Title:聽The Camera Lucida Variations
Date and Time:聽Thursday 23 January, 16:00 鈥� 18:00
痴别苍耻别:听Seminar Room 3, Level 1, Westside Building, Winchester School of Art
Overview
David Ward has made numerous performances, including collaborations with choreographers, composers and other artists. This performance lecture draws on the history of one postcard image in relation to Ward鈥檚 work since 1973 and relates to light, photography, painting, poetry and performance itself. It includes projected images, readings, the playing of sound recordings, choreographed movement and will also respond to aspects of the architecture of the space in which it takes place. It focuses on selected variations of a piece of music,聽a poem聽and a painting and treats the space of the event as a 鈥渃amera lucida鈥�.
Biography
David Ward (b. 1951) attended Wolverhampton College of Art and studied painting at Winchester School of Art from 1969-72. He works in a wide range of media and has undertaken collaborations with choreographers, artists and composers, making numerous works in the public realm. He was Artist in Residence at King鈥檚 College, Cambridge and the Cambridge Darkroom (1991), Harvard University (1994), Durham Cathedral (1997-98) and was a Research Fellow at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds (1995). Recent solo exhibitions include David Ward, Slow Time, John Hansard Gallery (2008) and Kettle鈥檚 Yard, Cambridge (2009), and RINK – a skating drawing floor, Ambika聽P3, University of Westminster (2009). In 2012 he exhibited at Large Glass, London and presented his first collection of poems in a performance at the New Art Centre, Roche Court together with works on paper in The Artist鈥檚 House (2012).聽 In 2012-13 he exhibited in Illuminated, curated by Peter Bonnell at Quad, Derby and presented a new solo performance, The Camera Lucida Variations,聽there in January 2013. He exhibited in 鈥業n Cloud Country鈥� curated by Iwona聽Blazwick at Harewood House, Leeds, April-June 2013.聽 For further information see
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