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seminars and conferences

Seminars and conferences

Run as part of our mission to support the UK sector in its international work and deliver an information and knowledge sharing service, these events are held in the UK and focus on different art forms and contemporary debates within intercultural arts practice.

Visiting Arts staff are also regularly invited to participate and speak at conference and seminar events across the UK and overseas.
 

Activity

seminars and conferences

12.01.11

Future Thinking - Report and podcasts

A discussion event on sustainable international residencies, Future Thinking was run in partnership with Artquest and held at Tate Britain.

The day offered the opportunity for an in depth discussion on international visual arts exchange, with the aim of exploring new paradigms of practice. Speakers included:

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seminars and conferences

04.11.10

Performance Matters

Performance Matters is a series of events exploring the shifting relations between performance practice and discourse, event and writing, which took  place across Toynbee Studios and Whitechapel Gallery during October

seminars and conferences

20.09.10

Future Thinking

Visiting Arts and Artquest co-hosted a discussion day with an invited audience of forty arts professionals, on the theme of Future Thinking on Sustainable International Residenciesat Tate Britain, on Monday July 5

seminars and conferences

16.09.10

Middle Ground

Middle Ground; A discussion, with Art school Palestine and Visiting Arts on Friday 17 September 18.00 – 19.30 Cinema space. Contemporary Urban Centre, LIVERPOOL

seminars and conferences

30.10.09

Artists in Global Practice

On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Visiting Arts hosted an event in partnership with Dance Umbrella African Crossroads 2009 at The Place in London. The event explored the notion of ‘Artists in Global Practice’. The evening consisted of interviews and presentations addressing how artists are collaborating and creating in a global context, and how new technologies have allowed greater dialogue with peers across the globe.

seminars and conferences

29.09.09

Innovation in Carnival seminar

On 14 September 2009, 20 Carnival and street arts practitioners converged at the Southbank centre to explore ‘Innovation in Carnival’ as part of a UK International Carnival Network event.