The University of Glasgow’s School of Interdisciplinary Studies (Crichton, Dumfries), in association with Spring Fling, is presenting ‘The Art of Place’ lecture series - there will be one talk every Thursday evening for the four weeks beginning 21st April.
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| Jan Hogarth at the opening of Hideo Furuta's and Nic Coombey's Adamson Square in Creetown |
This series of talks is part of the intention to present our region as a national centre for Environmental Art (or art in landscape, if you prefer) and coincides with the imminent launch of the new Solway Centre for Environment and Culture at the Crichton.
These are important moves forward in valuing the contribution of the creative community in the region and, hopefully, placing culture at the centre of how D+G thinks about itself and promotes itself to others. There is sure to be interesting discussion provoked by the lectures.
The talks are being given by four local practitioners that will be well known to most of us - this is a chance to hear people talk about how they think about their work and the things that are important to them:
John Kennedy - 21st April
John Kennedy - 21st April
Dr Jan Hogarth - 12th May
There will also be a small exhibition of work by all four of the speakers in the Rutherford McCowan Building starting on 21st April and open to the public during normal operating hours
For more information or how to purchase tickets please follow this link - http://www.spring-fling.co.uk/whats-on/art-of-place-lecture-series/
18.04.11 - STOP PRESS NEWS......Half-price tickets for these lectures are now available through The Commonty.....here
Commonty members discount? ;~)
ReplyDeleteGood suggestion Will. Presumably someone is also filming the Talks?
ReplyDeleteI'd hope that as well as focusing on the academic aspect there'll be room for actual work in the landcsape as they do at the Euro Land Art Festival 2011. Which oddly enough has just put out an Appel à artistes.
http://www.paysdebeauce.com/eurolandart.php
I'll ask the question at the Crichton about cost and report back. I'll check about filming too
ReplyDeleteIs it just me or is there a lot going on at the moment? .......me heads buzzin'!!
ReplyDeleteSadly this is another initiative in the east of the region that I will not manage to attend. The 130 mile round trip by car from my studio and the £8 admission charge for each hour and a half lecture is just too expensive. A day conference would have been better - but I shall buy a good book with the money saved.
ReplyDeletePerhaps, in the future if The Stove is opened, I might go green and make the 3 hour bus journey to savour a cappuccino in the artist café and, thus fortified and refreshed, make the 3 hour journey home!
The whole idea of The Commonty was to use a tool that everyone has equal access too ie 'the internet' to create a forum that represented the aspirations of all of us to support a genuinely regional arts scene.
ReplyDeleteWe can only post on the blog what is sent to us - there are excellent things happening everywhere in the region...we rely on people like Anonymous to tell us about them instead of just venting spleen about what is happening more than 15 miles from your own front door
The Art of Place lectures are organised and presented by the University of Glasgow who have a campus in Dumfries....
As we're all too painfully aware D&G is cursed by being geographically challenged, with a not too good transport infrastructure to help us all link up together.
ReplyDeleteHopefully we can start filming events and posting them on the site so that nobody misses out. Conversely, I'd hope that those furth of Dumfries can do something similar for those who cannot afford to visit.
I opened my comment with the word “sadly”, for I genuinely want to go. I was not “just venting spleen about what is happening more than 15 miles from your own front door”.
ReplyDeleteThankfully your second post, Commonty, was a bit more sympathetic to the difficulties of the rural artist.