Finding and creating
Outdoor Institute of Arts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtwwkLHAbM4
Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
Nature and the narrative language are key issues on my this pathway.
Audiences and Participation
IDEAS Module 703
Curation Process looking at the detail.
Landscape, Language and Lives
To draw attention to the significance of and importance of the countryside, theories, practices and process like artist Richard Long, - Common Ground , linking it to the instances of poetry conversation, storytelling and engaging people in the slow act of absorbing the environment and seeking to find a deeper purpose and positive attitudes to saving the planet through this discussion. Walking has been an essential part of my relaxation and spending time with nature, ancient narratives, marks or distinctive places in the land. These are part of our inheritance and a wish to preserve these and create a curation practice including collaboration with artists, performers, places and people within the context of curation, and audiences and working in areas of engagement that are inspiring and sustainable.
Text from the Poem Birdsong by Oliver Lomax which has been an inspiration to this
project, more instances of this on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/louisedwyerloubie/
Deep Ecology
Rambling in the Countryside Lines, Made by Man Image Louise Dwyer
The idea that we are to engage with the environment is the most relevant factor and the ways that this could improve are what concern my venture into curation.
The assignment covers aspects of my research in Deep Ecology, Flaneur and I am interested in this blend of ideas where the curation process engages and asks questions combined with an experience that can be shared or encounters that are worked into a community setting as at Grizedale, Lawson Park Farm.
Deep Ecology http://www.deepecology.org/deepecology.htmGrizedale https://www.grizedale.org/about/
USEFUL, ENGAGING, WELLBEING, SUSTAINABLE, EDUCATIONAL AND CREATIVELY
This article was noteworthy as the way that society has moved away from engaging with a place and local issues can be seen as disengaging with the world!
George Monbiot states in this article the old term of referring to a place “reserve” is cold and alienating – think of what we mean when we use that word about a person. “The environment” is just as bad: an empty word that creates no pictures in the mind.
Linking up until these thoughts and making a more positive and appealing engagement is my inspiration.
Taking ideas of distinctiveness to landscape, creativity and expression.
There are several people working on similar practices and linked to Commonground. (Rob and Harriet Fraser, Richard Long, Andy Goldsworthy, Claire Potter, Rebecca Chesney these artists combine poetry, text, place performance, film, and art as a blended practice relating to the environment.
Greening Practices
Christine Keogh at the Art Connections organisation put together some inspirational ideas and events.
Visiting some of these organisations, with the main focus being their approach to working projects and methods.
Gargrave Chrysalis Arts presented these two speakers that I will be following up in my research.
Rob and Harriet Fraser were at the GAP meeting in Gargrave, and are also showing work at
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Common Ground exhibition
Flit Poetry and texts by Simon Armitage
Walking and poetry and conversation around the land and space we inhabit
Poetry - his recent project and publication called Flit which he centred on the sculpture park at Wakefield was really inspiring and I found his ideas of approaching the landscape as a visitor raised some interesting ideas to follow up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyrK-v3P5fw
Walking in the Landscape.
This idea of the urban ambler, more than just a nineteenth-century social phenomenon, exists as an exponent of a certain kind of vision, combining the “casual eye of the stroller with the purposeful gaze of the detective.”The investigative conduct of the flâneur proved influential to the automatist meanderings of the Surrealists in the first part of the twentieth century. However, ideas of urban exploration were not thoroughly explored until Guy Debord and the Situationist International adopted the figure as a basis for their theory of dérive. The situationists sought to adopt a critical and experimental drift (the dérive) while letting go of all compulsions that normally governed action and movement in order to abandon themselves completely to the terrain.
2012 Christopher Luessen. The Flaneur, Psychogeography and Drift Photography
Baudelaire, Charles. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays. London: Phaidon, 1995. Print. 9
CLIMATE CHANGE
Alice Sharp, Curator and Director of Invisible Dust
Under Her Eye
http://invisibledust.com/project/under-her-eye-women-in-the-art-and-science-of-climate-change/
London with Margaret Atwood
The Human Sensor - event that I had followed about air pollution in London and performed in Manchester with costumes by Kasia Mogul
giving a visual and dramatic image relating to the problem causing deaths from air pollution.
Meet with Education Curator – Dorcas Taylor and a group discussion panel interaction and dialogue with local people.
James Cook - 250 Whitby
Talks and display of artwork and Reading Room at Whitby Library.
Alice Sharp set up Invisible Dust in 2009. Since then for Invisible Dust, the artists she has worked with include Elizabeth Price, Jeremy Deller, Dryden Goodwin, Faisal Abdu’Allah, Mariele Neudecker, Martin Parr, John Akomfrah and Tacita Dean. She co-curated ‘Offshore: artists explore the sea’ as part of Hull UK City of Culture in 2017. Scientist advisors include Professor Frank Kelly, King’s College London, Government Advisor on air pollution and Professor Alex Rogers, Marine Biologist, Oxford University and international health of the oceans campaigner. In 2015 she won the Guardian PEA (People, Environment & Achievement) UK Arts, Fashion, Music & Film Award; recognising inspirational people who are making a difference to the green agenda.
Previously Alice managed the Fourth Plinth with Antony Gormley and Yinka Shonibare, curated the Big Chill Art Trail including Brian Eno and House of Fairytales with Gavin Turk and co-curated an international exhibition ‘Journeys With No Return’ including Mike Nelson, Nevin Aladag and Zineb Sedira touring to Istanbul, Berlin and London.
