Outside: Activating Cloth to Enhance the Way We Live
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The day will be introduced by our Key Note Speaker Professor Jennifer Marsh flying in from US to discuss her involvement with the International Fiber Collaborative. Professor Marsh presents an exploration of art in the public realm and in a global world. Audience members will be challenged to connect, debate and influence the vision of social inclusion and access to the visual arts within our community and beyond.
The Gas Station, IFC Lise Bjørne Linnert, Fences Project
This will be followed by the writer and curator June Hill, a rare opportunity to hear her discuss her personal relationship to community and textiles. Her presentation will be titled Heartlands: 'Something happens and from the moment it begins to happen, nothing can ever be the same again.' (Paul Auster).
Professor Lesley Millar MBE will present a paper titled ‘The Red Thread: A lifeline? A bloodline? An intrusion? A mark of passage? A hidden connection?’ Lesley will discuss the use of textiles as conscious and unconscious witness to the personal and political narratives that may not be spoken in words. www.transitionandinfluence.com
An informal lunch will be served and a chance to view Crafting the Community exhibition and work produced for the Dream Rocket Project in our award winning Creative Arts Building.
New debates and discussions will follow including papers by Philippa Lawrence (Textile Artist) and Jan Bowman (academic and Artist) and a range of peer reviewed papers including approaches from philosophers, volunteers, artists and educators.
Tea and cake with Betsy
The day ends with a chance to meet and talk with the textile activist Betsy Greer from Washington DC, who wrote the seminal book Knitting for Good and who will also lead the plenary session.www.craftivism.com
Date: 23 January 2012
Venue: Creative Arts Building (CAB), University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH
Cost: £80 (Reduced fee for students and unaffiliated practitioners £40)
Book: www.store.hud.ac.uk
Programme
| 9.30am | CAB Atrium: coffee and registration | |
| 10.00am | CAG 07/08: Welcome to Outside: conference convenors Penny Macbeth and Claire Barber |
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| 10.20am | Keynote Speaker: Professor Jennifer Marsh: ‘Connect, Debate, and Influence the Vision of Inclusion and Access to the Visual Arts’ | |
| 11.25am | Keynote Speaker: Professor Lesley Millar: ‘The Read Thread: A Lifeline? A Bloodline?’ | |
| 11.55am | Refreshments | |
| 12.10pm | Keynote Speaker: June Hill: 'Heartlands' | |
| 12.40pm | Lunch and CAB exhibition | |
| 1.40pm | Charlotte Cullen: 'The Sleeping Bags Project' | |
| 2.00pm | Jan Bowman: ‘Cloth to Engender Health and Well Being: Can a heightened sense of “well-being” be achieved in healthcare environments through the integration of textile artwork, which references nature’s rhythms?’ | |
| 2.20pm | Dr. Karen Dennis: ‘Fashion Cloth: Shaping Lives’ | |
| 2.40pm | Philippa Lawrence: '“Bound,” The Use of Cloth as Interface: Exploring Boundaries and Concepts in Relation to Site and Place’' | |
| 3.00pm | Hilary Hollingworth: ‘Choli and Kanjari: An Analysis of Items From a Small Textile Collection’ | |
| 3.20pm | Dr. Robert Clarke: ‘Nishida’s cloth: two moments in a single unfolding’ | |
| 3.40pm | Tea and Cake with Betsy: Informal Keynote: Craft Activist Betsy Greer | |
| 5.00pm | Close of conference | |
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