Cultivation Field – Kate Corder

Cultivation Field Exhibition is at 42 Market Place, Reading and The Keep, 571 Oxford Road from the 8th – 22nd June 2012.

Cultivation Field – Postgraduate Symposium 28^th September 2011 University of Reading

The premise for this Symposium is that cultivation is leading to new art practices deserving of critical inquiry and articulation. Whether in the garden or allotment, the soup kitchen or the road, on wasteland or the tower block, or wherever there are cracks in the system, cultivation provokes questions about human being’s relation to and encounter with the earth and its growth systems and operations. The purpose of this Symposium is to encourage discursive exchange and productive encounter between art practitioners and researchers whose work explores plant-based material, land use, growth, ecosystems, economy, taxonomy, environment, power and chaos in the field of cultivation.

Program:

10.30am – 11.00am: Arrival and Registration
11.00am – 11.10am: Welcome, Housekeeping and Outline of Event
11.10am – 11.40am: Gayle Chong Kwan – Invisible Twinning
11.40am – 12.10pm: Rosalie Kim – Ruining a Ruin
12.10pm – 12.40pm: brook & black – The Fermenting Room: return of the rhizome
12.40pm – 13.00pm: Fritz Haeg – Edible Estates – Lenape, New York (film, 23mins)
13.00pm – 14.00pm: Lunch The Graduate School, Old Whiteknights House
14.00pm – 14.10pm: Pil and Galia Kollectiv – Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet (film, 7mins)
14.10pm – 14.40pm: Kenna Hernly – FIELDCLUB – The Interactive Meaty Master
14.40pm – 15.10pm: Amy Cutler – Peter Larkin Leave’s of a Field and British Woodland
15.10pm – 15.40pm: Janette Porter – Field Based Works
15.40pm – 16.00pm: Tea and Coffee – The Green Room
16.00pm – 16.30pm: Shelley Campbell – Compost Mentis: Gardening and a Freudian Aesthetic
16.30pm – 17.00pm: Rachael Champion – The Mechanical Nature
17.00pm – 17.25pm: Adi Gelbart – Vermin (film, 23mins)
17.25pm – 18.00pm: Discussion and Conclusion

All papers/presentations are 20 minutes in duration followed by 10 minutes question times unless stated. Chair is Kate Corder.

As part of The Cultivation Field Symposium, more film works will be shown in the Minghella Building Atrium on monitors: Stih & Schnock – ORBIT (in the Green Room), Fritz Hage, Edible Estates, London and LA, and Pil & Galia Kollectiv – Asparagus: A Horticultural Ballet.

Location: The Minghella Building, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6UR

The deadline for registration is: 23 September 2011.

This Symposium is organised by Kate Corder with help from the Department of Art and Department of Film, Theatre and Television.