The Falmouth Convention opens. The keynote for the Convention will be delivered by the distinguished American writer Lucy R. Lippard.
Lucy R. Lippard is the author of more than twenty books (including an experimental novel) on contemporary art and culture.
Falmouth Convention bar open at the Falmouth Townhouse, Grove Place.
10-5pm, Friday field trips. Each field trip will offer a different itinerary and narrative. There will be a total of six trips.
The landscape around St Just will be the setting for a field trip hosted by Assembly, an artist residency space in St Just.
Lucy Gunning and Tacita Dean are venturing back to Falmouth, where they were both art students some 25 years ago (Lucy Gunning 1984-85, Tacita Dean 1987-88). Read more
Described in the eighteenth century as the ‘richest square mile in the old world’, the Gwennap Mining District will be the setting for a field trip led by the Falmouth-based arts organisation Urbanomic, ‘a journey into an historical process that assembled the powers of geology, mechanics, hydraulics, mineralogy and metallurgy, salvation and combustion, steam and capital into a mighty, infernal machine that traumatised the Cornish landscape and kick-started the industrial revolution.’
Taking the St Ives artists’ colony as a starting point, this journey will create a series of dialogues across time with the places, spaces, stories and mythologies associated with artists in the far west of Cornwall. Read more
The far end of Cornwall contains more points of contact to the rest of the world than any other place in England. Up and down the coast from Falmouth lie landing sites for the world’s submarine telecommunications cables, carrying the bulk of Internet and phone traffic to and from the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Read more
Jeremy Millar first became fascinated by the story of Tristan and Iseult in 1998 while writing about a film by Tacita Dean that made explicit reference to Tristan’s ‘voyage de guérison’, or healing journey. Read more
Private view of Lily van der Stokker exhibition and supper hosted by Tate St Ives.
Falmouth Convention bar open at The Falmouth Townhouse, Grove Place.
Since 1993 the celebrated curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has conducted literally hundreds of interviews – with artists, filmmakers, historians, musicians, philosophers and writers. Read more
How can the local – rooted in a sense of place and history – relate to the innovative and the international? How do artists and curators of contemporary art respond to non-urban contexts?
Urbanomic will be welcoming delegates to investigate research materials from the Hydroplutonic Kernow field trip, along with other Urbanomic projects and publications. Read more
Falmouth Convention bar open at The Falmouth Townhouse, Grove Place.
Annexinema is an autonomous, not-for-profit partnership, focusing on the screening and performance of visionary and experimental work in sound and the moving image. Read more
Field trip reports and observations, discussion and summing up.