image from THE SALON, Nudrat Afza 2012

Exploring new thought through art and cultureArts on Campus is a team based at the University of Bradford with strands in Visual Art, Music and Theatre. Our role is to ensure students, staff and the wider community have access and exposure to new and meaningful cultural experiences.

FIELDWORKS is a developing Gallery II programme of largely off-site projects engaging with neighbourhoods and marginalised people and places. Work so far has included a joint project inspired by research on dementia activism, visual annotation (note-taking/commentary) for refugee and asylum group conferences, and a series of art and cultural initiatives based on and around the Canterbury estate, near the University.

CURRENT FIELDWORKS PROJECTS

No Limits | Re-imagining Life with Dementia © started in March 2011 and is a joint project between Dr Ruth Bartlett (University of Southampton) and Fellow in Visual Arts, Caroline Hick (University of Bradford). No Limits explores the individual and collective strength of people living with this condition through specially commissioned work by filmmaker Anne Milne and artist Shaeron Caton-Rose and in collaboration with men and women with dementia. We are launching the Education Resource on 6th September 2012, at the University of Southampton. It is intended for people who are interested in and/or who have a role in raising awareness about the diverse needs and rights of people with dementia. For more information on the Education Resource, please contact R.L.Bartlett@soton.ac.uk.

Canterbury Tales is a programme of work that aims to bridge the gap between the University and the immediate district. Canterbury Estate is a 1930s housing estate characterised by high levels of deprivation and social exclusion. The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2010 indicates that 99.4% of the children living in the reach of the school and children’s centre with which we have been working live in the top 30% of most-disadvantaged areas. Canterbury has a diverse population with increasing numbers of people from refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds, and EU migrants.

Canterbury Partnerships have taken up the idea of Canterbury Tales and developed a mission statement: The aim is to empower the community, 0–90 years, through inspiring art projects and learning opportunities and by creating spaces and events for divergent communities to come together and share their stories. Our aim is also to raise status, expectations, a sense of ownership and belonging and to create positive change in the community. There will be a strong emphasis on skill-sharing, to develop a sustainable legacy within the community.

Partners include: Horton Park Primary School, Canterbury Nursery School & Centre for Children and Families, Grow Bradford, Cecil Green Arts, the ARC Activity and Recreation Centre, Touchstone and Incommunities. Here’s a brief description of three initiatives we are involved in:

Canterbury Carnival, which takes place in July, involves residents in that immediate area, including children and families who use Horton Primary School and Canterbury Centre for Children and Families. Canterbury Partnerships were this year awarded Near Neighbours Funding to commission Cecil Green Arts, who brought in artists and musicians to this year’s carnival and ran circus and puppet-making workshops.

Growing plots and sites is a direct legacy of the 1mile² Bradford project. Gallery II is supporting Charlie Gray from Grow Bradford to facilitate food-growing plots and growing sites with local residents. Building on the ethics and principles of permaculture, the main thrusts are to link land (earth care), people (people care), and social justice (fair shares). The project includes developing growing sites in Horton Park Primary School, Canterbury Centre for Children and Families, Horton Park and more informal sites on the Canterbury estate, including walkways, “hotspots” and other spaces where we are guerrilla gardening and carrying out positive interventions. http://www.square-mile.net/Community.aspx?MileID=23

Round Table is a Gallery II initiative supported by Touchstone, which aims to bring people who live and work around the estate together, through invitation, to a safe, reflective and social space. Inspired in part by the visual note-taking work developed for conference with Bradford Refugee Forum, artist Shaeron Caton-Rose guides the activity, the focus being to find common ground, to grow connections and share experiences. Using food sourced locally (a crossover with the growing plots and sites work), Round Table uses the idea of the shared meal as a way of breaking down barriers and encouraging a sense of community. Guests are encouraged to create a place mat to bring to the table and conversations and connections are literally drawn on the tablecloth as a way of capturing the discourse. Tablecloths from these events are made into a pattern to be embroidered by self-selecting participants as a fortnightly activity. http://www.touchstone-bradford.org.uk/Home

27 September – 16 November 2012 | Gallery II

Nudrat Afza | THE SALON

Exhibition Launch 4.30–6.30pm, Thursday 27 September 2012

Around 20 years ago Nudrat Afza was given a camera (Canon AE1) and started taking photographs of people and places in her local neighbourhood of Manningham in Bradford. She still uses this camera today. This year Nudrat returns to her immediate neighbourhood to document the last months of a small local hair salon, whose owner has worked there since the 1960s when he began his apprenticeship at the age of 16. The Salon captures the end of an era. Through Nudrat’s gentle and enquiring lens, we glimpse the disappearing world of the salon and its regular customers – amongst them, elderly ladies who have been coming for years for their usual wash and set.

