Talk by key avant-garde conceptualists at University

Artists Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden will today (1 December) be talking about their current exhibition Portraits and a Dream at the University.

The artists, known as Art & Language, have been leading figures in the British avant-garde and the Conceptual Art movement since the 1960s. They will focus in their talk on their collaboration with the highly-regarded performance group Jackson Pollock Bar.

The talk, titled Jackson Pollock Bar and The Red Crayola, will mark the second month of the duo’s exhibition at the University’s Studio 3 Gallery.

Studio 3 curator Ben Thomas said: ‘Few artists have explored so consistently and creatively the conditions and meanings of contemporary art as Art & Language. It is wonderful to be able to display their art on campus, and to have the opportunity to hear them discuss their practice.’

Jackson Pollock Bar is a performance group founded in 1993 and based in Freiberg, Germany. Its work is concerned with the recreation of a significant talk, interview or panel discussion from art history.

Art & Language: The Jackson Pollock Bar and The Red Crayola, will take place at the University’s Keynes College Lecture Theatre 6, Canterbury campus, today (1 December) from 5-7pm. Entry is free.

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Story published at 12:26pm 1 December 2011