Conference
Conference Schedule
PROGRAMME
Shifting Ground
New Perspectives on Art and Rural Culture
Conference and on-site symposium; October 19th, 20th & 21st 2006; Glór, Ennis, Co. Clare, Ireland.
Programme [not yet finalised]
Thursday 19th October 2006
6.00 pm Coffee and registration
6.30 Conference opening; launch of exhibition Local Local in Glór
7.00 Sustainable Visions Film screening and discussion event by Translocal UK/CRO
Friday 20th October 2006
9.00 Coffee and registration
9.30 Introduction and welcome [Chair; unconfirmed]
9.45 Séamus Boland, Irish Rural Link Sustainable Futures for Rural Communities
10.10 Ground Up Artists Collective IRL Re-negotiating relationships – public artworks in the rural sphere.
10. 30 Panel Discussion Rural Knowledge – the Key to the Landscape?
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Adam Sutherland, Grizedale Arts, UK [Recent work in rural contexts in the UK and Japan]
11.35 Unconfirmed Fernando Garcia Dory ESP [untitled as yet – will cover his work with Plataforma Rural and something about Art and Agroecology]
11.55 Unconfirmed Kristina Leko CRO [Artist presentation focusing on her work in rural contexts in Croatia and Hungary]
12.15 Dr. Mark Haywood UK [Presentation of context-specific artworks in Cumbria, UK focusing on Sellafield and Windfarms]
12.30 Themed Discussion Groups
Possible themes; Ethics and Aesthetics in the rural context; Vernacular Culture and the Contemporary Cultural Discourse; Re-negotiating the polarity between Global and Local; Sustainable Aesthetics etc.
* feedback from groups is held off until later; this gives the chair a chance to confer with the discussion group leaders, and to identify emerging themes to be addressed by the panel at the end.
1.30 Lunch
3.00 Keynote address #1 Suzanne Lacy
(3.35 short break)
3.40 Keynote address #2 Simon Sheikh Unconfirmed
4.15 coffee
4.30 Chaired discussion – first of all feedback from discussion groups; then panel discussion with all presenters. [The Chair will have identified key issues to be addressed.]
5.45 end of discussion.
Dinner at 7.30
** Rural Vernacular ON-SITE SYMPOSIUM
Saturday October 21st
Discussion Leader unconfirmed
9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Buses depart Glór
10.30 Context specific work #1 with artists Patricia Hurl IRL and Therry Rudin IRL/CH [coffee and snacks]
12.00 Buses depart
12.30 Context specific work #2 with artist Tamás Kaszás HUN
2.00 Buses transport delegates to lunch
3.00 Buses depart lunch
3.30 Context specific work #3 with artist Vladimir Arkhipov RUS
4.30 Buses depart
5.00 Burren College of Art – exhibition opening
6.00 Buses depart
7.00 Buses return to Glór