Masters of contemporary art
15/09/2009
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Students from the Faculty of Arts & Society are showcasing a range of their work for the last time in the University's H Building, during the MA art and design shows.
New work by students from fine art, curating and graphic design will be mixed together over four floors, including fairground stalls, the saddest zoo on film, multi-screen installations of frenzied media reporting and meeting places from recycled rubbish.
James Hubble's experimental sound mash-ups recall the tradition of music in the art college - early Soft Cell recordings, Cud singer Karl Putnam's waster pistol shot pictures, d.i.y. Theremin instruments by the likes of Kaiser Chief's Ricky Wilson. The show will provide a past and present backdrop to the public's last chance to wander round the space of radical 70's and 80's feminist performance art and excellence in printmaking and animation.
Returning from the success of their London show 'The New Obsolete', reviewed as 'charming and earnest', 'haphazard and wide-eyed', this is an opportunity to see an ambitious exhibition of final work and to start tracking the activities of those continuing into their second year.
As the summer has seen the move to the new building at Broadcasting Place, the students' work is set in a place of abandonment with a fascinating history and makes the MA shows an atmospheric event that will resonate with the people of Leeds as they will no doubt discuss the rock 'n' roll stories that surround the building.






