런던 사우스뱅크 센터Southbank Center Lodon의 액티브 아트

• 영문명: Active art at the Southbank Centre London
• 발행기관: 한국예술종합학교 미술원 조형연구소
• 저자명: 스테파니 로젠탈(Stephanie Rosenthal)
• 간행물 정보: 『Visual』vol.6, 64~74쪽, 전체 11쪽
• 주제분류: 예술체육 > 예술일반
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2009.02.28

영문 초록

Southbank Centre is a unique cultural site with an important Festival of Britain heritage. Built in 1951, it insisted that excellence and universal enjoyment should live side by side. Without apology for either. The Southbank Centre is an international cultural centre that engages with the public using varied public spaces, unique and classic art forms and different kinds of events. As a venue, we consider the outdoor space as valuable as the indoor space. My aim will be to present the multiple facets of how the Southbank Centre as a whole manages to engage the public with free and paid events. Visual arts at Southbank Centre currently consists of three distinct strands - the Hayward; built in 1968, the Hayward Touring programme and the Arts Council Collection. I will briefly refer to the visual arts program of the Hayward Gallery. whose core values are the unorthodox and adventurous; a combination of radical excellence and extremity which gives the public the opportunity to experience art on a high level of sensual participatory engagement. The pioneering impulse behind our programme involves bringing things to London that have never been seen before as well as presenting career-defining exhibitions of well-known artists that invite us to see and think about them in different terms. M an example I will talk about the exhibition Psycho Buildings and Robin Rhode this past year. The Southbank Centre’s Hayward Touring programme. funded by Arts Council England. is dedicated to circulating art around the ’provinces’ in the UK. The idea behind this is to enhance the cultural life of the UK as a whole. reaching those parts where resources were scarce. Hayward touring acts as a laboratory for ideas and nurtures new curatorial approaches. We collaborate with independent curators from other institutions on a thought-provoking mix of shows of international contemporary art. Hayward touring allows exhibitions to be more elaborate and expensive even with a small staff and restricted financial resources by sharing the costs and administrative burdens with other institutions. Also touring shows over the country maximises their impact. Exhibitions range in scale from the British Art Show, an ambitious multi-site survey of recent work presented in different cities every five years, to graphics and photography shows that tour to smaller venues. including arts centres, libraries and schools in virtually every town in the country. I will argue, that it is important for a new art center today, to engage with active and not forcefully interactive art. Furthermore I will show the importance of drawing a parallel between art forms, instead of forcing interdisciplinary art.