Creative Midlands Events

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• Wasteland Conversations: Utopia, community and ecology
• Questions of Value: Dave Beech & Toni Prug on Art, Value & Price
• Collaborative Effects: A Symposium
• Contemporary Art & the Politics of Ecology
• Wasteland Conversations: The Common Imagination
• Wasteland Conversations: Making Place
• John Newling In Conversation
• Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies Part I Screening Only
• Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies Part I Full Evening
• Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies Part I Discussion Only
• Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies Part II Discussion Only
• Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies Part II Screening Only
• Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies Part II Full Evening
• Artist Talk: I went Mental and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

Wasteland Conversations: Utopia, community and ecology Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:09 PM PST When: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://ncwastelandutopia-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: This conversation will consider the place of utopian thinking for social and ecological practices. Oliver Rodker is a founding member of the Landmatters Permaculture Community. Currently working with the Ecological Land Co-operative, he has been involved in environmental activism for the past two decades. Lucy Sargisson is Associate Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Nottingham; she has written extensively on the politics of feminism and ecology and is author of Fool's Gold, an exploration of utopianism in the twenty-first century. Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Questions of Value: Dave Beech & Toni Prug on Art, Value & Price Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:15 PM PST When: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://ncquestionsofvalue-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: A collaboration with the Politicized Practice Research Group (PPRG), Loughborough University Dave Beech (Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London) and Toni Prug (School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London) will discuss the application of conventional economic models to analysing the value of commodities - and argue for the possibility of alternatives. Chaired by Mel Jordan (PPRG & Freee art collective) Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Collaborative Effects: A Symposium Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:18 PM PST When: Saturday, March 23, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://nccollaborativeeffects-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: With Robert Lumley (Professor of Italian Cultural History, UCL); Anna Detheridge (Director, Connecting Cultures research agency for art and territory, Milan); Teresa Kittler (PhD Candidate, Art History, UCL); Catharine Rossi (Senior Lecturer, Design History, Kingston University) and celebrated Milan-based art critic and curator Tommaso Trini. Gilardi's work is synonymous with the term Arte Povera - but his distinct, multifaceted contribution to the context in which that movement was created is rarely examined in depth. This symposium brings together new thinking by established and emerging researchers and focuses on his work as an exhibition organiser, art critic and alternative theorist of Arte Povera. By examining his understanding of notions of 'living', 'play', and 'inhabitation' - together with his participation in the landmark MoMA exhibition 'Italy: The New Domestic Landscape' - contributors will draw out links between art, politics, and the Radical Design movement in Italy. Contributions by two leading Milan-based critics of different generations, Anna Detheridge and Tommaso Trini, meanwhile seek to identify the continuing concerns of his work – from activism and 'relational' art to his role as artistic director of Parco Arte Vivente, a living art park founded in 2008 as a new public space and open-air exhibition site occupying a post-industrial wasteland in Turin.   Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Contemporary Art & the Politics of Ecology Posted: 19 Dec 2012 11:19 PM PST When: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://ncpoliticsofecology-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: A discussion departing from the concerns of the current special issue of Third Text, guest-edited by TJ Demos and dedicated to the intersection of art criticism, politico-ecological theory, environmental activism, and postcolonial globalization. Including presentations by Demos alongside contributors to this publication, Peter Mörtenböck and Nabil Ahmed, the discussion will address new aesthetic strategies through which ecological emergencies—including the multifaceted crisis of climate-change - have found resonance and response in artistic practice and more broadly in visual culture.   Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Wasteland Conversations: The Common Imagination Posted: 19 Dec 2012 10:02 PM PST When: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://nccommonimagination-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: This conversation will approach the 'commons' as both a form of land ownership and as a way of thinking beyond capitalism, in relation to the imagination and artistic practice. Hayley Newman is an artist, writer, musician and performer; as 'Self-Appointed Artist in Residence in the City of London' she has recently written Common, a novella detailing collective political action and creative engagement with space. Stevphen Shukaitis is Lecturer in Work and Organization at the University of Essex; his work considers the role of the imagination for notions of the common and collective forms of political action. Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Wasteland Conversations: Making Place Posted: 19 Dec 2012 08:58 PM PST When: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://ncmakingplace-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: Cafe. Bar. Contemporary Convened in collaboration with the Nottingham Wasteland Twinning Collective.  Wasteland Twinning is a cross-disciplinary network facilitating research by artists and researchers investigating the pasts, presents and potential futures of urban wastelands across the globe. Subverting the City Twinning concept, the project aims to raise questions about value, function, land use, and urban development. With Alan Boldon, Elaine Speight & Ferdiansyah Thajib This conversation questions the use of art in public planning and place-making strategies and considers alternative means by which artistic practices respond to the specificities of place. Alan Boldon (Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton) has, over several decades, focused consistently on interdisciplinary approaches to ecological place-shaping; he led the development of Arts and Ecology at Dartington College of Arts and has worked on place-making strategies as an RSA Fellow and consultant. Elaine Speight is an artist, curator, and co-founder of In Certain Places with whom she has curated public artworks including Newling's Preston Market Mystery Project. Ferdiansyah Thajib is a writer, cultural theorist and co-director of KUNCI Cultural Studies Centre who works with Nottingham's 'twinned' site in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

