TOI TANGATA | ARTS UPDATE

20 March 2020

News

UC Arts at the Arts Centre Due to the effects of COVID-19, as of Monday March 23 the International Antarctic Centre has suspended their shuttle service (for both their customers and UC staff and students) until further notice. They hope to resume their service and the partnership with UC as soon as possible. Once the service resumes, staff will be notified.

School of Fine Arts

The Silence of the Brush

Kim Lowe

ILAM CAMPUS GALLERY, BLOCK 2, SOFA, 27 MARCH - 24 APRIL

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILST THE EXHIBITION WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AS NORMAL, DUE TO THE EVOLVING COVID-19 SITUATION, WE WON'T BE HOLDING OPENINGS OR ARTIST TALKS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

The Silence of the Brush is an exhibition of brushwork made by Kim Lowe during her Olivia Spencer Bower Award year.

Kim Lowe completed a Masters in Fine Arts (Printmaking) with distinction from the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 2009.

Since graduating she has been involved in and helped instigate many community projects including: Toi Te Karoro- Art New Brighton; Shared Lines Sendai-Christchurch Art Exchange; International print exchanges Thinking of Place I, II and III; AChA and Aotearoa Asian Artist Hui – AAAHui18.

Image credit: Kim Lowe, Korari Ink Study II, 2020, ink on mulberry paper

Philosophy

Doctoral student Zhao Fan’s article ‘Hobson’s Conception of Definable Numbers’ has been published in the prestigious journal History and Philosophy of Logic, and is available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01445340.2020.1731784?journalCode=thpl20.

Martin Prior, the son of the late Arthur Prior, a world-leading logician who was Professor of Philosophy at Canterbury University College, has donated one of his family’s paintings to the Christchurch Art Gallery – Doris Lusk’s painting of the Christchurch gasworks. This follows Martin’s previous donation to the gallery of a Colin McCahon painting. The gallery’s citation reads in part: the painting was purchased by Arthur and Mary Prior ‘preparing to leave for England – a gritty reminder of home. It returned as a gift from their son over sixty years later’.

History

Global, Cultural and Language Studies

Spanish The Spanish Programme, in conjunction with the Embassy of Spain and Future Learning Solutions – Centre for Languages, organized a ‘delicious’ PD workshop for Spanish teachers of high schools in Christchurch and the Canterbury area. Clara Gómez-Jimeno, Education Attaché from the Embassy of Spain, talked about the importance of food in a cultural context, especially in the Spanish-speaking countries, and put into practice the elaboration of simple recipes of Spanish tapas that Spanish students are able to make in the classroom while learning specific language for cooking and social interaction. After preparing a variety of delicious tapas, the participants sat together, ate these tapas with a glass of juice, and ended the afternoon with a delicious note. Clara’s visit was very productive since before this PD workshop, she gave an informative talk to UC Spanish students interested in applying for the Language and Culture Assistant Programme in Spain which enables a number of students every year to live and work in Spain for a semester or a whole year.

Human Services and Social Work

Cindy Zeiher has recently contributed to Slovenian philosophical journal, Filozofski vestnik. Her text, ‘Lacan’s Love of Socrates’ focuses on a reading of Plato’s Symposium as a transferential psychoanalytic praxis. The entire issue of Filozofski vestnik, which also include discussions on Freud, Hegel, Ranciere and Adorno, can be found here: https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/issue/view/706 Sociology and Anthropology

Mike Grimshaw (Sociology) has been invited to join the editorial board of the new SN Social Sciences on-line journal, a new addition to the Springer Nature stable of journals: https://www.springer.com/journal/43545/

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