REARRANGING REALITIES SYMPOSIUM


Convened By Donna Rutherford

Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 September 2006
RSAMD & Glasgow School of Art

Themes

Memory
Neuron Mapping & Distortion
Storytelling
Place/ Location
Photography
Autobiography

two-day symposium co-ordinated by Donna Rutherford as part of a 3 year AHRC Creative Fellowship: “ Taking The Personal Out Of Itself – The Development Of Personal Material In A Live Art Context”.

Through creating new projects, examining the work of other artists and discovering current psychological theories Rutherford has studied the strategies developed by artists when transforming personal memory into completed artworks and the notion of performing the self.

Rearranging Realities weekend provides a varied and stimulating array of speakers, practical workshop sessions, discussion and music performance. Sending you off at the end with a little party bag containing a copy of the brand new DVD of Artists’ Interviews entitled “Rearranging Realities”.

SPEAKERS

Dr David Donaldson (Psychologist)
How can you remember your past so vividly that it is almost as if you are re-living the experience again?

Dr Dee Heddon (Lecturer in Theatre/ Artist)
Walking and Autobiography: Performance Writing

Leslie Hill (Artist) TBC

Prof Annette Kuhn (Lecturer in Film Studies/ Writer)
Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination

Francis McKee (Curator)
I wonder how people remember things who don't film, don't photograph, don't tape. How had mankind managed to remember…

Donna Rutherford
So I’m there, balanced on my dad’s slippered feet, learning to waltz – one, two and a limp





ASSOCIATED EVENTS

FOOD Lunch (Sat & Sun) plus Evening Meal incl wine (Sat) will be served in the splendid Mackintosh Room at Glasgow School of Art (a 5 minute walk from RSAMD)




Sunday will finish with the Launch of “REARRANGING REALITIES” a new DVD produced by Donna Rutherford contains interviews with Artists: Bobby Baker, John Carson, Pauline Goldsmith, Mandy McIntosh, Robert Pacitti, Aine Philips, Fiona Templeton, Lisa Wesley



FEES

Fees for the 2 day symposium are:

Delegate fee £120*
Postgraduate Student/ Unemployed fee £70*

This includes a copy of the DVD of Artists Interviews discussing the use of personal memory in their work, which will be launched during the weekend.


*NB The symposium fee includes meals but does not cover the price of accommodation costs.

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REGISTRATION

To register as a delegate, please download the registration form from the RSMAD website:

http://www.rsamd.ac.uk/research/symposium.htm

Please return the completed form together with a cheque for full payment to the project administrator:

Madeleine Stafford
Research Department
RSAMD
100 Renfrew Street
Glasgow
G2 3DB

Cheques should be made payable to RSAMD . We will confirm your booking upon receipt of the full conference fee. Unfortunately, once a booking has been confirmed, it cannot be cancelled by you. We can however accept substitutions, which should be confirmed in writing. Payment can also be made by bank transfer or credit card for details please contact the project administrator (tel: 0141 270 8310 or m.stafford@rsamd.ac.uk).

ACCOMMODATION

Delegates are responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodation. A list of nearby accommodation is available via the link on the RSMAD website or by email from the project administrator

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QUERIES

If you require any further information about the symposium, please contact Madeleine Stafford by email at m.stafford@rsamd.ac.uk or by telephone on+44 (0)141 2708310