Fri 24 April 2009 at 11.00 am

Taking Place: Room BG 11, Buckley Building, Oxford Brookes

Oxford Brookes Fine Art PhD Student Petra Johnson, is hosting a seminar "Art and Experience" to be held on Friday, 24th April in Room BG 11, Buckley Building, Oxford Brookes. "Art and Experience" is an inquiry into the disruption of creativity with particular emphasis on the role of artist residencies. Jay Brown, director of Lijiang Studio will be introducing this practice based inquiry in the context of the artist residency he set up in 2004 in Yunnan province, China. Also present will be several artists from different parts of Europe (Fanny Albouker, Greta Mendez, Ernesto Salmeron, Anna Boggon, Alice Tatge, Petra Johnson). Some of these have stayed at Lijiang Studio, others bring experiences from other locations.

Lijiang Studio's core is an artist-in-residence program located in a farming village in the mountains near Lijiang, Yunnan province, China. Lijiang Studio runs a residency program because a residency is a time of risk, vulnerability, and possibility, where art is not yet reified, does not have official meaning, and the whole endeavor to make art can be questioned at the point of inception. Put another way, Lijiang Studio is a symptom of dissatisfaction with the mainstream art world and mainstream modern life: the art world does not represent art well enough, and modernity does not do justice to life.

This event is an open seminar and we particularly welcome participants from other disciplines.

Type of Event: Art |

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