Artists Making Place Conference

Programme (may be subject to change)


9.30-10am       Registration tea / coffee

10.00-10.20     Welcome Vivienne Reiss and Bridget Sawyers: Art on Greenwich Peninsula

10.20-10.50     Introduction and chair Prof. Declan McGonagle: conference paper

10.50-11.00     Short break

11.00-12.20 Panel presentations

Faisal Abdu’Allah (artist)
Anna Hart (Project Director Archway Investigations and Responses, Byam Shaw)
Laurie Peake (Programme Director, Liverpool Biennial)
Bob and Roberta Smith (artist)

12.20-12.40       Questions / discussion

12.40-2.00         Lunch / artist-led site tours / film screenings

Artist-led tours
Sarah Butler, Aoife Mannix, Julian Walker
Guided walks exploring the physical, social and historical landscape of the peninsula; incorporating both the existing and proposed art in the public realm project and the proposals for the development of the site

Film screenings
English Partnerships’ Art Award ‘Lost Treasures & Found Stuff: 500 Years On The Greenwich Peninsula’ animation by Howard Matthew and Dancing on the Peninsula a collaboration between Art on Greenwich Peninsula and Greenwich Dance Agency

2.00-3.00           ‘It is Difficult’ Alfredo Jaar (artist)

3.00-3.30           ‘Folkestone Reborn’ Nick Ewbank (The Creative Foundation)

3.30-4.00            Panel discussion Prof. Declan McGonagle, Alfredo Jaar and Nick Ewbank.

4.00-4.30            Open discussion with questions from the floor and all speakers

4.30 onwards    Performance by Aoife Mannix and pay bar