New Enclosures' in 'NCL LDN

Abstract

The video work New Enclosures (2019) deals with the politics of power and its symbolic and active enactment – aesthetic, spatial, social, economic – in the City of London and the correlation of its economy and neoliberal desire of exclusivity and aspiration manifested by, and imbricated into, its urban fabric. Constructed anxieties of personal security and insecurity, inclusion and exclusion reveal themselves through the navigation of its socio‐spatial structure. The exhibition 'NCL LDN', a group exhibition between students and lecturers from Newcastle University MFA and Central Saint Martins MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies. Exhibiting were Turner Prize nominated artistic duo (and Royal Academy Members) Prof. Jane and Louise Wilson, currently heads of Newcastle University's Master of Fine Art, a two-year postgraduate course designed to support the development of students' careers as contemporary artists. Second-year students from this course will exhibit an eclectic mix of work from a wide range of disciplines that reflects diversity within current contemporary practice. Artist Dr Pat Naldi Senior Lecturer in MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, also exhibited work alongside second-year postgraduate students from this course. This fine art photography course explores photography as a plural, transdisciplinary and multimedia global language that is situated at the core of contemporary visual arts practice. Students will exhibit work across disciplines that interlaces fine art, technology, aesthetics, politics, and new media. List of exhibitors: Lida Arzaghi, Gabrielle Brooks, Terry Dimoulias, Liying Hu, Grant Legassick, Yili Liu, Maria Clara Lorusso, Dr. Pat Naldi, Lara Orawski, Ana Luiza Pereira Rodrigues, Anamarija Podrebarac, Prof. Jane Wilson, Prof. Louise Wilson, Alice Adams, Eleanor Curry, Carole McCourt, Jenny Mc Namara, Rebecca Reed and Yan Yin