Friday 7 December 2001, 10.30am - 5pm,Room 139, Centre for Continuing Education, First Floor, Tower Building,University of Dundee, Perth Road, Dundee.
This cross-disciplinary forum will explore the role of artists, designers and architects in shaping perceptions of our environment, and discusses their interaction with the natural world. How can we challenge urban and consumer perceptions of ‘nature’? And how can our creative communities help to form more sustainable models of society now, and in the future.
Landscape: poetry or politics?
This morning’s speakers try to track the shifting perspectives on
landscape and the environment, discussing the role of artists and thinkers in
framing our perceptions and understanding of what landscape is.
11am Intro: Rebecca Hughes, Scottish Natural Heritage
11.30 - 12.15 Francis McKee, CCA Glasgow:landscape in a digital age (title tbc)
12.15 - 12.45 Anne Douglas and Carole Gray, Gray’s School of Art,Aberdeen
On the Edge: A new articulation of the visual arts in rural and remote areas
12.45 - 1.00 Questions
Lunch 1 - 2pm
The afternoon session focuses on practice, presenting case studies of artists and architects who have chosen to work in alternative ways, and who have unusual and forward-looking visions about the environment.
The Artists:
2 - 2.30pm Dalziel and Scullion, artists and Research Fellows at DJCAD
2.30 - 3.00 Simon Herbert, Locus+: reports on projects with Anya
Gallaccio, Stephan Gec, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, and Lloyd Gibson
One other?
3 - 3.30 break
The Architects:
3.30 - 4.00 Paul Barham and John Gilbert Architects
4.00 - 4.30 Gokay Deveci, architect, Robert Gordon University
4.30 - 5pm Plenary Session.
DoJ/University staff and students FREE. Please give names to School of Fine Art Office