Broken Ground Symposium – How do we experience the city? BOOK NOW
Saturday February 18th
On Saturday February 18th a multi disciplinary event will take place with experts from the fields of archaeology, history, geography, planning, architecture, museums, psychology and art, offering an opportunity to share ideas and experiences in the creative environment of Phoenix Brighton.
The day will consist of an introduction to the exhibition by exhibiting artists Derek Besant, Jayne Wilson and Peter Marsh. Panel discussions, networking and a creative activity will take place with the focus on Psychogeography, debating the following concepts:
Destruction is an ever present negative force in the city
One experiences the city in a purely emotional way, drawing on personal history, prejudices, habits and expectations
Places are limited, so to book a place and arrange payment please phone 01273 603700. There is a £10 charge for the day which will include lunch.
Panel
Derek Besant:
Featured artist in ‘Broken Ground’ exhibition. BFA Honors, Graduate Studies at University of Calgary, 1974. RCA, 1978. Exhibition Designer for The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 1973 -1977, also producing catalogues and travelling exhibitions. He has taught in the Drawing/Fine Arts department at The Alberta College of Art and Design since 1977. Winner of the Alberta Governor General Award in Art 1980, the World Culture Prize in Research Arts & Letters from Milan Italy in 1983, a Distinguished Alumni Award in 1999 from University of Calgary and The Smithsonian Museum of the Americas Portfolio Award in Boston in 2005.Public commissions include The Flatiron Mural in 1980 behind Toronto’s landmark Gooderham building, a fifteen storey waterfall inside the atrium of Scotia Plaza in 1989, and two murals for the Worldwide Centre at Manhattan Cineplex, New York City in 1989.
http://develop.karelia.ru/article/175?lang=eng
Luis Diaz: received a BArch from the New York Institute of Technology in 1990 and spent the next ten years in a combination of practice, teaching and research. In addition he has studies at the Berlage Institute, the Bartlett and the London School of Economics and has recently completed his MPhil at the University of Brighton.
He was co-founder of the research based practice, Brooklyn Architects Collective, and carried out urban design research for the New York Municipal Arts Society and the Greenpoint/Williamsburg Waterfront Coalition. In 1998 the practice was a selected prize winner, receiving a certificate of merit for their proposal for the Brooklyn Waterfront in the Van Alen Institute East River Competition.
Luis Diaz has taught at the New York Institute of Technology before relocating to the UK in 2000 to study at the LSE and University of Brighton. He has taught history and theory at the Kent Institute of Art and Design and is now a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton
Dr. Julie Coultas: Julie is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Psychology Department at the University of Sussex. Her main research interest is conformity from an evolutionary perspective. Her current research interests include cooperative behaviour, conformity, evolutionary social psychology, emotional intelligence, sexual selection/female choice, kinship and the evolution of religion. Current research includes empirical tests of Boyd and Richerson's conformist transmission model, social influence and group size, and work on the emotions and adolescents. Julie is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution Stockholm University
Sweden CEK:www.intercult.su.se http://www.sussex.ac.uk/psychology/people/peoplelists/person/7384
http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/research/chatlab/people.html
Wendy Ann Greenhalgh: Wendy is a writer, artist and educator. Her short pieces and longer fiction have been published in magazines, anthologies and online. Credits include Mslexia, Metazen, Ink Sweat & Tears and Friction Magazine. She has exhibited her films, photographs, texts and installations in the UK and Europe, and performs her writing regularly at readings and events, most recently in the Brighton Fringe. In 2011 she was the recipient of a New Writing South New Buds Award. Wendy Ann Greenhalgh is a member of the National Association of Writers In Education.
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/wendyanngreenhalgh
http://storyscavenger.blogspot.com/p/come-on-scavenger-hunt.html
Jayne Wilson: Jayne is an exhibiting artist and studio member at Phoenix Brighton.In making her work she produces carefully researched images and films, tinged with humour, that draw upon a prevailing interest in archive film and ephemera, historic sites and from her background in the graphic and visual arts. Commissioned work includes The Herbert, Coventry, Brighton Dome and Festival and American Express.
http://www.jaynewilson.co.uk/index.html
http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=8189
John Kelly:With a background in Geography and Geology, John is an artist whose work interprets topography and architecture, often in the form of journals. During the past five years John’s work has increasingly concentrated upon the interpretation of landscape. This has resulted in a detailed or 'forensic' study of remote locations, analysing 'moments' experienced in these places. This has included a visit to Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). A key work in this development was the 'forensic shoreline' produced in 2001, and concerned with the coastline of Southern England. He is currently working on a theme of 'Moments in Time'
http://phoenixbrighton.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=304
http://www.axisweb.org/seCVPG.aspx?ARTISTID=6032
Phelim MacCafferty; Phelim is the Green Party Councillor for Brunswick and Adelaideand is Chair of Planning at Brighton and Hove City Council. His education at Birkbeck College, University of London in Doctoral Studies, history of art, sociology and pscychogeography and a First Class Joint Honours in Fine Art and History of Art from Goldsmiths College, London make him an ideal panel member.
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For more information visit http://phoenixbrighton.org/events/308-broken-ground-symposium.html