The Monday Lecture Programme

12noon- 1:30pm Sallis Benney Theatre
Grand Parade University Of Brighton
                                                                   
12noon-1pm presentation, 1pm-1:30pm Q&A
             


The Monday Lecture series (since 1997) consists of presentations by contemporary artists and cultural practitioners who work across disciplines. This is an opportunity to hear artists, writers, cultural activists talk about the history of their practice and show examples of their work. The lecture series is curated by Mine Kaylan for The School of Arts and Media, as part of the Sallis Benney Theatre public lecture programme.

OCT 10th  Ella Gibbs (UK)

Ella Gibbs is an artist and curator based in East London, who has been working in the area recognised as ‘socially engaged’ practice. She has an established reputation for a unique social practice, often working in collaboration with artists, invited guests and the public.
Her extensive professional practice includes a range of national and international projects, exhibitions, workshops and live events that encompass independent curatorial projects and various initiatives within public space. She co-founded ‘Belt, a space in between’, as a live/work laboratory for dialogue and experimental projects. 

Her solo commissions include: Common Room Productions, (www.commonroomproductions.org)  Campbell Road, Look Ahead Housing and Care in 2007, Spare Time Job Centre at the Chisenhale Gallery in 2003, Programme, Whitechapel Art Gallery in 2002,  International Artists Fellowship at Upriver Loft, Kunming, China, 2002. Other Commissioners include Platform for Art and Het Blauwe Huis, Ijburg, Amsderdam.

In 2004 she established Pilot Publishing with co founder Amy Plant. They developed a wide range of community based projects including ‘Laburnum Pilot a street magazine’ commissioned by The Drawing Room, Hackney and ‘Energy Café’ - a horsebox that was transformed into a mobile off grid community kitchen. (www.energycafe.wordpress.com <http://www.energycafe.wordpress.com> ). Energy Café  is an ongoing live artwork and was originally commissioned in 2009 by The Art of Common Space, Gunpowder Park.

OCT 17th Bob Levine (UK)

Bob Levene is an artist based in Sheffield. Her work adopts pseudo-scientific strategies and anthropological methods of recording to analyse the 'nature' of things, exploring the scientific and artistic approaches to making sense of the world. The work manifests as recorded sound & video, performance, installation, drawing, photography and sculpture. 

Since graduating from an MSc in Electronic Imaging and Duncan of Jordanstone in 2001, Bob has performed and screened work at ICA (London), Arnolfini (Bristol) and BBC Radio 3 Cut & Splice Festival  (London), and exhibited at Kiasma (Helsinki), Cornerhouse (Manchester), FA Projects (London).

In 2003, she spent 5 months in Colima, Mexico as part of an Arts Council Fellowship. In 2006, she was awarded an Artsadmin Mid-Career Bursary, and in 2009 she was nomination for the Northern Art Prize. In 2008, she was artist in residence at Yorkshire Sculpture Park where she worked with a surveyor from Ordnance Survey to create a new map of the park. 

Between 2004 and 2006 Bob co-founded and directed Hull Art Lab, presenting a programme of interdisciplinary work from over 60 artists in a warehouse in the old fruit market area. She has collaborated with Rob Gawthrop under the name Automated Noise Ensemble making sound based performances and installations for over 10 years. 

Bob is currently working on a new commission for The National Media Museum, Bradford, UK