Assemblage: Gatherings on Contemporary Art, 2023 - 2024
Assemblage: Gatherings on Contemporary Art was planned as a series of public events and activities that connected teaching and research at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. The program included three symposia-style events featuring lectures, talks, curated exhibitions, screenings, and workshops by local and international artists and scholars highlighting the intersections of art, gender, sexuality, race, migration, and decolonization.
The project was initiated and conceptualized by Abdullah Qureshi, who led the programming from 2023 to 2024 as a Lecturer in Fine Art at Northumbria University. The programming also included two curated exhibitions by Abdullah Qureshi: Sweeping Tide: Notes Toward Decolonial Feminisms (2024) and Unlimited Intimacy (2023).
The project was initiated and conceptualized by Abdullah Qureshi, who led the programming from 2023 to 2024 as a Lecturer in Fine Art at Northumbria University. The programming also included two curated exhibitions by Abdullah Qureshi: Sweeping Tide: Notes Toward Decolonial Feminisms (2024) and Unlimited Intimacy (2023).
The 2023-2024 iteration of the Assemblage program was supported by the Art Practice and Conservation Subject Area, the Department of Arts Research Funds, and the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion team at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, as well as the Finnish Institute UK + Ireland.
Partners included Vane Gallery, Gateshead and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London.
Partners included Vane Gallery, Gateshead and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London.
Assemblage I:
Body and Politics
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Film Screening: Inner GodsLocation: CCE1 003, Northumbria University
Exhibition Tour with Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh
Location: Vane Gallery, Gateshead
Exhibition Opening: Unlimited Intimacy
Curated by Abdullah Qureshi / Artists: Tessa Boffin, Phyllis Christopher, Sunil Gupta, Stuart Linden Rhodes, and Charan Singh
Location: Vane Gallery, Gateshead
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Welcome: Julie CrawshawLocation: Squires Cinema (SQB020a), Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Artist Talk: Restore the Boundaries: Mapping Bodies of Water. Speaker: Naiza Khan. Moderator: Abdullah Qureshi
Location: Squires Cinema (SQB020a), Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Film Screening: Henna Hands and its Afterlives, Naiza Khan
Location: Location: Squires Cinema (SQB020a), Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
| Panel Discussion: Navigating the Archive: Political Bodies and Histories. Speakers: Phyllis Christopher, Naiza Khan, and Stuart Linden Rhodes. Moderator: Abdullah Qureshi Location: Squires Cinema (SQB020a), Northumbria University. |
Contemporary Art Research Forum: Art & Class – Gavin Butt and Janette Parris
Location: Squires Cinema (SQB020a), Northumbria University.
Exhibition: Video Shop Horrors – a project by the Horror Studies Research Group led by Johnny Walker
Location: Gallery North, Northumbria University
Exhibition: Artistic Contributions by Northumbria Faculty
Artists: Charles Danby, Liz Green, Allan Hughes, Kate Liston, Abdullah Qureshi, Ginny Reed, and Cecilia Stenbom
Location: Experimental Studio, Lipman Building, Northumbria University
Friday, October 27, 2023
Processing Practice: Body, Memory, and the Archive Project Presentations: Yasmeen Ghrawi & Naiza Khan. Co-moderated by Abdullah Qureshi and Donna ChambersLocation: SQB 501, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Documentation of the Assemblage I: Body and Politics program, October 25-27, 2023. Photographs courtesy: Mark Duffy
Assemblage II:
Time and Space
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Space Assembly: The Cultural Negotiation of Space Science – organised by CNoS and the Space IDRT.
Location: Room SQ020 – Squires Cinema, Squires Building.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Workshop #1: Alternative Data Analysis (ADA)
Led by Dr Laura Harrington, Cultural Negotiation of Science research group, Northumbria University, and Dr Nicolette Barsdorf Liebchen, Bournemouth University
Location: Experimental Studio, Lipman Building.
Workshop #2: Transplanetary Architectures
Led by Luis Guzmán & Blanca Pujals, Cultural Negotiation of Science research group, Northumbria University, Monika Brandic Lipinska and Anne-Sophie Belling, Bio-Futures for Transplanetary Habitats research group, Newcastle University
Location: Experimental Studio, Lipman Building.
