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<< BackComing up: Irreversible Noise, Inigo Wilkins on 28 May 2013
Pavilion presents a series of three events exploring the appearance and significance of fractal geometry in historical and recent art and design. This series pursues Pavilion’s interest in a removed perspective on the structure of art. It takes place in the context of a major collaboration with artist Melvin Moti. A unique local backdrop to this work is the story of Leeds-based physicists William Henry and William Lawrence Bragg, who were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1915 for their pioneering use of X-ray crystallography. This technique, which reveals the atomic structures of crystals, has underpinned major breakthrough work, including the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
Irreversible Noise, Inigo Wilkins
28 May 6pm – 8pm
Can everything be then seen as a rhythm, a pattern that is beyond our comprehension, and exists independently of our knowledge of it?
Can everything be then seen as a rhythm, a pattern that is beyond our comprehension, and exists independently of our knowledge of it?
Inigo Wilkins is a transdisciplinary researcher at the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College and is addressing predictability, auditory cognition, topology and computation in relation to noise and music. He is a fellow working at Mute magazine and the Post Media Lab at Lüneburg University.
The event will feature new work by artist Mark Fell.
Mexico Space, 25 Wharf Chambers, Wharf Street, Leeds, LS2 7EQ
The Fourth Dimension, Melvin Moti
The event will feature new work by artist Mark Fell.
Mexico Space, 25 Wharf Chambers, Wharf Street, Leeds, LS2 7EQ
The Fourth Dimension, Melvin Moti
11 June 6pm – 8pm
A dimensional space higher than our known world which has captivated geometers for centuries.
A dimensional space higher than our known world which has captivated geometers for centuries.
Artist Melvin Moti is currently working with Pavilion to produce a new film, which uses crystals and computer modelling to posit a view from a ‘fourth dimension’. A set of fabrics by Tibor Reich, whose design was influenced by the visuals of crystallography, will be displayed as part of the event.
ULITA, St Wilfrid's Chapel, Maurice Keyworth Building, Moorland Road, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
Fractals, Chaos and the Materiality of Thinking, Nina Samuel
ULITA, St Wilfrid's Chapel, Maurice Keyworth Building, Moorland Road, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
Fractals, Chaos and the Materiality of Thinking, Nina Samuel
25 July 6pm – 8pm
Art Historian Nina Samuel is editor of The Islands of Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos and the Materiality of Thinking and is curator of the exhibition of the same name at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery 2013. Both investigate the complex relationship between visual and scientific reasoning in fractal geometry and chaos theory.
The exhibition does not focus on the attractive illustrations scientists frequently produce for publication. Instead, it uses the detritus of scientific investigation to reveal the beauty of material thinking.
Brotherton Room, Special Collections, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
Tickets free, donations welcome
To book: http://fractalgeometry.eventbrite.com/
anna@pavilion.org.uk
0113 343 2718
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
To book: http://fractalgeometry.eventbrite.com/
anna@pavilion.org.uk
0113 343 2718
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
Image: Dragon Fractal, Univocal publishing
Following its presentation at the Hyde Park Picture House (Leeds) in 2011, the work has been awarded funding via Arts Council England's Strategic Touring programme to tour to venues across the UK throughout 2012 and 2013. The tour launched at Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle) in 2011 as part of CIRCA Projects' 'presents' programme. It is currently showing at ICA (London) until 1 February and following this will tour to The Watershed (Bristol), Queen's Film Theatre (Belfast), Duke of York Picture House (Brighton) and Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee)
Touring Programme: Aurelien Froment 9 Intervals
Video still: Aurélien Froment 9 Intervals, 2011
In 2011 Pavilion commissioned French artist Aurélien Froment to make a set of nine short films specifically for the cinema context. The work takes the seated position of the cinema viewer as its starting point, meditating upon the relationship between design and body, viewer and image. It features osteopath David Annett, yoga instructor Nichi Green, Will Holder as a reader, film enthusiast Keith Withall, workers at KM furniture factory and designer Michael Marriot's selection of chairs. The work stands between genres and is encyclopaedic in content, parodic in tone and minimalist in form.
Following its presentation at the Hyde Park Picture House (Leeds) in 2011, the work has been awarded funding via Arts Council England's Strategic Touring programme to tour to venues across the UK throughout 2012 and 2013. The tour launched at Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle) in 2011 as part of CIRCA Projects' 'presents' programme. It is currently showing at ICA (London) until 1 February and following this will tour to The Watershed (Bristol), Queen's Film Theatre (Belfast), Duke of York Picture House (Brighton) and Dundee Contemporary Arts (Dundee)
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In 2012 Pavilion's programme is generously supported by: Arise South Leeds, Arts Council England, Coop Community Fund, Coutts Charitable Trust, Creative Space Management, European Social Fund, Fluxus - Franco British Fund for Contemporary Art, Henry Moore Institute, Homes and Communities Agency, Hinrichsen Foundation, Humber Learning Consortium, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds City Council, Lithunian Embassy, Mondriaan Fund, Trinity Leeds Community Initiative, University of Leeds, Yorkshire & Clydesdale Bank Foundation