Socially Engaged Arts Practice and New Model Visual Arts Organisations, the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN)’s research into the nature of socially engaged arts practice. Finally a research project which genuinely provides a set of new terminologies for encounters and entanglements with contemporary art.
IHME Festival is a fantastic idea! Commission an annual temporary public art project for Finland’s capital Helsinki and build a festival of talks, films, debates and discussion around this single new work. This year’s project SUPERFLEX’s Times Forever (Stora Enso Building, Helsinki) beguiled us all, as over 240 hours the ‘longest film ever made’ slowly revealed the future of Alvar Alto’s Stora Enso building in 5000 years. The Pro Arte Foundation behind the festival are incredible forward thinkers about how to build anticipation for a temporary project, whilst positioning it within a critical context.
The Story is an amazing annual conference in London led by Matt Locke. Blows away current thinking about how conferences should be run. Here speakers are asked simply to come and ‘tell a story’. Stories are written, spoken, played, described, enacted, whispered, projected, orchestrated and performed by an incredible line-up of speakers from artists Cornelia Parker and Lucy Kimbell to Tim Kring (the man behind Heroes) and Graham Linehan (writer of Father Ted). Look out for it next February.
The Happy Museum Project by Tony Butler is a brilliant and pioneering project to create a community of practice in UK museums committed to supporting transition to a high well-being, sustainable society. Read Sam Thompson and Jody Aked’s introductory paper.
Sara Wheeler’s The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle is our bedtime reading in preparation for our Arctic expedition this autumn.
To celebrate 10 years of public art in Bristol, the City Council has launched a new website to showcase a decade of groundbreaking artists’ projects in the City. The website provides information on permanent and temporary artworks, an archive of past projects, and an interactive map to help you find one of the many works. Visit the website for further information on forthcoming projects, events, talks, publications and more at www.aprb.co.uk
