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12th September 2011David Smith and Julian Gregg will host the second ‘Big Park Draw’ in Victoria Park, Bristol UK. Visitors will be invited to sketch, draw, paint in an area of the park that inspires them. As part of his ongoing Sediment project, David Smith will also be making a photographic and audio record of the event. |
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December 2011Rebecca Krinke’s sculpture will be included in ‘XXL’ a group exhibition at Burnsville Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN, curated by Terrance Payne. |
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7-9 December 2011Mary Modeen and Iain Biggs will install a collaborative piece entitled The Enigma of Place for the SENSORY WORLDS: Environment, Value and the Multi-Sensory Conference. The Enigma of Place will combine elements of mixed sounds, video, still images, printmaking in projection, and tactile objects. The installations will be located in the Inspace Gallery, in the Informatics and New Media Building, at 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh. The SENSORY WORLDS two-day conference will be held 7-9 December, 2011 at the University of Edinburgh. Funding for this event has been provided by the Mellon Foundation. |
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2 December 2011Karen E. Till has been invited to give a lecture entitled: ‘Berlin’s Interim Spaces: Creative Interventions by KUNSTrePUBLIK’ as part of the ‘Zeitgeist Memory Project’ hosted by the Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. |
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1 December 2011 - 9 January 2012Judith Tucker stages her exhibition On The Beach At Bornholm at the Galerie Katakomby, Brno. |
25–27 November 2011Mike Pearson will present an invited paper entitled ‘“Take me somewhere good”: performance/mobility/cityscape’ at the Performance Studies international Regional Research Cluster in Athens, Greece. |
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8 November 2011Rebecca Krinke has been invited to give a public lecture on her public art work by the Plains Art Museum and The City of Fargo, North Dakota, on Tuesday, November 8 at 7 PM. Krinke's talk is titled "The Emotional Landscape" and will include a community workshop event. |
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4 November 2011Karen E. Till has been invited to lead a Masterclass on 'Memory: Politics, Place and Practice' for the University College Cork Graduate School College of Art, Celtic Studies and Social Science. She will give a keynote lecture on 'Memory Methodologies' and a hands on workshop on 'Geo-ethnographic Practice', based upon her research in Colombia, Germany, South Africa, and the U.S. |
October 2011Gülgün Kayim has been invited to conduct a residency and is commissioned to create a site-specific performance at the IGUAN Dance Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia. See: http://linkvostok.org/performers.html. |
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27-29 October 2011David Littlefield will be delivering a paper on his work at the Roman baths, Bath, at ‘Peripheries’, the annual Architectural Humanities Research Association Conference at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: href="http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/Peripheries2011Conference/. |
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20 October 2011David Littlefield has been invited to speak at the international conference 'Power in Space: historic architecture transfigured for contemporary culture'. The event is organised by architects Feilden Clegg Bradley and engineers Buro Happold, and will take place in Bath Abbey. Other keynote speakers include architect Eric Parry and Moira Gemmill from the V&A. |
18-23 October 18 2011Talya Chalef’s Untitled -- part installation, part performance and part film -- will be showing at the Columbia University’s Schapiro Studio, 605 West 115th Street, NY, NYC USA. |
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14th-15th October 2011Karen E. Till has been invited to deliver an illustrated paper on ‘Wounded Cities’ for the keynote opening panel session for the ‘Injured Cities, Urban Afterlives’ Conference, organized by Marianne Hirsch, Center for Critical Analysis of Social Difference and Engendering Archives Project, Columbia University, New York, USA. |
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6th-8th October 2011Rebecca Krinke has been invited to deliver an illustrated paper on ‘Contemplation and the Contemporary Landscape’ for the ‘Transcending Architecture: Aesthetics and Ethics of the Numinous’, interdisciplinary conference at Catholic University, Washington DC, USA. |
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1st - 2nd October 2011Work from the September’s ‘Big Park Draw’ curated by David Smith and Julian Gregg, will be exhibited in the Windmill Hill Community Centre during the ‘Art on the Hill’ art trail weekend in South Bristol UK (see http://www.artonthehill.org.uk). Works by David Smith will also be on display during the ‘Art on the Hill’ weekend as part of a group exhibition held in St Michaels and All Angels Church to accompany the performance of Haydn’s Creation. |
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22nd - 24th September, 2011Imagining America Conference, University of Minnesota. Image: East Side Gateway Rain Garden Path; with Anna Metcalfe, Toby Sisson, Laura Corcoran, Jamie Winter Dawson and East Side Conservation Group. ©Christine Baeumler, 2009 |
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September 2011Mona Smith will present ‘Presence’, a multimedia and live performance event at the Ruins Courtyard at the Mill City Museum, a satellite site of the Minnesota Historical Society on the Minneapolis Riverfront (Minneapolis, MN USA). |
September 2011Gülgün Kayim has been invited as Visiting Artist in Residence, with a performance commission and public lecture (date tba), at the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, Bowling Green State University, OH USA. See: www.bgsu.edu/departments/theatre. |
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September 2011Margaret Cogswell has been invited to present on her work at the Wyoming River Fugues: Combining Our Voices two-day Faculty Institute at the University of Wyoming Art Museum (sponsored by Colonel Rogers University of Wyoming Excellence Fund). Image: Margaret Cogswell on a video shoot for Wyoming River Fugues; photo courtesy of University of Wyoming Art Museum |
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10 September 2011David Littlefield, as part of UK Heritage Open Days, will be speaking on ‘Exploring the periphery; an investigation in light, sound and film at the Roman baths, Bath, UK’. David will be leading a tour of the York Street vaults at the baths, discussing the work of the ‘Estranged Space’ group which is working as artists in residence at the baths. The event will focus on the nature of heritage, authenticity and the use of art practice to uncover, or amplify, the aesthetic qualities of the space. See: http://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/. |
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1 September 2011Mike Pearson will perform the audio work Warplands with composer John
Hardy at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society, in
London, UK. See: Image: Mike Pearson scanning the landscape, AHRC Warplands workshop, 2011; photo by Iain Biggs |
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31st August to 3rd September 2011Mary Modeen has been invited to deliver an illustrated paper on ‘In Praise of Multiplicity: Philosophy and Photographic Art Practice’ for the ‘Philosophy and…’, Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy, York St. John University, UK. |
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August 2011Mona Smith will install permanently a revised audio version of Cloudy Waters; Dakota Reflections on the River at the Mill City Museum, a satellite site of the Minnesota Historical Society on the Minneapolis Riverfront (Minneapolis, MN USA). |
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17 – 28 AugustTalya Chalef is director of five performances of: An Improvised Explosive Device: An MTV War story, by playwright: Daniella Shoshan and produced by: Creative Infantry, for the
New York International Fringe Festival.
Background photo by Drew Pearl; stage photograph ©Talya Chalef, 2011 |
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August 16th 2011 - September 1st 2013Christine Baeumler has received funding from the Bush Fellowship to design and implement the Pollinator Playground and Community Garden at Madison Elementary School in Fargo, North Dakota. The project is part of the Plains Art Museum's Defiant Garden Series. Christine will be collaborating with Poet Juliet Patterson. Artist Seitu Jones will design an orchard at the site. Christine has received additional funding from the University of Minnesota Imagine Funds. The project is a finalist for the Creative Capital Grant. Image: Pollinator Playground Concept Plan, ©Christine Baeumler |
