Intersections is currently featuring Neville Gabie’s PAR+RS-sponsored keynote presentation to the Invernessian Clanjamfrey as an exclusive audio lecture.

Gabie’s presentation was the keynote to the Clanjamfrey Symposium, which took place as part of Re-Imagining the Centre in Inverness in September 2009 (see the IOTA website www.invernessoldtownart.co.uk). Gabie’s practice, and Re-Imagining the Centre, raised critical questions about place and how artists might relate to that broad context and the complexity that it encompasses. As PAR+RS Editor Ruth Barker indicates in her introduction to the lecture, in Gabie’s practice place extends to the social, historical and imaginative and beyond, into the emotional location of site. The lecture lecture concentrates on his recent residency at Cabot Circus in Bristol, but also references projects from Liverpool to Antarctica, via Asia, Africa and Scotland. Through his discussion, critical questions are raised as to the relationship between place, participants, artists and contexts.

Gabie’s lecture was sponsored by PAR+RS and introduced by PAR+RS Editor, Ruth Barker. The Invernessian Clanjamfrey was a two-day symposium event which was part of Re-Imagining the Centre, a programme of artworks which enlivened the Old Town of Inverness in September 2009.

A full transcript of the lecture is available on the PAR+RS website, transcribed by Matthew Hearn.

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