Spike Island will be hosting a round-table discussion titled “Support, Control, and Letting Go”
As the second meeting for a series that are organized by Can Altay, within his exhibition in Gallery 1, the round-table will consist of Celine Condorelli, public works, and the Salford Restoration Office (Lesley Young and James Hutchinson).
This round-table takes to its center the notions (or concepts) of support and control, followed by “letting go” as forms of relations crucial for a critical gaze on the social, spatial, economical, political realms, and hence in the contexts of art and architecture.
The round-table focuses on the realms of art and architecture, as well as the space between them, within the framework of the title. Invited speakers all have particular practices in relation to the topic, working with situations where they act as agents and instigators of relationships, be it in physical / spatial form; or in the form of dialogues that cut through a hierarchy of actors/parties; or mostly and unavoidably as a combination of these forms. All speakers also work in positions where they are both recipients and transmitters of support simultaneously.