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Landing Place: the local in the international engage International Conference 6-7 November 2012 Venues across Cardiff Delegate Information Booklet Index Page Conference timetable outline 2 Conference programme 4 engage Regional meetings 9 Soapbox presentations, Marsh Awards 10 and engage AGM Axisweb 11 Breakout session information 12 Speakersʼ biographies 15 Further reading 24 Cardiff Contemporary 26 Important information for delegates 27 Venue maps and addresses 28

www.engage.org/conference @engagevisualart #engconf12

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Timetable This timetable is for logistical information – please see the full programme for speaker information and content of sessions. Monday 5 November

Across several venues

Fringe events

The conference is preceded by a programme of Fringe events, in a rich ancillary programme as part of Cardiff Contemporary*:

13.00 – 18.00 Optional visits to Cardiff venues (pre-booked delegates only) 18.00 – 20.00 Visit and evening social at Ffotogallery (all delegates welcome)

Tuesday 6 November

National Museum Cardiff 10.00 – 12.00 Guided tours and introductions to learning activity, Artes Mundi at

National Museum Cardiff (pre-booked delegates only)

Conference opens

Cardiff City Hall 12.00 – 13.30 Registration and lunch, Marble Hall 13.30 – 16.00 Speaker presentations and questions/discussion, Assembly Room 15.45 – 15.55 Tea and coffee, Marble Hall 15.55 – 16.10 Digital postcard, Assembly Room 16.10 – 16.45 Tea Activity, Assembly Room 16.45 – 17.00 Housekeeping Delegates to travel independently to Chapter Arts Centre Chapter Arts Centre 18.00 – 18.50 Soapbox 18.50 – 19.15 Wine and refreshments 19.15 – 19.45 Marsh Awards for Excellence in Gallery Education 19.45 – 20.15 engage AGM

In the cinema foyer and Cinema 1 21.15 – 23.00 Conference Dinner, Cafe (pre-booked delegates) Screenings of Ergin Cavusoglu - Backbench (2010)

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Wednesday 7 November

Across several venues 10.00 – 11.30 Breakout sessions

To find out which breakouts you will be participating in, and their locations, please see page 12 and your badge. All delegates to travel to National Museum Cardiff following breakouts

National Museum Cardiff 12.00 – 13.30 Lunch, Restaurant 13.00 – 13.30 engage Members Regional Meetings 13.30 – 15.00 Speaker presentations, Digital postcard and questions/discussion,

Reardon Smith Theatre 14.15 – 14.30 Digital postcard, Reardon Smith Theatre 15.00 – 15.25 Tea and coffee, Restaurant 15.25 – 15.30 Digital postcard, Reardon Smith Theatre 15.30 – 16.50 Speaker presentations and questions/discussion, Reardon Smith

Theatre 16.50 Conference ends Simultaneous Welsh/English translation will be available during the main conference programme and one breakout session * Funded by Cardiff Contemporary and Cardiff Council and with support from Bath Spa University

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Programme Please note that timings and content may change Monday 5 November

Across several venues

Fringe events

The conference is preceded by a programme of Fringe events, in a rich ancillary programme as part of Cardiff Contemporary*:

13.00 – 18.00 Visits to Cardiff venues: g39 and WARP, with Co-Directors Anthony Shapland and Chris

Brown; Chapter Arts Centre, with curator Hannah Firth and guest curator Deborah Smith

18.00 – 20.00 Ffotogallery at Turner House, with Lisa Edgar, Head of Education,

and David Drake, Director of Ffotogallery. Includes evening social

Tuesday 6 November

National Museum Cardiff 10.00 – 12.00 Guided tours and introductions to learning activity, Artes Mundi,

led by Ffion Rhys Artist and Project Coordinator, Artes Mundi and Eleri Wyn Evans, Learning Manager, National Museum Cardiff

Conference opens

Cardiff City Hall 12.00 – 13.30 Registration and lunch in the Marble Hall at Cardiff City Hall 13.30 Welcome to conference from Professor Roderick Bugg, Chair of

engage and Jane Sillis, Director of engage, in the Assembly Room at Cardiff City Hall +

Introductions to conference themes by Conference Programmer Mike

Tooby, independent curator and Professor of Art and Design, Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University +

13.50 Opening presentations and panel discussion:

The local in the international – the international in the local +

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Introduced by Chair: Dr. Veronica Sekules, Deputy Director and Head of Education and Research at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia

Laurie Peake, Programme Director for Public Art at Liverpool

Biennial. In recent years Liverpool Biennial has been working in areas of housing regeneration across the city, commissioning a series of short- and long-term residencies with artists operating at international level to work in collaboration with local residents. Jeanne Van Heeswijk has been working for over two years with local young people and residents to ʻtake matters in their own handsʼ and design and retrofit their own housing, form a Community Land Trust and a Cooperative Bakery. Fritz Haeg has collaborated with local partners to experiment with archaeology and planting to reinvent a park formed from slum clearances. Programme Director Laurie Peake will present on these projects in the in the context of the Liverpool Biennale. www.2up2down.org.uk ww.fritzhaeg.com/garden/initiatives/everton-peoples-park.html.

Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, Co-Directors / Curators of Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry. Derry, or Londonderry is the second-largest city in Northern Ireland and the fourth-biggest city on the island. One of the centres of the Northern Irish ʻtroublesʼ, the city and its inhabitants is now developing a post-conflict identity. In 2013, Derry-Londonderry will become the inaugural UK City of Culture, infusing new creative and financial energy into the city. Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry fosters a wide range of artistic, curatorial and critical practices. For the engage 2012 International Conference, Co-Directors Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh will discuss what it means to operate an art centre in a post-conflict context.

Karen MacKinnon, Exhibitions Officer at Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea. Karen MacKinnon will discuss the ongoing international exhibition Lets see what happens… which centres around the developing of exchange and ideas between four artists in Wales and two in China – Tim Davies, Paul Emmanuel, Owen Griffiths, Zeng Huanguang, Maleonn Ma and Fern Thomas. These commissions will form the core of a major off-site project in autumn 2013 which will take place across the city of Swansea. She will consider this project in the broader context of international and local ways of working.

15.00 The Crop Over Carnival: remnants of slavery between England and

Barbados + Artist Sonia Boyce will reflect on the nature of 'positioning the self' through historical and geographical legacies. To explore this, Boyce will discuss a project between Leeds and the Caribbean island, where her family left to immigrate to Britain. Introduced by Chair Ann Jones, Curator at the Arts Council Collection at the Southbank Centre and engage Trustee.

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15.45 Tea and coffee in the Marble Hall 15.55 Digital postcard: Charles Esche, Director of Van Abbemuseum,

Eindhoven, Netherlands 16.10 Tea Activity: Terms of reference – participative activity on what

ʻlanguageʼ these debates generate led by Johnny Gailey, artist, educator and organiser +

16.45 Housekeeping, Jane Sillis, Director of engage Delegates to travel independently to Chapter Arts Centre Chapter Arts Centre 18.00 – 20.15 An evening social In the cinema foyer and Cinema 1 at Chapter

Arts Centre

18.00 – 18.50 Soapbox: hear from fellow conference delegates about their current interests and work across a series of short presentations

18.50 – 19.15 Wine and refreshments

19.15 – 19.45 Marsh Awards for Excellence in Gallery Education: Four exceptional individuals will be presented with an award in recognition of their dedication to making the visual arts more accessible

Awards will be presented by David Anderson, Director, National Museum Wales, and Brian Marsh, Chair, Marsh Christian Trust.

