Social Intentions

With Sanne Oorthuizen and Ying Que (CASCO), Viviana Checchia (CCA), Ainslie Roddick (CCA), Claudia Zeiske (Deveron Arts Centre), Emily Gee (FACT), Adam Sutherland (Grizedale), Andrea Phillips (Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg), Polly Brannan (Liverpool Biennial), Manuela Villa (Matadero), Marcos Garcia (Medialab – Prado), Alistair Hudson (Mima), Louise Shelley (Showroom), Claire Doherty (Situations), Harry Weeks (University of Edinburgh) and Lucy Brown (University of Strathclyde).

Social Intentions is a symposium on the use of social engagement within art institutions.

CCA’s public engagement programme aims to widen access to our programme and encourage social and cultural change explored through art. For us this is a very important moment of transition. Our approach towards public and social engagement is very open and we would like to use this symposium to bring socially engaged institutions together share different practices.

As part of this, we have invited influential institutions from all over Europe to come together and share different practices. We believe their socially engaged approach is relevant in the current development of contemporary culture. The aim is to look at the benefits as well as the pitfalls of the use of social engagement when related to art institutions. The symposium will include workshops and brainstorming sessions as well panel discussions, talks and presentations.

Wednesday 13 April

10.30am – 1.30pm: Social Intentions KETSO Please note participation in this workshop will be on a 1st come 1st served basis, except for those who have responded to the workshop Doodle poll

3.30pm – 5pm: Panel on Format
Participants: Polly Brannan (Liverpool Biennial), Marcos Garcia (Medialab), Manuela Villa (Matadero). Chaired by Ainslie Roddick, Curator, CCA.

Thursday 14 April

10am – 10.30am: Intro notes

10.30am – 12noon: Panel on Duration
Participants: Sanne Oorthuizen and Ying Que (CASCO), Claire Doherty (Situations), Adam Sutherland (Grizedale). Chaired by Harry Weeks, IASH Postdoctoral Fellow, the University of Edinburgh

1pm – 2.30pm: Panel on Context
Participants: Louise Shelley (The Showroom), Claudia Zeiske (Deveron Arts), Emily Gee (FACT). Chaired by Lucy Brown, PhD Student, Scottish Oral History Centre, University of Strathclyde.

2.30pm – 4pm: Assembly / plenary discussion

Friday 15 April

10am – 12.30pm: BarCamp

6pm- 8.30pm: Talk with Andrea Phillips on the Invisible Knowledge groups
Please book your place here for this talk.