This year, as part of the Y13 Liberal Studies programmes of study, the art department is offering the opportunity of working with the Tate Gallery, Unilever Series, on their Turbine Generation project.  The projects objectives are set out briefly below:

The Unilever Series: turbinegeneration 2010-2011

During the autumn term 2010, a small group of Liberal Studies students from JAGS and Dulwich College started working together on the Turbinegeneration project set up by the Tate. The project was set up to enable schools across the world to explore cultural issues through the language of art. The project theme this year is 'Collaboration' and students have used construction, photography and collage to respond. We have been partnered with Escola Artistica de Soares dos Reis, a school in Portugal, and during the term have exchanged images and ideas as they have develop via the internet. This exchange has shaped and changed the project and its outcomes and has resulted in a cultural dialogue with virtual exhibition space. The project is still in its infancy and after initial teething problems the potential of exploring artistic and cultural ways of communicating have proved interesting and rewarding. The second part of the project will begin in the spring term.

Visit http://turbinegeneration.tate.org.uk/

Chantal Gillingham

11 January 2011