An exhibition of photographic works by Yujung Chang

At Goldsmiths Special Collections & Archives, 20 July – 30 August

Opening reception Wednesday 20th July, 5 – 7pm

Yujung Chang, Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Alumni and winner of the Goldsmiths Warden’s Purchase Prize (2007) will be presenting a series of photographic works in Goldsmiths Special Collections and Archives this summer.

South Korean artist Yujung Chang documented the excavation process at the site of Silsangsa Temple (established in the third year of King Heungdeok’s reign during the Silla Dynasty in 828 A.D.) and the surrounding area of Jirisan Mountain, South Korea, from September 2014 to August 2015.

Chang recorded the gradual uncovering of the site in this series of beautiful photographs. Her relationship with the place and local people developed during this process, and led to her interest in others’ views on the site. She commissioned the researchers from the Research Institute of Buddhist Heritage, Buddhist monks from the Temple, villagers and Buddhists working on the site to record their views too. The resulting collection of photographs were published in her book, A Thousand Years of Dust, which reveal views of the archaeological site by many people to whom it had different significances.

A Thousand Years of Dust is part of the Goldsmiths Library Collection and will be available to borrow after the exhibition finishes.

Yujung Chang is based in Seoul. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Original Soundtrack’ at Gallery Skape in Seoul; ‘Eclipses’ at Art First, London, and ‘Cultivated Portion’ at Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art Project Gallery, Ansan, in Korea. Recent group shows include ‘Passage of Korean Contemporary Art – Journey of Photography’, at Yunseul Museum, Kimhae’; ‘ILLUMINE- Yujung Chang & Dan Holsworth’ at Assembly Rooms, London; ‘Look at their Story’, at Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul; ‘Mt. Jiri Art Project-Universe Art Walk’ at Silsangsa Temple, Namwon; and ‘The Magic of Photography’ at The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea

http://www.yujungchang.net/

This year the Library launched a new project to tailor our collections around students’ needs and interests. We recruited Student Library Reps, who were each given a £300 budget to choose new books for their department in consultation with their fellow students. Volunteers took part from 12 departments – Anthropology, Art, Cultural studies, Design, History, ICCE, Music, Psychology, Sociology, STACS, Visual Cultures, and the Graduate School.

134 new items were ordered during the project – 131 print books, 2 eBooks and 1 DVD. Here are a few of the most popular examples:

• Hidden valleys : haunted by the future / Justin Barton
• What is historical sociology? / by Richard Lachmann
• In the dust of this planet / Eugene Thacker
• The land of weddings and rain: nation and modernity in post-socialist Lithuania / Gediminas Lankauskas.
• Performing the nation in global Korea: transnational theatre / Hyunjung Lee.

On behalf of all the Library staff we would like to say a big thank you to our 2015-16 Student Library Reps for all their hard work and enthusiasm. The project will be running again in the 2016-17 academic year – if you are interested in taking part keep an eye on the Student News emails or follow us on Twitter @Goldsmithslib and on Facebook for further announcements and details of how to apply.

Bike Week 2016

The Library Green Impact team is celebrating Bike Week 2016 this week with a selection of cycling themed material from our collections. We uncovered some hidden gems in our Special Collections, including this striking poster, from the Women’s Art Library:

Courtesy Women’s Art Library, Special Collections & Archives

and an embroidery piece, from the Goldsmiths Textile Collection:

Courtesy Goldsmiths Textile Collection

A selection of bicycle-related books and films from the main library collection is on display at the entrance to the Library, and available to borrow.

If you’re keen to cycle to the Library, you’ll find more than 320 secure, bike parking spaces on campus, including a number of covered spaces adjacent to the Rutherford Building, and showering facilities in the Richard Hoggart and Ben Pimlott Buildings. Goldsmiths Cycling Club organises bike fixing events and cycling days out throughout the year, and Doctor Bike is a regular visitor to the campus. This Thursday 16th June, you can get a free bike check up and maintenance outside the Education Building, between 10am and 4pm. Keep an eye on the @GreenGoldsmiths twitter page for upcoming visits.

Local cycling guide maps are available from Transport for London – you can pick some up from the Library entrance this week, or order some to be delivered to you for free from TfL. Also check out Cycle Streets for more routes recommended by seasoned riders.

Green Impact

Green Impact is a national environmental accreditation scheme, organised by the National Union of Students, which supports teams of staff in UK higher educational institutions to improve their environmental performance in the workplace.

