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All events are free, however booking is essential – please call 0151 904 1216
Workshops:
26 February, 10.30am – 4.00pm
Jane Frost
Weaving a Walk
Beginning with a Mersey walk and along the way collecting artefacts, materials and discussing places significant to individuals and communities, environmentally and socially. On return to the gallery a structure will be created, weaving collected items into a prepared warp. The action and conversation will highlight the awareness of each participant on others and on the whole. The warp, like the environment, is sensitive to all movements.
1, 3, 8, 10, 15, 16, 19 March, 10.30am – 3.00pm
David Haley
Draughting Dialogues
As a ‘live’ redrawing of that which is given, Trees of Grace: Draughting Change will question, challenge, propose, transform and attempt to generate potential futures for Northwest England. Using OS maps as a basis, the exhibit will, therefore, become a site of dialogue with guests of many disciplines and visitors contributing to and participating in the ecological whole systems, integral critical futures, spatial planning discourse. Participants are invited to generate a sequence of ‘draught’ proposals for Mersey futures.
9 March, 10.00am – 2.00pm
Gordon MacLellan
Strandline
A participatory project that explores our changing coastline over the next hundred years. With a focus on the Mersey as coastal site, participants will be invited to create a hanging sculpture from natural materials. Weaving background knowledge, personal experience and creativity into an appreciation of the pace, extent and implications of our changing coastline for human, animal and plant communities and even for the landscape itself.
Tours/Walks:
2 March, 1.00 – 2.00pm
James Brady & Janette Porter
Introducing… the Mersey Basin project
Join the curators on a tour of the exhibition and an open Q&A session.
5 March, 10.30am – 1.00pm
David Haley
Walk the Talk to Forest 3
This is one in a series of participatory walks that explore the potential for foresting public and private parks and gardens in Liverpool with a view to creating a future Mersey Forest.
Lectures:
8 March, 6.00 – 7.30pm
Phil Woodworth (Head of Sea Level Research, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory and advisor to the 2007 United Nations International Panel on Climate Change)
Sea Level & Climate Change
15 March, 4.00 – 5.30pm
Dave Pritchard (Ecologist, Independent Arts & Environment Consultant, Chairman of CIWEM Arts & Environment Network and recipient of 2008 International Wetland Conservation Award)
Wetlands, Forests, Environmental Management and the Arts
16 March, 4.00 – 5.30pm
David Haley (FRSA, Ecological Artist, Director of Art & Ecology Research Unit MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Creation Myths for Many Futures: the Art of Indeterminacy
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STEVEN CONNOR - A PHILOSPHY OF FIDGETS
4pm LJMU Art & Design Academy, Duckinfield Street off Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RD Tickets are free but should be booked in advance at http://www.biennial.com/ or on 08452202800
In preparation for the opening on 18 September, Liverpool Biennial has invited prominent artists and thinkers to reflect on TOUCHED, the International exhibition 2010’s theme.
A Philosophy of Fidgets
Professor Steven Connor examines the reason behind why we fidget. “Fidgeting is a process of searching for an ideal ‘thinking thing’….when we fidget, we put ourselves into play, we use fidgetable objects to play with ourselves, even to play with our own play”
Steven Connor has written for and published in over 100journals and books on subjects ranging from Charles Dickens to the act of clapping. Most recently, he has published Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (2000). The Book of Skin (2003) and Fly (2006). His most recent book The Matter of the Air and Paraphernalia: The Secret Magic of Ordinary Things will be published later this year. http://www.stevenconnor.com/ includes many lectures, broadcasts and unpublished works. He is currently Professor of modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck College London.
Academy Lectures - Liverpool School of Art and Design
Free entry to all
Adam Chodzko
4pm on Wednesday 10 February 2010
Johnson Foundation Auditorium, LJMU Art and Design Academy
Duckinfield Street (off Brownlow Hill) Liverpool L3 5RD
Adam Chodzko’s art explores the interactions of human behaviour. Using a  wide variety of media - from video to performance to fly-posters to drawing - his work explores a collective wondering: how can we engage with the existence of others? How else might we relate? And what reality emerges from the search for this knowledge?
Chodzko's art proposes new relationships between our value and belief systems, between the community and private spaces that generate these systems, and between the documents and fictions that describe and guide them. Working directly with the people and places that surround him, often using forms of anthropology, Chodzko focuses on the relational politics of culture's edges, endings, displacements and disappearances in an active looking in the 'wrong' place – A search for knowledge. His art practice operates in the tight, poetic spaces he evolves between documentary and fantasy, conceptualism and surrealism often engaging reflexively and directly with the role of the viewer.
Intimate collections and ephemeral communities are frequently generating through his works: assemblies of owners of a particular jacket and a reunion of the children 'murdered' in a Pasolini film; a god look-alike contest; lighting technicians asked to advise on the light in heaven; a London gallery's archive given to a group of Kurdish asylum seekers to edit and hide outside the capital; the multi-faceted 'Design for a Carnival,' the evolution of a ritual event for the future including 'Settlement,' the legal purchase of a square foot of land as a gift to a stranger, 'Nightshift,' a late night parade of nocturnal animals to the Frieze Art Fair, London 2004 and 'M-path,' the collection and distribution of perception-changing footwear for gallery visitors. More recently a trilogy of “science-fiction” video and mixed media works, ‘Hole’, ‘Around’ and ‘Pyramid’ have all explored the idea of art becoming a vehicle for a community’s collective mythology.
Born in 1965. Lives and works in Whitstable, Kent, UK.
