Bauhaus Imaginista + Still Undead
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 23147645
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- March
- Year of first exhibition
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Butt was Research Curator on the international Bauhaus Imaginista project devising material on Leeds art education for two exhibitions: Bauhaus Imaginista (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, March 15 – June 10 2019) and Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus (Nottingham Contemporary, September 21 2019 – January 12 2020).
Bauhaus Imaginista marked the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus by critically reassessing the reach and significance of the institution’s ideas and practices across multiple transnational contexts. Different themes were explored across four “chapters.” Butt was involved in the “Still Undead” chapter addressing experiments in light design, sound art, expanded cinema, performance and popular culture in Bauhaus-influenced colleges in the US and UK after WWII. The exhibitions restored Leeds as an important regional centre for art school experiment within the globalist purview of Bauhaus internationalism.
Butt’s work on this project was informed by his research into regional UK art education and the decisive role played by punk rock in revising the priorities of Fine Art students in the 1970s and 1980s, part of a broader revisionist assessment of the importance of experimental art education within art history and popular music studies (Bracewell 2007; Tickner 2008, Wilkinson 2016).
Butt was research-lead in curating works of art, sound samples and ephemera related to the Leeds Polytechnic sound studio and performance space, and collaborated with project curators in determining the design, narrative trajectory, and intellectual underpinnings of Leeds-based exhibits.
Bauhaus Imaginista and Still Undead were realised in partnership between Goethe Institute, Bauhaus Kooperation, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and Nottingham Contemporary. Funding was provided by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Federal Foreign Office, and Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Butt also contributed essays to the project publication and online journal and participated in symposium and education programmes.
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- Non-English
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