Thursday 10 June 2010

Join us: Invitation to 'Farming Fiction and Rural Arts' Fine Art Research PHD round table discussion

'Farming Fiction and Rural Arts' on Thursday 10th June, 3 - 5 pm at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.

Please join myself, Harriet Mitchell and Alice Carey (by Skype) to consider the work Farming Fiction in the context of emerging rural practice in the UK. Harriet Mitchell is an independent young curator (projects include discussion group 'London Fields' and YH485 Press publishing and curatorial initiative). Alice Carey is a curator and research student (London Consortium, Humanities and Cultural Studies), investigating the idea of the farm as it appears - or not - in contemporary cultural production.

Farming Fiction is a project developed between the artist Georgina Barney, curator Alice Carey and the National Farmers' Union to make a new map of the county of Nottinghamshire through visits to farms, reading poetry and making drawings. It has functioned as a conduit for thinking through practice-led research and is intended to reach a public conclusion during 'Sideshow' at the British Art Show in Nottingham, 2010. To book for this event, reply to g.a.barney@rgu.ac.uk or telephone 01224 263647.

'Discussions Around the Research Table' is a series of five seminars led by art and architectural doctoral students. They address interdisciplinary, generative methodologies. Seminar 4 'Theory-practice from architecture to art' with architectural researcher Penny Lewis is programmed for Monday 14th June 3-5 pm, H408, Faculty of Health and Social Care Building. Seminar 5, 'Considering art-led and other disciplinary approaches to fostering engagement and collaboration' with Chu Chu Yuan will take place in August.
These events have been kindly funded by the IDEAS Institute, RGU.

With best wishes

Georgina Barney
Artist & DART Programme Co-ordinator

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