BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4721@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190523T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190523T173000 DTSTAMP:20190402T143901Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/st-helens-venue-tba-with-for-abo ut-art-democracy/ SUMMARY:Heart of Glass: St Helens Venue TBA: With For About: Art & Democrac y DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin us for the fourth annual With For About conference in St Helens. This year's theme is Art &\; Democracy and we're delighted t o be joined by a host of speakers from across the globe.\n\n\n\n\nThe four th annual With For About conference asks:\n\nIs art\, and the making of art\, the last frontier in the fight for democracy and the realisation of civil society?\n\nThe politics of our times have presented us with an unpr ecedented moment of re-evaluation. Our communities\, our values\, our soci al structures are in flux.\n\nCollaborative art has always presented a uni que opportunity to engage meaningfully with these agendas\, to draw audien ces into work in new and exciting ways and allow many to add their voices to commentary on these times. But as democratic deficits are felt by incre asingly larger parts of our community what role can artists and art play?\ n\nThis year we are joined by a host of speakers from across the globe\, i ncluding Jeanne van Heeswijk\, Jonas Staal\, Susanne Bosch\, Larry Achia mpong\, A Blade of Grass\, Deirdre Figueiredo\, Brian Harnetty\, Heather P eak Morison and Rick Lowe. You can find more information about the speaker s below.\n\nThe day will be split into 3 panel sessions looking at themes including disability justice\; the artist as political actor\; and public realm work as an act of ‘commoning’.  The conference will close with the launch of Praxis 2: The Town As Arts Centre.\n\nLunch and refreshments will be provided.\n\nThe #WithForAbout series aims to create a space to discuss and reflect on the fierce and urgent questions facing collaborati ve and social art today\, and more broadly reflect on the role of art and artists in civil society\, and the nature and potential of collaborative a rt\, with and within community and social contexts. Read about previous co nferences here.\n\nHeart of Glass is delighted to partner with Create a nd Axisweb to present this event. Heart of Glass and Create are currentl y working with a range of partners to explore a ‘triennial for social an d collaborative arts practice‘\, and have previously worked together on  Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme.\n\n\n\nBook Now\n\nPlease clic k here to book your place at With For About: Art &\; Democracy. Ticke t prices are as follows and for more info on ticket pricing\, please see  here.\n\nLarge Organisation: £125\n\nSmall Organisation: £60\n\nIndivid ual Artist/Practitioner: £30\n\nConcession: £10\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biograp hies \n\nJeanne van Heeswijk\n\nJeanne van Heeswijk is an artist who fa cilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order t o “radicalize the local”. Her long-scale community-embedded projects q uestion art’s autonomy by combining performative actions\, discussions\, and other forms of organizing and pedagogy in order to assist communities to take control of their own futures.\n\nRick Lowe \n\nRick Lowe is a Ho uston-based artist who has exhibited and worked with communities nationall y and internationally. His work has appeared in: Contemporary Arts Museum\ , Houston\; Museum of Contemporary Arts\, Los Angeles\; Neuberger Museum\, Purchase\, New York\; Phoenix Art Museum\; Kwangju Biennale\, Kwangju\, K orea\; the Kumamoto State Museum\, Kumamoto\, Japan\; the Venice Architect ure Biennale\; and Documenta 14\, Kassel\, Germany and Athens\, Greece. He is best known for his Project Row Houses community-based art project that he started in Houston in 1993. Additional community projects include the Watts House Project in Los Angeles\, the Borough Project in Charleston\, S C (with Suzanne Lacy and Mary Jane Jacobs)\, the Delray Beach Cultural Loo p in Florida\, and the Anyang Public Art Program 2010 in Anyang\, Korea. A mong Rick’s honors are the Rudy Bruner Awards in Urban Excellence\, the AIA Keystone Award\, the Heinz Award in the arts and humanities\, the Skow hegan Governor’s Award\, the Skandalaris Award for Art/Architecture\, an d a U.S. Artists Booth Fellowship.