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MFA in Fine Art - e-flux Education Call for applications 2025: MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Come along to the Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art degree show!

Post-Graduate Art Talk Oct 31st at 5:30pm
Stewart Hall Lecture Theatre LG02

Lenka Vrablikova, Othering Myco-Visions: Fungi in European Colonial Modernity

Fungi have long occupied a highly ambivalent position in human imagination, inciting disgust and fear, as well as wonder and fascination. Neither plants, nor animals, they grow up unexpectedly but also in regular lines or circles. Some of them are medicinal and edible, whereas others are toxic or even poisonous. Sometimes they are both. Drawing form this

ambivalence and mobilising analytics of transnational eco-feminist inquiry, the talk examines traces that fungi and their metaphors leave in the articulations of nationhood, race, gender, and sexuality within the political imaginary of European colonial modernity.

Lenka Vráblíkova is a lecture in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. Her work lies at the intersection of visual culture studies, transnational feminisms and political ecology, and brings together visual and textual analysis, autoethnography and artivist research. She is particularly interested in examining the role forests, mushrooms and their foragers have played in the cultural and political imagination of European heteropatriarchal and colonial modernity, with the aim to generate new notions of belonging in a world defined by unequally distributed social precarity and ecological emergency. Lenka is a co-founding member of Feminist Readings Network that provides transnational and translingual space to explore feminist, q***r and anti-racist thought, art and pedagogy. Before joining the Department of Visual Cultures, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the College of Human Sciences at UNISA (the University of South Africa).

Auricularia auricula from Roger Phillip's Mushrooms, 2006, p. 348

Post-Graduate Art Talk Tonight, Oct 24th at 5:30pm
Stewart Hall Lecture Theatre LG02

Annalee Davis, A Hymn to the Banished and (bush) Tea Plots of Resistance

From Barbados [Britain's first sugar isle] to the Scottish Highlands, Annalee Davis will explore imperial linkages across centuries of social disruption caused by the monocrop plantation system. Her presentation will respond to the colonial project which prompted the unsustainable exploitation of resources, the eradication of biodiversity leading to ecological degradation, and the vestiges of repressive regimes. Cognisant of the ensuing rupture, friction, and the need to belong in strange places, Annalee will probe rituals of incantations, charms, and the desire to repair the ills of British Empire-era indentureship and slavery through gardening as resistance and a form of agency.

Annalee Davis’ hybrid practice is as a visual artist, cultural activist and writer. Her work sits at the intersection of biography and history, focussing on post-plantation economies by engaging with a particular landscape of Barbados. Her studio, located on a working dairy farm that operated historically as a 17th century sugarcane plantation, offers a critical context for her work. Drawing, walking, making (bush) teas, and growing living apothecaries, Annalee’s practice suggests future strategies for repair and thriving while investigating the role of botanicals and living plots as ancestral sites of refusal, counter-knowledge, community and healing. In 2011, Annalee founded Fresh Milk, an art platform and micro -residency programme. In 2012 she co-founded Caribbean Linked, an annual residency in Aruba, cohering emerging artists, writers, and curators from the Caribbean and Latin America. In 2015, she co-founded Tilting Axis, an independent visual arts platform bridging the Caribbean through annual encounters. Her solo exhibition ‘A Hymn to the Banished’ (2022) at Balmacara’s Steadings Gallery on the Lochalsh estate as part of a year-long commission for the National Trust for Scotland explores historical links between Scotland and Barbados. Annalee is currently working on a living apothecary for the Sharjah Biennale opening in February 2023.

Image credit: Annalee Davis, ‘A Book of Healing Plants’, hardbound book with soft ground etching, screen print & digital print. (detail), 2022. Photo credit: DCA Dundee

Post-Graduate Art Talk Tonight, Oct 17th at 5:30pm!
Sria Chatterjee
Expanded Landscapes: Soil, Air, Art, Politics

This lecture explores how soil and air, both as matter and in representation, have been implicated in colonial and nationalist politics. With a focus on Britain, India, and Australia, the lecture zooms in on examples across the twentieth century into the present. Scaling between the elemental, material and political, I look at works by artists such as Benodebehari Mukherjee,

Amar Kanwar, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, and Jack Green. In thinking through an expanded landscape, we look together, beyond the surface, over and above it, while also critically examining our place in it.