19.45 – 20.15 engage AGM: members are invited to review last yearʼs programme,

appoint representatives to engageʼs Council and Board, and learn about engageʼs future plans.

20.15 – 23.00 Dinner in the Cafe at Chapter Arts Centre Screenings of Ergin Cavusoglu - Backbench (2010), a video work

about debate at international art events, made for manifesta 2010, Media Point

Wednesday 7 November

Across several venues 10.00 – 11.30 Breakout sessions

Further information on page 12. To find out which breakout you will be participating in please check your badge. All delegates to travel to National Museum Cardiff following breakouts.

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National Museum Cardiff 12.00 – 13.30 Lunch in the Restaurant at National Museum Cardiff 13.00 – 13.30 engage Membersʼ Regional Meetings in the Restaurant Afternoon keynotes/reflections and plenary in the

Reardon Smith Theatre at National Museum Cardiff

13.30 Welcome back: Jane Sillis + 13.35 Crewe, its part in my downfall +

Artist Bedwyr Williams presents a slide talk about the special adjustment necessary between his home – a small village missed by the Slaterush in North Wales – and frequent visits to London and overseas destinations. He will cover areas including missed flights in Oslo, aggressive tattooed smoothie makers in Copenhagen as well as a South Korean man in a departure lounge who said he was responsible for most of the LED lights in the world. This ainʼt going to be no pecha kucha!

Introduced by Chair Gwenno Jones, Arts, Culture and Events Manager at Flintshire County Council and engage Trustee

14.15 Digital postcard: Doug Worts, culture and sustainability specialist and

consultant, Toronto, Canada. Introduced by Conference Programmer Mike Tooby.

14.30 A proposition: The Intimate, the Institution and the Global

Felicity Allen, artist, writer and educator. + Some of the best gallery education from the last two decades compares with the best art practice, generating experiences of intimacy in public cultural life. What, then, does globalisation mean for gallery education? How can an art museumʼs education department mature to develop its role within the museum? As part of a whole museum strategy, can gallery education undertake international development parallel to the curatorial and acquisition concerns of the museum? To prevent ʻworking with the localʼ from producing disadvantage, gallery education must cross cultures and move across geographic borders, taking people with it. Deep knowledge of each locality is required; relying on technology is inadequate.

Introduced by Conference Programmer Mike Tooby.

15.00 – 15.25 Tea and coffee in the Restaurant 15.25 Digital postcard: François Matarasso, writer and researcher 15.30 Q and A with Johnny Gailey – more on words, terms and labels in

the Reardon Smith Theatre +

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15.50 Vetch Veg – an artistʼs allotment Artist and curator Owen Griffiths + In 2011 Owen Griffiths was commissioned by Adain Avion, Cultural Olympiad Wales to develop a major work responding to the idea of working with the community, the city of Swansea and the Olympics. The work has involved transforming a derelict, city centre football stadium into a vegetable garden; Vetch Veg, an interdisciplinary project, part sculpture, part centre, part eco system and resource. Together with participants and galleries, Griffiths also developed a series of takeaway pizza nights and The Sandfields Festival of Ideas, commissioned by Glynn Vivian Gallery. Following completion of the year long project, it is now to be a long-term community garden.

Responses by author Jonathan Robinson and Felicity Allen, artist, writer and educator.

Introduced by Chair Stephen Palmer, Development Officer, Creative Scotland.

16.50 Conference ends + Simultaneous Welsh/English translation will be available during these sessions * Funded by Cardiff Council and with support from Bath Spa University

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Regional meetings Wednesday 7 November, 13.00 – 13.30 Restaurant, National Museum Cardiff The engage Scotland Coordinator, engage Cymru Coordinator and attending engage Area Reps will convene regional meetings during lunch on Wednesday 7 November, in the Restaurant. Names of your Coordinator or Area Rep are below – please look for the signs on the tables indicating your region, or ask a member of engage staff where your group is gathering. East Midlands & West Midlands Joint meeting Joanna Essen, Compton Verney (West Midlands) Chris Lee (West Midlands) Ruth Lewis-Jones, Lakeside Arts Centre (East Midlands) Helen Ackroyd, Nottinghamshire County Council (East Midlands) engage Scotland Sarah Yearsley, engage Scotland Coordinator engage Cymru Angela Rogers, engage Cymru Coordinator London Ros Croker, Freelance Education Curator North West Aziza Mills, CapeUK

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Soapbox presentations Tuesday 6 November, 18.00 – 18.50 Auditorium, Chapter Arts Centre Take the opportunity to hear from a range of fellow conference delegates about their current interests and work across a series of brief presentations. Marsh Awards for Excellence in Gallery Education Tuesday 6 November, 18.50 – 19.15 Auditorium, Chapter Arts Centre Delegates are warmly invited to attend this presentation of the Marsh Awards for Excellence in Gallery Education, an annual award aiming to recognise those working in Gallery Education who have shown dedication or innovation in their work. Nominations were judged by a panel of experts from the sector and Brian Marsh, Chair of the Marsh Christian Trust earlier this year. Four exceptional individuals will receive an award in recognition of their dedication to making the visual arts more accessible. Awards will be presented by David Anderson, Director, National Museum Wales and Brian Marsh, Chair, Marsh Christian Trust. engage AGM Tuesday 6 November, 19.45 – 20.15 Auditorium, Chapter Arts Centre engageʼs Annual General Meeting of members will be held immediately following the presentation of the Marsh Awards. We hope engage members will choose to join us for this yearʼs AGM, to review engageʼs programme in 2011/12, appoint representatives to engageʼs Council and Board, and ask any questions about engageʼs future plans.

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Landing place and Axisweb www.axisweb.org/webzine/engage12 Axisweb, the leading online guide to UK contemporary art and artists, is linking up with the engage Conference as media partner for the fourth year running. Coverage on Axisweb will include:

• Live blogs from two of the conference delegates, Alicia Bruce and Eleanor Shipman, keeping you up-to-date with key themes and discussions as they take place.

• A specially commissioned Rant about the disadvantages of internationalism, to which you can add your own response!

• An interview by art journalist Chris Sharratt with Artes Mundi-nominated artist

Apolonija Sušteršič

• Reflections on the conference by Alicia Miller, Axisweb Associate in Wales, for her regular feature ʻNotes from Walesʼ.

