Constellations° residency
From 23-29 September, we’re looking forward to welcoming the 2023 Constellations ° Cohort, a group of 10 artists and creative practitioners from across the UK who all work in the public realm, to Deveron Projects for a week-long residency.
The group was formed through a free 8-month learning and development programme curated by UP Projects in partnership with Flat Time House and in association with Liverpool Biennial. The programme is designed to support early to mid-career creative practitioners to develop their practice, collaborate with others, access new networks and contribute to critical debate surrounding the future of public practice. We’ve been working closely with the group, UP Projects and Flat Time House to build a residency programme that will delve further into the questions, challenges and learnings that have been uncovered over the past months and connect with this through our unique context and organisational practice here at Deveron Projects.
Through individual and group conversations with the cohort, we’ve brought together a programme of walks, workshops, meetings and events that will invite the group to explore the conditions that both impact the work we do as artists and art workers, and the conditions that we can create, through the process of making artworks collaboratively with communities.
As we move through the week, we will delve deeper into the challenges, complexities and transformations that can take place in our respective work, connecting at each point with Huntly and its communities. From self-actualising communities to thinking like forests, disrupting systems of exchange to care and maintenance, each day of the residency will question what is the role of creative practitioners and artworks in creating social justice and how do we do this work well?
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About UP Projects
UP Projects is the UK’s leading public art organisation specialising in socially engaged public art commissioning. We bring world class artists out of the gallery and into public spaces to create new work with communities across the UK and beyond. Our work is always responsive to context often activating unexpected corners of the public realm.
We initiate projects that respond to some of the most pressing issues of our time as well as work with partners on a consultancy basis to create extraordinary, ambitious and risk-taking work that communities can shape, actively participate in and relate to. We support our partners to be bold and innovative, bringing a breadth of experience and skills covering strategy writing, public art commissioning, digital commissioning, artist selection processes, community engagement, evaluation, and public event programming.
Our 20 years’ experience champions a bold yet sensitive approach that values time and takes care to bring about social change. In the last two decades we have championed underrepresented voices, often giving emerging talent their first chance to create new work in public spaces across the UK.
Learning sharing sits at the heart of what we do, and we are dedicated to supporting the next generation of socially engaged practitioners through our free learning and development programme, Constellations that gives artists, curators and producers the chance to explore best practice models from leading names within the world of social practice.
About Flat Time House
Flat Time House (FTHo) was the studio home of John Latham (1921-2006), recognised as one of the most significant and influential British post-war artists. In 2003, Latham declared the house a living sculpture, naming it FTHo after his theory of time, ‘Flat Time’. Until his death, Latham opened his door to anyone interested in thinking about art. It is in this spirit that Flat Time House opened in 2008 as a gallery with a programme of exhibitions and events exploring the artist's practice, his theoretical ideas and their continued relevance. It also provides a centre for alternative learning, which includes the John Latham archive, and an artist's residency space.