Nottingham Contemporary

Anja Kirschner will talk about the film the Last Days of Jack Sheppard (2009) showing at Nottingham Castle. The writer Brian Dillon described it as “a Hogarthian frieze of disgraced stockjobbers, ruined gentry and opportunist hacks.” Their work often re-enacts historical or literary themes through genres such as westerns, sci-fi and period drama

Schmitz’s soundtracks and visual trailers “envelope and buffer the outer membranes” of BAS7 across its three sites. In this presentation he will address escapism, effects and expectations, as well as “almost indifferent backdrops.” He has had recent exhibitions in London, Graz and Eindhoven.

Thursday Live Lecture Series

In collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary, New Art Exchange and Nottingham Castle, the Fine Art course at Nottingham Trent University presents the Thursday Live Lecture series of free seminars by the British Art Show 7 curators and a selection of artists included in the exhibition. This series is an opportunity to find out more about the art on show across the city.

Olivia Plender’s installations, performances, videos and publications address subjects ranging from the history of the global financial system to social and religious movements. She has exhibited internationally at exhibitions that include the Tate Triennials of 2006 and 2009, nd played a key role in our exhibition

Disclosures II: The Middle Ages in 2008.

Thursday Live Lecture Series

In collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary, New Art Exchange and Nottingham Castle, the Fine Art course at Nottingham Trent University presents the Thursday Live Lecture series of free seminars by the British Art Show 7 curators and a selection of artists included in the exhibition. This series is an opportunity to find out more about the art on show across the city.

Introduction to British Art Show 7

14 October 2011

With Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton

In this casual seventy minute conversation between Lisa, Tom, and Curator of Public Programmes at Nottingham Contemporary Rob Blackson, Lisa and Tom answer a series of questions regarding the collaborative curatorial process they initiated to organise British Art Show 7. The British Art Show has for the past thirty years been a significant exhibition of British art that occurs every five years and is overseen by the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Touring Programme. In this conversation Lisa and Tom also describe their underlining intentions behind their use of this exhibition’s subtitle In the Days of the Comet, which has been lifted from the HG Wells science fiction novel of the same name.

In a Q&A with Rob Blackson, Nottingham Contemporary’s Curator of Public Programmes, the British Art Show 7 curators will discuss the collaborative process for selecting the artists and explore the exhibition’s various themes. Questions from the audience are welcomed.

Lisa Le Feuvre teaches on the postgraduate curatorial programme at Goldsmiths, London. She is soon to be Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute. Between 2005 and 2009 she directed the contemporary art programme at the National Maritime Museum.

Tom Morton is currently a curator at the Hayward Gallery, and was previously

curator of Cubitt Gallery, London. He was co-curator of the 2008 Busan Biennale, South Korea. He has been Contributing Editor of Frieze magazine since 2003.

14 Oct 2010

In a Q&A with Rob Blackson, Nottingham Contemporary’s Curator of Public Programmes, the British Art Show 7 curators will discuss the collaborative process for selecting the artists and explore the exhibition’s various themes. Questions from the audience are welcomed.

Lisa Le Feuvre teaches on the postgraduate curatorial programme at Goldsmiths, London. She is soon to be Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute. Between 2005 and 2009 she directed the contemporary art programme at the National Maritime Museum.

Tom Morton is currently a curator at the Hayward Gallery, and was previously

curator of Cubitt Gallery, London. He was co-curator of the 2008 Busan Biennale, South Korea. He has been Contributing Editor of Frieze magazine since 2003.

Thursday Live Lecture Series

In collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary, New Art Exchange and Nottingham Castle, the Fine Art course at Nottingham Trent University presents the Thursday Live Lecture series of free seminars by the British Art Show 7 curators and a selection of artists included in the exhibition. This series is an opportunity to find out more about the British Art Show in Nottingham.

Nottingham Contemporary’s galleries will reverberate with music as two very different musicians supply soundtracks for the two exhibitions.

Renowned classical musician Thomas Bloch will play the glass harmonica in the Gert and Uwe Tobias exhibition. This rare and beautiful instrument was first premiered in 1762. More than 100 composers, including Mozart and Beethoven, wrote works for it. However it acquired a sinister reputation – its vibrating sound was thought to drive listeners mad – and it fell out of favour. Only around 15 people in the world can currently play it. Bloch has worked with Radiohead, Gorillaz, Tom Waits and Marianne Faithfull.

Geoff Dyer is a successful novelist, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, as well as a photography historian and journalist. In this lecture he discusses Arbus’s work in the context of 20th century photography. Described by The Telegraph as “quite possibly the best living writer in Britain,” his award winning books include But Beautiful and Out of Sheer Rage. He has contributed articles to The Guardian, The Independent, Wallpaper* and The New York Times. Simon Baker, Tate’s first Curator of Photography will lead a question and answer session

Alexander Nemerov is the nephew of Diane Arbus - son of her brother, the acclaimed poet Howard Nemerov and Professor of Art and American Studies at Yale University.

Video documentation from The World's Largest Photo Booth at Nottingham Contemporary, 24 July - 5 September 2010.

Thanbks To Branden Oliver, Lab and James Brouwer,

Director Anders Kreuger in conversation with Alex Farquharson, Director of Nottingham Contemporary, followed by a screening of Subtitles, Kreuger’s dissection of the progressive ideals of 70s Sweden, through the medium of then wholesome children’s TV