Session 1A : Reid Lecture Theatre
Friday June 9th, 2023 : 10:00 – 12:30
Overview
The importance of materials and making have long held sway in art schools where learning through doing, play and experimentation are promoted and celebrated. New Materialism foregrounds these ideas in new ways. Notions of animacy and agency hold maker and matter in creative balance, acknowledging the material world’s inherent disorder: ‘life [being] forged in the turbulence of materials’ (Tim Ingold, 2016:8). In this context, the centrality of the human author is rightly questioned.
Do these conditions – coupled with the shadow of the Anthropocene – demand a fresh outlook? How does learning and teaching respond to these new challenges and opportunities? How do we foster an open mindset in students where curiosity, speculation and improvisation are encouraged, and the voice of the material heard?
Speakers
Sue Brind
Andy Broadey
Andy Broadey is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art, History and Theory at University of Central Lancashire. He was a awarded PhD (Fine Art: Practice Led) by University of Leeds in 2013. Andy’s installations examine the histories of the Capitalocene and destabilise ideologies of globalisation. He has recently exhibited at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool and The Portico Library in Manchester. He is also co-curator of the art space Hanover Project based at University of Central Lancashire. He has previously published articles in Visual Studies, Journal of Visual Arts Practice, ReThinking Marxism (all Routledge/Taylor & Francis), Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research (University of Barcelona) and Research in Education (Sage).
Greig Burgoyne
Greig Burgoyne is subject lead in BA Fine Art at UCA Farnham. Having studied at Universität Für Angewandte Kunst Vienna and Royal college of art London, he has lectured in fine art practice and theory throughout Europe and North America. His published writing, research, and practice focus on conceptual frameworks around Performance, drawing and phenomenology. He exhibits widely across Europe. His work features in “Performance Drawing-New practices’ published by Bloomsbury Books 2021/22. Solo exhibitions in 2023 include The Lowry Manchester; Ciclop festival of performance art Mallorca: MLAC Rome; ISM The Hague.
Justin Carter
Elizabeth Hodson
Helen Knowles
Helen Knowles (b.1975) is an artist and curator of the Birth Rites Collection currently housed in the University of Kent. Exhbitions include; Hercules Road Gallery, London, Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing, (2023) Alberta University of the Arts, (2022) Leuphana University, Hannover project, UCLAN Kunstlerhaus Graz, Oil Tank Cultural Park, Seoul, (2021), arebyte Gallery, London, Ars Electronica (2020). The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo,'Artistic intelligence' Hannover Kunstverein (2019) ZKM, Karlsruhe, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2017). Her work is held in private and public collections worldwide. She won an honorary mention at Ars Electronica in 2020.
Laura Leuzzi
Laura Leuzzi is a contemporary art historian, curator, and author. Leuzzi earned her PhD in “Tools and Methods for the History of Art” with a thesis in Contemporary Art at Sapienza Università di Roma in 2011. Her research, published works be it in books, articles and at conference is particularly focused on video art, feminism and new media.
Aubyn O’Grady
Aubyn O’Grady is the Program Director of the Yukon School of Visual Arts in Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Territory, Dawson City, Yukon. Aubyn’s research-creation practice is concerned with artist-led art schools, the ethics of site-specific artworks, and artist engagements with rural places. She is a frequent and enthusiastic collaborator and rarely takes sole credit for any project she organizes. However, Aubyn can be credited with conceptualizing the Dawson City League of Lady Wrestlers (2013-2017) (book forthcoming), the Swimming Lessons Aquatic Lecture series (2017-2018), Local Field School (2020+), and Drawlidays (2019, 2020), a Dawson City-wide portrait exchange.
Andrew Prior
Dr Andrew Prior is an Associate Professor in Digital Art & Technology at University of Plymouth, UK. He is a designer, artist, musician and educator who received his PhD from Aarhus University in 2015. He has exhibited and performed internationally, including in New York, Tokyo, Aarhus, Roskilde, Brno and Žilina.
David Strang
David is an artist, academic and researcher working with light, sound, noise and interactivity. His work explores the creative potential within the movement of noise in and around systems of sound and light by making / hacking devices and tools for performance, workshop, installation and intervention. He has collaborated, performed, and exhibited with artists and scientists as well as exhibiting solo work in Canada, China, Europe, Hong Kong, Iceland, Russia, UK and USA. David currently lives and works in Suzhou, China and is Associate Professor for Digital Media Arts at XJTLU.