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The Struggle is a trilogy of three video works commissioned by Beaconsfield and developed with a ... more The Struggle is a trilogy of three video works commissioned by Beaconsfield and developed with a range of partners to explore the impact of familial interactions on the formation of subjectivity. The springboard for each of the films are interviews conducted with people whose parents were either political activists, military personnel, or practising Catholics respectively. The three films, The Straggle (2012), Opening Up (2015) and A Glimpse (2019) are exhibited together for the first time and explore generational, familial, ideological political and social shifts between the mid to late 20th century and the early 21st century, as a negotiated and lived experienc
The Salon for a Speculative Future was inaugurated in March 2019 in celebration of Women’s Histor... more The Salon for a Speculative Future was inaugurated in March 2019 in celebration of Women’s History Month, as a platform for cross-generational and cross-disciplinary exchange. Reflecting on the current political and economic global situation, in particular the exponential acceleration of a technology-driven platform capitalism, many women advocate positive change for an ecologically sustainable and humane future. In The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin argues that science fiction does not simply extrapolate from the present to predict the future—instead, the fiction writer engages in thought-experiments where ideas and intuition move within the confines set by the experiment. This book hosts imaginative thinking by seventy-five women artists, sharing their influences, inspired by women’s contributions to diverse fields, from art, education, and science to political activism. Salon for a Speculative Future honours and shares insights and experimental thinking towards a positive future
Art and the Politics of Visibility, 2017
Marcus Fisher is an Orthodox Jewish man. Oreet Ashery an Israeli woman, secular and Jewish. Oreet... more Marcus Fisher is an Orthodox Jewish man. Oreet Ashery an Israeli woman, secular and Jewish. Oreet is the artist and Marcus the art. Each is intertwined, bleeding into the other, traversing boundaries and transgressing the sacred.
The personal portrait, abstraction and ambivalence: Behindert as a microcosm of the work of Steph... more The personal portrait, abstraction and ambivalence: Behindert as a microcosm of the work of Stephen Dwoskin (working title) Dr Rachel Garfield, University of Reading Stephen Dwoskin came to the UK in 1964 as a successful designer aiming to take time out of professional commitments to explore art and develop his work as an artist1. He quickly became an important animateur on the London scene, drawing from his experiences and contacts in the Underground in New York. As well as continuing his design, he painted and then made films for which he won awards and built his reputation as a film maker above all2. In the 1980s in the UK interest in his work waned due to schisms and shifts in expectations of the artist and ideologies of representation. While Dwoskin has continued to maintain a considerable reputation in continental Europe, in the UK, by contrast, he is generally mentioned, in passing, as one of the founders of the LFMC or as merely an exemplar of sexually explicit films, subjec...
Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image, 2019
This text will look at some women artist filmmakers working in London through the formation and l... more This text will look at some women artist filmmakers working in London through the formation and legacies of the multiculturalism in the UK. These artist filmmakers were pioneers in the development of intersectional moving image artwork but have been somewhat overlooked compared to future generations of artists dealing with these issues in moving image. The chapter contextualises their work in relation to the period and draw out some of the wider forces that formed their work from second wave Feminism, Punk, Rock against Racism to the race riots and Black Arts in the 1980s that pioneered work exploring Black identity. Specifically this chapter looks at Sankofa films, Alia Syed, Vivienne Dick, Ruth Novaczek and reflects on the wider impact of the cultural studies debates in the 1980s on Diasporic communities in the UK.
According to many accounts, a key paradigm for understanding art in Post WWII Britain is one of E... more According to many accounts, a key paradigm for understanding art in Post WWII Britain is one of Englishness versus internationalism or abstraction versus realism . These terms have a rich inflection of meanings that have been subject to interrogation over the last few decades. Anwar Shemza came to Britain and practiced his art at a time when these competing claims were at their height. In a postcolonial reading entitled “Black Diaspora Artists in Britain: Three ‘Moments’ in Post-War Britain” Stuart Hall recently used David Scott’s framework of a ‘problem space’, that is discursively defined through questions, tensions and conjunctures, that couched the entry of what he describes as first waive British commonwealth artists into critical visibility in Britain. This can be characterized in part by the reviews of WG Archer and GM Butcher, both supporters of Shemza and prominent critics of the period. Hall includes Shemza in this framework that defines the work and his aspirations as con...
Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norm... more Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making. In this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious, feminist punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s, tracing its roots and its legacies. In their filmmaking and their performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick, Sandra Lahire, Betzy Bromberg, Ruth Novaczek, Sadie Benning, Leslie Thornton, Abigail Child and Anne Robinson offered a powerful, deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist femininity, creating a new “punk audio visual aesthetic”. A vital aspect of our vibrant contemporary digital audio visual culture, Garfield argues, can be traced back to the techniques and forms of these feminist pioneers, who like their musical contempo...