Axisweb is the essential radar service for UK contemporary art. On the website you can explore the directory of over 2,500 artists and curators, discover artists to watch and connect with whatʼs happening in contemporary art now.

www.axisweb.org/webzine/engage12

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Breakout Sessions

To find out which breakouts you will be participating in please see your badge. Wednesday 7 November, 10.00 – 11.30 a. Learning in international projects – a career move

Venue: 1st Space, Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff CF5 1QE

Ffion Rhys, artist and Project Coordinator, Artes Mundi; Alice Briggs, artist curator; with Frances Stacey and Alex Millar discuss the impact on their careers and their thinking about the relationship between projects and audiences, after being live guides or gallery interpreters for international shows, particularly in the context of home nation projects at the Venice Biennale. The discussion will look at how these roles attempted to engage local audiences with the international – in the gallery and in the community, and what real opportunities these roles gave to the gallery educators in their careers. Session facilitated by Eleri Wyn Evans, Learning Manager, National Museum Cardiff. [Welsh session with translation]

b. The and thing

Venue: Dance Studio, The Gate, Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff CF24 3JW

In this interactive session artists Jo Addison and Natasha Kidd, supported by Effie Coe, Resource Coordinator for the Schools and Teachers programme at Tate Modern and Tate Britain, will platform their resource ʻeʼ, commissioned by Tate Learning to accompany the Alighiero Boetti retrospective at Tate Modern in Spring 2012. They will discuss their approach to developing an educational resource in collaboration with the institution. They will consider how their individual voices are brought to the design of such an object, the function of which is to reveal the work of another artist. And they will reflect on the connections and opportunities that arise from on-going collaboration and dialogues, with one another, with the institution and with the absent artist whose exhibition the resource is designed to elucidate c. ARTIST ROOMS: international work and young people

Venue: Media Point, Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff CF5 1QE

Christopher Ganley, ARTIST ROOMS Learning Coordinator, Marie Neeson, Education/Audience Development Manager at mima, Middlesbrough, and Kate Davies, Cultural Development Coordinator - Visual Arts and Exhibitions, East Ayrshire Council based at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock. ARTIST ROOMS projects have been vehicles for engaging young people in projects. This session compares the experiences of two very different venues. Marie Neeson and a Creative Apprentice from mima will describe recruiting young people to long-term engagement projects through two exhibitions of Gerhard Richter and Jannis Kounellis. mima developed an active group of young people, The Modern Times, in 2009 in response to the Richter ARTIST ROOMS display. Funds were secured from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to further embed young peopleʼs ideas, establishing three Creative Apprenticeships from September 2012-2013. In response to mimaʼs next ARTIST

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ROOMS, Jannis Kounellis, in December 2012, the Apprentices will work with The Modern Times and local groups to develop an archive via Historypin, (working title: The Jannis Kounellis Digital Time Machine). For the last five years Kate has curated the gallery spaces at the Dick Institute and two rural venues in Cumnock and Dalmellington, with a focus on contemporary visual art and media. She oversees the learning programmes for all exhibitions and wider arts projects, working with national partners, artists and facilitators to develop and deliver learning series. Exhibitions have included work by Simon Ward, Christine Borland, Roddy Buchanan, Timorous Beasties, Michael Visocchi, Simon Starling, Agnes Denes, and Will Maclean. She will discuss how the work around an ARTIST ROOMS presentation of Bill Viola fitted in to this programme. The session will explore how approaches to working with young people can have appeal across age and interest groups, bringing an artistʼs work to life through collective activity. d. Studios, networks and developing communities

Venue: g39, Oxford Street, Cardiff CF24 3DT

Jeanine Griffin, Manager of the Art Sheffield festivals & freelance curator/project manager, and artist Sean Edwards on projects at the Venice Biennale 2009 and 2011, and the 2011 Basel Art Fair. The session will explore how artists and artistsʼ organisations can build an ʻinternational dimensionʼ into their practice whilst retaining ʻgrassrootsʼ continuity. Sean Edwards will ask what it means to make work as a ʻregional artistʼ and the implications that this might have on working in an international art world. He will discuss his dislike of the term ʻnetworkingʼ whilst at the same time illustrating how critical ʻnetworksʼ can be to artists wishing to operate at both a local and international level, terms that Sean believes do not need to mutually exclusive. Jeanine Griffin will respond in a presentation about artists from one locality in an international context with reference to the two ʻSheffield Pavilionʼ projects. These took the work of Sheffield-based artists to major international events such as the Venice and Istanbul Biennials and dOCUMENTA in the form of a mobile pavilion (a book and screening programme, respectively), to symbiotically promote the artistsʼ work in an international context. Both Sean and Jeanine will illustrate how their work has been reflected in projects rooted in their own localities and regions ʻback homeʼ. Gill Nicol will facilitate a discussion of the implications of the two presentations and explore with shared views and experiences. e. Venice of the Midlands

Venue: Foyle Art Learning Space, National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park CF10 3NP

Led by Kate Self, Learning Co-ordinator, Ikon, Laura Wilson, Offsite and Education Organiser, Chisenhale Gallery, and artist Sarah Browne, this session will include presentations on Ikon and Chisenhale Galleryʼs education and off-site programmes and an in-depth exploration of Slow Boat Summer 2012; a collaboration between the Birmingham

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and London-based galleries, their young peopleʼs programmes and artists Benedict Drew and Sam Belinfante. Sarah Browne will discuss her practice and specifically her commission to develop Scarcity Radio a research project involving members of Ikonʼs Youth Programme and young people in Vancouver, coinciding with her exhibitions at Ikon and the CAG (Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver) earlier this year. f. Press Home Key

Venue: Urban Yurt, Milgi Lounge, 213 City Road, Cardiff CF24 3JD

Everyone Back to Mine is a relay race of contemporary art based in domestic spaces across Cardiff. Sara Annwyl, artist, Donnalee Downe, curator of This Town Is Small, Charlottetown, Canada and artist and curator Nia Metcalfe, who have worked on Everyone Back to Mine, will discuss the particular challenges and opportunities presented by exhibiting and making work outside a gallery, with a particular emphasis on how the internet enables flexible networking, publicising, documentation and the dissemination of ideas between artists as they collaborate and develop new work. Donnalee Downe will join the discussion via Skype. The session will take place in Mwlgi Lounge, Roath, a café/bar and venue for a range of artist and performer led activity. Facilitated by Lisa Edgar, Head of Education at Ffotogallery. g. Golden Threads: artist-to-artist fellowships exploring the social role for artists in Beirut, Copenhagen and London

Venue: Studio 3, The Gate, Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff CF24 3JW

Oliver Sumner, freelance consultant, Delta Arts, Samar Maakaron, artist and designer, Delta Arts and Lawrence Bradby, of artist duo Townley and Bradby, give an insight into Golden Threads, a series of artist-to-artist research fellowships in the UK, Denmark and Lebanon. Golden Threads set out to challenge artistsʼ practices by placing the socially local concerns that informed them into different cultural contexts internationally. The resulting book records the collective discourse that took place between the artists, including the local concerns of social / participatory practices and the role of self-organised international networks. The three contributors will share their personal perspectives, followed by a facilitated group discussion. Delta Arts is a London / Portsmouth-based collective (Emma Smith, Oliver Sumner, Amy Lloyd, Sophie Hope, Samar Maakaron, Eduardo Padilha and Greygory Vass). h. Dylan meets the Swansea Devil meets the local artist

Venue: Clore Learning Space, National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NP

Gordon Dalton is an artist and curator and director of online contemporary arts agency Mermaid & Monster. Based in Cardiff, he is the project manager with Locws International. Artist David Blandyʼs work Dylan meets the Swansea Devil features in Locws Internationalʼs Art Across the City, a project which combines long-term commissioning and biennial site-specific projects in Swansea. Taking the form of a computer game, Dylan meets the Swansea Devil was made as an online collaboration with Japanese Manga artist, Inko. This session will consider online collaboration, social media and digital networking and the shifting / multiple identities that artists and such projects need and generate. David Blandy will join the session via Skype.

