AltMFA zine (abridged) This Might Be the FUTURE

AltMFA zine

march 2018

This might be the future AltMFA's FUTURE PROGRAMME lecture series 2017-2018

Creative Responses Debora Mo & Nathania Hartley - Nuno Coelho | Amy Leung & Maru Rojas - Rosalie Schweiker & Margherita Huntley | Fritha Jenkins & Louise Ashcroft - Nina Power | Sadie Edginton & Irene Pulga - Giles Smith of Assemble | Johanna Bolton & Anousha Payne - Florence Peake | Andy Yau - Dave Beech | Eirini Kartsaki & Eldi Dundee - Daniel Oliver | Debora Mo - Francesca Cavallo | Naima Karlsson & Nathania Hartley - Hamish MacPherson | Sadie Edginton - Owen Parry

Abridged Edition

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UPDATES FROM THE A-N

BLOG Contributors: Louise Ashcroft, Nathania Hartley, Sadie Edginton, Debora Mo & Eldi Dundee (photos collectively by same) Edited by Eldi Dundee

1 – Kicking off our a-n funded Future Programme as our first commissioned speaker, curator, design theorist and lecturer, Nuno Coelho gave two-talks-in-one at Christie's Education in April (10th, 2017) that spanned such seemingly divergent ages and subjects as ‘How Modernism Envisaged A New Future’ via 1920s chairs, Bauhaus kitchens, Hitler, and modernist design as resistance, into ‘Art In The Age Of Digital Reproduction’ which covered the aesthetics of violence, the Trump era, and eco futures.

‘In line with her 2017 work policy (which states that whenever Rosalie is invited she has to invite somebody else and share the fee with them), she [had] invited Margherita Huntley to join her in facilitating the session.’

2 – In May (22nd) we spoke to artist Rosalie Schweiker and designer Margherita Huntley at the MayDay Rooms, London, about work, the politics of education, precarious labour practices and feminist admin in a workshop called: ‘Teaching for People Who Prefer Not to Teach.’

We had some technical issues with the projector so Nina went freestyle and gloriously off topic into a brilliant two-hour open forum chat.

‘The workshop [was] based on a project Rosalie is working on currently, together with the artist Mirjam Bayerdörfer and designer Margherita Huntley. It is a collection of ideas, exercises, resources for “zero-hours” teachers, the kind of teachers who never get a permanent contract and are on the forefront of Britain’s neoliberal education market. It’s also questioning the current modes of art teaching and introduced other attitudes and values, such as collectivity, humour, experimentation and invisible labour.

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3 – In June (5th) Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at The University of Roehampton, Nina Power, shared her thoughts on Decapitalism, Accelerationism and giant floating piles of junk in a talk titled ‘Against the Future!’ at the MayDay Rooms.

4 – In July (24th) Giles Smith, a founding member of Turner-prize winning art, design and architecture collective Assemble, came to the MayDay Rooms to talk to us about Utopian visions and non-hierarchical working in a talk he called ‘News From Nowhere: Today’s Architecture is the Basis of Tomorrow’s Utopia.’

His statement for the talk read: ‘We are all profoundly adept readers of our built environment.

The politics with which it is designed and built today shape the behaviours and actions possible in its spaces tomorrow. This talk will explore a mixture of projects, some by Assemble, some by others, and their relationships to

this idea, in order to make the case presented “glimpses from our collective responsibility to the Rehearsing Disaster: her long-term future to make good Architecture.’ exploration of pre-enactments.

Focusing on risk assessments, We took a break in August as we warning messages and survival do every year… manuals we will examine these techniques and explore how to …and then: exploit their possibilities through critical and creative exercises.”

5 – In September (18th) artist, dancer, choreographer and teacher 9 – The penultimate talk of the Florence Peake led a physically series, on December 4th, was by and emotionally intimate artist Hamish MacPherson at movement workshop at the Green Guest Projects. ‘So where exactly Rooms Hotel in North London. did the future come from?’

