Annual Steven Campbell Trust lecture

6PM, THURS 3 NOVEMBER 2011
THE ANNUAL STEVEN CAMPBELL TRUST LECTURE
MAIN LECTURE THEATRE, EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART, MAIN
BUILDING, LAURISTON PLACE, EH3 9DF

New York writer and performer Barry Yourgrau will give a lecture titled:
TALES OF THE DISRUPTIVE GENE: A Talk and Reading-Performance from
Steven Campbell's New York Years, by His Sometime Literary Collaborator

Professor Ann Markusen - Friday Event Lecture - 29 October 2010

Professor Ann Markusen
Creative Placemaking: Artists, Designers, and Arts Organizations as Shapers of Urban Space and Vitality

Friday Event Lecture
at the GFT 11am – 12.45pm
29 October 2010

Professor Ann Markusen has researched the livability and economic development outcomes of many American places at every scale: city, town and hamlet. In her discussion of ‘Creative Placemaking’ Professor Markusen will present research conducted over ten years and two continents, including a major White Paper, Creative Placemaking, to be published by National Endowment for the Arts in October 2010, that includes 15 new case studies of the marriage of art, design and economic development across the US. Her research concludes that partners from public, private, nonprofit, and community sectors can strategically shape the physical and social character of a neighbourhood, town, city or region around arts and cultural activities, resulting in vibrant and stabilised places: findings that are relevant to the architecture, urbanism, design and art communities alike.

Abstract from Professor Ann Markusen:
"In this talk, I begin with human rather than physical capital, with creators such as artists and designers, to make several points about their under-appreciated contributions to cities, places, and regional economies. Using Census data and qualitative methods, I explore the career trajectories of creative workers and underscore the place-based strategies, arts organizations, and dedicated spaces that nurture them. From a scan done this year for the US National Endowment for the Arts, I explore the roles of artists and designers as initiators of and partners in revitalization, showcasing successful cases in large cities and tiny towns, documenting the challenges in building partnerships and assembling resources."

For more information, please visit

http://www.gsaevents.com/annmarkusen

Keynote lectures at the AHM symposium

As September flies by, AHM and the other keynote speakers are preparing their lectures for the symposium on 9th October. Here is a little information about what they will be talking about...

Phillip Schlesinger

As an expert on cultural policy Phillip will set the cultural, political and economic context in which artists, and the visual arts in general, will have to operate today and in the immediate future. What are the real challenges and how can they be met.

NB This keynote lecture will inform all three of the planned symposia by AHM.


Christine Borland

Christine will present a personal view, in terms of her own practice, of what it is to be an artist in today’s rapidly changing world. What are the implications of the change from the Scottish Arts Council to Creative Scotland. Does this change matter? How might the economic situation affect artists and art practice?


Neil Mulholland

Much of what is written about contemporary art could be described more as reportage. While critics do include element of critique in their reviews of art and exhibitions Neil will ask questions about the lack of an overarching critique or as he puts it , a generative critique. How can this be constructed – where and how would it exist?

AHM

If the recent past is anything to go by, our future as a society is going to be as much influenced by our artists as it is by our politicians. That is something to be welcomed and celebrated.


However, we need to ask not only who speaks for the arts, but how we speak of art and what it speaks about. How can we develop the institutions and infrastructure to best support our artistic and cultural imagination? And how can we challenge, imagine and dream of a very different kind of society and values to the orthodoxy of the past few decades? That is something worthy of a genuine ‘national conversation’, one that involves the arts, and all of us. Post - devolution and official Scotland has put art and culture centre stage, but how well do they understand what they are supposedly championing?

Guantanamera goes to Gothenburg

David Harding and Ross Birrell will be showing Guantanamera at Valand School of Fine Art, University of Gothenburg in October 2010.

There will be a screening, lecture and talk on 15th October 2010.