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Speakersʼ Biographies Jo Addison and Natasha Kidd have a history of collaborating to design and facilitate educational projects. Both Senior Lecturers in Fine Art, they have taught at some of the UKʼs leading schools of art and design including: The Royal College, Chelsea School of Art & Design, Central St Martins, Bath School of Art & Design and Norwich University College of the Arts. Independently, both artists have shown their work internationally and throughout the UK in galleries that include Five Years, London; Camden Arts Centre, London; The Lowry, Manchester; The Royal Academy, London; Liverpool Biennale; Tintype, London; and Outpost, Norwich. Together they have co-designed educational resources, workshops, training seminars and study days for Whitechapel Art Gallery, South London Gallery, Camden Arts Centre and Tate. Projects include ʻeʼ, the interactive resource to accompany the Alghiero Boetti retrospective at Tate Modern, You just have to try it out and see if it works…. a resource commissioned to accompany Pure Beauty the John Baldessari retrospective at Tate Modern and No Working Title, an ongoing collaborative project between students at four UK art schools that was presented at the recent ELIA Teachers Academy Conference in Porto. Felicity Allen is an artist, writer and educator. A Visiting Research Fellow at London South Bank University, she was recently a guest scholar at the Getty Research Institute, where her work focussed on the question: what does globalisation mean for gallery education? Current work includes a dialogic portraits series in prose and watercolour, as well as project links with the Eastern Mediterranean. Two books came out in 2011: Education (MIT/Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art) and Your Sketchbook Your Self (Tate). She has been involved in gallery education for the last two decades, most recently leading the education department at Tate Britain (2003-10). www.felicityallen.co.uk Sara Annwyl is an artist living in Cardiff. She usually works with moving image and sound, or online. She has begun to develop her role as a curator and an instigator as well as an artist. Her practice revolves around communication and reciprocity, the transmission and exchange of mood and thought. Itʼs about longing for a universe that responds directly to our state of mind. She is interested in the brain and mind; consciousness and notions of the soul; subjectivity and objectivity; religion and science; or the spiritual and psychiatric. Her work often touches upon the supernatural and irrational. She likes to hear peopleʼs stories, and is increasingly fascinated with acts of emotional disclosure, and associated notions of dignity or its loss. www.everyonebacktomine.blogspot.co.uk David Blandy is based in Brighton and London and uses video, performance installation and digital technology to investigate the popular culture that surrounds us. Brought up on a diet of kung fu films and Manga, Blandy is fascinated by how our identities are shaped by everyday art forms such as television and computer games. Simultaneously humorous and philosophical, his work analyses our relationship to games we play and films we watch. In his recent show with Lighthouse Arts, Odysseys, he transformed the Phoenix Gallery, Brighton into a fully functional arcade, incorporating his own and existing games. He is represented by Seventeen Gallery, London. www.davidblandy.co.uk/ @davidblandy

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Sonia Boyceʼs practice since the 1990s has relied on working with other people in collaborative and participatory situations, often demanding of those collaborators spontaneity and unrehearsed performative actions. Working across media, mainly drawing, print, photography, video and sound, she brings people together and then recoups the remains of these performative gestures – the leftovers, the documentation – to make the artworks, which are often concerned with the relationship between sound and memory, the dynamics of space, and incorporating the spectator. Lawrence Bradby is half of artist duo Townley and Bradby, who are interested in how to earn a living, bring up children, and also sustain a creative practice. For the last few years they have been investigating this through residencies (with Lincoln Art Programme), research fellowships (Golden Threads) and, currently, an Arts Council-funded project titled Artists As Parents As Artists. They have presented live work at galleries and festivals including Nightjar Festival (Cambridge), Norfolk and Norwich Festival (Norwich), Tate Britain (London), Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridgeshire), Town Hall Galleries (Ipswich), Royal Standard (Liverpool), and Rio Bravo (Copenhagen). Alice Briggs is a visual artist and curator with a BA in Visual Performance from Dartington College of Arts, and an MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies. She is currently Assistant Curator of Ceredigion Museum. She has experience in management and facilitation across the public art sector, arts education and arts in health sector in Wales. In 2006 Alice set up Blaengar, a collective with the aims to produce art in the landscape and built environment, support emerging artists, and promote cross-disciplinary collaboration. Blaengar has run two major projects and also holds events, festivals and arts educations activities across Ceredigion. Sarah Browne is an artist currently based in rural Northwest Ireland. Her practice addresses ecologies of place and displacement through the circulation of people, products and social behaviours. This process is often carried out with the participation of a community where it is based, or creates a fictional or temporary community for itself. In 2004 she lived and worked in Thailand for eight months, partly supported by an award from the Arts Council of Ireland, and in early 2006 she participated in the apexart residency programme in New York. Her practice includes public projects, collaborations, exhibitions, education and critical writing. sarahjbrowne@yahoo.ie www.apexart.org/residency/browne.htm Aileen Burns is a Canadian curator and art historian who holds an MA from the Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies programme at Columbia University in New York. Johan Lundh is a Swedish curator, writer and translator who holds an MFA and a post-graduate degree in curating from Konstfack in Stockholm. Their collaborative practice is imbedded in and reflects upon the complex relationships between production, presentation, and dissemination of art and discourse. Together and separately, they have curated exhibitions across Europe and North America. Since December of 2011, they are the Co-Directors/Curators of the newly established Centre for Contemporary Art Derry~Londonderry.

