Public works is invited to contribute to the Portavillion Symposium - 'Parked Art' at the Design Museum on Friday the 18th of July 2008 from 9.30 am to 4 pm.
Parked Art: Designing Art for Common Space
Friday 18 July, 2008 9.30 am - 4pm.
Design Museum, Shad Thames, London, SE1 2YD
This interdisciplinary event links two major cultural activities: UP Projects’ Portavilion, a public art initiative
that presents a series temporary artists’ structures in Central London’s Parks from June to October 2008 and The Art of Common Space, produced by Gunpowder Park, which aims to generate new thinking and
influence the development of our common spaces through creative exploration.
Agenda
09.30 – 10:00
Registration, tea & coffee
10.00 – 10.15
Introductions by Chair, Fred Manson
10.15 – 11.00
Emma Underhill with Amanda Smethurst, Arts Service Manager Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Nick Biddle, Head of Regents Park
11.00 – 11.15
Jes Fernie, writer and curator on artist’s interventions in the public realm
11.15 – 11.30
publicworks, art and architecture practice
11.30 – 11.45
Break
11.45 – 12.00
Tony Beckwith, Creative Development Director for Gunpowder Park concludes the morning session
12.00 – 12.30
Open discussion with questions from the floor and full panel
12.30 – 2:00
Lunch, with a chance to see C-12 Dance Theatre for a free performance in and around Toby Paterson’s “Powder Blue Orthogonal Pavilion” in Potters Fields Park (next to City Hall).
2.00 – 2.10
Summary of the morning’s session by Fred Manson
2.10 – 2.20
Start with poem by Mark Gwynne Jones introduced by Eileen Woods, Artistic Director for Gunpowder Park
2.20 – 2.35
Louise Trodden, Head of Art in the Open, London’s advocacy body for art in the public realm
2.35 – 3.00
Tracey McNulty, Arts and Culture Development for Barking and Dagenham on Barking Riverside
3.00 – 4.00
Open discussion with questions from the floor and full panel
4.00
Close and a chance to view Design Museum’s exhibitions