Mixing Fields

Interdisciplinary, crossdisciplinary or transdisiplinary, artistic practices can combine with multiple fields to develop truly engaging and profound projects. But as a non-artist, how do you initiate a discourse with the arts? As an artist how do you access and engage with non-arts specialists? Whether you want to converse with different practices or simply share your ideas, Mixing Fields aims to spark collaborations across the divide.

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Photos from our first event Dec 2013! Taken by Amy Behrens Clark

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Photos from our first event Dec 2013! Taken by Amy Behrens Clark

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Keith Harrison was Ceramics Resident at the V&A, October 2012 – March 2013.

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Check out this Berlin based collective! 

http://agoracollective.org/blog/affect-agoras-program-collaborative-artistic-practices/

"AFFECT provides the opportunity for a comprehensive research to determine the artist’s position in an ever-fluctuating sociopolitical landscape.

This program at Agora is a catalyst for participating artists to investigate established views on communities, movements and networking. These factors are deeply rooted in Berlin and provide fertile soil for expansion of knowledge within artistic practice today.

Agora’s collaborative identity is reflected in AFFECT. Significant elements of this program are the encounters with professionals based in Berlin, with which Agora has established partnerships.

The participants get to know  spaces, artists, curators and a range of cross-disciplinary professionals. These encounters stimulate the participants in their research and provide the necessary tools to let their efforts manifest themselves. Participants are assisted in producing pieces, developing talks, collaborating with other initiatives and in meeting communities that they want to involve in their research."

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artSOUTH : collaborations An ambitious contemporary visual art project, presenting newly commissioned artworks in diverse locations across central Southern England from 7 September to 1 December 2013.

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An Invitation.

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Over the 29th and 30th of September 2012, Abu Hamdan gathered a group consisting of linguists, graphic designers, artists, researchers, activists, refugee and art organizations and a core group of Somali asylum seekers, who have all been rejected because of the analysis of their language/dialect or accent by the Dutch immigration authorities, met to discuss the controversial use of language analysis to determine the origin of asylum seekers.

http://lawrenceabuhamdan.com/#/conflictedphonemes/

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In 2009 Artist Barby Asante invstigated The Bamboo Club, which ran in St Pauls, Bristol, throughout the 50's and 60's. She collaborated with local community groups to form collective memories of the club and capture them in video: http://www.picture-this.org.uk/worksprojects/works/by-date/2009/bamboo-memories

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What has art ever done for science?

“Art has contributed zero to science, historically,” said developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert on Radio 4 some time ago. This sounds like a sweeping generalisation – particularly considering he wa...

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Take a look at The Institute of Unnecessary Research, a collective showing how arts practice and scientific research are very intertwined: http://www.unnecessaryresearch.org/

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In 2007 Lucy and George Orta collaborated with Scientists, Travellers, and State Bureaucrats to create an amazing series of work on their excursion to the Antarctic; http://www.studio-orta.com/en/artworks/serie/12/Antarctica/2/ 

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