Sria Chatterjee is an art historian and environmental humanities scholar. She is the Head of Research and Learning at The Paul Mellon Centre, London, UK. Sria works at the intersection of art, science and environment with a focus on questions around racial and environmental justice. She founded the online project »Visualizing the Virus« – https://visualizingthevirus.com/ and currently leads the multi-year Climate and Colonialism research project at the Paul Mellon Centre. She holds a PhD from Princeton University (2019).

Image credit: Shweta Bhattad, Faith in Paris performance, 2015.
Photograph from https://gram1202.wixsite.com/faithinparis

Monday Post Graduate Lectures are back on the 10th of October in the Stuart Hall Building LG02 at 17:30. All welcome!

Ecological Stewardship

10 October: Filipa Ramos, Transhumancing the Alps – On the reciprocal constitution of humans, nonhumans and landscapes across the mountains and valleys of the Dolomites

17 October: Sria Chatterjee, Expanded Landscapes: Soil, Air, Art, Politics

24 October: Annalee Davis, A Hymn to the Banished and (bush) Tea Plots of Resistance

31 October: Lenka Vrablikova, Othering Myco-Visions: Fungi in European Colonial Modernity

Private View - 16th September 6- 9pm
Open 17th - 18th September 10am - 6pm

Part of Deptford X festival 2022



Address: Goldsmiths MFA Studios, Asquith Gibbs Building, 2 Deptford Church Street, London, SE8 4RZ


Inhale... hold for 2 ... exhale ... hold for 3 ...

In a world full of distractions and 24-hour escapism, transient dopamine rushes and social media 'likes' that temporarily take us away from our current realities, we are frequently told that it is mentally healthier to focus on the ‘now’, to be 'in the present' ... but what if facing the ‘now’ is simply too difficult?

In Donna Haraway's now-famous thesis, Staying With The Trouble, she urges us to be with and unite with our "oddkin" and other species. People and species throughout history, in many different times and places, find comfort in this unity, and while Haraway focused on interspecies cohesion, we as a group at Goldsmiths, with our diverse range of ages, backgrounds, ethnicities and systemic differences, have also discovered this togetherness.

As artists we tell stories from multiple breaths that are rooted in our experiences, our personal journeys, our networks of places, histories, ideals, and our politics. We inhale as individuals; we exhale as multiples as we breathe on this tense along the time continuum.

We invite you to enter the gates beneath the DLR tracks and step inside the studios at Deptford Creekside to see our exhibition of work that critically engages with artmaking across shifting historical, social and cultural contexts. Building on our previous shows On-Hold 2022 and Futures After 2022, this show is a chance to experience the latest works and thinking in contemporary artmaking unfolding in Deptford.

We welcome you into our Present Tense.

Please spread the word about this scholarship, offered annually to support Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students enrolled or offered a place on MFA Fine Art who will pay UK fees.

The deadline has been extended to 24 June.

https://www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding/scholarships/lisson-gallery-scholarships/?fbclid=IwAR3j9tBcG5fHisLRJCkDo0zqKukDdV-081a6O-uaG6ZETUFSUsB8Hl_naJMawarded

Lisson Gallery Scholarships The Lisson Gallery Scholarships will be awarded annually to support Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students enrolled or offered a place on MFA FIne Art and MFA Curating.

Fantastic photographs of the MFA Fine Art and MA Artist's Film & Moving Image shows 2021

Suhail Malik MFA programme co-director and Diann Bauer On Speculative Time

Diann Bauer & Suhail Malik: On Speculative Time Continuing our theme of ‘futures’, we are delighted to share a conversation between artist and writer Diann Bauer with writer and theoretician Suhail Malik about time. The focus of Diann’s research is