The Studio: Nefeli Skarmea and Polly Brannan
20 February - 4 March 2013
During the exhibition
Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, Berlin-based dancer
Nefeli Skarmea and artist and educator
Polly Brannan will take up residency within the Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Serpentine Gallery. Inspired by the objects and artworks in the exhibition as well as the concept of 'a cosmos', participants will be invited to alter their surroundings through moving and making.
This interdisciplinary residency will include a presentation by Skarmea and Brannan on their current practices; a series of practical, pre-booked workshops; a family day and public drop-in discussion seminars as part of the Saturday Seminar programme.
The Studio is supported by the Goethe-Institut London.
Schedule of activities:
Wednesday 20 February, 2pm
Sackler Centre of Arts Education, Serpentine Gallery
Meet the Residents: presentation by Nefeli Skarmea and Polly Brannan
The Studio residents Nefeli Skarmea and Polly Brannan present and discuss their practices and the aims of their collaboration at the Serpentine Gallery.
Free, no booking required
Saturday 23 February, 3pm
Sackler Centre of Arts Education, Serpentine Gallery
Saturday Seminar: Rosemarie Trockel and Perspectives on A Cosmos
Claire Feeley and Lucia Pietroiusti, Assistant Curators at the Serpentine Gallery discuss the exhibition Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos, the residency project and the Sound Series introduction to the exhibition by Dominic Eichler.
Free, no booking required
Monday 25, Tuesday 26, Wednesday 27 February and Friday 1 March
Sackler Centre of Arts Education, Serpentine Gallery
Morning and afternoon workshops with pre-booked groups
Pre-booked groups only. For more information please email Polly Brannan,
pollyb@serpentinegallery.org
Saturday 2 March, 3pm
Sackler Centre of Arts Education, Serpentine Gallery
Saturday Seminar: The Thinking Body: A Cosmos by Nefeli Skarmea and Polly Brannan
The Studio residents Nefeli Skarmea and Polly Brannan discuss bodies, creatures, movement and dance in the context of Rosemarie Trockel's exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. Drawing the series of workshops to a close, Skarmea and Brannan address the questions raised by Trockel's work as well as the role of 'audience member' and 'participant' in the exhibition space.
Free, no booking required
Saturday 2 March, 4-6pm
Sackler Centre of Arts Education, Serpentine Gallery
Drop-in workshop
Nefeli Skarmea and Polly Brannan lead a drop-in workshop about movement, inspired by Trockel's exhibition. Free, no booking required
Sunday 3 March, 12-5pm
Sackler Centre of Arts Education, Serpentine Gallery
Deloitte Family Day: Creative Creatures
Join Polly Brannan and Nefeli Skarmea in exploring the natural world through play and movement, in response to the exhibition
Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos.
All ages are welcome to these free, drop-in events. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Nefeli Skarmea (born Athens, Greece) is based in Berlin and studies Cultures of the Curatorial at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. A dancer with the companies Tanztheater Nuremberg, Stammer Productions/Colette Sadler and Alias/Guilherme Botelho, recent productions include
Sideways Rain (2010-2013, touring). Upcoming projects include Martin Creed's
Ballet Work No 1020. In 2010, Nefeli began to collaborate with choreographer Sergiu Matis and visual artist Ladislav Zajac on the production of
Doom Room, a movement research project which brought her to residencies in LaborGras, Berlin and Kinitras Studio, Athens. In her curatorial research, Nefeli is interested in the relationships between movement, dance and the gallery space.
Polly Brannan, an artist and educator, is Education Curator at the Serpentine Gallery. Since graduating with a BA Fine Art in 2003, Polly has produced exhibitions, talks, programmes, happenings, workshops and interventions at venues including Barbican, London; Liverpool Biennial; Lisbon Experimenta Festival; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Tate Britain, London; Studio Voltaire, London and City of London Festival.. Polly was a member of artist and architect collective public works from 2005-2011 and is co-founder of London-based artist collective Avant Gardening. Commissions include Space Studios, London; Stanley Picker Gallery, London; the Delfina Foundation, London and Camden Arts Centre, London.