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Effie Coe is Resource Coordinator for the Schools and Teachers programme, Tate Modern and Tate Britain. Her role supports the development and logistical production of all Schools and Teachers resources, including: paper based in-gallery activities for students; in-depth resources for teachers; digital resources; and providing a ʻface to faceʼ resource for teachers seeking advice and support. Effie joined Tate Learning department in May 2008 as an Artist Educator for the Schools and Teachers team, Tate Modern and has been Resource Coordinator since April 2011. Effie studied BA Creative Arts at Bath Spa University graduating in 2006. Since 2007 Effie has worked within arts education on a freelance basis, collaborating with galleries such as Aspex Gallery, Ikon Gallery and the Whitechapel Gallery and working with organisations including Creative Partnerships and Heritage Lottery Fund. effie.coe@tate.org.uk @tateteachers www.tate.org.uk/learn Gordon Dalton, who is based in Cardiff, is the project manager with Locws International, commissioning public art across Swansea as part of Art Across The City. He is an artist and curator and director of online contemporary arts agency Mermaid & Monster. Previous roles include Visual Arts Coordinator for Cardiff 2008 - European Capital of Culture and recently as Learning & Participation Officer for Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. He has commissioned and curated public art and exhibitions by artists including Richard Deacon, Olaf Breuning, Tatham & OʼSullivan, Nils Norman, Merlin James, Jock Mooney, Fiona Curran, Marjetica Potrč, Helen Sear, David Blandy and Peter Liversidge. www.artacrossthecity.com www.mermaidandmonster.com www.gordondalton.co.uk Kate Davies is the Cultural Development Coordinator – Visual Arts and Exhibitions, East Ayrshire Council and is based at the Dick Institute in Kilmarnock. For the last five years she has curated the gallery spaces at the Dick Institute and two rural venues in Cumnock and Dalmellington, with a focus on contemporary visual art and media. She oversees the learning programmes for all exhibitions and wider arts projects, working with national partners, artists and facilitators to develop and deliver learning series. Exhibitions have included work by Simon Ward, Christine Borland, Roddy Buchanan, Timorous Beasties, Michael Visocchi, Simon Starling, Agnes Denes, Bill Viola and Will Maclean. Previously Kate was Arts Officer (maternity cover) at Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries and Galloway Council in 2007; and Assistant Manager and Exhibitions Coordinator for private galleries in South West Scotland from 2005 to 2007. Donnalee Downe is the founder of the Peake Street Studios Collective in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The collective of over 100 emerging and established artists began by mounting group shows and artist challenges in a former garage space attached to Downeʼs Charlottetown home. Their most recent exhibition involved collaborative works and was curated from a distance via online social networking. Downe recently completed her MFA at Cardiff School of Art and Design. Throughout the year she engaged in a series of online image dialogues with Canadian artists active on Flickr and Facebook. Her final exhibition involved material representations of these online experiences in the form of an evolving archive. www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/1583456 imagesinformingthought.carbonmade.com

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Lisa Edgar studied Photography at Newport School of Art & Design and is a practising artist based in Cardiff. She is Head of Education at Ffotogallery, the National Agency for Photography and Lens-based media in Wales, and Chair and founder member of g39 an artist run project in the City Centre. Embedded in the cultural life of Wales and in particular the visual arts she began her career at the Arts Council of Wales in the Visual Art Department. Having then worked as a freelance consultant in the cultural sector in Cardiff for organisations such as Sgrin, Cardiff Bay Art Trust and the Centre for Visual Arts, she joined Ffotogallery in 1997 as Exhibitions Officer developing their renowned exhibition and touring programme. She established Ffotogallery Education in 2000 which delivers an ambitious and award winning national learning programme. She published the celebrated Make Light Work, documenting projects and highlights from the programme in 2008, and in 2009 curated the Vision On digital media season which profiled the work of acclaimed international artists and speakers. Sean Edwards graduated from the MA in Sculpture, Slade School of Art in 2005, and returned to Wales where he is now based in Abergavenny. Recent solo shows include Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg (2012) Limoncello, London, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Spike Island, Bristol (all 2011); ICA, London (2008). Recent group shows include Zabludowicz Collection (2011); Wallspace Gallery, New York (both 2010); Lisson Gallery, London (2009). Recent publications include ʻFor Lal, or Henryʼ, The Block, London (2012) and ʻMaelfaʼ Bedford Press, London (2011). From 2006 to 2010 Sean was a visiting Lecturer on the BA and MA Fine Art programme at Cardiff School of Art and Design and in 2008 ran the Young Curators programme at Oriel Davies, Newtown. He joined the artist run space g39 in May 2008 to oversee WARP, the Welsh Artist Resource Programme. Eleri Wyn Evans is Learning Manager at National Museum Cardiff where she has responsibility for art education. She started her career teaching art in a Welsh medium secondary school and then became the head of department. Drawn to museums and galleries, she was attracted by their potential for lifelong learning. She is now responsible for developing, delivering and evaluating art learning and works with artists and gallery educators on various projects such as Start and Artes Mundi. Eleri is passionate about making art accessible to everyone and does this both within her work and in her interests outside the gallery. Johnny Gailey has worked in community arts and gallery education in Scotland since 2000. He was the Education and Exhibitions Officer at An Tuireann Arts Centre on the Isle of Skye, before moving to Edinburgh. From 2005 until 2011, he developed and ran The Fruitmarket Galleryʼs programme of activities for children and young people, Opt in for Art, as well as project managing the large-scale Air Iomlaid project. He is a member of the engage Scotland Development Group, and sits on the Glasgow Sculpture Studiosʼ Programme Advisory Group. In 2011, Johnny programmed the engage International conference, held in Margate, Kent, UK, bringing together practitioners, artists and academics from across the world to discuss participation. Currently, his time is divided between the studio, the darkroom, and working across the country with a range of partners on participation in the arts. johnnygailey@blueyonder.co.uk www.cargocollective.com/johnnygailey @johnnygailey

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Christopher Ganley is Learning Coordinator, ARTIST ROOMS (Tate and National Galleries of Scotland) and collaborates with curators and educators at Associate galleries and museums as they develop their programming to accompany exhibitions and displays. With an overview of all learning activity, he works on creating centralised resources, developing evaluation and reporting on findings. Previously, Christopher was Arts Development Officer (Museums, Galleries and Heritage), Aberdeen (2004-09), Photography Coordinator at Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen (2004-06); a lecturer at Grays School of Art (Robert Gordon University), Aberdeen (2004-05) and a freelance artist educator. Jeanine Griffin is a freelance curator/project manager and manager of the Art Sheffield festivals (2003, 2005, 2008 and 2011). She was Deputy Director at Site Gallery, Sheffield until 2012, where she curated 13 exhibitions and programmed many more. She edited and managed The Sheffield Pavilion, a publication which was launched and distributed at the Venice Biennale 07 and dOCUMENTA 12 and The Sheffield Pavilion 09, which launched at the Istanbul Biennial. She co-edited (with Steve Dutton) an a-n magazine research paper on the local and the international in biennials and city-wide events. jeaninegriffin@hotmail.com Owen Griffiths works between Copenhagen and Swansea as an artist and as part of artist lead groups and projects. A graduate of Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University, his practice is centred around working with communities and fellow artists on collaborative projects, he is currently studying on the Masters program at the School of Walls and Space at the Royal Danish Academy of Art. Concerned with environmental and social issues, he also explores the significance of food and cooking as a universal experience, capable of expressing cultural differences and similarities. Griffiths is a founder member of a number of artists groups and networks, Forever Academy, Supersaurus and Arts Birthday. In 2011 Griffiths was commissioned by Adain Avion, Cultural Olympiad Wales to develop a major work responding to the idea of working with the community, the city of Swansea and the Olympics. The work has involved transforming a derelict, city centre football stadium into a vegetable garden; Vetch Veg, an interdisciplinary project, part sculpture, part centre, part eco system and resource. www.vetchveg.tumblr.com www.axisweb.org/artists/owengriffiths www.weareworriedaboutthebees.wordpress.com www.foreveracademy.org Ann Jones is a curator at the Arts Council Collection at the Southbank Centre where she works on touring exhibitions, regional collaborations and displays of new acquisitions, and also organises curatorsʼ day events. Recent exhibitions include Bridget Riley, Gary Hume, Wolfgang Tillmans intervention at the Walker Liverpool and new film and video exhibitions. After studying at Aberystwyth and Oxford Universities, Ann worked at Tate Gallery (1984-89), Spacex Gallery, Exeter (1989-1990), Hayward Touring (1991-96), Arts Council Collection (part-time since 1996). Exhibitions organised/curated include Medardo Rosso, Josef Albers, Drawing the Line with Michael Craig-Martin, New Sculpture, Stranger than Fiction, Prunella Clough, Victor Pasmore, Eduardo Paolozzi, St Ives, Geometry of Fear, New Video Work. Her freelance work has included setting up and editing catalogues for the womenʼs art collection, New Hall, Cambridge, texts for NatWest art collection, selector for the National Eisteddfod, various texts for Ruthin Craft Centre, and she is a Council of

