Upcoming Artachat: Monumental Memories

by Rocca Gutteridge, 28 Mar 2011

Exploring the social consequences of temporary and permanent public art processes.

This Wednesday we’ll be hosting the above Artachat at Out of the Blue in Leith.

Invited speakers include:
Craig Coulthard (Forest Pitch, Artists taking the lead, London 2012)
Juliet Dean (Director, PACE)
and Claudia Zeiske (Director, Deveron Arts and co-author of ARTocracy)

Here are my initial ideas for topics to raise and discuss (any thoughts, please feel free to get in touch):

i) Exploring the affect permanent Public Art has on a community

I’d like to review the relevance of the monumental public sculpture in today’s society, especially exploring the monumental in relation to craft and production.

ii) Explore the affect temporary Public Art has on a community

How are these kind of projects accepted within a community? Explore the importance of memory, can a memory can be monumental?

iii) Explore the flip between public and private space. perhaps drawing on the case studies of Fettes college and the new Collective Commission weblink and PACE’s New Royal Aberdeen Children’s hospital project. weblink

And look to the participation programmes that go alongside working in these different contexts.

iv) I’d like to weave in Craig’s Forest Pitch Cultural Olymiad commission as a further case study.
Look at the temporary vs permanent nature of this project and the public vs privateness of his concept. I’d also like to look at the participation programme involved in the project.

v) Another area that I’d like to be picked up on is the crossover of curator, artist and public in public art processes.

There’s going to be a lot to discuss, the discussion kicks off at 7pm. We are pretty much full to the brim but if you are interested in coming please email info@artachat.co.uk and we’ll see if we can squeeze you in.

I look forward to posting Dane’s tweet minutes and any outcomes from the discussion.

Rocca