Thinking Out Loud
The thoughts of Laura Owens, Albert Oehlen and Andreas Reiter Raabe interpreted by dancer Louis McMiller
Talks
Thursday 6 October 2016
6.30 — 7.30pm
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Thinking Out Loud
We invite you to an unconventional encounter with three artists and a dancer; an opportunity to meet great artists and watch them while they are thinking.
The Protagonist, artist Andreas Reiter Raabe, aims to create a situation that is relaxing for the artists and the observer, an atmosphere of free thoughts:
“Sometimes a good question is as important as a good answer, and famous artists sometimes need a mediator, an intermediary, a challenger, or if you like, a new form of moderator. I think artists have similar problems on all levels so they could be able to talk to each other. I’m not hierarchical, so I don’t really care about the important or not important, the ranking between artists. The idea is to get two people together and respond to their approach, also to involve the audience in a strange way in the process – you become part of a dynamic while you are supposed to be quiet, concentrate and listen. I like the expanding idea, of a different sense of being involved. In 2010 I invited Franz West and Sarah Lucas to talk for the RA Schools, with interpretation by musician Phillip Quehenberger. Musicians channel the so-called direct emotion - something artists always come up against. Now I am inviting a dancer to interpret our talk. I never understood modern dance, but to partly quote Joseph Beuys, maybe we have to think with the knee to get somewhere. Anyway there is a lot left for accident – it’s almost driven by chance.” - Andreas Reiter Raabe
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Thursday 6 October 2016
6.30 — 7.30pm
Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle St, London W1S 4BS
£16, £8 concessions and alumni
RA Schools Public Programme supported by the David Lean Foundation
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Laura Owens
Laura Owens (b. 1970, USA) lives and works in Los Angeles. Her influential work questions the parameters and possibilities for making and viewing a painting today. She has continually shifted the terms of her practice, incorporating figuration, abstraction, digital techniques and gestural mark-making into compositions that confound expectations of pictorial space.
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Albert Oehlen
Albert Oehlen (b. 1954, Germany) lives in Switzerland and his exhibitions this year include the Gagosian Gallery in London, Kunstverein Reutlingen (with Georg Baselitz), and a major show at Cleveland Museum of Art. Oehlen was professor of painting at Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf from 2000-2009.
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Andreas Reiter Raabe
Andreas Reiter Raabe
Andreas Reiter Raabe was born in 1960 in Austria. He now lives and works in Vienna. For the last 25 years he has been addressing the process of painting – through photographic concepts, the art of talking and curating, the three-dimensional object and the painting itself.
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Louis McMiller
Louis McMiller started dancing at the age of 7 and trained at the Royal Ballet School.
He danced in the annual performances at the Royal Opera House and in his graduate year toured Japan and performed in many productions with The Royal Ballet.
Louis has been featured in several commercial projects such as The Brit Awards and Charlotte Tilbury’s Scent of a Dream campaign, featuring Kate Moss. As well as dancing, Louis has worked for many editorials and fashion films including Marcelo Burlon’s County of Milan, Coitus magazine, NOWNESS and the album artwork for FKA Twigs EP M3LL155X.
He joined the world renowned Studio Wayne McGregor in 2010.
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The thoughts of Laura Owens, Albert Oehlen and Andreas Reiter Raabe interpreted by dancer Louis McMiller