TALKS & SEMINARS

CAZ ALIAS and AIR SEMINAR focused on The Artist As Researcher

Saturday 27th August - 2:30pm – 6:30pm, Free to attend

CAZ hosted a day of talks and discussion focused on an exploration of the artist as researcher. Speakers offered different perspectives on what artist led research is or can be, how artists approaches generate innovative methodologies and 'new knowledge' and how the increasing recognition of artists as researchers may possibly force research culture itself to evolve.

Speakers included:

Jane Bailey – Jane is an artist in the late stages of a cross-council funded art practice led PhD atUniversity of the West of England. Within her research art practice acts as a vehicle for developing newunderstandings through engaging with older adults in rural contexts around west Bodmin Moor. Her methods include developing tools for creative encounters and carrying out performative interactions that reflect on the research processes. Jane will present this research to the European SociologicalAssociation in Geneva in September; is a member of PLaCE research centre, UWE; and has worked as an artist for the Engine Room, University of the Arts London. Her current research is part of a New Dynamics of Ageing interdisciplinary programme, A Grey and Pleasant Land?

David Paton - David has practiced as a professional artist & stone carver for 14 years; working on large, medium & small-scale public, & private commissions. He has located a significant number of carvings in housing developments, hospitals, schools, parks, & gardens. Arising from this practice was a need to condense the relations between making & place through a more sustained investigative time-frame. In 2009 David began a practice based PhD in the School of Geography, at the University of Exeter’sCornwall Campus. His research is titled ‘The quarry as sculpture: the place of making’ & concerns a geographical reading of worked Cornish granite, evidenced by a 2 year period of ethnographic research as an apprentice sawman & mason in Trenoweth Dimension Granite quarry near Penryn, in Cornwall. His principle concern as a sculptor & cultural geographer is to engage directly with the granite as an optic through which to comprehend thresholds of material values. This, he argues, can only take place through long-term submersion in the life-world of the quarry.

Rosalind Davis - Artist and director of Core Gallery, Rosalind Davis will be joining us to discuss DIY Educate - an evolving development and education programme run by and for artists, curators and professionals.

Rebecca Weeks - Rebecca is an artist/activator. She is co director of artist led space CAZ andinternational artists network/ project/ touring exhibition Trade Routes. She is a candidate for acollaborative doctoral award with Sussex university focused on performance and ethics.

Jack Hutchinson - is an artist, writer and educator. A specialist on the role of digital technology within the visual arts, he is Communications Coordinator for AIR: Artists Interaction and Representation through a-n The Artists Information Company. His writing has featured in a diverse range of publications, including Dazed and Confused, Garageland, AnOther Man, Twin Magazine, a-n Magazine and Schweizer Kunst. Based at Cor Blimey Arts, Deptford, London, his visual practice explores notions of certainty and chance, referencing science, history and archaeology.

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