Full programme & speaker bio’s
Join artists from Glassball Studio for 5 days of free walks, talks, exhibitions, food, guest speakers, writing, drawing and making activities as a culmination of their GUIDEline project that spans from Glossop to Diggle.
18:30 – 20:30, at The Bulls Head, 78 Old Rd, Tintwistle, Glossop, SK13 1JY. Artists David Ball and Cora Glasser will showcase moving image and sound work from their GUIDEline boundary residency, followed by a hot buffet (vegan) and chat about what it means to live and work alongside a mark made on a map.
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9:30 – Registration and introductions at the Longdendale Environmental Centre (LEC). Please note you do not need to register here if meeting at the walk starting point, see below.
10:00 – Mini-bus to pick-up delegates who have arrived at the LEC to drop-off at walk starting point in Old Glossop. This bus is provided free of charge and is to enable artist Alison Lloyd to deliver a linear boundary walk back to the LEC. Please only book on this bus if you cannot make your own way to the walk starting point or will struggle with your return journey from the LEC at the end of the day.
10:30 – Linear boundary walk lead by Alison Lloyd to depart from The Queens Arms, 1 Shepley St, Glossop, SK13 7RZ. Please book a ticket for the walk if you are to meet us here. You do not need to book again if you have a place on the mini-bus.
GUIDELines: Field Paths, Stiles, and Gates on the Peak District National Park Boundary. Led by Alison Lloyd.
What to expect
We are allowing two hours to walk from the pub in Old Glossop back to the symposium venue.
The walk is on field paths and tracks, with some quite road walking, stiles and gates. Distance is approximately 2.48 miles. Approx 1hr 15 minutes.
We will follow the Peak District Boundary Walk’s marked route, stopping briefly at the points on the map and on the ground where the walk meets, crosses or follows the Peak District National Park Boundary. Marked on the OL1 (1.25K) Dark Peak as a wide pale pink dash.
Wear sensible shoes, and appropriate clothing as this walk will take place whatever the weather.
13:00 – Return to the LEC for lunch (provided) and view exhibition of artworks by Glassball Studio, Alison Lloyd and Tony Hall.
14:00 – Talk by Alison Lloyd. Alison will be sharing her practice and how she has been collaborating with Glassball Studio.
During the 1970s and 80s, Alison Lloyd’s artworks delved into the hidden interiors of bedsits and bathrooms; her photographic images appear like film stills, snapshots from a movie that was never made. Since 2010, her practice has refocused on remote moorland and mountainous areas, examining how experiences and techniques from walking can be rethought as artistic process and method. In 2019, Alison completed her practice-led PhD, Contouring: Women, Walking and Art, which situated her practice alongside a critical, analytical discussion of walking women artists from the 1960s and 70s.
Previous projects and presentations include: My Punk is not Dead, a solo exhibition at TG Gallery (2022); an image/text collaboration with poet Linda Kemp for SoAnyWay Journal (2022); a residency at Hospitalfield Arts, Scotland (2021); a series of walks and a micro-commission for GlassBall Art’s GUIDELine project in 2021 and 2022; a instagram takeover #MeadowBehindBars for The Edgeworker (2020-21). Later this year (2023) Alison will return to the peaty gullies of Featherbed Moss and the Kinder Plateau to walk and camp with a 16 mm film camera.
14:45 – Glassball Studio in-conversation with Claire Tymon (LOCAL / Glossop Creates https://clairetymon.co.uk/home). Claire will be speaking with Cora Glasser and David Ball about GUIDEline, how it began and then pivoted during the pandemic, how they have collaborated with other artists, historians, Peak Park Rangers, archaeologists, to the work produced with people and the surrounding boundary landscape.
15:30 – Break
15:45 – Summary and reflections
16:00 – End
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10:00 – Registration and introductions at the LEC.
10:30 – Talk by Charles Quick.
Charles Quick is Professor of Public Art Practice at the University of Central Lancashire and co-principal investigator of In Certain Places – an art-led research project, which brokers connections between people and places. He has developed an internationally recognised hybrid research practice which combines the production of public art works with tactics to inform policy within places. His practice has examined the blurring of the boundaries between collaborative, curatorial and artists practice when creating public art works for a place.Hi research interests have always steamed from an examination of the infrastructures of place; physical, social, historical, and political. These outputs have included major public art projects in cities across the UK. Since 2003 his practice as an artist/curator has been embodied within the curatorial project In Certain Place which Charles co foundered originally as a partnership with the Harris Museum Art Gallery and Library, Preston.
Talk title – Community Cultural Infrastructure, Collaborating with Place’.
In Certain Places through its programme of commissioning, partnership and corroborative working has created a number of temporary architectural interventions of different scales. He will explore how each of these has added to the level of community cultural infrastructure.
11:00 – Talk by Anna Badcock – Peak District National Park Authority, Cultural Heritage Manager. Anna is a professional Archaeologist who will talk about her role at the PDNPA, but also her involvement with Glassball Studio to support the development of the GUIDEline project and taking part in the project, whist understanding the true nature of an action research project during a pandemic. https://uk.linkedin.com/in/anna-badcock-42816611
11:30 – Break
12:00 – Talk by Lizzie Lloyd.
