Glasgow Sculpture Studios presents Private Thoughts And Public Spaces; Public Acts and Private Places. This one-day, free public symposium explores the shifting relationships between what might be public, what may be private, and how that discussion impacts on contemporary sculptural practices.

Private Thoughts… is supported by PAR+RS and has been catalysed by the work of Mischa Kuball, Featured Gi artist for PAR+RS.

Mon 21st April 08, 10:00 – 16:00 Admission Free

Private Thoughts??? brings together a range of experts in their fields for a symposium of public thinking and private incitement.
Key figures from the local, national and international art world will share their thoughts and experiences, in dialogue with one another and with the public.

CONTEXT
Glasgow Sculpture Studios is dedicated to fostering a vibrant community of artists by providing them with subsidized access to workshops, studio space, technical facilities and expertise. To this end, it presents this free symposium, examining some of the most pertinent questions faced by sculptors today.

The first decade of the 21st Century has revealed a complex territory where the lines between the public and the private do not seem impermeable. In the social experience of areas as diverse as technology, ideology, and landscape, it may seem that the distinctions between public and private are becoming routinely challenged, and their positions inverted. What are the implications for how we chart the contemporary sculptural practices that exist within, challenge, and critique it?

As artists and others continue to navigate this capricious terrain, Private Thoughts??? will provide a platform for new perspectives and the questions they may raise.

Pavel Büchler is an artist, lecturer and occasional writer. He is interested in what art makes possible to realise: both to think and to do. Summing up his own practice as “making nothing happen”, he is committed to the catalytic nature of art – it???s potential to draw attention to the obvious and revealing it as ultimately strange.

Claire Doherty is Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at University of the West of England and Director of the Situations programme in Bristol. Situations is a research and commissioning programme devised to investigate broadening notions of context and place in contemporary art. The programme combines the commissioning of new art works, with public lectures, conferences, international symposia and printed and online publishing.
www.situations.org.uk

David Harding is an artist, writer and teacher. Harding was head of the Environmental Art Programme at Glasgow School of Art from it’s inception in 1985. He taught the course for fifteen years and is widely credited with its
outstanding international acclaim. He has lectured widely, and written, on public art and education in contextual practice in art and remains an influential commentator in the field.
www.davidharding.net

Mischa Kuball has worked conceptually with light for more than twenty years. Throughout that time he has encroached and altered public spaces with his temporary light installations, exploring the field of tension that exists between what is private and public. Predominantly located in urban architectural spaces and concentrated on the place, its history, and the social and political forces that come into play within that site, raising questions about physical space, dislocating the physical boundaries and adding a new spiritual dimension to them.
www.mischakuball.com

The symposium will be chaired by Ruth Barker. Barker is a Glasgow based artist, writer and editor of the Public Art Resource and Research Scotland (PAR+RS) website, a co-director of Washington Garcia Gallery, Glasgow, and a board member of Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
www.ruthbarker.com

In conjunction with this symposium PAR+RS has commissioned Glasgow based artist and writer Rhona Warwick to develop a new piece of critical writing in response to the work of Mischa Kuball. This text will be available on the PAR+RS website.

EVENT PARTNERS
This event is in collaboration with:

Centre for Contemporary Arts

Gi Festival

Glasgow Sculpture Studios

Goethe Institut Glasgow

Public Art Resource + Research Scotland
(PAR+RS)

INFORMATION PACKS
Contact Amy Sales via amy@glasgowsculpturestudios.org
Free – advance booking required
boxoffice@cca-glasgow.com 0141 352 4900