Hinterland Symposium: The evolving relationships between artists, the changing climate and new responsibilities

In November, Hinterland is inviting specialists in the field of commissioning temporary site-specific art to present their practice. Alongside informal discussions with artists currently engaged in commissions for Hinterland, this one day event will question the responsibilities of artists in different situations when creating work in the public realm.
Hinterland has invited specialists in the field of commissioning temporary site-specific art to present their practice. Alongside informal discussions with artists currently engaged in commissions for Hinterland, this one-day event will question the responsibilities of artists in different situations when creating work in the public realm.

The morning session will provide a historical overview of precedents of art in the public realm, namely work associated with the term ‘Land Art’ from the 1960’s to the present day with presentations from art historian and curator Joy Sleeman and Barcelona based curatorial office Latitudes, who will also introduce their approach to presenting work concerned with ecological issues.

After lunch, artists who have presented work for Hinterland in 2009 will be in conversation with a selection of writers, curators and artists who share specific interests or areas of research. Discussion will centre on the subheading for this symposium and will be geared towards exploring how site-specific work in the public realm world often is led or informed by community engagement, participation and a sense of social responsibility. Artists will discuss their own work and address their specific areas of research, which include sourcing sustainable food, energy and transport alongside an interest in the natural world and their immediate geographical locale.


Registration from 9.30am – 10am

Bookings: Contact Broadway Box Office, Tel. 0115 952 6611 or book online www.broadway.org.uk

Tickets: £12.50, £7 conc. Complimentary tickets available for press

Joy Sleeman 

Land art has been at the heart of Sleeman's research since the early 1990s. Her PhD thesis, Landscape and Land Art (Leeds, 1995) focused on work in Britain and this emphasis continues through to her most recent projects and publications. Other publications with a land art related theme include the essays ‘1977. A Walk across the park, into the forest and back to the garden: the Sculpture Park in Britain’, in Sculpture and the Garden, edited by P. Eyres and F. Russell, London: Ashgate, 2006; ‘a Twilight Place: Land Art: a short history’, in King’s Wood: a Context, Stour Valley Arts, Challock, Kent, 2005, and ‘More and Less: The Early Work of Richard Long’, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 1997.

Latitudes
Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna run the Barcelona-based curatorial office of Latitudes.  Recent projects include ‘THE CREST OF A WAVE’, with Lawrence Weiner and the group exhibition 'Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities'. Latitudes were guest editors of the UOVO/14: 'Ecology, Luxury and Degradation' (Summer 2007) and the publication 'LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook' (2006).

Jonathan Griffin in conversation with S Mark Gubb
Jonathan Griffin is a writer and Assistant Editor of frieze magazine. He has recently written about artists such as Eric Bainbridge, Karla Black, Brian Griffiths and Susan Philipsz. Prior to working for frieze he worked for Grizedale Arts in Cumbria, and his book on the organisation, 'Grizedale Arts: Adding Complexity to Confusion', is published in July. He is based in London.

Richard Grayson in conversation with John Newling
Alongside Jon Bewley, Richard was one of the co-founders of the Basement Group in Newcastle upon Tyne. In the late 1980s, he ran the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, and selected for the Sydney Biennial. Since returning to the UK he has organised ‘Secret Sevice’ for the Hayward Gallery Touring programme and has often exhibited with Matt's Gallery, London.

Neil Cummings in conversation with Emily Wilczek and Ian Nesbitt from Annexinema
Since 1995, Neil Cummings has worked with museums, banks, galleries, archives, auction houses, schools and department stores. In 2006, with Marysia Lewandowska he created The Social Cinema project which consisted of a series of temporary cinemas, each installed for one night into the existing urban fabric of London.

Wallace Heim in conversation with Rebecca Beinart
Wallace Heim writes on performance and nature, on the philosophical, ethical and aesthetic dimensions of how nature-human relations are performed, through art-making and everyday life. She teaches on the Arts and Ecology MA at Dartington College of Arts and is a co-editor of the Ashden Directory.

The event will be followed by the launch of a new 8mm film installation by Tristan Hessing and Mark Harasimowicz at One Thoresby Street.