Dance around Duchamp… a study visit in London

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This show will be of interest to BA and MA students across a range of disciplines including Fine Art, Creative Arts, Photography, Music, and Art History. Around ninety seminal works come together across the space of the Barbican – including the bride and the batchelors, nude descending a staircase, the fountain, and the bicycle wheel by Duchamp- and later pieces by Robert Rauschenberg, Jaspar Johns, Merce Cunningham and John Cage; all highly respected in their fields and all influenced by Duchamp. Contemporary artist and film maker Philippe Parreno (Zidane with Douglas Gordon) has taken an innovative approach to the space, his mise en scène incorporating installation, performance, image, sound and movement to enable the viewer to become immersed in a rich environment that stimulates all the senses. Check out a previous weareoca post reviewing this show here.

Accompanied by OCA Curriculum Leader Linda Khatir and OCA tutor Michele Whiting, this study visit offers a rich array of painting, sculpture, stage sets and musical notations, giving us a rare opportunity to experience how Duchamp’s ‘conceptual’ approach influenced generations of artists, and continues to do so today.
‘This clever, thoughtful, elegant show amounts itself to a kind of dance performance across continents and generations…shaping the unboundly anarchic arena of art today’ The Sunday Telegraph
‘It was at least partly through the conduit of these four men, each hugely influential in his own art form .. … that Duchamp came to “drastically alter the art of the 20th century. He is the father of conceptual art and possibly the entirety of contemporary art, as well as pop art and postmodernism” The Guardian
There are 15 places on this visit at the Barbican on 30 May, starting at 11.30am. For a place please email enquiries@oca-uk.com