Climate Change
Community Response to Climate Change Report prepared for the Big Lottery Fund
So, seen from the “bottom up”, climate change is one of the many challenges that communities face, (if it is recognised as an immediate challenge at all) and community responses to it are best understood and framed within the broader set of issues that each place faces.
' Indeed, “climate change” as a concept may not be the best way to engage people or to frame local activities. Most of the stakeholders we interviewed felt that climate change was a difficult basis for engaging people in behaviour change or collective action and that placing climate change action within the broader field of improving community resilience and sustainability might be more fruitful, especially if this enables actions to be more explicitly linked to more everyday concerns, like jobs, skills, food, injustice or wellbeing. ' Steve Matthews & Dr Jonathan Pratt. 2012, p63.
The National Trust has a new art programme involving lots of contemporary artists and craftspeople in their locations throughout the country - I loved the interpretation in the Shugborough Hall intervention.
TRUST NEW ART
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/trust-new-art-exhibitions-and-events
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/shugborough-estate/features/a-lost-paradise
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/trust-new-art-exhibitions-and-events
The above link shows the national programme. This one is most local to me and I am planning a visit to see this in the next few days.
Lucy Orta The Gazing Ball . Fountains Abbey
I was able to attend this talk arranged by the Tate Liverpool. Although plans to use audience engagement were not fully formed, the observations of how this exhibition was organised and set up were very interesting.
The Forestry Commission
New Installations of art in the Forest
Rachel Whiteread. Nissen Hut
The forest in North Yorkshire at Dalby will be a site for the marking of a response to the First World War 14-18Now.org.uk.
Several places throughout the Uk will take place in the programme with 150 artists, celebrating England’s trees and forests continuing throughout 2019 to mark the Forestry Commission’s centenary.
Nissen Hut will be a permanent testament to the lasting impact of the First World War on the British landscape. It forms the latest addition to Rachel Whiteread’s acclaimed Shy Sculpture series.
https://www.forestry.gov.uk/
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Archival research and development of our co-curated exhibition.
I have a strong interest in social engagement with arts, cultural heritage, and development in my practice, the way these issues are becoming more about visibility and part of a curators professional life. Bringing together a range of people into a project and taking the lead from issues that we uncovered through our research and qualitative through visits, blogs, and newspapers articles, finding out some of the most important facts, using these tools and deciding how to interpret them for the exhibition.
Background research into archives, communities and social issues.
Liverpool visiting exhibitions at Bluecoat, Tate Liverpool, Fact, and Open Eye Gallery.
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, this pamphlet illustrates the history attached to the Slave Trade which has the close association with Liverpool its past traders and large shipbuilding heritage. On my visit to Liverpool, I went along to the Maritime Museum, which has a huge collection of artifacts in a rather cramped but very interesting exhibition.
State of The Nation Tate Liverpool
I was able to attend this talk arranged by the Tate Liverpool. Although plans to use audience engagement were not fully formed, the observations of how this exhibition was organised and set up were very interesting.
22-28 January Tate Exchange
www.tate.org.uk/.../state-nation-exchanges-on-homelessness
Looking at connecting with the homelessness and our societies problems relating to the cost of housing and economic struggle.They had a group exhibition and this was supported by a panel of people and a participation through questions and answers with the panel.
FACT The Ropewalk, Liverpool. www.fact.co.uk
The Fact Museum FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology).
We are the UK's leading media arts center based in Liverpool, offering a unique programme of exhibitions, film and participant-led art projects. UNDER CINEMA 2017, Two -channel Colour HR Contemporary film by Wu Tsang, her films have featured at an international film festival in London, Berlin, and Amsterdam - wutsang.com. about connectedness and space where communities can come together across different paths and she combines mainstream and experimental art forms in the same space.
THE OFFSITE STUDY RESEARCH
THE WEST YORKSHIRE ARCHIVE - MORLEY
I was able to further research into the housing estates and the conditions of working-class people and some of their local history - the back-back housing and Slum-Clearance in Leeds, the business and factories in the area. This informed me more about the conditions of communities, how they lived and worked during that time and prior to the flats built there. I was able to see the process for requesting documents and signing out items for loan and conditions and agreements forms and procedures.
During my visit to the archive, I was able to research old maps, some of them very old and large, I would have like to have been able to requisition one to have on display in the exhibition. It was not possible as they are too difficult to handle and to be able to do this would also have required a few weeks to process.
West Yorkshire Archives at Morley and Wakefield.
Hunslet South Leeds Back to back terrace houses.
Documents from the Library about the Hunslet Grange Estate Buildings (Above) there were lots of newspapers and reports relating to this available for further research which I accessed through the library on the Athena website at the Library
www.localandfamilyHistory@leeds.gov.uk
VISITING TO GATHER ORAL HISTORIES RESEARCH
Gill and I made arrangements with the community center to go along with a presentation and questions to research further into the community of that area and to see what memories and feedback they would have about the experience of living there.
At the memory cafe in Hunslet discussing there experiences and recollections
Gill Crawshaw and myself - Garden Memory Cafe in Holbeck giving our presentation to the members
Recorded Memory Cafe attendee We had seven families in our street sharing the same toilet that was terrible - and Chamberpots under the bed!
Louise Did you have a T.V.?
Memory Cafe attendeeErh no\... not straight away we
didnt even have a fridge. It were a year or two and then it was a rental one - ey it took me four years to pay for my cooker at 4shilling 6 time!