Free Criticism No.5: The Performative Lecture (Abridged) Organised by David Preston and Kira Salter Curated by Joshua Trees

Join us for more cheap advice, feminist hijacking, sine-wave speech demos and a tale of childhood friendship.

Lectures by Lars Høie, Katie Lambe, Adam Willis and Jordan Woodage

Sneak preview of Lars Høie’s lecture

27 April 2016, 4.30–6.00pm*, LVMH Lecture Theatre Central Saint Martins Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross N1C 4AA

Free Criticism No.4: The Performative Lecture

Join us for life stories, random street views, sine-wave speech demos, plagiarised art, data mining, endangered analogs, assembly lines, cheap advice, unidentified smells, Skatelita, a history of Chinese students studying abroad, the life cycle of a meal, The Andes (from memory) and other unproven nonsense.

Lectures by Rebecca Bartola, Mia Chen, Georgia Cranstoun, Satoko Furusawa, Jurate Gacionyte, Lars Høie, Jasmine Kurino, Katie Lambe, Rebecca Lardeur, Kenneth Lim, Emilien Rabin, Emily Schofield, Adhiraj Singh, Jack Smith, Aishat Tijani, Yangzi Wang, Adam Willis, Jordan Woodage

Curated by Joshua Trees

18 February 2016, 2.00–5.00pm*, Room F204 Lime Central Saint Martins Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross N1C 4AA

* Note: Lectures will be delivered in three ‘acts’, with a ten minute intermission between each act.

Feel free to exit or enter during intermissions.

2.00-2.50 Act I (Lectures 1–5) 3.00-3.50 Act II (Lectures 6–10) 4.00-4.50 Act III (Lectures 11–15)

Open to University of the Arts London students, staff and approved visitors.*

Hanne Lippard, ‘The Future of Memory’, 2015

Tereza Rullerova. ‘Action to Surface’, 2015

Koenraad Dedobbeleer. ‘Exhibit A: an associative travel through learning from a formatted space’, 2015

Oliver Klimpel. ‘The visual event’, 2014

Momus. 2012

Åbäke. ‘Seriously Forks X, a talk about talks’, 2012

Pierre Leguillon. ‘Non-happening after Ad Reinhardt’, 2011

The Office. ‘Perform a lecture!’, 2010

Will Holder. ‘An attempt to evolve’, 2010

Ines Cox & Lauren Grusenmeyer. ‘Open impact channel’, 2010

Fay Nicolson. ‘(In search of) the perfect lecture’, 2010

Mark Leckey. ‘Cinema in the round', 2006-08

Ryan Gander. ‘Loose Associations’, 2002

Free Criticism No.4: The Performative Lecture

Curated by Joshua Trees

Soon-to-be-graduates of the BA Graphic Design course at Central Saint Martins will deliver performative lectures that test the purpose and potential of the conventional lecture, from informal critiques to speech acts to stand-up comedy.

Has the lecture – a format that has been used for centuries to deliver information and knowledge – become unadventurous and predictable? While research has proven that lecturing is often ineffective as a teaching method, the popularity of TED talks suggests otherwise. Why do we continue to lecture? Is it our undying love for storytelling or our blind faith in passive learning?

Developed in the 1960s as a subgenre of performance, the ‘performative lecture’ is a hybrid mode of communication that combines techniques from the fields of art, design, education and research.

Lectures by Rebecca Bartola, Mia Chen, Georgia Cranstoun, Satoko Furusawa, Jurate Gacionyte, Lars Høie, Jasmine Kurino, Katie Lambe, Rebecca Lardeur, Kenneth Lim, Emilien Rabin, Emily Schofield, Adhiraj Singh, Jack Smith, Aishat Tijani, Yangzi Wang, Adam Willis, Jordan Woodage

Open to University of the Arts London students, staff and approved visitors.*

* Note: entry requires a UAL ID card or visitor pass signed by a UAL staff member; visitors outside of UAL should contact [email protected] to book a place and visitor pass.

18 February 2016, 2.00–5.00pm*, Room F204 Lime Central Saint Martins Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, King’s Cross N1C 4AA