Workshop #3: Performing Space - SPELLS
Led by Nahum, KOSMICA Institute
Location: Room 027, Squires Building.
BxNU Discussion: Complex Support Needs, Art and Higher Education – organised in collaboration with Project Art Works. Led by Andrea Phillips
Location: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
Exhibition: Closed Enough
Artists: Amanda Riffo, Brák Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg Sigurjónsdóttir, Eygló Harðardóttir, Halla Einarsdóttir, Una Björg Magnúsdóttir, Martha Lyons Haywood, Joe Keys and Logi Leó Gunnarsson
Location: Vane Gallery, Gateshead.
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Welcome: Julie Crawshaw
Location: Squires Cinema, Squires Building
Panel Discussion: Hyphenated Practices: The Porous Boundaries between Artistic Production and Exhibition Making Speakers: Rolina Blok, Lina Hermsdorf, Joe Keys and Una Magnusdottir. Moderator: Abdullah Qureshi
Location: Room SQB020, Squires Cinema, Squires Building
Intervention: Walking as practice, walking as pedagogy: exploring built environments with Incursions
Location: Starting point: Room SQB020, Squires Cinema, Squires Building
Panel Discussion: Walking as practice, walking as pedagogy: exploring built environments with Incursions
Location: Room SQB020, Squires Cinema, Squires Building.
Films: The CNoS Screening Programme
Location: Experimental Studio, Lipman Building.
Exhibition: LOOP
Artists: Madeleine Culver, Blue Mountain Arcturus, Charles Danby Kate Liston, Rosie Morris, Neuschloss, Abdullah Qureshi Ginny Reed, Corin Sworn, Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan
Location: Gallery North
Friday, December 1, 2023
Workshop: Praxis In-Action: Documentation as Artistic Research.
Location: Room 501, Squires Building
Documentation of the Assemblage II: Time and Space program. Photographs courtesy: Mark Duffy
Installation Views: LOOP, 2023, Gallery North Project Space, Squires Annex, Northumbria University. Artists: Madeleine Culver, Blue Mountain Arcturus, Charles Danby Kate Liston, Rosie Morris, Neuschloss, Abdullah Qureshi Ginny Reed, Corin Sworn, Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan. To view Abdullah Qureshi’s in the exhibition, click here. Photographs courtesy: Mark Duffy
Assemblage III:
Community and Care
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Contemporary Art Research Forum (CARF): Last Thing - Screening and Discussion with Deborah Stratman
Venue: LIP0026, Northumbria University
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Questionable Tastes? How Sexual Sociality Matter - Lecture and Discussion with Professor Susanna Paasone, Moderated by Dr Rachel Hann
Venue: LIP031, Northumbria University
You Know You Want To - Artistic Project by Rolina Blok, Alex Schady, Elizabeth Wright, in collaboration with students from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Venue: Vane Gallery
Thursday, February 15, 2024
MARGINALITIES - Research Group Launch and Panel Discussion with Dr Claire Ogah, Dr Sanghita Sen, Dr Reem Refaat Talhouk in conversation with Professor Donna Chambers
Venue: SQB020, Northumbria University
Sweeping Tide: Notes Toward Decolonial Feminisms - Panel Discussion with Tamara Al-Mashouk, Syowia Kyambi, and Sepideh Rahaa in conversation with Abdullah Qureshi
Venue: SQB020, Northumbria University
Sweeping Tide: Notes Toward Decolonial Feminism - Exhibition curated by Abdullah Qureshi. Artists: Tamara Al-Mashouk, Syowia Kyambi, and Sepideh Rahaa,
Venue: Gallery North and Experimental Studio, Northumbria University
Friday, February, 16 2024
Visiting Galleries and Community Arts Spaces in Glasgow Field Trip for Northumbria University Fine Art and CCIM Students.
Documentation of the Assemblage III: Community and Care program. Photographs courtesy: Mark Duffy
Installation Views: You Know You Want To, 2024, Vane Gallery, Gateshead - Artistic Project by Rolina Blok, Alex Schady, Elizabeth Wright, in collaboration with students from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Photographs courtesy: Vane Gallery, Gateshead
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