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Music students looking for performers for multidisciplinary event

Daniela and Xavier are postgraduate Music students at Goldsmiths, and they are organising an event intended to be a multidisciplinary mix of concert, performance and club night. They are particularly keen on finding performers that aren’t studying Music, so Design students who are interested should feel encouraged to apply:

“CALL FOR SOLO ARTISTS/ DJS/ BANDS/ ENSEMBLES/ PERFORMANCE ARTISTS (applications open until 5th March)

We are looking for performers of all styles, mediums and pathways to share in our student-organised night SOLID VIBES at the Stretch on the 14th March.

The night will be exploring the relationship between SOUND and BODY.

Full details and how to apply on Facebook. Any questions, contact Dani: daniela.burba@gmail.com.”

multiplexer OPEN lectures: Marguerite Humeau

On Friday, March 4, Vehicles for Experimental Practice and the MULTIPLEXER team are inviting you to a talk with Marguerite Humeau, artist and visiting lecturer at Goldsmiths.

Marguerite Humeau’s work explores the possibility of communication between worlds and the means by which knowledge is generated in the absence of evidence or through the impossibility of reaching the object of investigation. Humeau weaves factual events into speculative narratives, therefore enabling unknown, invisible, extinct forms of life to erupt in grandiose splendour. Combining prehistory, occult biology and science fiction in a disconcerting spectacle – the works resuscitate the past, conflate subterranean and subcutaneous, all the while updating the quest genre for the information age.

Marguerite Humeau has exhibited her work in the most prestigious institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York (Talk to Me, 2011, curated by Paola Antonelli), the Hayward Gallery (The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, 2013, curated by Mark Leckey), Serpentine Gallery (Extinction Marathon curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist), De la Warr Pavilion, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She was initially noticed through her diploma project at the Royal College of Art entitled Proposal for Resuscitating Prehistoric Creatures: an odyssey with a quest to resuscitate the sound and create an opera of prehistoric creatures. Her work has also been acquired by the MoMA New York for their permanent collection.

The talk will take place at Goldsmiths in Room LG02 of the Professor Stuart Hall Building, starting 5 pm.

“Known Unknowns”: the 2016 Undergraduate show

We now have a name for this year’s Undergraduate Degree show: “Known Unknowns”!

We assemble independent investigations connected under one theme: the lack of understanding inherent to expanding knowledge, which we see in our own practice and within broader design discourse.

The show will open for private view on the evening of June 16; members of the public will be welcomed from June 17 to June 20. More information will be available soon.

MA Fashion Alumna Ruth Jacob Talks about Life After Goldsmiths

The MA in Fashion is the youngest of our Design MAs: its first students came to Goldsmiths in 2013. Ruth Jacob was part of this inaugural group of Fashion students, and now she’s sent word to us on what her studies at Goldsmiths meant to her, and what she’s been up to since graduation:

“Since graduating from Goldsmiths in 2014, I have endeavoured to keep myself linked with fashion as much as I can. The MA Fashion was quite different to what I expected, as it took on a more contextual and theoretical viewpoint. However, this provided me with a great opportunity to learn about fashion from different viewpoints and to broaden my awareness of the industry. Being a student in the first ever year of the MA Fashion course was truly exciting and it also revived and reasserted my enthusiasm and curiosity in the subject.

While on the course, I was able to build on ideas and develop techniques that I am using today for personal projects; some of which I am working into professional ones. One of these is a fashion and lifestyle label called BIGGER BOY, which aims to combine culture and adages from Africa with contemporary fashion and style. The research and development for the label began while I was studying for a module called Social Paradigms. The course involved exploring how fashion and society interrelate. I looked at how aspects of race and ethnicity correlate with fashion. The MA Fashion degree has definitely enhanced my entrepreneurial drive.

But this is by no means my only area of interest. Others include media publications, textiles and accessories and amongst others. In addition to this, I am also completing a PGCE qualification to become a Fashion Lecturer in FE education. Having the opportunity to teach future generations about the industry, practice and subject of fashion is something that I will relish.”

We’re always interested in knowing how our graduates are evolving after leaving Goldsmiths, so if you, too, want to share your story, get in touch at n.barbu[@]gold.ac.uk.