UP Projects Constellations ° Assemblies 2023

You can now sign up to our online Constellations ° Assemblies events that are free, online and open to all artists, curators, practitioners, commissioners, and those working across or interested in public art, social practice and regeneration.

The programme explores issues and best practice relevant to the public art sector providing attendees with the opportunity to learn more about contemporary, socially engaged art, and public art debates. The events feature a range of UK and international speakers including Jack Ky Tan, Khanyisile Mbongwa, Magdalena Malm, Helen Cammock, Suzanne Lacy and Ahmet Öğüt, whose socially engaged practice and methods of co-creation explore how art can help communities reimagine new futures. Informed by notions of care and alternative economies, Constellations 2023 explores lines of enquiry that are vital to public and social practice today addressing ideas relating to the value of attention, climate empowerment, and conflict & care.

All Assemblies are held online, accessible via UP Projects’ digital participation space, The Hall, and will be in the form of a webinar.

The full line-up of speakers will be announced throughout the programme.

Alongside the events, the Constellations ° Cohort, a selected group of artists, curators, producers, and practitioners operating in the expanded field of public art, will take part in a programme of free learning and development opportunities.

Constellations 2023 is curated by UP Projects in partnership with Flat Time House and in association with Liverpool Biennial. Constellations 2023 includes the Co-Creating Public Space: How can we thrive? conference realised in partnership with John Hansard Gallery. Constellations 2023 is generously supported by Arts Council England, the Barrington Hibbert Associates Access Fund, and the Constellations Patrons.