Public Art Needs Outsiders

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When booking this Seminar, you will be redirected to the Places Matter! website.

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 & 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 recognize 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 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?

Price: The full day Seminar, including refreshments and lunch, costs £60 per person. To book and for further information about transport and accommodation, click here to visit the Places Matter! website.

Travel: 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 our Transport and Accommodation Information Sheet or visit Grizedale Arts