John Newling In Conversation Posted: 19 Dec 2012 08:01 PM PST When: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://ncnewlinginconversation-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: This conversation explores Newling's exhibition in relation to the new monograph Spinning: The Organic, Cultural and Etheric in the work of John Newling. The artist will be joined in conversation with the book's author, Dr Reverend Richard Davey, and James Peto (Exhibitions Curator, the Wellcome Collection) who shares Newling's commitment to working beyond institutional walls and within public spaces. Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies Part I Screening Only Posted: 19 Dec 2012 08:03 PM PST When: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://ncdoragarcia-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: Piero Gilardi's work with marginalised communities, including those confined to mental hospitals, was influenced by Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia (1924-80).  Alongside Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing, Felix Guattari and Thomas Szasz, Basaglia contributed to the diverse foundations of the radical anti-psychiatry movement; he argued that all asylums should be replaced by open therapeutic communities, a controversial position which provoked both mental health reform and inspired socially-activist approaches to artistic practice. Part I Screening Only 6pm Screening: Dora Garcia The Deviant Majority, From Basaglia to Brazil (2010, 34')   Garcia's film forms part of her ongoing investigation of the political potential of marginal positions. It is structured around encounters with three organisations: Accademia della Follia (Academy of Madness), the Trieste Psychiatric Hospital's theatre company; Carmen Roll, a former member of the German Socialist Patients' Collective; and the Freaked on the Scene Theatre of the Oppressed, Rio de Janeiro.     Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies Part I Full Evening Posted: 19 Dec 2012 08:00 PM PST When: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://ncantipsychfullevening1-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: Piero Gilardi's work with marginalised communities, including those confined to mental hospitals, was influenced by Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia (1924-80).  Alongside Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing, Felix Guattari and Thomas Szasz, Basaglia contributed to the diverse foundations of the radical anti-psychiatry movement; he argued that all asylums should be replaced by open therapeutic communities, a controversial position which provoked both mental health reform and inspired socially-activist approaches to artistic practice. Part I      6pm Screening: Dora Garcia The Deviant Majority, From Basaglia to Brazil (2010, 34') Garcia's film forms part of her ongoing investigation of the political potential of marginal positions. It is structured around encounters with three organisations: Accademia della Follia (Academy of Madness), the Trieste Psychiatric Hospital's theatre company; Carmen Roll, a former member of the German Socialist Patients' Collective; and the Freaked on the Scene Theatre of the Oppressed, Rio de Janeiro. 7 - 9pm   Panel discussion, with contributions from: John Foot, Professor of Modern Italian History, UCL. Foot is currently leading a project focused on Basaglia and the closure of mental asylums in Italy. David Reggio, Kingston University/Universidade Comunitária da Região de Chapecó. Reggio has worked within institutional psychiatry at the renowned La Borde clinic and with the anti-psychiatry movement in Brazil. Howard Caygill, Professor Of Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. Caygill's research interests include philosophy and psychiatry as well as contemporary European philosophy, ethics and theories of resistance.    Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies Part I Discussion Only Posted: 19 Dec 2012 08:05 PM PST When: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://ncantipyschpanel1-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: Piero Gilardi's work with marginalised communities, including those confined to mental hospitals, was influenced by Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia (1924-80).  Alongside Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing, Felix Guattari and Thomas Szasz, Basaglia contributed to the diverse foundations of the radical anti-psychiatry movement; he argued that all asylums should be replaced by open therapeutic communities, a controversial position which provoked both mental health reform and inspired socially-activist approaches to artistic practice. Part I     Discussion Only 7 - 9pm   Panel discussion, with contributions from: John Foot, Professor of Modern Italian History, UCL. Foot is currently leading a project focused on Basaglia and the closure of mental asylums in Italy. David Reggio, Kingston University/Universidade Comunitária da Região de Chapecó. Reggio has worked within institutional psychiatry at the renowned La Borde clinic and with the anti-psychiatry movement in Brazil. Howard Caygill, Professor Of Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. Caygill's research interests include philosophy and psychiatry as well as contemporary European philosophy, ethics and theories of resistance.    Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies Part II Discussion Only Posted: 19 Dec 2012 08:06 PM PST When: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://ncantipsychpanel2-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: Piero Gilardi's work with marginalised communities, including those confined to mental hospitals, was influenced by Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia (1924-80).  