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Management panel member for Oriel Mostyn. Ann is a fluent Welsh speaker and moved to North Wales six years ago. She is a Trustee of engage. Gwenno Jones completed a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Staffordshire University and a following two years teaching Art at secondary level, became Education Officer at Oriel Mostyn in Llandudno where she worked for over four years. She then went on to run the Joint Area Museums Education Service for North East Wales before starting another post as Conwy County Borough Councilʼs Art & Museums Education Officer. Gwenno has been Arts Culture & Events Manager at Flintshire County Council since 2007. She has been an active member of engage for over ten years and spent four years as chair of engage Cymruʼs development group. Gwenno became a member of the engage board in 2008 and is now joint vice chair. Samar Maakaronʼs education is in design and participatory arts, acquired both in Beirut and London. Samarʼs diverse practice includes participatory art, graphic and theatre stage set design. Her projects include the award winning grassroots media initiative Lens on Lebanon, as well as videos for many performances by director Rabih Mroué (33 tours (2012); Photo Romance (2009); How Nancy…(Tokyo 2007)). She is interested in Arab visual culture and the development of national narratives through posters, graffiti, type, and the media. She is a board member of Delta Arts and has been based in London since April 2008. @samarmaakaron Karen MacKinnon is Exhibitions Officer at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery where she organises and curates the exhibitions programme. In 2005 she curated Somewhere Else at the 51st Venice Biennale. Forthcoming are Bedwyr Williams My Bad (GV, IKON in partnership with Mission Gallery) and two off-site group projects with artists from Wales and China responding to the Glynn Vivian and locality of Swansea in this period of transition. In 2011 Karen was a selector for the UK pavilion at the Venice Biennale and in 2012 she is one of the judges for the Artes Mundi Prize. She has a particular interest in the relationships between local and global, historical and contemporary, which runs through the programme at Glynn Vivian. Nia Metcalfe studied Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, and now lives and works as a curator based in Cardiff. She has worked with artists in various roles and organisations, with a focus on art in the public realm and cross-disciplinary practice. Nia is one of three founding Directors of Elbow Room, a co-operative established in 2010, whose aim is to create the space, capacity and opportunity to make and experience art in public places. In June 2012, along with artist and curator Sam Perry, she initiated the inaugural ʻAll Back to Oursʼ exhibition in her house; an impromptu, friendly and relaxed format of exhibition making that encouraged social interaction and experimentation. The second show titled ʻEveryone Back to Mine – You Donʼt Know Meʼ was curated by Sara Annwyl at her home two streets over from Niaʼs in July 2012. www.everyonebacktomine.blogspot.co.uk Alex Millar (b.1990) is currently an artist living and working in Glasgow. In 2012 he graduated with a BA(Hons) in Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking from the Glasgow School of Art. Millar was an Information Assistant for Scotland and Venice at the 54th Venice

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Biennale in 2011 and is currently working towards the RSA New Contemporaries show at The National Gallery in Edinburgh next year. Marie Neeson has worked as Education/Audience Development Manager at mima for the last 10 years. With a team of 2½ education staff, mimaʼs local families, communities, and young people are at the heart of what they do. Marie previously worked as Education Officer at the Laing Art Gallery (1995-2000), and on freelance projects. Her first job was as Education and Exhibitions Officer in Middlesbrough, after a degree in History of Design from Manchester and working in Spain teaching English. She began gallery life as a volunteer in Middlesbrough in 1992, where she ʻfoundʼ gallery education and never said goodbye… Gill Nicol trained as an artist and has worked for many organisations looking at arts and audiences including engage, Ikon Gallery, mac Birmingham, Arts Council England, Creative Partnerships (the Black Country), Tate Liverpool, Spike Print Studio, alias (artist-led initiatives advisory service), ArtsMatrix and Arnolfini. In 2009, she spent eight months at Tate St Ives on a work-based Cultural Leadership programme working on audience development, and went on to be Head of Interaction at Arnolfini. Since April 2011 she has run her own agency – lightsgoingon – making contemporary art accessible through training, courses and workshops. www.lightsgoingon.com @lightsgoingon Stephen Palmer has a background in Visual Art and Film programming, curating and developing, and working in various funded venues and a local authority. He has worked at Scottish Arts Council since 2007 in the Visual Arts department leading on (amongst other things) curatorial development, exhibition, artist-led groups and collections. Within Creative Scotland Palmer works across various Investment Strands including Festivals, Professional Development and Audience Engagement as well as developing Devolved Funding (Visual Arts and Crafts schemes), Youth Employment and Artist-Led Groups. He is the lead officer for engage Scotland. Laurie Peake is currently Programme Director for Public Art at Liverpool Biennial, working in collaboration with partners to deliver transformational commissions in public spaces across Merseyside, UK. Past projects include Jaume Plensaʼs Dream in St Helens, Richard Wilsonʼs Turning the Place Over in Liverpool and Antony Gormleyʼs installation Another Place on Crosby Beach. The last few years have seen a series of residencies and commissions co-produced with communities across the former Housing Market Renewal areas on Merseyside culminating in a two year residency in Anfield, Liverpool with Dutch artist, Jeanne Van Heeswijk, currently in progress. www.biennial.com www.2up2down.org.uk www.fritzhaeg.com/garden/initiatives/everton-peoples-park.html

Ffion Rhys Ffion is from Tregaron, Mid Wales, and is a Fine Art Graduate from Falmouth College of Arts. She works as Project Co-ordinator of Artes Mundi. Ffion is a professional artist and has worked in the creative industries and education sector since graduating in 2001. She worked as an animation compositor and Photoshop editor for Squint Films producing work

