(Dis)ordering the City: Buildings, Bodies and Urban Space

(Dis)ordering the City: Buildings, Bodies and Urban Space, In Certain Places

• LocationNorth West, Liverpool
• Type
• Salary
• Artformcombined arts, interdisciplinary arts, visual arts
• ContactElaine Speight espeight@uclan.ac.uk

Description

As part of the Practising Place programme, In Certain Places is proud to present an evening with artist Emily Speed in conversation with human geographer Dr Duncan Light, hosted by the Bluecoat.
 
The event will focus on the making and reshaping of urban space. In particular, it will explore the relationship between official urban planning processes and the subversion of city spaces by the people who use them. Drawing upon their own creative and academic research, Speed and Light will examine the ways in which urban spaces are performed, and how certain practices - such as walking, urban exploration and the creation of ‘desire lines’ - might be viewed as tactics for ‘disordering’ the city.
 
Emily Speed works in sculpture, installation and performance and her work is concerned with the relationship between the body and architecture. During 2016 she has solo exhibitions at TRUCK, Calgary and a major new commission at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas. Recent exhibitions include Plymouth Art Centre; g39, Cardiff; Oredaria Gallery, Rome; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, USA; Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland. 
 
Dr Duncan Light is senior lecturer in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality at Bournemouth University. A human geographer by background, he worked for 20 years in Liverpool before moving to Bournemouth.  He has research interests in urban landscapes, particularly in Romania (a country he has visited regularly for more than 20 years). In particular, his research has explored the efforts to remake the ‘official public landscape’ created by Romania’s communist regime in the post-communist period.

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Practising Place is a programme of public conversations, designed to examine the relationship between art practice and place. Each event is hosted at a different venue and explores a specific aspect of place by bringing artists together with people from different backgrounds, who share a common area of interest. http://ift.tt/1QlbrZR

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(Dis)ordering the City: Buildings, Bodies and Urban Space