Goldsmiths Library has participated in the scheme over the past four years, along with other departments in the college, with the assistance of the Goldsmiths Greening Department. We have worked to encourage environmentally responsible behaviour and sustainable practices in staff and students in the Library, such as recycling, and turning off lights and computer monitors when they are not being used. In particular, we targeted paper wastage in the library staff offices, and we were able to significantly reduce the number of printouts that are made by staff and generated by the Library Management System.

This June, the Library Green Impact team were thrilled to receive a Gold Award in recognition of our efforts.

Prof. Blake Morrison reading at Goldsmiths World Book Night 2015

World Book Night is an annual event to promote links between literacy and wellbeing organised by The Reading Agency, who say that reading for pleasure ‘is a globally recognised indicator in a huge range of social issues from poverty to mental health, yet in the UK 36% of people don’t regularly read (DCMS, 2015).’ Last year Goldsmiths library opened its doors to the public – as well as our students and staff – to celebrate World Book Night with a late night marathon of literary performances that stretched into the early hours.

This year join us from 7pm on Saturday 21^st April and enjoy another nocturnal literary feast with readings from staff and students from the Black British Writing MA, a unique opportunity to hear a selection of prose and poetry from current Creative Writing MA students curated by LitLive, performances by Eley Williams, Iphgenia Baal and Julia Calver courtesy of The Literary Kitchen, plus open mic slots for readings from the floor, light refreshments, a book swap table and much more.

If you’re visiting from outside Goldsmiths please apply for a free ticket here so we know to expect you. For current Goldsmiths staff and students there’s no need to book, just swipe in with your card.

Saturday 23rd April will be not only World Book Night, but also the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, who died in Stratford-upon-Avon, the city of his birth, at the age of 52.

Shakespeare’s legacy is celebrated more so than ever this year, with events, festivals, exhibitions, performances and more. A recent piece on the Goldsmiths website explained how Goldsmiths is commemorating Shakespeare, including a performance of his great tragedy, King Lear, and several members of academic staff have published research that further analyses both Shakespeare’s work and life.

Then there’s the Shakespeare 400, a consortium of organisations, led by Kings College, London. They are responsible for a range of events both in London and beyond. Fancy a screening of Sir Laurence Olivier’s film version of Henry V or watching a midnight matinee of Much Ado About Nothing? How about a talk on the National Theatre’s Shakespeare productions? There’s something here for everyone with an interest in Shakespeare. Follow the hashtag to find out more.

The British Library is running its ‘Shakespeare in Ten Acts’ exhibition from mid-April until early-September, which looks at groundbreaking Shakespeare performances and features rare and unique items, such as handwritten play scripts and early printed editions. Discovering Literature: Shakespeare is a new resource allowing you to access a wealth of Shakespeare-related resources.

The library has an extensive collection of Shakespeare materials. His plays and poems are available at the following classmarks:

• Complete works 822.33 A
• Comedies 822.33 G
• Histories 822.33 O
• Tragedies 822.33 K
• Poetical works 822.33 Q
• (Poems Q1, Sonnets Q7)

For individual plays, use the 822.33 classmark, then use the following letter/number, e.g. G1

• All’s Well That Ends Well G1
• Anthony and Cleopatra K1
• As You Like It G3
• Comedy of Errors G5
• Coriolanus K3
• Cymbeline J5
• Hamlet K7
• Henry IV (pts 1 & 2) O1
• Henry V O3
• Henry VI (pts 1,2,& 3) O5
• Henry VIII O7
• Julius Caesar L1
• King John P1
• King Lear L3
• Love’s Labour’s Lost G7
• Macbeth L5
• Measure for Measure H1
• Merchant of Venice H3
• The Merry Wives of Windsor H5
• A Midsummer’s Night Dream H7
• Much Ado About Nothing I1
• Othello L7
• Pericles J7
• Richard II P3
• Richard III P5
• Romeo and Juliet M3
• Taming of the Shrew I3
• The Tempest I5
• Timon of Athens M5
• Titus Andronicus M7
• Troilus and Cressida N1
• Twelfth Night I7
• Two Gentlemen of Verona J1
• A Winter’s Tale J3

Furthermore, we have access to LION, which has Shakespeare audio plays, and web text versions of the plays are also available.

We also have specific Shakespeare journals. Just search for Shakespeare on the catalogue as a journals search. Titles include Shakespeare Quarterly and Shakespeare Studies

Our AV collections also have filmed versions of Shakespeare plays, from a 1936 version of ‘As You Like It’ to last year’s ‘Macbeth’, starring Marion Cotillard and Michael Fassbender. You can also watch films/television programmes and listen to radio programmes about Shakespeare on Box of Broadcasts.

