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Practising Duets #1 Ranjana Thapalyal and Olivier Marboeuf

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) Centre Square, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Traversing artistic, design, curatorial, and research-led practices in the humanities and beyond, Practising Duets is a series of trans-disciplinary events organised by The Ignorant Art Schools Collective, a research group of the British Art Network (BAN). This event is a hosted conversation between Olivier Marboeuf and Dr Ranjana Thapalyal, two leading practitioners who have not […]

Quality Dis/Abled Seminar

Online

explores how quality within art practice is judged between people who identify as D/Deaf disabled and non-disabled

In Conversation with the Adamson Collection

Online

This seminar is organised by BAN Research Group, New Dialogues: Art Created Historically in Mental Health Settings Chair of the Adamson Collection and eminent Psychiatrist Dr David O'Flynn and PhD researcher Rosemary Ruane consider the Adamson collection in the context of compassionate arts practice. Image Credit: Carrie Scott-Huby

Practising Duets #2 Anna Colin and Gudskul online

Online

Traversing artistic, design, curatorial, and research-led practices in the humanities and beyond, Practising Duets is a series of transdisciplinary events organised by The Ignorant Art Schools Collective, a research group of the British Art Network (BAN). This event is a hosted conversation between Dr Anna Colin and Gudskul, two leading practitioners who are coming together […]

CEED Feminisms 3: Labour, diasporic experience and East to West migration

Cell Project Space 258 Cambridge Heath Road, London

On Saturday 11th November, the third meeting of the Art Practices and British Central Eastern European Diaspora research group brings together works by feminist artists whose practices address labour, diasporic experience and 'east' to 'west' European migration. Moving image works and performance documentation are the texts for this special reading group session, grounding a discussion […]

Looking North Presents: Exploring Sufficiency and Post-Growth in Art & Exhibition Practices in Scotland – A Roundtable Discussion

Glasgow Women's Library

If we take post-growth as an intellectual provocation that highlights deficits in our current systems, then what role can the art sector perform? In recent years, slow, de- and post-growth imaginaries have increasingly entered mainstream discourses, particularly in the field of environmentalism. Many scholars argue that changing and reducing global consumption patterns should be at […]

British Art after Britain

Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle St, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The British Art Network Annual Conference 2023 considers the cultural legacies of devolution. As questions about statehood, democracy and (dis)unity rise anew in the year of a Coronation, British Art after Britain reflects on the influence of regionalisation since the historic moment of the Good Friday Agreement and founding of parliaments in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. […]

Why look back? Contemporary Art & Institutional Memory

Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross, Nottingham

We invite participants for a workshop exploring the practice, potential and value of working with and caring for the histories, archives, and memories of contemporary art institutions.  An ‘institutional memory’ formed by archives, recollections, and wider collective knowledge has particular importance for art institutions whose longevity, identity, value and stake in history is not secured […]

Collecting, Curating and interpretation- Benchmarking Best Practice

The Foundry & Online 17 Oval Way, London

This time we’ll be looking at best practice in terms of collecting, curating and interpreting the work of disabled artists and disability art. It is an opportunity for us to hear real life examples and discuss how pockets of best practice (in disability and other contexts) can become standard practice across the sector. In particular […]

ARIs in Spaces and Places

Online

For the second event of the British Art Network group: Artist-Run Initiatives in Britain, we will meet online to discuss artist run initiatives and their uses of space, how spaces are found and developed, how nomadic projects can work, and what happens when you lose a space. We will host speakers involved in ARIs and […]

Installation Art Now: A Roundtable Discussion

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art c/o National Glass Centre, Liberty Way, Sunderland

To coincide with Mike Nelson’s Hybrid Scripts exhibition currently on display at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) this roundtable discussion will explore the current climate for producing, commissioning, exhibiting and collecting ambitious installation art. The roundtable discussion will be followed by a Q+A. The term installation art is used to describe large-scale, mixed-media constructions, […]