8 People Have Been Invited to Give A Talk About A Specific Significant Educational Experience
A symposium event,
21 October & 4 November 2008
KEN
35 Kenton Road, London E9 7AB, London
An ongoing conversation, beginning several years ago, about educational structures and their
influence on a personal experience of knowledge, lead to a symposium event, for which we asked
8 people, of diverse practices, to give talks on a "Specific Significant Educational Experience",
leading to an ongoing series of similar events. Those invited are people whose experience might
lend an interesting vantage to the topic, but who are not necessarily experts.
-- Robert Ellis - Plum Seating Area
Robert Ellis is currently working on some drawings that are driving him mad. He lives in London.
-- Conrad Ventur - GOLDSMITE: What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger: A 20-minute
pseudo-performative lecture about the English arts educational system today
Conrad Ventur was born in Seattle, USA in 1977. Raised in New Haven, later moving to New York, he
now lives and works in London following completion of the fine art MFA at Goldsmith's. Select solo
shows include Let Me Take You to The Edge of the Woods Today, Unosunove 1/9, Rome (2008) and
Portraits, Elizabeth Dee (2002). Select group exhibitions include 3 am. Eternal, Alexandre Pollazzon
Ltd., London (2008); Open City, Somerset House, London (2008); Celebrity, Chris Mao, Shanghai,
(2005); Philliip Guided by Lighting, Deitch Projects, New York (2004); Now Playing, D'Amelio Terras,
New York (2003); What About New York? A New New York Scene, Galerie du Jour Agnes B., Paris (2003).
-- Chloe Briggs - Spaces to Fail
Artist and recently appointed Foundation Chair at Parsons Paris School of Art and Design will speak
about research project, 'Spaces to Fail'.
-- Amanda Dennis - In the interests of transparency, the moment that changed my life
Amanda lives and works in London and Reading. Working in London 3 days a week on auto-italia, a
collaborative project with Kate Cooper and Rachel Pimm. In Reading, Amanda works 2 days a week at
Maiden Erlegh School, both the place of her secondary education and current source of stable income.
She is employed as a Specialist Arts Technician. Amanda rents a flat in Brixton, London and spends
at least one night per week in her family's home in Reading. Graduated BA Fine Art 2006. Born 1984.
-- Francesco Pedraglio - Climate, Geography and You: An Attempt to Experience D'Alembert Association
Game
I did not experience anything extraordinary in my education. Maybe the most extraordinary thing of
all was its normality. Starting from an 'out of context' quote from D'Alembert article on 'Climate
and geography'(here) I will try to play a sort of association game mimicking the banal development
of my education in a nonlinear process. Francesco is co-founder and curator at the project space
FormContent in London, he is Editor of The Mock periodical publication, he livs in London and he is
tall.
-- Christian Töepfner - Performative Settings
Christian messes with theory and will speak about collaborative explorations in the framework of the
Manoa Free University (Vienna, 2003 - ca. 2007) where he was a research fellow.
-- *Nina Beier and Marie Lund - were not able to present