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2016
European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 2016
Goldsmiths Research Online. Goldsmiths - University of London. ...
Page 1. תונותיעל העדוה לחר תא חראמ תונמאל ןוכמה ( צייר 'ל) דליפראג תינמא הצרמו םוחתב ידומיל ... more Page 1. תונותיעל העדוה לחר תא חראמ תונמאל ןוכמה ( צייר 'ל) דליפראג תינמא הצרמו םוחתב ידומיל הירואית תרוקיבו גוחב תונמאל תימסדלוגב גלוק ,' תטיסרבינוא ןודנול , ריע הב איה היח ו תרצוי . לחר ( ציר 'ל) דליפרגRACHEL GARFIELD בצימ ואדיו FOR SOME TIME NOW 24/5/10-30/6/10 תרצוא : ןושחנ ילוש ...
... Event Location: Arizona State University Museum, United States. ID Code: 3024. Deposited By: ... more ... Event Location: Arizona State University Museum, United States. ID Code: 3024. Deposited By: Dr Rachel Garfield. Deposited On: 19 May 2010 13:39. Last Modified: 19 May 2010 13:39. Repository Staff Only: item control page. ...
AfterShock, 2007
Goldsmiths Research Online. Goldsmiths - University of London. ...
Over a period of eighteen months, a selected group of international artists and writers focused t... more Over a period of eighteen months, a selected group of international artists and writers focused their attention on Tegel airport, they observed how it is used, they engaged in new activities and imagined how the building might function in the future. This book and DVD is the outcome of what might be described as an open-ended enquiry and, as such, embodies new perspectives and approaches to the problem of urban renewal, regeneration, social organisation, mobility and the legacy of modernist architecture. This approach to site is central to imagining how art practice can slow down, re-orientate and redefine the successive cycle of masterplans and regeneration schemes so that we can begin to consider what is at stake in the spaces that we occupy. The publication includes a DVD with a selection of 27 short films.
The Struggle is a trilogy of three video works commissioned by Beaconsfield and developed with a ... more The Struggle is a trilogy of three video works commissioned by Beaconsfield and developed with a range of partners to explore the impact of familial interactions on the formation of subjectivity. The springboard for each of the films are interviews conducted with people whose parents were either political activists, military personnel, or practising Catholics respectively. The three films, The Straggle (2012), Opening Up (2015) and A Glimpse (2019) are exhibited together for the first time and explore generational, familial, ideological political and social shifts between the mid to late 20th century and the early 21st century, as a negotiated and lived experienc
The Salon for a Speculative Future was inaugurated in March 2019 in celebration of Women’s Histor... more The Salon for a Speculative Future was inaugurated in March 2019 in celebration of Women’s History Month, as a platform for cross-generational and cross-disciplinary exchange. Reflecting on the current political and economic global situation, in particular the exponential acceleration of a technology-driven platform capitalism, many women advocate positive change for an ecologically sustainable and humane future. In The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin argues that science fiction does not simply extrapolate from the present to predict the future—instead, the fiction writer engages in thought-experiments where ideas and intuition move within the confines set by the experiment. This book hosts imaginative thinking by seventy-five women artists, sharing their influences, inspired by women’s contributions to diverse fields, from art, education, and science to political activism. Salon for a Speculative Future honours and shares insights and experimental thinking towards a positive future
Art and the Politics of Visibility, 2017
Marcus Fisher is an Orthodox Jewish man. Oreet Ashery an Israeli woman, secular and Jewish. Oreet... more Marcus Fisher is an Orthodox Jewish man. Oreet Ashery an Israeli woman, secular and Jewish. Oreet is the artist and Marcus the art. Each is intertwined, bleeding into the other, traversing boundaries and transgressing the sacred.
The personal portrait, abstraction and ambivalence: Behindert as a microcosm of the work of Steph... more The personal portrait, abstraction and ambivalence: Behindert as a microcosm of the work of Stephen Dwoskin (working title) Dr Rachel Garfield, University of Reading Stephen Dwoskin came to the UK in 1964 as a successful designer aiming to take time out of professional commitments to explore art and develop his work as an artist1. He quickly became an important animateur on the London scene, drawing from his experiences and contacts in the Underground in New York. As well as continuing his design, he painted and then made films for which he won awards and built his reputation as a film maker above all2. In the 1980s in the UK interest in his work waned due to schisms and shifts in expectations of the artist and ideologies of representation. While Dwoskin has continued to maintain a considerable reputation in continental Europe, in the UK, by contrast, he is generally mentioned, in passing, as one of the founders of the LFMC or as merely an exemplar of sexually explicit films, subjec...
Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image, 2019
This text will look at some women artist filmmakers working in London through the formation and l... more This text will look at some women artist filmmakers working in London through the formation and legacies of the multiculturalism in the UK. These artist filmmakers were pioneers in the development of intersectional moving image artwork but have been somewhat overlooked compared to future generations of artists dealing with these issues in moving image. The chapter contextualises their work in relation to the period and draw out some of the wider forces that formed their work from second wave Feminism, Punk, Rock against Racism to the race riots and Black Arts in the 1980s that pioneered work exploring Black identity. Specifically this chapter looks at Sankofa films, Alia Syed, Vivienne Dick, Ruth Novaczek and reflects on the wider impact of the cultural studies debates in the 1980s on Diasporic communities in the UK.
According to many accounts, a key paradigm for understanding art in Post WWII Britain is one of E... more According to many accounts, a key paradigm for understanding art in Post WWII Britain is one of Englishness versus internationalism or abstraction versus realism . These terms have a rich inflection of meanings that have been subject to interrogation over the last few decades. Anwar Shemza came to Britain and practiced his art at a time when these competing claims were at their height. In a postcolonial reading entitled “Black Diaspora Artists in Britain: Three ‘Moments’ in Post-War Britain” Stuart Hall recently used David Scott’s framework of a ‘problem space’, that is discursively defined through questions, tensions and conjunctures, that couched the entry of what he describes as first waive British commonwealth artists into critical visibility in Britain. This can be characterized in part by the reviews of WG Archer and GM Butcher, both supporters of Shemza and prominent critics of the period. Hall includes Shemza in this framework that defines the work and his aspirations as con...
Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norm... more Just as punk created a space for bands such as the Slits and Poly Styrene to challenge 1970s norms of femininity, through a transgressive, strident new female-ness, it also provoked experimental feminist film makers to initiate a parallel, lens-based challenge to patriarchal modes of film making. In this book, Rachel Garfield breaks new ground in exploring the rebellious, feminist punk audio-visual culture of the 1970s, tracing its roots and its legacies. In their filmmaking and their performed personae, film and video artists such as Vivienne Dick, Sandra Lahire, Betzy Bromberg, Ruth Novaczek, Sadie Benning, Leslie Thornton, Abigail Child and Anne Robinson offered a powerful, deliberately awkward alternative to hegemonic conformist femininity, creating a new “punk audio visual aesthetic”. A vital aspect of our vibrant contemporary digital audio visual culture, Garfield argues, can be traced back to the techniques and forms of these feminist pioneers, who like their musical contempo...
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2016
European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 2016
Goldsmiths Research Online. Goldsmiths - University of London. ...
Page 1. תונותיעל העדוה לחר תא חראמ תונמאל ןוכמה ( צייר 'ל) דליפראג תינמא הצרמו םוחתב ידומיל ... more Page 1. תונותיעל העדוה לחר תא חראמ תונמאל ןוכמה ( צייר 'ל) דליפראג תינמא הצרמו םוחתב ידומיל הירואית תרוקיבו גוחב תונמאל תימסדלוגב גלוק ,' תטיסרבינוא ןודנול , ריע הב איה היח ו תרצוי . לחר ( ציר 'ל) דליפרגRACHEL GARFIELD בצימ ואדיו FOR SOME TIME NOW 24/5/10-30/6/10 תרצוא : ןושחנ ילוש ...
... Event Location: Arizona State University Museum, United States. ID Code: 3024. Deposited By: ... more ... Event Location: Arizona State University Museum, United States. ID Code: 3024. Deposited By: Dr Rachel Garfield. Deposited On: 19 May 2010 13:39. Last Modified: 19 May 2010 13:39. Repository Staff Only: item control page. ...
AfterShock, 2007
Goldsmiths Research Online. Goldsmiths - University of London. ...
Over a period of eighteen months, a selected group of international artists and writers focused t... more Over a period of eighteen months, a selected group of international artists and writers focused their attention on Tegel airport, they observed how it is used, they engaged in new activities and imagined how the building might function in the future. This book and DVD is the outcome of what might be described as an open-ended enquiry and, as such, embodies new perspectives and approaches to the problem of urban renewal, regeneration, social organisation, mobility and the legacy of modernist architecture. This approach to site is central to imagining how art practice can slow down, re-orientate and redefine the successive cycle of masterplans and regeneration schemes so that we can begin to consider what is at stake in the spaces that we occupy. The publication includes a DVD with a selection of 27 short films.
From The Evacuees to Grandma’s House Class, Sexuality, and Jewish Identity on British Television,... more From The Evacuees to Grandma’s House
Class, Sexuality, and Jewish Identity on British
Television, 1975– 2012