Author: Robin Bhattacharya

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Round table: Art after the Crash

To celebrate the opening of ‘Show Me The Money: The image of finance, 1700 to the present’, a special symposium brings together exhibiting artists, leading academics from disciplines across art history, contemporary art, and literature, alongside authors and former financiers. The panellists will reflect on the past and present interrelationships between art, money, and finance. Attendance is free but booking is recommended.  Please email ngca@sunderland.gov.uk to confirm your place.

Admission: FREE

The exhibition preview follows at 6:00 – 8:00pm at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art.

Chair: Professor Julian Stallabrass (Courtauld Institute), art historian, photographer and curator

Panellists:

Bill Balaskas (University of the Creative Arts / Royal College of Art), exhibiting artist
Robin Bhattacharya, exhibiting artist
David Cross of Cornford & Cross (University of the Arts London), exhibiting artist
Dr Sarah Cook (Dundee University), curator of contemporary art, writer, and new media art historian
Geraldine Juárez, exhibiting artist
Immo Klink, exhibiting artist
Professor Nicky Marsh (Southampton University, exhibition co-curator)
Brett Scott, former broker and author of ‘The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money’

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DATE: 13th June 3.30 – 5.30pm

LOCATION: Sunderland Museum, Jack Crawford Room

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Panel „Ethnographic inquiries into contemporary configurations of racism“

Colloque annuel SSE – 07 au 09 novembre 2013 à la HETS à Sierre

Le colloque annuel de la Société Suisse d’Ethnologie a lieu à la Haute Ecole de Travail Social (HES-SO Valais//Wallis) située à Sierre. Il propose des réflexions menées par des anthropologues suisses et internationaux à partir de leurs recherches récentes. Cette année, les thématiques de l’anthropologie visuelle sont à l’honneur.

8 PANELS

„Art contemporain et ethnographie aujourd’hui: quels zones de contacts? “ „Current (Swiss) contributions to Chinese Anthropology“
„Ethnographic inquiries into contemporary configurations of racism“ “Grandir en ville – Enfances, adolescence et usages des espaces urbains” „Medical Anthropology at home“

„Recherches récentes et expérimentations audiovisuelles: l’exemple du Valais “
„Religion as a capital: the social implications of religious affiliation, practices and networks“ „Situation d’interlocution et rapports de pouvoir“

Robin Bhattacharya participates in the Panel:

„Ethnographic inquiries into contemporary configurations of racism“

Image: Presentation Slide

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Abwehr – Überlebensstrategien in Natur, Wirtschaft, Politik und Alltag

Robin Bhattacharya presents a new work, in collaboration with Catalina Ravessoud, in the exhibition:

Abwehr – Überlebensstrategien in Natur, Wirtschaft, Politik und Alltag

at Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon SZ,

from 6 May – 26 August 2012

Plaid on Plaid

ALTEX (Alternative Currency Exchange) Rates Display
“Plaid on Plaid” is an expression used to describe two patterns that are contrary to each other. It stems from when a man is wearing patterns from two different clans on his kilt – something that was not supposed to be done.
Alternative Currency Exchange, or ALTEX (analogous to FOREX) is the exchange of alternative or complimentary currencies, of which there is an almost infinite amount in circulation. While they may be local currencies, such as the Brixton Pound, digital like BitCoin or artist-made, as is the ROBIN™ currency, all of them yearn for a new economic model.
But how could they create a new shaped economy when they borrow iconography, shape, and economical structure from the dominant monetary systems?
The machine created by Robin Bhattacharya and Catalina Ravessoud displays these ALTEX-Rates in an electronically knitted pattern. While its surface shows a graph, the reverse takes up the different currencies’ far-reaching entanglement.
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