Ceramics in the Expanded Field conference
– draft programme
35 Marylebone Road, London
Thursday 17th July
16.00 – 17.00
Registration
Tea, coffee and biscuits
17.00 – 17.30
Welcomes:
Kerstin Mey
Dean, Faculty of Media, Arts and Design,
University of Westminster
Introduction to the conference:
Christie Brown
Artist and Professor of Ceramics,
University of Westminster
Introduction to the project.
17.30 – 18.30
Opening Keynote:
Theaster Gates
Artist, USA
Five Brick Stories
18.30 - 20.00
Wine reception in Ambika P3
Private View of the exhibition
Friday 18th July
9.00 – 9.30
Registration (for Friday delegates only)
Tea, coffee and biscuits
Session 1
9.30 – 11.30
The Expanded Field of Ceramics
Tanya Harrod
Freelance writer and Art Historian, UK
Title tbc
Ezra Shales
Associate Professor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design; curator
and artist, USA
As the Word Turns: “Pottery” to “Form” and “Form” to “Field”.
Christie Brown
Artist and Professor of Ceramics, University of Westminster
Venturing Beyond the Field of Vision
11.30 – 12.00
Tea, coffee and biscuits
Session 2
2A. Institutional Responses
12.00 – 13.00
Jan Guy
Lecturer, Ceramics, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney,
Australia.
Muddied Waters: the changing role of ceramics and its makers in art
institutions.
Wendy Gers
Research Associate, University of Johannesburg, South Africa;
Lecturer, Ecole Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Valenciennes, France
and Curator, Taiwan Ceramics Biennale 2014
Curatorial Models and International Ceramics Biennales and Triennales: a
Critical Analysis
2B. Museological Responses
Laura Gray
Independent Researcher, UK
Ceramics and Iconoclasm: The museum as the site and agent of destruction.
Mella Shaw
Artist and Independent Scholar. Former Head of Exhibitions at Dulwich
Picture Gallery, London, UK
Jung’s Amphora: Ceramics, Collections and the Collective Unconscious.
2C. Material Responses
Filomena Serra
Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, New University of Lisbon,
Portugal
Dialogue and reinvention in the Lisbon Municipal Garden:
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro’s ceramics and Joana Vasconcelos appropriation.
Hyeyoung Cho
International Commissioner, Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale
2013; Adjunct Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Hangyang University
and Department of Craft, Seoul Women’s University, South Korea
Ceramics beyond its own Discipline
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
Session 3
Curation and Authorship
14.00 – 15.45
James Beighton
Independent Researcher, formerly Senior Curator, Middlesbrough
Museum of Modern Art, UK
Possibilities Regained: Curatorial Transitions in Clay.
Rachel Gottlieb
Chief Curator, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
Ego and Salve in the Gardiner Museum: A Case Study.
Anders Ruhwald
Artist in Residence and Head of Ceramics, Cranbrook Academy of Art,
USA
Anatomy of a Home.
15.45 – 16.15
Tea, coffee and biscuits
Session 4
Process and Material
16.15 – 18.15
Glen R Brown
Professor of Art History and Associate Head of Art, Kansas State
University, USA
Ceramics Process in the Museum: Recidivism as Revolution
Phoebe Cummings
Ceramic artist, UK
Collected Activity: Making in the Museum
David Cushway
Artist and PhD candidate, University of Sunderland, UK
Reinterpreting Museum Collections-the artist as mediator.
Saturday 19th July
9.00 – 9.30
Registration (for Saturday delegates only)
Tea, coffee and Danish pastries
Session 5
9.30 – 11.30
The Museum as Context
Martina Margetts
Senior Tutor, Critical and Historical Studies, Royal College of Art,
London, UK
The Walls Come Tumbling Down
Laura Breen
PhD candidate, Ceramics in the Expanded Field, University of
Westminster, UK
Productive Friction: Ceramic Practice and the Museum
Julian Stair
Principal Research Fellow, University of Westminster, UK
Quietus reviewed: archaeology of an exhibition.
11.30 – 12.00
Tea, coffee and biscuits
Session 6
6A. Object Narratives
12.00 – 13.00
Matt Smith
Artist, curator, co-director Unravelled Arts and PhD candidate,
University of Brighton, UK
Cruising the Galleries
Christopher McHugh
PhD candidate, Ceramics Arts Research Centre, University of
Sunderland and Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, UK
The Crinson Jug from clay to the grave (and beyond): exploring the ceramic
object as a gathering point
6B: Museum Narratives
Catherine Roche
Artist and Lecturer in Fine Art, School of Creative Arts, Coleg Sir Gar,
Carmarthen, UK
The Observing Subject: Museum Narratives of the In-between
Andrew Livingstone
Reader in Ceramics, University of Sunderland, UK
“Parallax View”: Extending vocabularies – re-reading a museum porcelain
collection and the contemporary performative ‘other.’
6C. Curatorial Narratives
Juliet Carey
Senior Curator, Waddesdon Manor (The Rothschild Collection), UK
Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon: 2012
Helen Walsh
Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts, York Museums Trust; PhD
candidate,
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Centre of Ceramic Art
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
Session 7
Audience Engagement
14.00 – 15.30
Clare Twomey
Research Fellow, University of Westminster, UK
Objects and Institutes - mediating the margins.
Tessa Peters
Freelance Curator and Senior Lecturer, School of Media, Arts & Design,
University of Westminster, UK
Ceramics, Collections, Collaborations and Communities
Stephen Knott & Kimberley Chandler
Writer, lecturer, researcher and Managing Editor of the Journal of
Modern Craft, UK
PhD Candidate, University of Brighton and former Assistant Editor,
Ceramic Review, UK
A Show of Hands
15.30 – 16.00
Tea, coffee and biscuits
Session 8
Final discussion
16.00 – 17.15
Panel 1: The Critical Landscape
Christie Brown, Julian Stair and Clare Twomey joined by:
Laura Breen
James Beighton
Glen R Brown
Tanya Harrod
Panel 2: A Conversation on Practice
Christie Brown, Julian Stair and Clare Twomey joined by:
Phoebe Cummings
Martina Margetts
Anders Ruhwald
Ezra Shales
Thanks and close