all ages and from a range of economic, social and cultural backgrounds. PEER is one of Arts Council England's National Portfolio clients and completed an ambitious two phase development project in spring 2016, reopening with radically improved galleries, a new doubled-glazed façade and a vastly improved public realm area in front of the gallery. |
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