Sculpture as Fieldwork

This conference considers multi-perspectival approaches to ‘fieldwork’ as an avenue of enquiry for thinking about sculptural practice. From earths and underworlds, remote landscapes, extreme locations and even invisible particles as the resource for artistic investigations, new insights will be gathered in response to the self-generating spaces of sculptural immersion and engagement with the properties and atmospheres of material environments.

Saturday 6 July 2019, 11am - 5:30pm
Henry Moore Lecture Theatre, Leeds Art Gallery
From 10:15 Registration
10:45 Welcome and introductions
Earth and Underworlds: Self-generating Environments
11:00 ‘ink of the under-mind’: Writing the Modernist Cave
Dr Holly Corfield Carr (Writer/researcher, University of Cambridge)
11:30 Sculpting Resiliency
Professor Emily Puthoff (Associate Professor of Art and artist, State University of New York, New Paltz)
12:00 Discussion chaired by Laurence Sillars (Head of the Henry Moore Institute)
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (provided)
Particles (Invisible Fields)
1:30 Art as experience at CERN
Mónica Bello (Curator and Head of Arts at CERN, Geneva)
2:00 Invisible Fields
Dr Ele Carpenter (Reader in Curating, Goldsmiths, University of London)
2:30 Discussion chaired by Dr Rowan Bailey (University of Huddersfield)
3:00 - 3:30 Tea and coffee break
Remote Lands – Edges, Rims and Poles
3:30 Icebergs and Rocks: Writing the Plutonic Landscape
Marion Coutts (Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and artist, Goldsmiths, University of London)
4:00 Antarctic Turns
Chris Dobrowolski (Independent artist)
4:45
Discussion chaired by Dr Brigitte Jurack (Manchester Metropolitan University)

5:30 Concluding observations
6:00 - 7:30 Drinks Reception at the Henry Moore Institute