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Last weekend saw the installation of my commission for Red Nile Projects as a one day giant floral intervention in the Garden Festival Park in Stoke-on-Trent.
The day was a great sucess, drawing in passersby to see what was going on and learn more about the park.
The intervention was complimented by a one day workshop the day before at Airspace Gallery and a drop in activity on the day where participants were invited to make mini woollen flower interventions to be displayed alongside my giant blooms.
You can see documentation here by Glen Stoker: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.416688365008366&type=1
You can learn more about Red Nile Project here: http://www.rednile.org/
And you can read a write up of the project on my blog from next week: http://ruthiefordrednile.blogspot.co.uk/
On the Edgware Road at Serpentine Gallery and in off site venue Centre for Possible Studies presents last 3 years of research.
Visit before 28th March! And check out the catalogue! You can find there a great conversation between Sally Tallant, Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist that explores this project’s starting points and mechanics.
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The Edgware Road Project links artists with people living and working in this London neighbourhood. The diversity of the local people and their interests are reflected by the varying practices and geographies of the artists invited to take up residency at the Centre for Possible Studies. Their responses have been political, reflexive and revealing. An accompanying publication will mark this moment in the Project’s development with descriptions and propositions for the future, answering the question ‘What is a possible study?’.
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Gallery as Community – symposium at Whitechapel Gallery
Great list of speakers and great topic.
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How should we define Community? What are the politics of working beyond the Gallery? This symposium confronts critical debates dealing with community in the context of art practice, education and institutional activity. With contributions from curators working in galleries across the UK today, as well as international artists and theorists. Speakers include Pascal Gielen, Professor of Sociology of the Arts and Director of the research centre Arts in Society at Groningen University, Janna Graham, Education Project Curator, Serpentine Gallery, Kate Gray, Director, Collective Gallery, Paul O’Neill, curator, artist and writer, Dean Kenning, artist and writer, Annette Krauss, artist, Emily Pethick, Director, The Showroom, Matt Stokes, artist, Adam Sutherland, Director, Grizedale Arts, Sofia Victorino, Daskalopoulos Head of Education and Public Programmes, Whitechapel Gallery, and Frances Williams, Head of Education, South London Gallery.
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Because we’re worth it! – A national summit on partcipatory arts in ICA London on 22nd March.
The even will be exploring and celebrating the value of participatory arts.
Participatory arts have the power to change people’s lives for the better; provide connections, experiences and rich stories.
The UK’s participatory arts scene is constantly changing, innovating, developing, celebrating, exploring and recording fantastic and ground breaking work.
More info here: http://www.connectedculture.co.uk/events/post/because-were-worth-it-a-national-summit-on-participatory-arts/