Bodies of Water Symposium: Regenerative Art Practice
Introductions to the Bodies of Water Symposium
▶️ Event Recording
2025
Introduction to the Bodies of Water Symposium by Emma Underhill, Founder & Artistic Director (UP Projects), Dr Sam Lackey, Director (Liverpool Biennial) and Justine Boussard, Curator.
Grounding Visualisation
▶️ Event Recording
2025
A grounding visualisation led by artist Seyi Adelekun connecting the audience to our inner waters.
Regenerative Art Practice: Questions of Legacy
▶️ Event Recording
2025
Panel discussion exploring what systems we have inherited? What present realities we must address? What we should aim to leave behind?
Constellations Resources
Constellations ° Assemblies Event Recordings
A Right to Feel Safe: Amplifying the Voices of Women, Girls and LGBTQI+ Communities in Public Space
▶️ Accessible Event Recording
2025
Artists Sahra Hersi and Julian Prairie explore how methods of co-creation and engagement can enable commissioners to better understand the needs and lived experiences of women, girls, and LGBTQI+ communities.
Art in Schools: Getting Culture Back on the Agenda
▶️ Accessible Event Recording
2025
Artist Abbas Zahedi and artist and writer, Cathy Wade explore how do we demonstrate the importance of embedding expressive arts as a statutory core subject? What does best practice look like when developing creative projects with schools? And how can the creative and cultural sector advocate for policy change at government level?
Pushing for culture-based climate action
▶️ Accessible Event Recording
2024
Artists, Manon Awst, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, and Victoria Pratt (Invisible Flock) offer their perspectives on how we can best advocate for a public art ecosystem that is locally rooted, non-extractive and joined up to climate action. What does culture-based climate action mean? And what is the potential for artist led projects to catalyse change through advocacy and campaigning?
Co-Creating Public Space: How Can We Thrive? Conference
Co-Creating Public Space: How Can We Thrive? Conference Reader
📝 Publication
2023
Conference Reader developed as part of the Co-Creating Public Space: How Can We Thrive? conference.
Changing our idea of time
▶️ Event Recording
2023
Artists Helen Cammock, Suzanne Lacy, and Owen Griffiths explore how we reconcile the need to build realistic and effective timelines with the understanding that building relationships around trust and collaboration requires slow processes?
We are all economists
▶️ Event Recording
2023
Raluca Voinea, Director at tranzit.ro, and Torange Khonsari, Director at Public Works and Course Leader on Design for Cultural Commons at London Met explore how we empower ourselves and our communities to embrace alternative economic practice? How can we embed distributive and decentralised economic models in our projects that are capable of effecting change?
Constellations ° Assemblies Texts
We don’t want a piece of the pie – we want the whole f***ing bakery!
📝 Overview Text
2023
This critical overview text, written by Independent Curator, writer and Associate Curator for Constellations 2022, Jes Fernie discusses the issues raised by the speakers and audience members during the Assemblies 2022 events programme, capturing salient points, key learnings, and priorities for the public art sector.
Memorialising the future
📝 Curator's Text
2022
This text written in response to the event, How can we rethink the memorial?, that explored how memorials can offer platforms to commemorate while also inspiring us to collectively imagine new futures.
Public Art & Language
📝 Curator's Text
2022
This text written in response to the event, Who are we working for?, exploring what it means to authentically respond to the needs of communities.
Assembly Pilot 2021
Event Recordings
Who has agency, whose voices are heard?
▶️ Event Recording
2021
Linda Rocco, Independent Curator and PhD researcher and Roseanna Dias, Executive Producer at Rising explore how can we change this to ensure that the work we produce is inclusive and relevant to a diverse public?
What is collaboration?
▶️ Accessible Event Recording
2021
Artist and writer, Samra Mayanja, and Kerry Campbell, independent contemporary curator explore if our work empowering or tokenistic? Who is the ‘author’ of these projects and what do we mean by ‘participation’, ‘collaboration’, ‘engagement’ and ‘co-creation’?
Are curators still relevant?
▶️ Accessible Event Recording
2021
Rachel Anderson (Idle Women), Bolanle Tajudeen (independent curator), Laurie Peake (Super Slow Way), and Kiera Blakey (Nottingham Contemporary) explore if curators need to rethink their roles. How is the burgeoning growth of curating courses affecting the sector?
