Emma Ridgway: On activism and how it influenced Gustav's artistic practice

Gustav Metzger: The Conscience of the Art World
International symposium with Mathieu Copeland, Ivor Davies, Elizabeth Fisher, Andrea Gregson, Stewart Home, Pontus Kyander, Emma Ridgway, Eva Scharrer, Sören Schmeling, Helen Phillips and John Plant.

Friday 26 January 2018, 10:30 - 18:00
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Presented by West Den Haag
More info: westdenhaag.nl/exhibitions/17_11_Gustav_Metzger_II
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Emma Ridgway (1976) is a curator of exhibitions and creative events; she works as Head of Programme, Chief Curator at Modern Art Oxford. In 2005 she met and worked with Gustav Metzger on his display of archival material for the Norwich biennale ‘EASTinternational’. As part of the curatorial team of the multidisciplinary project ‘Experiment Marathon’, she produced Gustav Metzger’s ‘Nomophobia as a performance’ (Serpentine Gallery 2007), then as an interactive exhibit for the exhibition ‘Experiment Marathon’ (Reykjavik Art Museum 2008). Ridgway conducted a series of interviews with Gustav Metzger including ‘Art as Energy for Life’ (Modern Art Oxford 2016), ‘Reduced Art Flights’ (The RSA and Latitudes 2008), and she spoke at his solo show ‘Decades’ 1959-2009 (Serpentine Gallery 2009). In the exhibitions she co-curates at Modern Art Oxford two exhibitions recently featured Gustav Metzger’s installations: ‘Mass Media: Today and Yesterday’ 1972/2017 (Future Knowledge 2017) and Liquid Crystal Environments 1975/1998 (Kaleidoscope: A Moment of Grace 2016). At Modern Art Oxford her recent exhibitions include ‘Hannah Ryggen: Woven Histories 1933 to 1966; Rose Finn-Kelcey Life, Belief and Beyond,’ and ‘Lubaina Himid: Invisible Strategies’. She also devises creative education projects ranging from art photography publications co-produced with hundreds of young people to intensive workshops such as ‘Arts School Lab’, which reimagined pedagogic methods from the Bauhaus (2012) and Black Mountain College (2013) at the Barbican. She formerly worked at the Barbican, The RSA and Serpentine Gallery in London and Khoj International Artists’ Association in Delhi.

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