Since 1991 Chodzko has exhibited extensively in international solo and group exhibitions: Tate, St Ives; Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (MAMBo); Venice Biennale; Royal Academy, London; Deste Foundation, Athens; PS1, NY; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Kunstmuseum Luzern etc. Recent projects include commissions by The Contemporary Art Society, Frieze Art Fair, Hayward Gallery, and Creative Time, New York. In 2002 he received awards from the Hamlyn Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, and in 2007 was awarded an AHRC Research Fellowship in the Film Department at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His work is in the collections of the Tate, The British Council, The Arts Council, APT, Auckland City Art Gallery, Contemporary Art Society Collection, The Creative Foundation, Frac Languedoc-Rousillon, GAM - Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Grizedale Arts, MAMBo - Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Plains Arts Museum, North Dakota, USA, Saatchi Collection, South London Gallery, Towner Gallery Eastbourne, and international private collections.
WRONG LOVE
WRONG LOVE is a night of intimate performance, site-specific installation, audio visual art and live music presented by local, regional, national and international artists to be held in The Furnace Gallery at A  Foundation Liverpool.
As the first happening arranged in Liverpool by events company and online arts magazine [^]LAND, the goal of the event is to provide a new experience for art lovers under the banner of an alternative to a traditional Valentine’s Day celebration.
We hope not only to generate fresh interest in contemporary practice, but also to create an inspirational platform for further projects and collaborations of this kind by connecting artists from a wide range of disciplines with an entirely new audience.
We also aim to give Art, Design and Architecture undergraduates alongside recent graduates the opportunity to work in conjunction with practiced artists, gaining experience and developing their work in an informed but informal environment.
For further information about Wrong Love follow the link: www.comeintoland.com/events
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Susan Cotton Travel Awards 2010
Open to 2nd Year Students and MA students in the School of Art and Design.
This Years Awards,
3 x £1,400 and 2 x £2,200
Applicants should submit a covering letter together with a statement of intent (no more than one side of A4) including a summary of their current work and interests, and an outline of what they would do with the award and why. They should also indicate how the award would make a difference to their academic and personal development.
Applications must be submitted electronically to LSAschooloffice@ljmu.ac.uk
Closing Date For Submissions
4pm on 22nd January 2010.
Discover more with the Susan Cotton Travel Award
Liverpool School of Art & Design latest newsletter
Inaugural Professorial Lecture
20 October 2009
Professor Mike Stubbs - ‘Anger is an Energy – connecting time and space through action, movement and memory.’
You are invited to join Professor Stubbs at his inaugural lecture.
Date: Thursday 12 November, 5.30pm – 6.30pm, followed by drinks reception
Venue: Johnson Foundation Auditorium, LJMU Art and Design Academy
Mike Stubbs is Director of FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology. FACT is the UK’s leading organisation for the commissioning of film, video and new media art forms. Mike was jointly appointed to his current post by FACT and LJMU, where he is Professor of Art, Media and Curating.
During his career, Mike has commissioned over 250 interactive, site specific, performative, sonic and moving image based artworks. Mike’s own internationally commissioned artwork encompasses broadcast, films, video art, large scale public projections and new media installations.
Mike is the recipient of more than a dozen international prizes, including winner of Royal Australian Institute of Architects Award for best exhibition design; Museum Australia, MIRA, Museum Industry Honourable Mention; and Outstanding Professional Project for White Noise Exhibition.
If you would like to attend, please RSVP to L.M.Pringle@ljmu.ac.uk by 6 November.
Award win at Stylesight for LJMU student
Liverpool School of Art and Design student Ashley Garrod wins 2nd prize in the Stylesight student print competition. Garrod's work explores classic vintage graphics, with an unusual modern interpretation focusing on allover check repeats in both bright and tonal palettes.
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Liverpool School of Art and Design Degree Show 2009
Featuring students work from Architecture, Fashion, Fine Art, Graphic Arts, Interior Design, Product Design, Textiles
Cultural Leadership Research Symposium
Art and Design Academy, Liverpool John Moores University Friday 19th June 2009
The first Cultural Leadership Research Symposium, to be hosted by the Cultural Leadership Unit at Liverpool John Moores University has been designed to provide a collaborative platform for discussion and debate on key contemporary research topics and practices in the sector. Guest speakers will include academics, practitioner researchers and students of cultural leadership with the aim of enabling enhanced cross-sector and inter-disciplinary knowledge exchange and dialogue on themes of shared interest and value.
Three papers will be presented within each of the following three key symposium themes:
1. Learning to Lead: research in to developing cultural leaders
2. Exploring Impact: definitions, evidence and meaning
3. Cultural Collaborations: knowledge through integrating research and practice
Papers in each theme will be followed by panel ‘question and answer’ sessions. In addition to paper presentations, the symposium will open and close with keynote talks from two influential sector leaders. The first will cover contemporary leadership challenges for the cultural sector and how research enables us to meet those challenges; the second will conclude the event by discussing the value of rigorous and relevant research as a leadership practice in itself.
Symposium value and impact
For presenters:
• Opportunity to disseminate work to relevant and interested colleagues
• Inform development of wider sector, practice-led research programmes
• Extend sector-wide research networks
For delegates:
• To learn more about research activity in the sector and how this might inform and help to develop own practice
• To share practice-led experiences and inform research agendas
• To identify and connect with research networks
The overall aim of the symposium beyond knowledge sharing and dissemination is to extend and develop practice-led research collaborations within the sector, maximising the potential and actual impact of cultural leadership research.
For more information please contact:
Kerry Wilson
Cultural Leadership Unit
Art and Design Academy
Liverpool John Moores University
k.m.wilson@ljmu.ac.uk
0151 904 1147
Cultural Leadership Unit
Leadership Realities OPEN DIALOGUES
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