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LOCATING THE PRODUCERS – A Time and Place for Public Art
Tickets: £6.00/£4.50 concs
Organised by the award-winning public art commissioning programme Situations, at the University of the West of England, in partnership with Bristol City Council, LOCATING THE PRODUCERS – A Time and Place for Public Art offers the opportunity to hear from some of Europe’s most pioneering curators, artists and art producers working in the public realm today. Together, this distinguished group of public art specialists have participated in LOCATING THE PRODUCERS, a three-year European research project led by GWR Research Fellow, Dr. Paul O’Neill at Situations in collaboration with ProjectBase and the University of Falmouth incorporating Dartington College of Art. This final discussion sees the culmination of intense research into five exemplary public art projects: The Blue House (Het Blauwe Huis), IJburg, The Netherlands (2004-2009); Beyond, Leidsche Rijn, The Netherlands (1999-09); Trekroner Art Plan, Roskilde, Denmark (2001-on-going); Grizedale Arts, Cumbria, UK (on-going since 1999) and The Edgware Road Project, London, UK (2009-11). The participants of these projects have been brought together for the final time in Bristol to debate how their longer-term, cumulative approaches to producing art works and projects outside museums and galleries have emerged in stark contrast to the short-term festival or parachuting of artists into specific places. The discussion will explore how the individual curatorial models and strategies involved in each project have been developed for their specific socio-political contexts, taking account of the multiple challenges and conflictual attitudes to working in this way for commissioners, curators, artists and their publics. For those interested in the future of public art, this event offers the opportunity to get under the skin of a range of longer-term projects and the chance to quiz the producers on the impact of their projects on specific places over time.
Speakers: Jonathan Banks – Chief Executive of ixia, the public art think tank Kerstin Bergendal – Artist-Commissioner, Trekroner Art Plan, Denmark Tom van Gestel – Commissioner, Beyond and SKOR – Foundation for Art & Public Space, Amsterdam Janna Graham – Projects Curator, Serpentine Gallery overseeing Edgware Road Jeanne van Heeswijk – Artist-curator, The Blue House, IJburg Alistair Hudson – Deputy Director, Grizedale Arts, Cumbria Aldo Rinaldi – Senior Public Art Officer, Bristol City Council Sally Tallant – Head of Programmes, Serpentine Gallery Dr. Mick Wilson – Artist, Writer, Dean of the Graduate School of Art & Design (GradCam), Dublin Moderator:Dr. Paul O’Neill – GWR Research Fellow, Situations, University of the West of England, Bristol |
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