We got up close and personal delivered in four parts, began with experientially exploring the Hamish asking Eldi Dundee to geography of the body, and how perform a tarot reading on the our sense perceptions and future of the lecture itself, setting viewpoints altered as the borders the tone for an immersive journey and boundaries of each-other that took us through apocalyptic became less and less distinct. visions, future preparations, the human and non-human, our sense 6 – In October (20th) Dave Beech, of being and of time. artist, writer, academic, curator and member of the Freee (yes, 10 – Our last lecture in the series that's 3xEs) art collective, came to 'Fandom as Methodology', was by Christie's Education to share his artist and researcher Owen Parry expertly honed insights in an on the 11th of the December at an intensely thought-provoking talk AltMFA member's Hackney home. about ‘Art and Post-Capitalism’ – Owen took us through less examining established visions of accepted and explored areas of the what art and life could be like after art world - dissolving traditional capitalism and questioning our hierarchies to break down the ideas of utopian living and distinction between the attitudes towards work and labour. professional and the amateur, and the artist and the fan. We looked at 7 – Also in October (30th), the un-institutionalised, questioned performance artist and scholar what makes 'authentic' culture and Daniel Oliver held a hysterically explored obsession and belonging. fun art and performance workshop titled: Max Dyspraxe’s PostAprokrolips Chiperlaterartparty! upstairs at the Green Rooms Hotel, where we tore down the art world of the present and stepped into each other’s future worlds!

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8 – November (27th) saw esearcher and curator Francesca Cavallo’s workshop at the MayDay Rooms, where Francesca Photos (previous page, top to bottom) Intimate scene from Daniel Oliver's performance workshop; snacks for an enthralled Nina Power audience; moving moments at Florence Peake's family friendly dance workshop (this page, top to bottom) A powerful powerpoint image from Nina Power's presentation; an ocularly jocular pair of jockey shorts from Owen Parry's talk; atmospherically immersive attempts to predict the future via dance, during part of Hamish MacPherson's fascinating event

a-n blog https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/altmfa-artist-group-bursary-the-future

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This is an EXCERPT - to see the full version go to http://www.altmfa.uk/in-response-to-art-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction-by-nuno-coelho/

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This is an EXCERPT - to see the full version go to http://www.altmfa.uk/in-response-to-art-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction-by-nuno-coelho/

This is an EXCERPT - to see the full version go to http://www.altmfa.uk/in-response-to-art-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction-by-nuno-coelho/

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This is an EXCERPT - to see the full version go to http://www.altmfa.uk/in-response-to-art-in-the-age-of-digital-reproduction-by-nuno-coelho/

Quote from: Bishop, Elisabeth. "Letter to Anne Stevenson, 20th January 1963." In Poems, Prose, and Letters, 851. New York: Library of America, 2008

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EXTRACTS (Sections A, L and Z) - View the full work at: https://tinyurl.com/ydgczx4o

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8 March 2018 at 18:00–21:00 at Guest Projects Sunbury House, 1 Andrews Road, E8 4QL London Sample collective collages by AltMFA members, from a session led by Sadie Edginton

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Kind thanks to a-n (The Artists Information Company), Yinka Shonibare Studios & Guest Projects, MayDay Rooms, Green Rooms Hotel, Christie's Education, all the speakers who were asked and said yes (and even the speakers who said no), all the AltMFA members who worked - paid or unpaid - on organising, admin, design, editorial and promo tasks for the series, all the lecture and workshop participants, all the AltMFA members who created outstanding and unexpected responses to the talks and events, all the AltMFA members who collaborated on the mashed-up creative responses in the collaged version of this zine conceived and led by Sadie Edginton, to Sadie again for her assistance in getting all the zine versions printed, to Shinji Toya for creating the new AltMFA website, and to Louise Ashcroft for co-founding AltMFA in the first place, 8 years ago.

Abridged and Edited by Eldi Dundee with the invaluable Editorial Assistance of Sadie Edginton and Nathania Hartley for AltMFA 2018

This might be the future Nathania Hartley Nuno Coelho Amy Leung Maru Rojas Rosalie Schweiker Margherita Huntley Fritha Jenkins Louise Ashcroft Nina Power Irene Pulga Giles Smith Assemble Johanna Bolton Anousha Payne Florence Peake Andy Yau Dave Beech Eirini Kartsaki Eldi Dundee Daniel Oliver Debora Mo Francesca Cavallo Naima Karlsson Hamish MacPherson Sadie Edginton Owen Parry

AltMFA 2018