CHAR Lecture Series

CHAR Lecture Series presents:  

A Panel: Theatrical Dynamics

with Stuart Elliot,  David Leapman, Hannah Schwadron, and Sarah Sparkes

Moderator: Harmony Wolfe

Thursday, January 17, 2013 @ 7 pm 

doors open at 6:45 pm

4196 Chestnut Street

Riverside, CA 92501

the event is free.

light refreshments, byob

CHAR Lecture Series presents a panel in conjunction with the

forthcoming exhibit Theatrical Dynamics. Artists featured in the show

engage in a lively conversation winding through an investigation of a

mobile understanding of the term Theatrical Dynamics, making

exhibitions, and the formation of the artist-curator, amongst other

anchoring points.

Stuart Elliot is a London-based artist who has shown work at The

Curator's Egg Altera Pars, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, and Object

Lesson, SPACE, in London. He has also had a solo exhibit at HOTEL.

David Leapman is an artist based in Riverside, CA. Has exhibited his work nationally and internationally since the early 1980's, including the Venice Biennial, Serpentine Gallery, ICA and the Royal Academy. Leapman is associated with the Young British Artist, (YBA) his work is in the Saatchi Collection and is featured in the publication Shark Infested Waters, The Saatchi Collection of British Art in the 90's. He is also the first prizewinner of Britain's most prestigious paint award The John Moores. His work is included in many public and private collections worldwide.

Hannah Schwadron is a PhD candidate in the Critical Dance Studies

Department at UC Riverside. In combination with doctoral research,

Hannah has presented original dance theater on related themes.

Sarah Sparkes is an artist and curator living and working in London. She runs the visual arts and creative research project GHost and has curated GHost exhibitions for the London Art Fair and Folkestone Triennial.  Between 2009 - 2012 she was an Affiliated Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London where her research centered on the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature. Material from this research will be published later in 2013 in The Ashgate Research Companion to Sociocultural Studies of the Paranormal.

Harmony Wolfe makes objects and performances working from memories of

landscapes real and conceptual. She is the curator of the CHAR Lecture

Series.

About CHAR:

CHAR is an ongoing series of experiments in which artists, theorists,

and other cultural producers share ways of making and knowing. These

experiments are presented in the domestic sphere as a re-staging of

contexts for cultural inquiries.

The CHAR Lecture Series is a branch of CHAR, functioning as a platform

for the display and expression of ideas, politics, practices, art, and

other fascinations. It seeks to build conceptual and material

affiliations between conversations, imaginations, and individuals. The

speakers present their work and their diverse perspectives, and invite

the audience to participate in critical discussions. The model of

sharing and reflection through dialogue reconfigures parameters of an

artistic community. CLS manifests through performances, screenings,

lectures, and makings, thus transforming the ways we consider art

making in relation to experience.