Case Studies
Somewhere other than here
📝 Overview Text
2021
This critical overview text, written by Independent Curator, Jes Fernie discusses the issues raised by the speakers and audience members during the Assembly programme capturing salient points, key learnings, and priorities for the public art sector.
Where I’m Coming From by _inventory platform
📝 Case Study
2021
This case study overview text, written by Independent Curator, written by Freelance Curator Chloe Hodge, looks at the framework for Where I’m Coming From, presented by Linda Rocco during Who has agency, whose voices are heard? as part of the Assembly online event series.
Under My Skin by Imran Perretta, Rising Arts Agency, Integrate UK
📝 Case Study
2021
This case study overview text, written by Independent Curator, written by Freelance Curator Chloe Hodge, looks at the framework for Under My Skin, presented by Roseanna Dias during Who has agency, whose voices are heard? as part of the Assembly online event series.
Accessible Artwork Guides
Rush Me: Introductory Room Walkthrough
▶️ Video Walkthrough
2022
A video walkthrough of the Introductory Room from Rush Me, a digital commission by Sonia E Barrett.
Rush Me: Healthcare Room Walkthrough
▶️ Video Walkthrough
2022
A video walkthrough of the Healthcare Room from Rush Me, a digital commission by Sonia E Barrett.
Rush Me: Military Room Walkthrough
▶️ Video Walkthrough
2022
A video walkthrough of the Military Room from Rush Me, a digital commission by Sonia E Barrett.
Event Recordings
ONLINE In-Conversation: Sahjan Kooner and Anthony Acciavatti
▶️ Accessible Event Recording
2023
Join artist, Sahjan Kooner and architect and academic, Anthony Acciavatti for a freewheeling conversation exploring anticoloniality, terraforming and the future of India.
The Rush Me Talk Show
▶️ Accessible Event Recording
2023
Hosted by Jamz Supernova, The Rush Me Talk Show brings together artist Sonia E Barrett and award-winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician, Anthony Joseph for the celebratory launch event of Barrett's latest digital commission, Rush Me.
Monumental Impact: How can public art create inclusive public spaces?
▶️ Event Recording
2023
Melanie Abrahams, Dr Errol Francis and Sonia E Barrett draw on themes of identity, representation, and the legitimacy of monuments; exploring a number of public art projects recently commissioned in London including recent tributes to the Windrush Generation and their descendants.
Podcasts
Spaces of Silvertown led by Owen Hatherley
🔊 Podcast
2021
Join writer and journalist Owen Hatherley on his guided walk on a route to see how architecture has responded to socio-political and economic changes to the area and altered the conditions for navigating the urban landscape.
Play and Place led by Inua Ellams
🔊 Podcast
2021
Join poet and playwright Inua Ellams on his guided walk on a route through the Royal Docks and guiding you through a series of site-specific literary responses to Making Space, a collection of public artworks by Jessie Brennan.
One of the most planned for spaces in the world led by Eloise Hawser
🔊 Podcast
2021
Join sculptor and artist Eloise Hawser on her guided walk on a route tracing the history of the dock’s infrastructure, especially its water systems, including the redevelopment of the marina, pumping stations, draining systems for the construction of London City Airport, and the newest plans for a proposed shipyard.
Publications and Strategies
Digital
Political Bot[any]: Exploring the Nature of the Social Media Bot
📝 Publication
2017
Text by Sam Woolley in response to Phantom Love, a Digital Commissions Programme commission by Constant Dullart.
Out of this world and into another by Ellen Mara de Wachter
📝 Publication
2016
Writer, Ellen Mara De Wachter reflects on Overseas [Delirious New Wick 360 video edition] by Lawrence Lek. Commissioned as part of UP Projects' Digital Commissions Programme.
Art in the Public Domain
Planning for Public Art
📝 PDF
2025
Round table write-up on 'Planning for Public Art' discussion, exploring the important role that planning professionals play in advocating for more arts and culture in the design of our neighbourhoods.
Public Art: Not Just A Nice To Have
📝 PDF
2024
Round table write-up exploring the positive role that art and artists can play in shaping places, including engaging communities and contributing social value.
