FW: RE Play and Violence

[Irene Zohrab]

For your info:

Static Launch Event
6.30pm, Monday 31st October
Spitz Gallery, Old Spitalfields Market

The London Consortium is delighted to announce the launch of Static, its new 
online journal and resource.

The inaurgural issue, launching on Hallowe'en, takes  Play and Violence' as 
its theme, exploring different forms of recreational frenzy in artistic, 
philosophical, social, and political contexts. The result is a 
cross-cultural and multidisciplinary interpretation of play and violence as 
a form of discourse, an underscoring of interrelations between torture and 
triviality, levity and hate, drama and social interaction.

>From Hallowe'en and into the future, Static will be at the heart of 
interdisciplinary intellectual debate about the paradoxes of contemporary 
culture. With contributions from an international team of academics, artists 
and cultural practitioners, Static's contents will include analytical essays 
and articles, interviews, art projects, photographic images, and more.  Each 
new issue will centre on a specific theme, and all issues will be regularly 
updated to include the most recent and relevant ideas and interpretations.

The Static launch event will feature contributions by Professor Steven 
Connor (Academic Director, The London Consortium, Professor of English, 
Birkbeck College) and Gulsen Bal (visual artist, theoretician, and curator).

The launch event is open to anyone interested in finding out more about this 
exciting new web resource.  Please email uk_static at yahoo.co.uk to confirm 
attendance at the event.

The Spitz Gallery is located at 109 Commercial Street, E1 6BG.  The nearest 
tube is Liverpool Street.   www.spitz.co.uk

Static is curated by Martine Rouleau and Vlad Strukov.

The London Consortium is a unique collaboration between the Architectural 
Association, Birkbeck College (University of London), the Institute of 
Contemporary Arts, and Tate.  The Consortium runs multidisciplinary 
postgraduate courses in the humanities and cultural studies. 
www.londonconsortium.com

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