Jenny Brownrigg presentation

Saturday 1st October - big thanks to all involved

We thoroughly enjoyed our 3rd State of Play Symposium, and want say thanks to all those involved:

Thank you to everyone who came to AHM's State of Play symposium at DCA today.

Thanks, of course, to Gerry Hassan, 24 hour football, Jenny Brownrigg, Jean Urquhart, Ross Sinclair for their presentations and Ewan Morrison, Helen Shaddock, Jacob Kerray, Chris Dooks, The Anthropo-scene Evolution Alliance, t s Beall, Yuck n Yum for their artist manifestos.

We also want to express our thanks to all the team at DCA and DJCAD who made the symposium and CentreSpace exhibition possible - Clive Gillman, Alice Black, Katy Brignall, Ian Banks, Sophia Yadong Hao, Laura Simpson, Andrew Dodds and Graham Domke.

Thanks to the DJCAD students who volunteered throughout the day - Joanne Macfadyen for her work with registration and refreshments and Michael Pilkington and Michael Spink for the video and sound documentation.

It was a great day beginning with lots of thought provoking one-minute artist manifestos and followed by 4 great presentations.

Keep checking the AHM blog for photos, comments etc, and please do send AHM your thoughts and comments.

AHM announce symposium 3 - Saturday 1st October 2011, DCA, Dundee

State of Play – Art and Culture in Scotland Today
Saturday 1st October 2011, 11am – 4pm (registration from 10:30am)
Cinema, DCA, Dundee
Tickets - £10 Concessions - £5

Symposium Themes

AHM’s third and final symposium will bring together the main themes of previous symposia in a debate about the role of art and culture in shaping Scotland’s future, while making reference to an earlier conference entitled “ What Kind of Scotland” organised by the magazine Scottish International in Edinburgh in1973. AHM regard that conference to be of particular relevance to the present debate about Scotland’s future as a nation and as a society.

The keynote address will be delivered by Gerry Hassan, a leading writer and critic on culture and politics. Presentations will be given by Jenny Brownrigg Exhibition Director The Glasgow School of Art, artist Ross Sinclair and Jean Urquhart MSP. Gerry Hassan, the main speaker, has consistently argued the case for cultural change and transformation “ It is time to start living dangerously and take risks. To think and act beyond tribes and labels. Instead, we need to develop new forms of engagement, discussion and debate, developing spaces, forums and places which aid this. This is time for humility, courage and listening, for trying a different kind of politics. It is time to start living, breathing and taking part in the new Scotland.”