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Art in Public: The Culture of
Possibilities: 3rd National Public Art
Conference - East Midlands - 7th
December 2007
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| "Design
in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things,
various elements in the creative flux. You
can't invent a design.You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That
is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes." D H Lawrence |
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Friday, 7th December 2007,
9am - 5pm: Conference
Followed by a reception and the projection of work by Albert Duman |
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Venue: Broadway Media Centre,
14-18
Broad Street, Nottingham NG1 3AL |
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| Cost |
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£140 inc. VAT |
Standard
rate. includes annual subscription to the Art & Architecture
Journal |
| £110
inc. VAT |
Concessionary
rate for existing Art & Architecture Journal subscribers /
concessions |
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For further information concerning Art in
Public: The National Public Art Conference Programme contact:
Tom Evans at
events(at)artandarchitecturejournal.com |
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| Speakers:
Fred Brookes, Broadway Media Centre - Marc Cole, CEO, Nottingham
Regeneration Ltd - Lewis Biggs, Director, Liverpool Biennial - Janet
Currie, Director, OPUN
- Cameron Cartiere, Birkbeck, University of London - Sophie Hope,
Curator, B+B - Claire Doherty, Senior Research Fellow and Director of
Situations, University of the West of England, Bristol - David Bickle,
Architect, Hawkins/Brown - Louise O'Reilly,
Arts Consultant - Sans façon, Artists - John Newling,
Professor
of Installation Sculpture, Nottingham Trent University - Albert Duman,
Artist - Julian Marsh, Architect |
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| The
3rd
National Public Art conference
is the essential annual meeting place for public art professionals to
meet as a discipline to discuss new information and information - to
keep informed on latest
policy and
current strategy and thinking - to meet fellow practioners involved in
innovative cultural developments in the public realm. |
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East
Midlands
is establishing the
role of art, culture and architecture as catalysts for
change in shaping regional identity. The
event examined how art and culture-led approaches can provide wider social and
economic benefits for people, places and communities and focused on projects
in Corby
and Nottingham. |
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speakers presented information, documentation and discussion on leading
innovative art
projects to address the
definition, procurement and delivery of art in public places. |
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| Conference Highlights: |
| Off-site
or in the public realm? A debate on the motion that Public Art is a form of Cultural
Abuse.
As the positive effects of a well-designed urban environment are
acknowledged in some quarters many artists and curators feel strongly
that the process of regeneration misuses artists' creativity. |
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presentation of the important discussion document The Manifesto of Possibilities -
A National Strategy for Public Art organized by Birkbeck, University of London. |
| Alberto Duman was commissioned to create images to be projected as a slide show
across the conference presenting relevant sentences appropriated from
commission agencies documents and public art strategies. |
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special UK issue of the major American magazine Public Art Review was launched at the conference - The Present State - Public Art in
England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
- includes essays by Ian Banks, Wiard Sterk, Penny Lewis, Annette
Mahoney, Jeremy Hunt, Eileen Woods, Cameron Cartiere, Peter Murray and
Isobel Vasseur. |
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| Who should attend:
Public Art Officers, Artists, Urban Designers, Environment Officers,
Architects, Landscape
Architects, Landscape Designers, Town Centre Managers, Regeneration Managers,
Consultants, Planners, Cultural Services Managers |
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| Partners: A & B (Art & Business), ACE (Arts
Council England),
Axis, Broadway,
Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects, Groundwork East Midlands, ixia (Public
Art Think Tank), Nottingham Regeneration Ltd, OPUN, RBS
(Royal Society of British Sculptors), Regeneration East Midlands. |
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