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SUMMARY:Basic Instincts (Exhibition runs from 29 Sep 2017 — 07 Jan 2018)
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Dr Jacqueline Riding\, Basic Instincts explores Georgian attitudes to love\, desire and female respectability through the radical paintings of Joseph Highmore.  \nA highly successful artist and Governor of London’s Foundling Hospital\, Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) is best known as a portrait painter of the Georgian middle class. However\, during the 1740s his art radically shifted\, reflecting his engagement with the work of the new Foundling Hospital and its mission to support desperate and abused women. Highmore’s involvement with the Hospital sparked engagement with issues around women’s vulnerability to sexual assault and society’s unwillingness to support them\, culminating in a work of exceptional power\, The Angel of Mercy (c.1746). \nBasic Instincts is the first major Highmore exhibition for 50 years and explores this decade of disruptive social commentary in his art. Amongst the works on display are four paintings from a series of twelve\, inspired by Samuel Richardson’s international bestseller\, Pamela\, or Virtue Rewarded\, explicitly making reference to the abuse and sexual violence at the core of the novel. On public display in the UK for the first time as part of Basic Instincts is a remarkable painting that still retains the power to shock. The Angel of Mercy depicts a desperate mother in the act of killing her baby\, with the distant Foundling Hospital presented as the alternative. Set among Highmore’s tender portraits of mothers and children\, family and friends\, this show uniquely demonstrates the artist’s depth and variety. \nFree entry with musuem admission\, click here for more information.
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/basic-instincts-exhibition-runs-from-29-sep-2017-07-jan-2018/
LOCATION:The Founding Museum\, 40 Brunswick Square\, London\, WC1N 1AZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Partner Events
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SUMMARY:Raft of the Medusa (Exhibition runs until 29 Sep 2017 - 07 Jan 2018)
DESCRIPTION:The Foundling Museum displays a series of five previously unseen sculptures by acclaimed artist Rachel Kneebone\, providing a resonant counterpoint to their exhibition Basic Instincts. \nRachel Kneebone is a British artist whose intricate works address and question the human condition. Raft of the Medusa’s tumbling limbs and fractured swags are at once coquettish and sinister; their gleaming white surfaces and exquisite detail belie scenes of collapse and dismemberment. \nUsing porcelain\, a delicate material traditionally associated with Rococo exuberance and fine tableware\, Kneebone subverts viewers’ expectations. Visibly exploiting the material properties of porcelain\, she deliberately allows her work to distort and crack in the kiln\, inviting the viewer to question the relationship between strength and vulnerability. \nThis display in the Museum’s historic rooms distils and abstracts the Foundling Hospital’s suppressed narratives of sexual desire\, emotional damage\, and female strength\, whilst also referencing ideas of displacement\, refuge\, and resilience. To discover more about Kneebone’s work\, hear the artist and Museum Director Caro Howell in conversation on Friday 6 October. \nFree entry with musuem admission\, click here for more information.
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/raft-of-the-medusa-exhibition-runs-until-29-sep-2017-07-jan-2018/
LOCATION:The Foundling Museum\, 40 Brunswick Square\, London\, WC1N 1AZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Partner Events
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SUMMARY:On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands (Exhibition runs from 19 October 2017 – 9 February 2018)
DESCRIPTION:“Everything that people thought they knew about the German occupation of the Channel Islands is – at best – partial and – at worst – inaccurate\,” explains co-curator Dr. Gilly Carr on the motivation for a new exhibition at The Wiener Library. \nDuring the German occupation of the Channel Islands 1940-1945\, many thousands of people were persecuted\, including slave labourers\, political prisoners and Jews. Their story has been largely omitted from a British narrative of ‘standing alone’ against Nazism and celebrations of British victory over Germany. \nOn British Soil – Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands tells the stories of these persecuted\, drawing upon The Wiener Library’s rich archival collections\, files recently released by The National Archives\, and never seen before items from the personal collections of victims of Nazi persecution. \nFrom the experiences of a young Jewish woman living quietly on a farm in Jersey and later deported to Auschwitz\, to those of a Spanish forced labourer in Alderney\, and the story of a man from Guernsey whose death in a Nazi prison remained unknown to his family for over 70 years\, this exhibition highlights the lives of the persecuted and the post-war struggle to obtain recognition for their suffering. \nPlease visit The Wiener Library website for more information\, you can read the full press release here. \nOpening hours: Monday-Friday 10am-5pm\, Tuesdays: 10 am – 7:30pm\nFree entry \nProduced in collaboration with Dr. Gilly Carr of Cambridge University\, and with the generous support of the Heritage Lottery Fund. \nImage credit: \n1) Hedwig Bercu © Jersey Archives\n2) © John Dalmau\, Slave Worker in the Channel Islands (1956)\, Wiener Library Collections
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/on-british-soil-victims-of-nazi-persecution-in-the-channel-islands-exhibition-runs-from-19-october-2017-9-february-2018/
LOCATION:The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide\, 29 Russell Square\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Partner Events
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SUMMARY:Memento – Poet in the City and Aurora Orchestra