Lizzie Lloyd is an art writer and researcher who explores art writing that holds theory, practice, experimentation, and subjectivity in the balance.
She is a regular contributor to Art Monthly and has contributed to publications including Art Review, Journal of Contemporary Painting, Frieze, artnet and This is Tomorrow. Her writing has been commissioned by numerous galleries including Temple Bar Gallery and Studios for Venice Biennale (2022), Workplace Gallery, Field Art Projects, New Art Projects, Foreground, Hestercombe, Cubitt Residency Programme and Exeter Phoenix among many others. Her work has been exhibited/performed at Plymouth Art Weekender, No Format Gallery, Safehouse 1, and Phoenix Space Brighton. She has been writer-in-residence at Arnolfini, Art Writers Group: Plymouth, and at Brighton CCA, in collaboration with Katy Beinart.
Lloyd is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Art & Writing at University of the West of England, Bristol and founder of the research initiative WITTA (Writing In / To / Through Art).
Talk title – Writing Beyond Participation
I don’t want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt. (Namwali Serpell)
The value of participatory art has long been predicated on its ability to strengthen communities through shared experiences. But how such artworks feel and endure in collective memories – for the original participants, audiences and others not present at the time – has been given far less consideration. This session asks what role documentation – with a specific emphasis on writing – plays in communicating the spirit of such artworks for future audiences.
12:45 – Lunch (provided) and view exhibition of artworks by Glassball Studio, Alison Lloyd and Tony Hall.
13:30 – A short boundary walk from the LEC.
14:00 – Practical session led by Lizzie Lloyd ‘Writing Beyond Participation’. The morning talk will be followed by a short writing exercise to explore together ways of communicating participatory practices in terms that capture the spirit and ethos of a given project. We will be thinking about: how writing can be harnessed not just as a vehicle to convey information but as a means of performing the ideas of our work? What is the relationship between our work and our writing about our work? And how can we create a text that enables the specific space, environment and geographical location of our work to surface in writing about our work?
15:00 – Break
15:15 – Summary and reflections
15:30 – End
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10:00 – Registration and introductions at the LEC.
10:30 – Activity and talk with artist Tony Hall – ‘Boundary receivers / Boundary detectors’.
For more information of Tony’s micro-commission with Glassball Studio go to https://antonyhall.net/blog/boundary-detector-workshop-part-2/
I am an artist, educator and researcher working at the intersection of science and art. I have extensive experience in interdisciplinary collaborative projects, which have necessitated a highly experimental approach to working with materials and technologies. My work spans many kinds of media, from drawing, installation, soundart, workshops, interactive installations, and immersive multisensory perceptual experiments. My PhD research involved collaboration with experimental psychologists (BEAM Lab/University of Manchester), during which I devised innovative multisensory perceptual experiments and experiences which used tactile stimulus in combination with movement and mixed visual perspectives using live video and head-mounted displays (See the exhibition here and our current project here).
11:30 – A guided visit to experience an audio installation by Tony Hall in the woodland by the LEC.
12:30 – Lunch (provided) and view exhibition of artworks by Glassball Studio, Alison Lloyd and Tony Hall.
13:30 – Glassball Studio – talk and boundary words activity outdoors at the LEC.
14:45 – Break
15:00 – Summary and reflection
15:30 – End
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10:00 – Registration and introductions at the LEC.
10:30 – A workshop and talk with artist Simon Woolham.
Simon Woolham is an artist and lecturer in Contemporary Art at the University of Huddersfield. Simon graduated as a painter from Manchester Metropolitan University followed by an MA from Chelsea College of Art in London. Simon’s practice as an artist, curator and teaching specialism is centred around expanded drawing and this was the focus of his practice-led PhD from 2012 and awarded in 2016 at Manchester Metropolitan University. The PhD explored walking (in the broadest sense) and narrative in physical, virtual and psychological space, expanding on the notion of an artists’ residency of the mind. Simon has exhibited widely, including a residency and solo exhibition at The Lowry in Salford and Chapter Gallery in Cardiff, as well as numerous national and international group exhibitions. In 2008 Simon was included in the first Tatton Park Biennial and in 2006 he was Artist-in-Residence at Baltic – Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, he won the Mostyn Open 11 at Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno in 2001.
Simon will lead a event titled – ‘Drawing excavation workshop’ – invited members of the public to participate in a drawing workshop exploring the Peak Park boundary as a site of interaction. The workshop will focus on the process of collecting and interpreting graphite rubbings from the boundary next to the Longdendale Environmental Centre. Open to all ages and abilities.
11:30 – Break
11:45 – Assembly of collaborative drawing with Glassball Studio at the LEC.
13:00 – Lunch (provided) and view exhibition of artworks by Glassball Studio, Alison Lloyd and Tony Hall.
14:00 – 15:00 Review and reflect on activities, followed by a round table discussion curated by Claire Tymon to summarise the symposium, capture feedback & discuss future options / ideas.