Alongside Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing, Felix Guattari and Thomas Szasz, Basaglia contributed to the diverse foundations of the radical anti-psychiatry movement; he argued that all asylums should be replaced by open therapeutic communities, a controversial position which provoked both mental health reform and inspired socially-activist approaches to artistic practice. Part II     Discussion Only 7 - 9pm   Panel discussion, with contributions from: Duncan Double, Consultant psychiatrist (Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust). Double is a founding member of The UK Critical Psychiatry Network, a platform for debate, discussion, lobbying and publication to critique the contemporary psychiatric system. Alastair Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, Sheffield Hallam University. Morgan's perspective encompasses critical theory and clinical practice, having worked as a qualified nurse in community adult mental health with marginalized and excluded groups. Angela Woods, Durham University. Woods is an inter-disciplinary medical humanities researcher and author of The Sublime Object of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory.   Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies Part II Screening Only Posted: 19 Dec 2012 08:08 PM PST When: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://nclukefowler-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: Piero Gilardi's work with marginalised communities, including those confined to mental hospitals, was influenced by Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia (1924-80).  Alongside Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing, Felix Guattari and Thomas Szasz, Basaglia contributed to the diverse foundations of the radical anti-psychiatry movement; he argued that all asylums should be replaced by open therapeutic communities, a controversial position which provoked both mental health reform and inspired socially-activist approaches to artistic practice. Part II Screening Only 6pm Screening: Luke Fowler, Bogman Palmjaguar (2007, 30') The subject of Fowler's film is a trained conservationist and certified paranoid schizophrenic who is fighting a legal battle against this diagnosis. Featuring discussions with psychiatrist Leon Redler (a former colleague of R.D. Laing), this is a film about the injustices of contemporary psychiatric practice and also a portrait of the Flow Country, a remote area of rare blanket bog and wetland in Northern Scotland. Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Anti-Psychiatry and its Legacies Part II Full Evening Posted: 19 Dec 2012 08:07 PM PST When: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://ncantipsychfullevening2-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: Piero Gilardi's work with marginalised communities, including those confined to mental hospitals, was influenced by Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia (1924-80).  Alongside Michel Foucault, R.D. Laing, Felix Guattari and Thomas Szasz, Basaglia contributed to the diverse foundations of the radical anti-psychiatry movement; he argued that all asylums should be replaced by open therapeutic communities, a controversial position which provoked both mental health reform and inspired socially-activist approaches to artistic practice. Part II 6pm Film screening: Luke Fowler, Bogman Palmjaguar (2007, 30') The subject of Fowler's film is a trained conservationist and certified paranoid schizophrenic who is fighting a legal battle against this diagnosis. Featuring discussions with psychiatrist Leon Redler (a former colleague of R.D. Laing), this is a film about the injustices of contemporary psychiatric practice and also a portrait of the Flow Country, a remote area of rare blanket bog and wetland in Northern Scotland. 7 - 9pm Discussion, with contributions from: Duncan Double, Consultant psychiatrist (Norfolk & Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust). Double is a founding member of The UK Critical Psychiatry Network, a platform for debate, discussion, lobbying and publication to critique the contemporary psychiatric system. Alastair Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, Sheffield Hallam University. Morgan's perspective encompasses critical theory and clinical practice, having worked as a qualified nurse in community adult mental health with marginalized and excluded groups. Angela Woods, Durham University. Woods is an inter-disciplinary medical humanities researcher and author of The Sublime Object of Psychiatry: Schizophrenia in Clinical and Cultural Theory.   Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

Artist Talk: I went Mental and all I got was this lousy T-shirt Posted: 19 Dec 2012 08:09 PM PST When: Tuesday, March 5, 2013 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (GMT) Where: Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross NG1 2GB Nottingham United Kingdom Hosted By: Nottingham Contemporary Register for this event now at : http://ncvacuumcleaner-atom.eventbrite.com Event Details: Over the last 10 years artist and activist collective of one, the vacuum cleaner, has become somewhat notorious for his acts of street brandalism, performance interventions and online pranks. Yet during this time he has also battled with severe mental illnesses and over the last two years this has become the focus of his work (and life). In this informal presentation he will share recent, current and future projects that involve radical approaches to his own and others' neurodiversity and mental health.   Nottingham Contemporary's public programme is jointly funded by Nottingham Trent University and The University of Nottingham. This event is at Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross Nottingham NG1 2GB 0115 948 9750 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org

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