\n\nHe has served as a Loeb Fellow at Ha rvard University\, a Mel King Fellow at MIT\, an Auburn University Breedan Scholar\, and a Stanford University Haas Center Distinguished Visitor. Pr esident Barack Obama appointed Rick to the National Council on the Arts in 2013\; in 2014 he was named a MacArthur Fellow.\n\nHeather Peak Morison\n \nHeather Peak Morison is an artist and director of Studio Morison. She h as worked collaboratively with Ivan Morison on commissions in the UK and i nternationally since 2003\, establishing an ambitious practice that transc ends the divisions between art\, architecture and socially engaged practic e working alongside communities with numerous organisations such as Tate M odern\, Vancouver Art Gallery\, Museum of Contemporary Art\, Sydney\, and represented Wales at the Venice Biennial. She employs creativity and art w ith people and place to facilitate meaningful\, beautiful and long lasting change civic and social change. She is currently artist convenor and stra tegist for Heart of Glass in St Helens working on Bliss Park\, a new civic space\, facilitating two ‘Creating Civic Change’ projects with commun ities for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation/Big Local and is part of ‘C hange Creation’ Arts Council England’s two year program for leaders of change in the arts. She will have also\, by the time you attend this conf erence\, stood as a candidate in the local elections on May 2nd 2019.\n\n Jonas Staal\n\nJonas Staal is a visual artist whose work deals with the r elation between art\, propaganda\, and democracy. He is the founder of the artistic and political organization New World Summit (2012–ongoing) a nd the campaign New Unions (2016–ongoing). With BAK\, basis voor actue le kunst\, Utrecht\, he co-founded the New World Academy (2013-16)\, and with Florian Malzacher he is currently directing the utopian training cam p Training for the Future (2018-ongoing) at the Ruhrtriennale in Germany . Recent exhibition-projects include Art of the Stateless State (Moderna Galerija\, Ljubljana\, 2015)\, After Europe (State of Concept\, Athens\ , 2016)\, Museum as Parliament (with the Democratic Federation of North Syria\, Van Abbemuseum\, Eindhoven\, 2018) and The Scottish-European Parl iament (CCA\, Glasgow\, 2018). His projects have been exhibited widely\, among others at the 7th Berlin Biennial (2012)\, the 31st São Paulo Bienn ale (2014)\, the Oslo Architecture Triennial (2016) and the Göteborg Bien nale (2017). Recent publications and catalogs include Nosso Lar\, Brasíl ia (Jap Sam Books\, 2014)\, Stateless Democracy (With co-editors Dilar Dirik and Renée In der Maur\, BAK\, 2015) and Steve Bannon: A Propaganda Retrospective (Het Nieuwe Instituut\, 2018). His book Propaganda Art in the 21st Century is forthcoming from the MIT Press in the fall of 2019. Staal completed his PhD research on propaganda art at the PhDArts program of Leiden University\, the Netherlands.\n\nSusanne Bosch\n\nSusanne Bosch  is an artist and independent researcher. She received a PhD “Learning for Civil Society Through Participatory Public Art” from the University of Ulster in Belfast in 2012. From 2007-2012\, she developed and led the A rt in Public MA at the University of Ulster in Belfast\, together with art ist Dan Shipsides. As an “interface activist”\, Susanne practices inte rnationally in public art projects asking questions about long-term issues \, and building creative arguments around the ideas of democracy and susta inable futures. Her art often involves the issues of money (Restpfennigakt ion (Left-over Penny Campaign)\, Germany\, 1998-2002\; Initizativa Centesi mo Avanzato\, Naples\, Italy\, 2008-2009\; Hucha de Deseos\, Madrid\, 2010 -2011) and Rest-Münz-Aktion (Liechtenstein\, 2017)\, migration (My Europe an Family video 2012\, Athens and Kassel\, Germany\; The Prehistory of Cri sis II\, Belfast and Dublin\, 2009)\; and societal visions and participati on models (Cities Exhibition\, Birzeit University Museum\, Palestine 2012- 13\; Das Gute Leben\, Glücklich kommt von Selbermachen\, Bregenz\, Austr ia 2014\; Dies ist Morgen\, Osnabrück\, Germany 2015\; Utopisten und Wel tenbauer\, Dortmund\, Germany 2015\; Das Mögliche im Sein\, Götzis\, Aus tria\, 2015). Susanne develops site and situation-specific interventions\, installations\, videos\, drawings\, and audio as well as dialogical forma ts. In her artistic research\, and as facilitator\, she uses formats such as writing\, seminars and workshops. She is trained in Open Space and Art of Hosting facilitation (2008\, 2014)\, as well as conflict transformation (2004) and systemic constellation work (2014). Susanne has been working i nternationally in Austria\, Italy\, Ireland\, the UK\, Greece\, Palestine\ , Spain\, USA\, Mexico\, Malaysia as well as in Turkey. She was the indepe ndent research fellow in the Collaborative Arts Partnership Programme (CAP P)\, a European partner network of six countries (2014-2018) and is curren tly the researcher in generationKUNST in Lower Saxonie/Germany (20017-2019 ).