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for BBC, before going on to work as a freelance educator and community outreach worker. Her main education and community experience include teaching photography at University level, several secondary school artist in residencies, Digital Storytelling Outreach Worker for Breaking Barriers Community Arts, Interpretation Co-cordinator for the Arts Pavilion at National Eisteddfod Wales, Live Guide for Artes Mundi and Community Outreach Officer at National Museum Cardiff for their recent project ʻBling!ʼ Jonathan Robinson is an entrepreneur, writer and anthropologist. He founded The Hub, the global network of physical places for people developing imaginative ʻworld-changingʼ ideas. The Hub has sought to borrow from the best of a members club, a business incubator, an innovation agency and a think-tank to create a very different kind of institution. Hubs can be found in 35 cities around the world, in places as diverse as London, Amsterdam, Johannesburg, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and Mumbai. Jonathan is author of the book ʻCareers Un-Ltdʼ published by the Penguin Group and has launched ventures with the Cabinet Office, UNICEF, the Prince of Afghanistan and The Guardian Media Group. Dr Veronica Sekules is Deputy Director and Head of Education and Research for the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, where she was formerly a curator. She trained and publishes as an art historian and has worked as a researcher, environmentalist, cookery writer, consultant and manager of large creative learning projects internationally. She is responsible for developing learning and research programmes, educational events and conferences, artistsʼ projects and residencies, outreach and training with students, schools, teachers and a wide range of community and public partners. Kate Self has worked within gallery education since 2005. Kate studied BA Fine Art Painting at Winchester School of Art and MA Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, graduating in 2009. Currently Kate works as Learning Co-ordinator at Ikon, Birmingham. In 2009 Kate set up Ikonʼs Youth Programme (known as IYP) with support from Birmingham City Council. In 2011 with financial support from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Kate started Slow Boat ,a three-year programme (2011-13) involving IYP, contemporary artists and a converted canal boat. Jane Sillis has been Director of engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, since 2005. Jane was Education Officer at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (1986-89); Head of Community Education at Whitechapel Gallery, London (1994-99); Arts Manager for Look Ahead Housing and Care (1999-2005); and an arts consultant. Clients included: the National Gallery, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Turner Contemporary, the Clore Duffield Foundation, the British Council and the Department for Children Schools and Families. Jane was a Vice Chair of engage’s Board of Trustees (1998-2005), a trustee of Chisenhale Gallery (2000-05) and of Magic Me (2000-08) and is a trustee of Iniva, the Institute of International Visual Arts (2008-present). Jane has a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts Administration, City University (1983-84) and a Masters in Cultural Theory, University of Birmingham (1991-4). Frances Stacey is an artist and curator living and working in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2009 she graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with an MA in Fine Art. She is co-founder and director of the artist-run space Rhubaba Gallery and Studios. She was an Information Assistant at the Fruitmarket Gallery for three years and Mentor/Information Assistant at the

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54th Venice Biennale. Stacey is currently developing a curatorial project as part of the New Work Scotland Programme at Collective Gallery. Oliver Sumner is a Portsmouth-based curator, creative learning consultant, and co-founder of Delta Arts. He has worked with artists in various forms of social practice since the mid-1990s. With expertise in gallery education, he undertakes freelance research and consultancy contracts, having previously worked in senior gallery programming roles. Clients have included: Tate Modern, Camden Arts Centre, the British Council, VAGA, Iniva, and the Museums Association. Since 2008 Oliver has developed Delta Arts, a collective involving Emma Smith, Amy Lloyd and an Advisory Panel. They work internationally, creating situations for artist exchange and exploring social art practice through mobility. www.deltaarts.wordpress.com @OliverSumner Mike Tooby, programmer of the 2012 engage International Conference, is an independent curator and researcher based in Cardiff, Wales. He is Professor of Art and Design at Bath School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University. He was Director, National Museum & Gallery, (2000-03) and, Director of Learning, Programmes and Development (2003-11), for Amgueddfa Cymru. His early career was as a curator working Kettleʼs Yard Cambridge, Third Eye Centre Glasgow and Mappin Art Gallery Sheffield. From 1992 to 2000 he was founding curator of Tate St Ives, combining the new gallery with the Barbara Hepworth Museum. He was chair of engage from 1999 to 2004. He has been a board member of South West Arts; an advisor to Arts Council England and Arts Council Wales; and has taught at art colleges and Universities throughout the world. He chaired the steering group for the first ʻWales Pavilionʼ at the Venice Biennale 2003. Bedwyr Williams is an artist who lives and works in North Wales. He is represented by Ceri Hand Gallery, London and in 2013 will be representing Wales at the Venice Biennale. Recent exhibitions and events have included My Bad, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2012) and Performa Ha!, Performa, New York (2011). His comedic and poetic live performances and installations deal with Welshness, otherness and difference. “Iʼm interested in worst case scenarios and the people that get caught up in them”, he says. Laura Wilson is Offsite and Education Organiser at Chisenhale Gallery; recently she was recipient of the 2011 Marsh Award for Excellence in Gallery Education. Wilson has ten yearsʼ experience working with galleries and has previously held positions at South London Gallery and at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast. She studied BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design; is a practising artist, exhibiting nationally and internationally, and is a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

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Further reading The following texts have been suggested by the programmer and contributors as background reading for the conference. The selection includes publications by speakers at the conference as well as articles and theory from a range of other sources. Iwan Bala (2003), Here and Now: essays on contemporary culture in Wales. Bridgend: Seren Books Stuart Hall (first published 1993), Culture, Community, Nation. Available in different anthologies, eg. Representing the Nation – a reader: Histories, Heritage and Museums Boswell and Evans, (eds.) Routledge, 1999 Grant H. Kester (2004), Conversation Pieces: Community and Communication in Modern Art. University of California Grant H. Kester (2011), The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context. Duke University Press Lucy R. Lippard (2007), The Lure of the Local: The Sense of Place in a Multicentered Society. The New Press Francois Matarasso, Use or Ornament: The Social Impact of Participation in the Arts Comedia, 1997 Nina Simon (2010), The Participatory Museum, Museum 2.0, online version available at www.participatorymuseum.org/read/ Emma Smith and Oliver Sumner (eds.) (2012), Golden Threads. Delta Arts John Tulloch, Performing Culture: Stories of Expertise and the Everyday Sage Publications, 1999 Readers: Felicity Allen (ed.) (2011), Education. Whitechapel / Documents of Contemporary Art Claire Bishop (ed.) (2006), Participation. Whitechapel / Documents of Contemporary Art Braidotti, Esche and Hlavajova (eds.) (2007), ʻCitizens and Subjects: the Netherlands, for exampleʼ in The Dutch Pavillion, A Critical reader. BAK Utrecht Claire Doherty (2004), From Studio to Situation. London: Black Dog Publishing Claire Doherty (ed.) (2009), Situation. Whitechapel / Documents of Contemporary Art

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Project documents / exhibition catalogues: From Beyond the Pale: Art and Artists on the Edge of Consensus (1994). Essays by Declan McGonagle, Thomas McEvilley, Eamonn P. Kelly, Nuala Dhomhnaill, David Frankel. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art Shapland and Brown (eds.) (2005), On leaving and Arriving. Cardiff: g39 Jeanine Griffin (2007) The Sheffield Pavilion 2007: an Artists' Book & DVD Presenting Work of Sheffield-based Artists. Distributed at the Venice Biennale and dOCUMENTA XII. Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum/Site Gallery Sheffield One in the other (essays on and by emerging curators, and with an introduction by Anthony Shapland) (2008) Cardiff: g39 Michael Nixon, Michael Tooby, Patricia Fleming et al (2003), Further: Wales at the Venice Biennale, see also the catalogues for subsequent projects, produced biannually by Wales Arts International Fiona Bradley (ed.), Amanda Catto, Philip Long et al (2007), Scotland and Venice 2003 – 2005 – 2007. Scottish Arts Council / National Galleries of Scotland On the Edgware Road (2012). London: Serpentine Gallery Artes Mundi 5 exhibition catalogue (2012). Cardiff: Artes Mundi A selection of engageʼs publications are available to buy and order at the conference, please see the publications order form in your delegate pack or email laura.cherry@engage.org for more information.

