Workshop Strand 1 : OFFSITE – Meet at Stow Crit Space
Saturday June 10th, 2023 : 09:30 – 12:00
Overview
The International Peripatetic Sculptors Society was formed in Scotland in 2003 and has since established divisions throughout the world.The IPSS makes instant unsanctioned public sculpture in back alleys and forgotten spaces. Fusing the situationist tradition of dérive with Allan Kaprowʼs invocation to reclaim the art of everyday life and Erwin Wurm’s invitation to 1-minute sculpture, the IPSS adventures encourage the transformation of the urban environment through small gestures of creativity. Action-based walks function as a participatory method of observation and investigation, as the peripateurs spontaneously intervene with the objects, operations, and articulations of the city space.
Speakers
Roddy Buchanan
Roddy Buchanan, born in Glasgow, studied at Glasgow School of Art in the 1980’s, followed by an MA at the University of Ulster. Part of the Transmission Gallery scene in the 1990’s, he exhibited extensively in the international museum and kunsthalle circuit, and worked with galleries in London, New York and Paris. Enthusiastic about socially engaged art practice, he runs intensive community engagement residencies with students on the International Master’s Programme for the University of the Arts, ArtEZ in Arnhem. His work is held in collections from the National Gallery to the Tate, Imperial War Museum and City of Paris.
Peter McCaughey
Peter McCaughey is an Irish artist living in Glasgow. He works internationally with a practice focused on the local. He led The Happenstance, Scotland’s lauded contribution to the 2018 Venice Biennale. Peter is Director/Lead Artist of WAVEparticle, an artist-led art organisation that works to produce new processes, events and objects, re-thinking how the places we live in, and the systems that regulate our lives, move to a more cooperative, connective and creative model. He regularly intervenes in his own life; exploring the belief that it is important that artists intervene in the world they live in and don’t just pass comment at a distance. He Lectures at Glasgow School of Art where he keeps the tradition of singing alive.
Ben Parry
Ben Parry is an artist, curator and researcher working at the intersections of art, activism, critical urbanism, and waste. He uses art as a tool to create spaces in which to imagine alternative futures and intervenes in the everyday via small acts of resistance. His practice takes diverse forms from site-responsive interventions, documentary and exhibition to collaborative and community-led projects in diverse contexts. He recently co-designed Compound 13 Lab, in Mumbai; an experimental learning and maker space exploring the politics of waste and the everyday survival of the cities’ informal waste workers. He runs the MA Curatorial Practice programme at Bath Spa University.