DESCRIPTION:Technology has rapidly transformed the way we store memory and our very own relationship to this critical aspect of being human. What can music and poetry tell us about this dramatic shift in our everyday lives? \nIn this cross-disciplinary event\, Poet in the City and Aurora Orchestra uncover the story of a ground-breaking new technology that will enable us to remember more than ever before. Through the world premieres of electrically-charged new music and poetry\, they explore the question: what happens when matter\, music\, and language are placed under pressure? \nInspired by this question\, composer Martin Suckling and poet Frances Leviston have created electrically-charged new works that draw on the memory of two great artistic forbearers\, Franz Schubert and Emily Dickinson. Suckling explores the idea of music under pressure by echoing\, distorting\, and crystallising fragments of Schubert’s sublime String Quintet. Leviston references the voltage of Dickinson’s densely packed poems and wonders how Dickinson might have responded to this advance in technology. Experimental physicist Stuart Parkin\, one of the pioneers spearheading this new technology\, joins Suckling and Leviston to present his reflections. \nCommissioned by Bio Nano Consulting Ltd for the dissemination of PETMEM (Piezoelectronic Transduction Memory Device)\, a European Commission-funded project which brings together universities\, research institutions and companies to explore low-voltage memory technologies. \nTickets on sale now – KQ partners get 15% discount by using code Memento15. \npoetinthecity.co.uk\nauroraorchestra.com \nPhoto: Aurora Orchestra © Simon Weir
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/memento-poet-in-the-city-and-aurora-orchestra/
LOCATION:King’s Place\, 90 York Way\, London\, N1 9AG\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Knowledge Quarter Introduction to Networking Masterclass
DESCRIPTION:Due to limited place\, please only register if you are confident you are able to attend this course. \nNetworking is an essential skill in the 21st century workforce yet many of us find it daunting and stressful. As the world becomes ever more connected\, so should any organisation seeking to be innovative\, and to work with diverse partners in new and creative ways. \nWhether you are in a new role that entails a degree of stakeholder engagement or looking to improve your networking skills\, the half-day Knowledge Quarter Networking Masterclass will give you the confidence\, tools and working examples to ‘work a room’. \nThe course will cover: \n\nPre-event networking preparation\nLive event networking and conversation optimisation\nPost-event next steps and relationship building.\n\nParticipants will: \n\nLearn how to prepare for a networking opportunity\, optimise a networking event and develop introductions to meaningful\, professional relationships;\nLearn through a variety of pedagogic methods;\nTake away key document templates to use in their own organisation;\nHave a chance to start building their own professional network of KQ partners\n\nAbout the Facilitators \nEdmund Connolly works at the British Library delivering a variety of programmes including: the British Fashion Council-Teatum Jones Design Competition and Harry Potter: A History of Magic\, prior to this he has delivered cultural programmes for the British Council and UCL. In addition\, he is Head of Communications for the International Council of Museums\, UK and a founding Trustee of the Bomb Factory Art Foundation as a specialist in communications and marketing. Edmund has worked with cultural institutions around the world to build long term professional networks\, mentored young professionals in the international arts sector and is currently an Inspiring Futures speaker for Hackney and Islington. \nViya Nsumbu is Public Policy Officer at the British Library where she manages the Library’s relationship with policy stakeholders. Prior the Library\, Viya has held roles in politics and public affairs which has included working with consumer and corporate brands as diverse as Puma\, Starbucks\, Land Securities and Battersea Power Station Development Corporation. She started her career as a Parliamentary intern for two backbench MPs\, including one who is now Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. \nClick here to register for this masterclass.
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/knowledge-quarter-introduction-to-networking-masterclass/
LOCATION:The British Library\, 96 Euston Rd\, Kings Cross \, London \, NW1 2DB\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:KQ Events
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SUMMARY:“Caste discrimination in the UK” Documentary screening and discussion
DESCRIPTION:The caste system has been a source of much debate in South Asia. But what happens when British Indians say caste discrimination has followed them overseas? \nCaste Aside is a documentary about the British government’s controversial decision to introduce legislation against caste discrimination in the UK. \nHighlighting both sides of this heated debate\, the documentary speaks to Dalit rights activists\, Hindu community leaders\, academics and lawyers\, as well as those who say they have been discriminated against on the basis of their caste – here in Britain. \nWhile some members of the British Indian community believe that making caste an aspect of the Equality Act 2010 would shine a negative light on the Hindu community and create social tension\, others believe that caste legislation is a necessary protection for victims. \nThe UK government has been torn between these two groups for years\, finally resulting in a public consultation to seek the views of the general public on the issue. With the consultation now complete\, both sides await a response. \nWith a big decision on the government’s hands\, Caste Aside highlights the bigger picture behind the public consultation and the story behind the UK’s caste problem. Who will the government ultimately believe? \nClick here for more information and to register to attend this screening.
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/caste-discrimination-in-the-uk-documentary-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Stanley Building\, 7 Pancras Square\, King’s Cross\, London\, N1C 4AG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Partner Events
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