Wasteland Sydney is happy to announce a new project: Wasteland Sydney Satellites: Wasteland Satellite Beaconsfield As mentioned earlier http://wasteland-twinning.net/blog/fenced-off/ the Wasteland in Surry Hills will be inaccessible for the next two years. In order to reflect on the fast changeing cityscape of Sydney I have nominated the first sibling wasteland to the Albion St land. The first wasteland satellite is in the tiny inner-city suburb of Beaconsfield. It is located ... more »
Adj Marshall will speak on Wasteland National Park as part of the Providence Athenaeum’s Speaker Series “Curating the City: Temporary Installations, Permanent Impressions” http://www.gcpvd.org/2013/04/30/the-providence-athenaeum-salon-may-3-2013/
This myth, by wasteland researcher Adj Marshall in collaboration with Anna Links, Kate Haughey & Lily Benedict, applies artistic, musical and public humanities perspectives to the concept of site specific storytelling.
With the tourist season heating up there have been some crucial developments concerning the Koepi Brache. A new owner has taken the lease for the site and our adjoining studio building. This reflects the proposed developments for the remaining plots of real estate along Koepenicker Strasse which is being framed as a ‘party mile’ littered with luxury flats. As many of the apartment buildings in the surrounding area near completion ... more »
Wasteland Twinning Nottingham NeedsYou! On Saturday 27th April, Wasteland Twinning Nottingham is producing an ambitious photographic work on ‘The Island’ wasteland, between Sneinton and Nottingham city centre. The work is a recreation of an artist’s impression of the unrealised Hopkin’s masterplan (above), which would have seen the space developed with hotels, restaurants, flats and offices. We’re going to ask people to stand on the wasteland in the same positions as those on ... more »
The Wasteland Conversations took place in February and March 2013 at Nottingham Contemporary, exploring themes that are central to our research within the Wasteland Twinning Network. They covered themes of place and place-making, the role of artistic practice, utopia and community, ecology, and the commons and enclosure. The audio files of the conversations are now available online. They can be accessed at: http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/wasteland-conversations Scroll down and click on ‘links’ to ... more »
Wasteland Twinning Nottingham is pleased to announce an open call for submissions for two works that will be included in (or occur at the time of) our exhibition in October 2013. The call is attached as a .pdf here and reproduced below. Wasteland Twinning Nottingham Call for Micro-Commissions The Wasteland Twinning Network (http://wasteland-twinning.net) is an independent, international network of artists and researchers exploring the uses and functions of wastelands in cities. ... more »
Wednesday 20 February, 3.00 – 5.00pm We have invited curator and researcher Aria Spinelli to share the story of Isola Art Center and their experiences of working with the local community to resist gentrification, and the notion of ‘Fight-Specific Art’ as part of Wasteland Twinning Nottingham’s current residency at Sneinton Library. BOOK HERE Venue Sneinton Library Sneinton Boulevard, Sneinton, Nottingham, NG2 4FD
Continuing our relationship with Nottingham Contemporary and their public programme we were invited to co-curate and host a series of conversations in response to the current John Newling and Piero Gilardi exhibitions. Making Place Wtih Alan Boldon, Elaine Speight and Ferdiansyah Thajib Tuesday 19 February, 6.30 – 8.30pm This conversation questions the use of art in public planning and place-making strategies and considers alternative means by which artistic practices ... more »
On Monday I’ll be talking at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice’s seminar series on ‘Creativity, Capital and Commons in the Contemporary City’. The talk will focus on how changes to the form of production produced a large wasteland on the edge of Nottingham city centre (known locally as ‘The Island’) and will consider how capitalism is trying to mobilise ‘creativity’ to redevelop it. Yet I will argue ... more »