If you want to learn more about Shakespeare and his work or just re-familiarise yourself, there are plenty of options both in the library and outside.

Across April, we have a trial to Kanopy, an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions. In this trial we have access to around 26,000 films in a range of subject areas, including:

• Film (including access to the Criterion Collection of classic and contemporary cinema)
• The Arts (including Design, Music and Photography)
• Global Studies and Languages (including African, Asian and Middle Eastern and Latin American studies)
• Media and Communications (including Journalism, Marketing, Advertising and PR)
• Social Sciences (including Anthropology, History and Politics and International Affairs)

To access, first visit the trial homepage. If you are asked to log in, the details are as below:

Username: gold

Password: access

The homepage will show which films we have access to, and you can either browse by subject or search for a specific film. Once you’ve selected a film, you can play it, but also create clips/playlists, read synopses and also share/embed the film.

A successful trial makes it more likely that we’ll subscribe, so please watch as many films as you wish this month.

The Rod Fisher Archive is an open access reference collection of global cultural policy, located on the second floor of Goldsmiths Library.

On 1st March 2016, Rod Fisher gave a talk about his archive and began by introducing his archive, all material that he gathered over 40 years in relation to research carried out for various global cultural bodies in Europe, the National Arts Council of Singapore, a foundation in Japan; his work for the Council of Europe from the 1980s, for the Arts Council of Great Britain (before it became Arts Council England), and then his own organisation, the International Arts Bureau from 1994; as well as research materials for his own writing projects and from conferences he had attended and addressed around the world.

He explained that it is therefore an eclectic collection of books, papers, reports, directories and articles spanning the 1970s – 2000s. The scope is:

• cultural policies and structures to administer them, and comparative international studies;
• economics and financing the arts, including comparisons across different countries;
• performing arts, theatre and visual arts, cultural heritage, audio visual and the creative industries;
• cultural cooperation and diplomacy, especially in Europe;
• cultural relations
• Council of Europe material
• UNESCO and the EU

It is organised in order of international comparative literature, then Europe, and then by country. There are box files on over 40 countries from Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia. The collection’s strengths are:

• Australia
• Canada
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Japan
• Netherlands
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sweden
• UK
• USA

Rod Fisher said that some countries are grouped together, such as the Balkan states. There is a focus on the 1980s and 1990s. The limitations of the collection are that it is not arranged by author or date, it is not catalogued (so not searchable on the library catalogue) and there is no index, so it is hard to search for a particular item – you need to go through all of the material to know what is there, although it is filtered by country, so it can be narrowed down in that way; there is little material on Latin America and Africa, except for South Africa, as Rod Fisher was not researching those continents; some of the box files are in poor condition and are in the process of being replaced, they are also still being sorted.

Rod then talked about a selection of publications from the collection that he had picked out for us to look at. This gave us a sense of the spread of the collection, and the sorts of research materials available:

• Three Council of Europe publications – one about Latvia’s cultural policies, a hefty volume on Heritage in Europe, complete with illustrations, and a comprehensive report on how Austria organises its cultural policy. The collection contains all Council of Europe published hardback reports on cultural policy in different countries, which generally consist of a national report and an independent experts’ report. (http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/heritage/Resources/heritage_en.asp)
• A 1998 book he picked up in Eastern Europe, on Culture and Perestroika, about changes in the Soviet Union at the time of Gorbachev, including an interview with Marc Chagall and sections on Mikhail Bulgakov and Andrei Tarkovsky and lots more.
• More Culture, More Europe, a publication from a conference Rod Fisher spoke at, in 2003 when Poland were preparing to join the EU.
• A publication by CIRCLE, the organisation for cultural research and information centre that Fisher chaired, for a conference in Helsinki on human rights and cultural policies in 1993.
• A Polish UNESCO publication about cultural rights and wrongs (http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=36999&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html)
• Papers from a conference about the healing role of the arts – a European Perspective.
• The Performing Arts and the Public Purse: an Economic Analysis, 1987, from the Republic of Ireland, Arts Council Ireland
• A book on supporting artists in the Nordic countries – the Social Welfare approach to arts support and funding
• A publication about the future of arts and culture in the Balkans by the European Culture Foundation – an organisation that Rod Fisher and ICCE lecturer Carla Figueira have both been involved with
• A report by the Arts Council of Great Britain on how composers are treated in the funding system, from the late 1970’s
• Television at the Crossroads, by George Wedell and Bryan Luckham is one of the collections AV reports (http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780333716465)
• A publication about the Opera Industry in Italy and the role of the impresario
• A national survey of festivals in Hungary
• A report on the visual arts in the Philippines and state support for them

After this illuminating and extremely interesting introduction to some of the materials in the collection, I am more aware of how much of the collection is of historical interest particularly, and useful for historical and global comparative research around the arts. It contains rare material, including organisational reports that are not to be found on the internet. Although currently not easy to search, it is well worth delving into the country files to excavate some primary source treasures that may add depth and illumination to a wide range of Cultural Policy, Curating and Arts studies – and far beyond, this collection could be of value to much of Goldsmiths’ interdisciplinary research.

