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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.
Events
What is the value of attention?
12 July 2023, 14:00 – 15:15 BST
Online
Part of Constellations ° Assemblies 2023
Co-Creating Public Space: How Can We Thrive?
Conference curated by UP Projects in partnership with John Hansard Gallery
27 October 2023, 09:15 – 18:00 GMT | Central Hall, Southampton
Climate Empowerment
15 November 2023, 14:00 – 15:15 GMT
Online
Part of Constellations ° Assemblies 2023
Resources
What is the value of attention?
▶️ Accessible Event Recording
2023
Artist Ahmet Öğüt and curator, Magdalena Malm explore how in a society where distraction is the norm, public art can offer a platform to channel our attention. What is the value of attention? And how can art add meaning?
Climate Empowerment
▶️ Accessible Event Recording
2023
Artist Dr Julie Freeman, and Zoë Palmer, artist, writer and human ecologist explore how do we transition from climate awareness to climate action? What role can art play in developing narratives, stories and emotional connection to empower more effective climate action?
Conflict & Care
▶️ Accessible Event Recording
2024
Artist Jack Ky Tan, Khanyisile Mbongwa, Curator of the 12th edition of the Liverpool Biennial explore the contradictions beneath the notion of care and ask what constitutes a genuine caring environment, where it is possible to address our differences in safer, constructive and positive ways.
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?
Key Insights
▶️ Event Recording
2023
Practitioners from the earlier panels and workshops reported back on insights, key learnings and takeaways from the day’s conference.
