Symposium
During the five day symposium, Glassball Studio artists and attendees engaged in discussion around making artwork with people and place, and how we can capture, if at all, the collaborative process, what are the legacies of this form of making work together through a public art practice, how do we archive the intangible (and the inevitable impossibility of this kind of endeavour), and who holds the power – the funder, the artist, the participant, public, or the landscape?
Alison Lloyd
Discusses her walking based arts practice and her collaboration with Glassball Studio.
Duration 55 Minutes.
Lizzie Lloyd
is an art writer and researcher who explores art writing that holds theory, practice, experimentation, and subjectivity in the balance.
Duration 50 Minutes.
Anna Badcock
Anna is a professional Archaeologist who will talk about her role at the PDNPA, and her involvement with Glassball Studio supporting the development of the GUIDEline project.
Duration 45 Minutes.
Charles Quick
Charles Quick is Professor of Public Art Practice at UCLAN and co-principal investigator of In Certain Places – an art-led research project, which brokers connections between people and places.
Duration 35 Minutes.
Highlights during the Symposium included a boundary walk led artist Alison Lloyd from Old Glossop to the Longdendale Environmental Centre, a talk by Charles Quick – Professor of Public Art Practice at the University of Central Lancashire, a talk by Anna Badcock – Cultural Heritage Manager for the Peak District National Park Authority, a drawing excavation workshop with artist Simon Woolham, and finally, a talk and writing workshop, titled ‘Writing Beyond Participation’, with guest speaker Lizzie Lloyd – art writer, researcher and regular contributor to Art Monthly.