‘I have known the Kenmore Salon on Toller Lane since I was a teenager growing up in Manningham in the ‘60s and ‘70s. I used to pass it every day on the bus to school and I can remember one day seeing the owner, who I now know as Ken, standing outside his newly modernised business. Last year, guessing the owner would soon be approaching retirement, I decided to find a way to go into the salon because, as a photographer, I was curious to know what was happening. So I made an appointment for my daughter to have her hair cut there.

‘My first impression of the salon inside was that it was a particularly fine example of late modern décor from the mid ‘70s/early ‘80s. I asked the hairdresser if anyone had approached him to take photographs of the salon, and when he said no, I asked if I could. He seemed surprised but agreed.

‘During this time I learned the owner, Ken, was planning to sell the business when he retired in 2012. With his consent, I decided to continue to photograph until the salon closed. I’m delighted to say that Bradford Industrial Museum has recognised the historical value of the salon and are going to save many artefacts to re-create the salon as an exhibit in the museum.’ Nudrat Afza

3– 21 December and 14 January – 15 February 2012/13 | Gallery II & external site

Jez Coram | CORNERS – a psycho-architectural landscape

Installation Launch 4.30–6.30pm, Monday 3rd December 2012

Gallery II in partnership with Freedom Studiosand participating artists and residents of Bradford

Jez Coram returns to Gallery II to explore psychogeography and the relationship that exists between our digital and real worlds. This follows a three-month research and development commission from Freedom Studios in 2012, where he looked at projection mapping in his moving image practice (an emerging digital technology that allows the artist to map a projected image onto multilayered and multiform objects, including people).

The aim of CORNERS is to create an immersive projection-mapped installation with the participation of residents in the city of Bradford. CORNERS will explore how the architecture of our homes affects the psychology of who we are, and what role the memory of domestic space has in the establishment of identity and imagination. The installation will be sited at Gallery II and will have a live visual link to a domestic space, a home, in Bradford.

‘I will be exploring the corner as a visual entry point to the architecture of domestic space and how our individual psyches, thoughts, imaginings, memories and daydreams play out in our relationships to the furniture, spaces and architectures in our homes. I am excited about inviting residents of Bradford to collaborate on the project as these relationships are the key to trying to explore and understand how the homes that we live in affect who we are.’ Jez Coram

Jez will visit participants and ask them some initial questions about their domestic space and memories of home. They will then work together to take photos and video footage, inside and outside the home, based on these conversations. Using projection mapping, structures, moving image and audio, Jez will reconstruct these conversations in the Gallery space, using his relationship and collaboration with them to build a sense of how the architecture of their homes has affected them.

‘As part of the installation, in the corner of Gallery II, I will map a projection of a live link to an artist’s home. I will use an open call to collaborate with an artist on the project and for the first three weeks of the installation we will be able to look into their home. In the four weeks after Christmas the artist will be invited to reconstruct their home, developing their own practice, based on their experiences of the installation.’ Jez Coram

17 September 2012 – 22 February 2013 | Richmond AtriumYan Wang | LEAP YEAR

Participatory launch event 2pm, Tuesday 18 September Have a picture taken of yourself leaping, flying or levitating!

Leap Year Project | 跳跃人生－王彦Ever heard the one about getting the Chinese to all jump at once...

高度决定视野，角度改变观念， 尺度把握人生

Artist Yan Wang’s positive take on the idea of the Leap Year.

‘Being Chinese, the idea of a leap year is a strange one to me. Just follow the moon; it works for 1.3-billion-plus of us! So, thinking about the moon, I decided that this year would be one giant leap. In fact, it’s lots of little leaps, one every day, for you to enjoy!’ Yan Wang

Yan Wang is a UK based artist whose recent work focuses upon the female form and the relationships between observation, orientation, imagination and time. In LEAP YEAR, a significant 2012 project, Yan has collaborated with a number of photographers, to create a sequence of images – a daily photograph which broadly fits within the concept of a ‘Leap Year’. By December 31st 2012, Yan will have 366 images of wherever she happened to be on each day of that year. We will be exhibiting Yan’s Leap Year project in the Richmond Atrium and encouraging people to join in during the last 3 months.

http://www.wangyanstudio.com/_/Leap_Year/Leap_Year.html Please take a picture of yourself leaping, flying or levitating and send it to: leap@wangyanstudio.com. Jump to it!

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