Join us for our fourth event as part of Constellations ° Assemblies, a series of free online events curated and delivered by UP Projects in partnership with Flat Time House and Liverpool Biennial. The events are open to all artists, curators and practitioners active and/or interested in the expanded field of public art.
As climate justice campaigns raise awareness of the effectiveness of circular models and the repair, restoration and revitalisation of natural resources, how does the public art community move beyond the notion of sustainability towards a collective regenerative mindset?
How can we move beyond sustainability? is moderated by Cíaran Malik, Structural Engineer, Regenerative Designer and Teacher. Speakers include founder of Future Farmers, Amy Franceschini, and artist and one half of artist-duo Something & Son, Andy Merritt.
All Constellations ° Assemblies will take place in The Hall, UP Projects’ digital participation space.
The Constellations ° Assemblies series is one of two strands of activities as part of Constellations, a free learning and development programme for artists, curators, producers, and practitioners active and/or interested in the expanded field of public art. The other strand, the Constellations ° Cohort, supports a group of ten practitioners to develop their practice, collaborate with others, access new networks, and contribute to critical debate surrounding the future of public practice.
Constellations is generously supported by Art Fund, Arts Council England, The Barrington Hibbert Associates Access Fund, and the Constellations Patrons and UP Supporters. To find out more please visit our Support Us page. Constellations is curated and delivered by UP Projects, working in partnership with Flat Time House and Liverpool Biennial.
Accessibility
Live captioning and British Sign Language interpretation will be available at this event. Should you require access to British Sign Language interpretation, please email info@upprojects.com in advance of the event so we can provide you with dedicated access links to the event.
About Cíaran Malik
Cíaran Malik is a Structural Engineer, Regenerative Designer and Teacher. Currently teaching at several schools of architecture from the Architectural Association to Kingston School of Art. His current research is into regenerative design with projects looking at whole life carbon, timber construction and how to communicate climate emergency and technical ideas.
About Amy Franceschini
Amy Franceschini is an artist and designer whose work facilitates encounter, exchange and tactile forms of inquiry by calling into question the "certainties" of a given time or place where a work is situated. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between "humans" and "nature". Her projects reveal the history and currents of contradictions related to this divide by challenging systems of exchange and the tools we use to "hunt" and "gather". Using this as a starting point, she creates relational objects that invoke action and inquiry; not only to imagine, but also to participate in and initiate change in the places we live.
In 1995, Amy founded Futurefarmers, an international group of artists, anthropologists, farmers and architects who work together to propose alternatives to the social, political and environmental organization of space. Their design studio serves as a platform to support art projects, an artist in residence program and their research interests. Futurefarmers use various media to deconstruct systems to visualize and understand their intrinsic logics; food systems, public transportation, education. Through this disassembly they find new narratives and reconfigurations that form alternatives to the principles that once dominated these systems. They have created temporary schools, books, bus tours, and large-scale exhibitions internationally.
Amy received her BFA from San Francisco State University in Photography and her MFA from Stanford University. She has taught in the visual arts graduate programs at California College of the Arts in San Francisco and Stanford University and is currently faculty in the Master of Eco-Social Design at the Free University in Bolzano, Italy. Amy is a 2009 Guggenheim fellow, a 2019 Rome Prize Fellow and has received grants from the Cultural Innovation Fund, Herb Alpert Award for Visual Arts, the Creative Work Fund for New Media and the Graham Foundation.
About Andy Merritt
Andy Merritt is one half of Something & Son, through experimental solution based work he explores social and ecological issues via permanent installations and functional sculptures which provide a framework or foundation for communities and ecologies to build and grow upon.
Past and present exhibitions and projects include Tate Britain; Tate Modern; V&A Museum; South London Gallery; Manchester International Festival; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; FACT, Liverpool; Deon Foundation, Netherlands; Vienna Biennale/MAK, Austria; Artangel; Milan Design Week, Italy; Cultural Olympia, London; Art Catalyst, UK; Somerset House; Folkestone Art Triennial; Design Museum, London; Royal Botanical Gardens Kew; the Wellcome Collection, UK; and Istanbul Design Biennial, Turkey.
Talks and workshops include the Serpentine Gallery, Kunst-Werke (Berlin), the Science Museum, SALT (Istanbul), Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (Zurich), CIT (Ireland) Design, Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins, Riga Technical University (Latvia), Design Indaba (Cape Town), British Council, ICA and the Barbican. Andy is also a founder of Makerversity, Somerset House.
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