Rod Fisher on The Rod Fisher Archive: a talk about the global cultural policy collection held by Goldsmiths Library.

Hosted by Goldsmiths Library and the ICCE Department

Tuesday 1st March, 4.45 – 5.30

Prokoviev Room, 2nd floor, Goldsmiths Library

Free, all welcome.

Contact: s.moran@gold.ac.uk

Rod Fisher will talk about the archive of pamphlets and documents, relating to culture around the world, that he donated to Goldsmiths Library and which he continues to occasionally add to. The archive offers an invaluable resource for research into global cultural policy, collected during Rod Fisher’s long international career.

Rod Fisher co-founded the CIRCLE (Cultural Information Research Centres Liaison in Europe) network, set up originally to respond to the cultural policy interests of the Council of Europe, and was its first Chairman (1985–94).

Since establishing and directing the International Arts Bureau in 1994 and its successor, International Intelligence on Culture, in 2000, Rod Fisher has conducted a broad range of cultural policy research and consultancy commissions from such institutions as: the European Commission; European Parliament; European Cultural Foundation; Arts Council England; Irish Arts Council; Asia-Europe Foundation; Hong Kong Arts Development Council; Ministry of Education, Finland; National Arts Council, Singapore; Tokyo Metropolitan Authority. He chaired the European Task Force set up by the Council of Europe in 1994 to examine the state of culture and development in Europe, which produced the landmark report In from the Margins.

https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/culture/resources/Publications/InFromTheMargins_EN.pdf

From 1976–94 Rod worked at the Arts Council of Great Britain, in a number of capacities, latterly as International Affairs Manager. He was responsible for producing in 1984 the first Code of Practice on Arts and Disability, adopted by all four Arts Councils in the UK and by Arts Council Ireland.

From 2002-2012 Rod was Director of the European Cultural Foundation UK Committee. He has served on a range of advisory committees, including the Japan Foundation UK (2005–2007) and the British Centre of the International Theatre Institute (2002-2012).

Recent, European Union engagements were as rapporteur for the EU Cyprus Presidency Conference ‘The Governance of Culture in Today’s Globalised World’ (Nicosia, August 2012) and moderator and key note speaker for the 3^rd EU-China High Level Cultural Forum (Beijing, November 2012). He is currently independent expert in a study on culture in the European Union’s external relations, led by the Goethe Institut. A book on the EU and Culture is in preparation.

He has written extensively, researching and editing some 25 books, reports and directories and is the author of some 90 published journal articles.

Publications held by Goldsmiths Library include:

 A cultural dimension to the EU’s external policies from policy statements to practice and potential. (706.992 FIS)

Developing new instruments to meet cultural policy challenges : report of an Asia-Europe Seminar on Cultural Policy, Bangkok, Thailand, 24-27 June 2004. (306 ASI)

Sweden and Finland / original research by Rod Fisher, Melita Douthwaite-Hodges and Tay Tong. (706.992 SWE)

South Africa / original research by Mike van Graan ; edited by Rod Fisher of the International Arts Bureau for the Arts Council of England. (706.992 VAN)

USA / original research by Jean Horstman ; edited by Rod Fisher and Anne Cockitt of the International Arts Bureau for the Arts Council of England. (706.992 HOR)

Arts networking in Europe : the second directory of trans-national cultural networks, associations and international non-governmental organisations in Europe / researched by Nicolas Vial Montero ; edited by Rod Fisher; 1997. (Q 706.992 ART)

Who does what in Europe? : an introduction to the role and cultural policies of the supra-national, inter-governmental or pan-European institutions and the scope they provide as sources of finance / compiled by Rod Fisher. (706.992 FIS)

Rod Fisher is Director of International Intelligence on Culture, the consultancy he founded, and since 2002 visiting lecturer on European cultural policies for ICCE and its predecessor at Goldsmiths.

The Rod Fisher Archive is part of Goldsmiths Library. It is available for reference on the second floor of the library.