The Real World is a series of talks in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery looking at the real-life careers of visual artists and other practitioners.

This year-long collaboration between the Whitechapel Gallery and Artquest aims to provide critical and practical support to London’s visual artists and craftspeople.  Each Real World talk will take the current Whitechapel Gallery exhibition as its inspiration and draw out related conceptual themes and practical advice to attending artists.  Each talk will also be recorded and made available on this page for the benefit of artists and craftspeople anywhere in the world.

Each talk is free to attend, and tickets can be booked on the Whitechapel website.

The Real World: International practices

Thursday 18 February 2010, 7-9pm
Venue: Whitechapel Art Gallery
Booking: book your tickets via the Whitechapel website.

This seminar explores international trends and practices within the visual arts. Using case studies of international projects, such as Artquest's Artelier and Artroute programmes, this session compares artists' experiences, offers advice on networking and highlights opportunities for artists internationally. Participants include artists Joanna Callaghan, Samuel Dowd and Chila Kumari Burman

Joanna Callaghan was born in Australia and lives in the UK. She occupies various roles as artist, curator, producer and lecturer. In 2008 she was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant for a film exploring the ideas of Plato and in 2007 received a CAPTURE commission for Still Moving, a photographic installation premiered at FORMAT09, International Festival of Photography, Derby.  She has been involved in artist run spaces in London and established Heraclitus Pictures in 2005, a curatorial and production agency producing screenings, exhibitions and films.  Her work has been shown in galleries and festivals in London, Sydney, Berlin, Mexico City, Lisbon and Milan.

Chila Kumari Burman has works experimentally across print, paint, photographic and mixed media, predominantly autobiographically, exploring the construction of classed, gendered, sexualised and 'raced' subjectives, personal and family memories, and the physicality and pleasures of visual materials. Burman draws on fine art and popular-cultural images and generates powerful pictures of current Asian femininities. She is represented by 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok. Burman is currently exhibiting in ‘British Subjects' a group show in Neuberger Museum, New York and is currently artist in residence at University of East London with a Leverhulme award.

Previous Real World seminars 

The Real World: Socially engaged practice

Thursday 19 November 2009, 7-9pm

Venue: Whitechapel Art Gallery

This Real World seminar focused on socially or critically engaged practices in the visual arts, examining what this term means to artists in relation to their practice, and looking at how artists work with members of the public to create works of art.  This event provided a forum for artists and their collaborators to present projects so as to stimulate debate around their own practice or to find new partners. Included presentations by artists Sarah Cole and Serena Korda. 

The Real World: Artist / Curator

Thursday 21 May 2009

Responding to the multifarious practice of Goshka Macuga, the first Real World session focused on the role of the artist-curator. Dallas Seitz, Cathy Lomax and the Centre of Attention (Gary O’Dwyer and Pierre Coinde) presented case studies, explore innovative projects, suggest practical solutions to common pitfalls, and consider best practice for working with artists, other organisations and funders.

The Real World: Collaborative Practice

Thursday 17 September 2009

 The second Real World seminar focussed on collaboration in the visual arts, looking at collective practices both within and across the arts and into other areas. Case studies and presentations were by Ana Laura López de la Torre (London based artist and writer), collaborative visual artists Cornford & Cross (Matthew Cornford and David Cross) and Hyo Myoung Kim and Taryn Takahashi.

---

Join us

Share