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Arts & Public Art Strategy REVIEW

Posted: 22 Oct 2012 06:37 AM PDT


Milton Keynes Council annually refreshes the delivery plans of the Arts and Public Art Strategies.  This review started on the 1st October with officer desk-based research and the updated plan will be presented on the 15th of November for approval by Arts & Heritage Alliance and MK Council.


We would like to invite you to share with us any updates or proposed additions for the revised delivery plans for 2013. We would like to hear of any successes and achievements against current projects in the plans but also any projects which align with the strategies themes and aspirations that you are planning for the coming year.


Please visit: http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/arts/displayarticle.asp?ID=57332 for the documentation; public arts & art action plans with an update column and a Response Form for you to tell us about your future projects. Please submit your responses by the 5th November.


Any queries email: arts@milton-keynes.gov.uk

Thursday Scratch Nights- Elena Cologni-Talk/Performance

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 02:59 AM PDT



Talk/Performance
SPA(E)CIOUS PRESENT, Dynamics of collective and individual experiences of space and duration within specious present


25 October / 6.30pm / Free


 


This event is based on the multidisciplinary approach of Elena Cologni's current project Rockfluid, where site specific art practice is underpinned by elements of geography, cognitive psychology and philosophy.


 


To walk through places involves kinesthesia, memory and our awareness of where we are in any given present moment. SPA(E)CIOUS is a form of collaborative peripatetic practice, where produced and shared knowledge informs the artist’s  creative process. For participants, it creates the physical and psychological conditions to enhance an awareness of the perception – and illusion – of time and space in the present. Cologni inserts a variable element of interference in our experience, which varies every time Spa(e)cious takes place (e.g. an unstable platform). As the series develops from this, a dialogue with art critic  and film maker Helena Blaker also shapes the contextualisation of the outcomes.  


 


Elena Cologni is studio artist at Wysing Art Centre, Artist in Residence at University of Cambridge, Faculty of Experimental Psychology, and at University of Hertfordshire, School of Art. She studied at the Brera Academy of Art, State University in Milan (Italy), University of Leeds, and she has a PhD from Central Saint Martins College, London (1999-2004, Fine Art with Philosophy and Psychology). She was awarded from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for her Post Doctoral project at Central Saint Martins addressing issues of memory and liveness (2004-2006), Research Fellow at York Saint John University (2007-2009) when her work became primarily site specific and participatory.

Elena Cologni: L Elastico Thursday 25 October 2012

Posted: 23 Oct 2012 02:36 AM PDT



Talk/Performance: Elena Cologni: L’Elastico


15 November / 6.30pm / Free


 This is the conclusive event of a site-specific series of tours of the city, according to its inhabitants' memories in relation to specific locations. These are collected in a box placed in the gallery or they can be sent to the artist by emailing info@rockfluid.com.


 It is the appropriation of a game Cologni used to play as a child. It is presented to participants as a large elastic string forming a specific shape (a sort of soft sculpture) which will change according to a pattern taken from a series of drawings from the tour(s) in Milton Keynes.


 The body of work is part of the multidisciplinary approach of the project Rockfluid, where site-specific art practice is underpinned by elements of geography, cognitive psychology and philosophy. The exercise creates the physical and psychological conditions to enhance an awareness of the perception the body in space. Participants will follow instructions, while a camera will record their movements of their body's proximal space.


Elena Cologni is a studio artist at Wysing Art Centre, Artist in Residence at University of Cambridge, Faculty of Experimental Psychology, and at University of Hertfordshire, School of Art. She studied at Brera Academy of Art, Università Statale in Milan (Italy), University of Leeds, and she has a PhD from Central Saint Martins College, London (1999-2004, Fine Art with Philosophy and Psychology). She was awarded from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for her Post Doctoral project at Central Saint Martins addressing issues of memory and liveness (2004-2006), Research Fellow at York Saint John University (2007-2009) when her work became primarily site specific and participatory.

Adelphi Pop-up Art Event, Milton Keynes

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 12:29 AM PDT


See unique handcrafted works by ten accomplished artists for just five hours at a pop-up arts and crafts event in the heart of Milton Keynes.


This exhibition is being staged from 11am-4pm in a private home that will be transformed overnight into an art gallery over two floors.


Paintings, sculpture, photography and other works to view and buy in support of two children’s charities.


To request a free invitation for you and your guests, and more event details, visit the Adelphi Pop-up Arts and Crafts event web-page at http://bit.ly/OBcKtp


21 Adelphi Street, Central Milton Keynes, MK9 4AE - 11am to 4pm
Posted by Creative Midlands at 10/23/2012 12:10:00 pm
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