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Cardiff Contemporary 2012 Cardiff Contemporary is a Cardiff Council Initiative developed in partnership with Cardiffʼs visual art, design and architecture communities. Cardiff Contemporary aims:

• to encourage and raise the profile of visual art activity in Cardiff to local, national and international audiences

• to nurture and promote the wealth of artistic talent and activity already present in Cardiff and to encourage new visual art activity

• to encourage public engagement with the visual arts • to establish Cardiff as an innovative and progressive European city for

contemporary arts and design What is it about hard times that they seem to provoke a burst of creativity? Maybe itʼs something to do with rising to a challenge; to refusing to be pulled down into the slough of despond of a double-dip recession. Whatever the answer, all over the UK creative communities seem to be more active than ever – colonising empty shops, re-thinking the unloved, run-down spaces and places and coming up with something fresh and new to fill the gaps. Cardiff Council, itself not immune to the chill winds of a flagging economy, has managed to tap into this spirit and has brought together artists, designers, makers, curators, festivals, galleries and museums and partnered them up with new collaborators to make autumn in Cardiff fairly hum with activities, exhibitions, interventions and events. From the first of October to the end of November (giving everyone a few weeks to brace themselves for Christmas), Cardiff gets to put on its creative finery and show off. Itʼs already acknowledged that Cardiff is a great place to be creative, underlined by the numbers of arts graduates who stay or are drawn to live and work the Welsh capital. But, until now, a lot of activity, especially at grassroots or artist-led level, has happened below the public radar. Over the course of Cardiff Contemporary the familiar institutions will rub shoulders with festivals, with artistsʼ projects, exhibitions, talks and opportunities to join in. When this initiative was in the pipeline it was clear that there were so many unrealised ideas floating around in the minds of the arts community that it wasnʼt going to take much to pin them down and present them. Sometimes all thatʼs needed is a bit of brokering between partners to realise a great project. So from the built City icons of the Welsh Millennium Stadium and the Wales Millennium Centre, to the hidden away artistsʼ studios, via projects on buses, in bars and cafes, in empty shops and on the sides of buildings and, of course the galleries, museums and art spaces across the city, art and design is busting out all over Cardiff for two months. Cardiff Councilʼs support has unlocked a torrent of activity. Exhibitions: from the international Artes Mundi Prize at the National Museum, Cardiff, through new shows for Chapter, g39 and artist-led groups; moving image on buildings and screens, in empty shops and on the streets from O:4W festival; public art as youʼve never seen it before; a whole design festival; Made in Roath festival (proving itʼs not just for local people); photography, sonic art, performance, digital arts. All this should demonstrate, once and for all, that Cardiff really is all those things that are claimed for it and that most of its inhabitants already know: vibrant, creative, lively and collaborative. www.cardiffcontemporary.co.uk

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Important information for delegates Registration Delegate registration is from 12.00 – 13.30 on Tuesday 6

November in the Marble Hall at Cardiff City Hall, during lunch. All delegates must register before entering the conference.

Clothing There will be some walking required to get between venues.

Please bear this in mind when choosing footwear and clothing. Luggage Please note that no personal belongings should be left

overnight and all luggage/belongings are left at your own risk.

City Hall: Cloakroom available just off main reception National Museum Cardiff: Coat racks will be available in the entrance foyer and limited

luggage can be left behind the reception desk or in the south foyer, which will only be accessible to those using the Theatre

Chapter Arts Centre: Coat racks will be available on the ground floor Wi-fi Free wi-fi available at the following venues:

Cardiff City Hall: No password. Select ʻCardiff Free Zoneʼ National Museum Cardiff: No password. Select ʻFree Trial' Chapter Arts Centre: No password. Select ʻChapterʼ g39: Code 5806014858 Conference staff engage core staff will be assisted throughout the conference by

a number of volunteers. Conference staff will be identifiable by their badges. If you have any problems or questions, please contact one of the team.

Maps Maps of the main conference venues are included in this booklet. Breakout sessions Breakout sessions will take place across a range of venues in

Cardiff City. Please refer to your delegate booklet and badge to identify the sessions you will be attending. You will need to allow a minimum of 15 minutes to walk between the venues.

Conference Dinner Tuesday eveningʼs Conference Dinner will take place at

Chapter Arts Centre at 8.015pm. Delegates must have pre-booked in order to attend, and should choose their meals beforehand. Please inform a member of engage staff of your choice and any dietary requirements during registration or as early as possible. Please note that the £15 charge does not include drinks or service.

Taxis Dragon Taxis Capital Cabs Premier Taxis

02920 333 333 02920 777 777 02920 555 555 If you have a problem during the conference and are unable to locate a member of the conference team, please call Rose Heelas on 07814 017903 or Laura Cherry on 07734 941066

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Maps Main venues

Cardiff City Hall 1 x Cathays Park Cardiff CF10 3NP www.cardiffcityhall.com 02920 871 736 / 02920 871 727

National Museum Cardiff 2 x Cathays Park Cardiff CF10 3NP www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/cardiff 02920 397 951

Cardiffʼs City Hall and the National Museum Cardiff are located in the centre of the city, within walking distance of a large variety of hotels, shops, Cardiff Castle, and the Millennium Stadium. Venues are 20 minutes walk from Cardiff Central Bus and Train Stations. From Cardiff Central Bus Station take bus number 53 or 85. From Cardiff Bay take the Bay Car bus number 6. By car, take junction 32 off the M4. Cardiff International Airport is 19km (12 miles) away.

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Other venues

Chapter Arts Centre 3 x Market Road Canton Cardiff CF5 1QE 02920 311 050 www.chapter.org Situated in Canton, behind Cowbridge Road East, between Llandaff Road and Market Road. Chapter have their own car park at the rear of the building. Bus: Routes 17 and 18 run every 5 minutes from central Cardiff, alight at Canton Police Station stop on Cowbridge Road East and walk up Market Road.

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Other venues, continued

g39 and WARP 4 x Oxford Street Cardiff CF24 3DT www.g39.org 02920 473 633

Milgi Lounge 5 x 213 City Road Cardiff CF24 3JD www.milgilounge.com 02920 473 150

The Gate 6 x Keppoch Street Cardiff CF24 3JW www.thegate.org.uk 02920 483 344

Train: Queen St Station five minute walk (off map to the west on Newport St) Bus: Routes 38 and 39 operate from the city centre to Newport Rd/City Rd bus stop, one minute walk.

Bus: Routes 38 and 39 run up City Road from the city centre every 7-8 minutes.

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Other venues, continued

Ffotogallery at Turner House 7 4 Plymouth Road Penarth CF64 3DH 02920 708 870 www.Ffotogallery.org/visit/turner-house Ffotogallery, Turner House is situated on Plymouth Road around the corner from Penarth train station. Train: Cardiff Central to Penarth run approximately 4 times an hour and take 15 minutes Bus: Routes 92, 93 and 94 from the city centre take you within 1-minute walk of the

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