\n\nA Blade of Grass \n\nA Blade of Grass believes in the power of soc ially engaged art and artists to participate meaningfully in creating a mo re equitable and compassionate future. We provide direct financial support to artists who collaborate with communities to generate exchanges\, exper iences\, and structures that enact social change. We also create greater v isibility for the socially engaged art field by producing multimedia conte nt\, public programs\, and research about this work.\n\nLarry Achiampong\n Larry Achiampong‘s solo and collaborative projects employ imagery\, aura l and visual archives\, live performance and sound to explore ideas surrou nding class\, cross-cultural and post-digital identity.\nWith works that e xamine his communal and personal heritage – in particular\, the intersec tion between pop culture and the postcolonial position\, Achiampong crate- digs the vaults of history. These investigations examine constructions of ‘the self’ by splicing the audible and visual materials of personal an d interpersonal archives\, offering multiple perspectives that reveal entr enched socio-political contradictions in contemporary society.\nAchiampong ’s recent project titled ‘Relic Traveller’ is a multi-disciplinary m ulti-site project that builds on themes of lost testimony\, fallen empire and displacement by deconstructing the architectures of colonialism. The p roject is currently formed of a ‘First Phase’ involving an original sc ore\, two short films and installations\, an audio-visual performance and a flag project which recently displayed atop Somerset House in London.\nAc hiampong has exhibited\, performed and presented projects within the UK an d abroad including Tate Britain/Modern\, London\; The Institute For Creati ve Arts\, Cape Town\; The British Film Institute\, London\; David Roberts Art Foundation\, London\; Kunsthal Charlottenborg\, Copenhagen\; Bokoor Af rican Popular Music Archives Foundation\, Accra\; Logan Center Exhibitions \, Chicago\; Prospect New Orleans\, New Orleans\; Diaspora Pavilion – 57 th Venice Biennale\, Venice\; and Somerset House\, London.\nBrian Harnetty \n\nBrian Harnetty is an interdisciplinary artist working between music c omposition\, sound\, and socially engaged art. Rooted in sound archives an d the communities connected to them\, his body of work contends that the s imple act of listening –– to people\, places\, and their pasts –– can transform our futures.\n\nHarnetty’s current projects –– support ed by a 2018 A Blade of Grass Fellowship for Contemplative Practices and t he 2016 Creative Capital Award in Performing Arts –– are deeply involv ed with issues of ecology\, extraction\, and economy in Appalachian Ohio\, informed in part by his family’s roots in the region. Harnetty received a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University\, an M.Mus. in Music Composition at the Royal Academy of Music\, London\, and a B.Mus. in Mus ic Composition from The Ohio State University.\n\nHarnetty’s music is on Karl Records (Berlin)\, Dust-to-Digital (Atlanta)\, Atavistic (Chicago)\, and Scioto (Columbus). His musical collaborators include Bonnie “Prince ” Billy\, Fred Lonberg-Holm\, Paul De Jong (The Books)\, and Anna Robert s-Gevalt (Anna &\; Elizabeth). His 2013 release\, The Star-Faced One: from the Sun Ra Archives was MOJO Magazine’s Underground Album of the Y ear. As a writer\, Harnetty has published articles and essays for New Mus ic Box\, Experimental Music Yearbook\, Sound Effects\, Rethinking Marxi sm\, and Cultural Studies. He is currently an AmeriCorps Volunteer in Ap palachian Ohio\, working directly with communities to tell their stories a nd help build sustainable local economies.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/04/HOG-Praxis-Heather_low-res_6-1-1360x908.jpg LOCATION:Heart of Glass\, Make. Derby Road\, Huyton\, Knowsley\, L36 9UQ\, Merseyside\, United Kingdom GEO:53.411162;-2.839246 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Make. 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