October 25th-November 3rd 2021 Neil Mulholland, Weird-o-Verse Template (detail), Miro, 2021 A two-week sprint on ‘Weird Studies?’ as part of the MA Contemporary Art Theory programme. ‘Weird Studies?’ participants will attempt to respond to this provocation: ‘”Weird Studies” is a…
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Shift/Work Speculations Cards (2017) designed by Jake Watts Neil Mulholland ‘Shift/Work: Speculations’, in L. Campbell (ed.), Leap into Action, New York: Peter Lang. 12th December 2019. pages 21-26; 39-40; 59-60 ISBN 9781433166440 Shift/Work is a performative paragogics (Corneli 2011) that…
Comments closedpostmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies (2019) Scheihing Edgardo Flickr: Meteorito El Chaco Meteorito_El_Chaco_100_2422 8 September 2011, 17:28:25 This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. As contemporary artistic practice has become ever more polymorphous and multispatial, large scale…
Comments closedThis book proposes ‘paragogic’ methods to re-imagine the art academy. While art schooling was revolutionised in the early 20th century by the Bauhaus, the author argues that many art schools are unwittingly recycling the same modernist pedagogical fashions. Stagnating in…
Comments closedFlourish: Johnny Rodger & Irene McAra McWilliams Memory, Will and Understanding II present: Re-imagining the Art School Professor Neil Mulholland (The University of Edinburgh) www.neilmulholland.co.uk shift-work.org.uk Thursday 24th January 2019 5.30-7pm Bourdon Lecture Theatre Glasgow School of Art https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimagining-the-art-school-prof-neil-mulholland-tickets-55017781666 Re-imagining the Art School assesses the organisational…
Comments closedconfraternityofneoflagellants.org.uk @neoflagellants WeRLtd!: Bestiary 4Achieving Imitation Doxa Dark Mountain Issue 11, Spring 2017. p146-155. Hardback book, 248 pages long, printed on FSC-certified paper. £15.99 from dark-mountain.net Download 📜 here May 13, 2017
Comments closedThe Atelier takes place in Trotternish, Waternish and Duirinish, Isle of Skye 9th-13th MAY 2016 with Atlas Arts http://atlasarts.org.uk What is ‘Atelier, Skye’? A charrette is an intensive participatory group that engages a common enquiry. Atelier, Skye is a three-day charrette wherein a group of…
Comments closedAtelier Present: Richard Sennett The Craftsman THIS EVENT HAS SOLD OUT Atelier warmly welcome Professor Richard Sennett, who will be discussing his seminal work The Craftsman at The University of Edinburgh. In this book, he shows how history has drawn fault-lines between craftsman and artist,…
Comments closed„DER FACHIDIOT?” : The Paratechnic in the Monotechnic 13:30 Provocation Paper for CHEAD, ‘Agents of Change: Art School & Universities’ http://chead.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CHEAD-Annual-Conference-2016-programme.pdf Since the early ’60s, increasingly integrated paratechnical curricula have been (begrudgingly) hosted by monotechnical art and design schools. I outline the…
Comments closed“If art can be said to reflect the conditions of the world in which it is made, art that engages with the vanguard technology of an era can perhaps be said to have a particular purchase on contemporaneous visions of…
Comments closedThe 4th International Visual Methods Conference, organized by the University of Brighton will take place from 16th September to the 18th September 2015 at the University of Brighton in Brighton, United Kingdom. The conference will cover areas like International Visual…
Comments closed2/6/15 I gave two short presentations at the ISRF Workshop: Social Science as Communication #Summerhall #Edinburgh http://t.co/yikqyqNS4i on: Atelier: Making Research Material Across the Creative Arts & Social Sciences In recent years, there has been a growing concern with materiality as a field…
Comments closedClosing Keynote for CHEAD Regional Seminar on The Role of Contextual Studies in Art School Education, The Glasgow School of Art 16/4/2015 I specifically address how the Juche mentality operates internally in art schools. Key to this is the connection between…
Comments closedJanuary 23, 2015 School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh (Hunter Lecture Theatre), 10.00 am with Hans Abbing, Evangelos Chrysagis, The Confraternity of Neoflaggelants (Norman James Hogg and Neil Mulholland), Angela McClanahan, Georgios Papadopoulos, Stevphen Shukaitis, Marina…
Comments closed‘Juche: Art School State of Mind’ in New Art West Midlands Catalogue 2014 Feb 2014 p. 25-28. Bradley, R. (ed.). Birmingham: Birmingham Museums Trust http://newartwestmidlands.org/wp-content/uploads/New-Art-West-Midlands-catalogue-2014.pdf Feb 4, 2014
Comments closedThe Confraternity of Neoflagellants will be presenting Dark Age Matter as part of the Goldsmiths Art PhD Programme Symposium on Neomedievalisms 27-29th January 2014 Organisers: Roman Vasseur & Alex Pollard See attached PDF for Outline, Timetable & Venues. The sessions on…
Comments closedBorderlands: The Historical and Cultural Significance of the Anglo-Scottish Border 13 December 2013 Gallery North, Northumbria University, Friday December 13th 2013. Convened by Dr Ysanne Holt (Northumbria University) and Dr Angela McClanahan (Edinburgh College of Art) This event, the first…
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Comments closedthN Lng folk 2go: Investigating Future Premoderns™ by The Confraternity of Neoflagellants with a Preface by Simon O’Sullivan Brooklyn, NY: punctum books, 2013. 242 pages, illus. ISBN-13: 978-0615890258. OPEN-ACCESS e-book and $17.00 [€15.00/£12.00] in print: paperbound/5 X 8 in. “At…
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