Event Details

7 October 2009

Start: 10:30am Finish: 5:00pm

Location: Cumbria

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ixia - Public Art Professional Development Seminar 1: Public Art Needs Outsiders

Please note: this event is now fully booked. Aplogies for any inconvenience.

Places Matter! has partnered with ixia, the public art think tank, to deliver a series of public art seminars in the Northwest.

The seminars will enable attendees to reflect upon contemporary public art practice and to develop their understanding of specific contexts and issues which support and influence the delivery of public art. The seminars have been devised for artists, curators, public art consultants and representatives of public and private sector organisations that promote and commission public art. In addition to hearing from speakers, attendees will be encouraged to engage actively in discussions and to reflect upon their own work in relation to the issues discussed.

For more information about the series of seminars, click here...

Cost: The cost for each seminar is £60.00 + VAT including lunch and refreshments. You will be invoiced upon making a provisional booking for the event. Your place will be confirmed when payment has been received.

The seminars are supported by Arts Council England: www.artscouncil.org.uk

Seminar 1: Public Art Needs Outsiders
Project Focus: Grizedale Arts
Seminar Venue: Grizedale Arts, Lawson Park, Coniston, Cumbria, LA21 8AD
Date: Wednesday 7th October 2009, 11am - 5pm (registration 10.30am)

Speakers include:

• Adam Sutherland, Director, Grizedale Arts
• Alistair Hudson, Deputy Director, Grizedale Arts
• Paul Domela, Programme Director, Liverpool Biennial, Higher Education and International Exchange
• Jeanne van Heeswijk, Artist/Artist-commissioner, The Blue House, IJburg, The Netherlands
• Andreas Lang of publicworks, commissioned artist, Creative Egremont

Moderator:

• Paul O’Neill, GWR Research Fellow at Situations

One of the primary roles allocated to public art within regeneration projects and cultural tourism is its contribution to place-making. Whilst many commissioners have now begun to take a more long-term, ‘embedded’ approach to developing a curatorial programme in response to their immediate contexts, they recognise the value of outsiders to the development of an ongoing programme. This seminar looks at the relationship between the local and the outsider and public art as the result of that encounter. 

Grizedale Arts has adapted the residency model as a means of sustaining a practice-in-place, but has highlighted the need for artists/curators to research, engage with and to contribute to an ongoing engagement with the specific context of Cumbria from an outsider’s perspective.

This seminar will look at the development of public art projects through residencies by considering some of the following questions:

• How can public art commissioning employ the residency model as a means of sustaining local engagement and audience participation?
• What are the challenges and pitfalls of negotiating an unfamiliar context as a visiting artist?
• What are the benefits and the shortfalls of being a resident commissioner?
• Is a residency or sustained period of fieldwork/research always required?

Public Art Needs Outsiders is one of a series of seminars developed by ixia in collaboration with the research and commissioning programme Situations at the University of the West of England. Each seminar is framed by a provocative response to the statement: “What Public Art Needs Now!” They look at different aspects of emergent and alternative models of public art commissioning by focussing on the role of the curator/commissioner within an exemplary international public art project.

Travel and Accommodation: The seminar venue, Lawson Park, is a remote location on the east side of Coniston Water, Cumbria. For further information about travel and accommodation please see the attached document below or visit www.grizedale.org

Price per Delegate: £60.00
Places: 25

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