I am definitely going... hope to see you there!
Buddleia presents:
Symposium: The Social Impact of Artist Residencies
18 April 2012 Cube gallery
14:00 – 17:00 pm
FREE
Artist
residency programmes has become a growing field of practice offering
participants a wide range of contexts from rural retreats to large-scale
institutions to artist led or community spaces. In each instance
artists are being asked to engage their practice within a new paradigm
of delivery.
In
this event we will be exploring different artist in residency models
from an international, national and regional perspective. We will be
focussing on how artists engage with the localities they are hosted in
and what impact this can have for the artist as well as the local
communities.
Speakers include:Lynn Froggett, Professor of Psychosocial Welfare from University of Central Lancashire whose recent research paper New Model Visual Arts Organisations and Social Engagement looks at the development of social engaged practice by four UK arts organisations.
Aaron Cezar
Director of The Delfina Foundation, which facilitates artists exchanges
between the UK, Middle East and North Africa via a programme of
artistic residencies and related events. Aaron recently edited an online
magazine called ArteEast Quarterly that focussed on the rise of global
residency programmes and the lack of research and discourse surrounding
it.
Kerry Morrison is
as an environmental artist. She works in public places creating
landscape interventions and performances in response to environments and
socio-ecological issues within a given locale. Kerry has recently set
up InSitu an artist led initiative; evolving internationally with
artists increasingly developing longer-term relationships with people
and place.
Bill Drummond
is an artist, musician, writer and record producer. Recent art
activities, carried out under Drummond's chosen banner of the Penkiln
Burn, include making and distributing cakes, soup, flowers, beds and
shoe-shines. Bill bought and set up Curfew Tower in
the small town of Cushendall on the Antrim Coast of North East Ireland
and is managed by a small group of trustees called In You We Trust. The
Tower has been run as an artist residency since 1999.
This event is support by Arts Council England.
