Carbon Slowly Turning: Movement, Energy, Landscape (Conference)
Portrait of Ingrid Pollard by Emile Holba
Carbon Slowly Turning: Movement, Energy, Landscape (Conference)
Friday 6 May 2022
On the occasion of the Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning exhibition, MK Gallery and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art are collaborating on their third conference.
The conference is imagined as a conversation with the exhibition, using the exhibition as a point of departure. At times, Pollard’s work will be directly referenced and, at others, ideas and strands of dialogue will emerge and escape from it. We are interested in thinking about movement, and the connections between the histories of art, energy, body cultures, landscape, geology, physiological aesthetics both historically and in the present. The movement of the body in space and through time has preoccupied Pollard across her career, whether she is working with photography, kinetic sculpture or ceramics. Bodies, both real and metaphorical, are perpetually set in motion – twisting, turning, bowing, walking, dancing, sweating, punching – engaging with ideas and questions about ecology, temporality, race and gender as they move across the landscape.
Arrivals
10.00-11.00: Exhibition viewing & coffee
11.00-11.15: Welcome by Anthony Spira (Director, MK Gallery)
Session 1: Deep Time; Art, Writing, History
11.15-11.45: Evan Ifekoya (Artist and Energy Worker) Spiral Time and Sacred Reverberations
11.45-12.15: Richard Hylton (Lecturer in Contemporary Art, SOAS) Overcoming Hostile Environments
12.15-12.45: Discussion chaired by Gilane Tawadros (Chief Executive, DACS)
12.45-14.00: Lunch
Session 2: Matter and Materials; Chemicals, Process, Publication
14.00-14.30: Liz Wells (Emeritus Professor in Photographic Culture, University of Plymouth), Hidden Histories and Storying Place
14.30-15.00: Ella S. Mills (Associate Lecturer in History of Art, University of Plymouth) Texture & Tone in the Work of Ingrid Pollard
15.00-15.30: Discussion chaired by Cora Gilroy- Ware (Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Oxford)
15.30-16.00: Tea
16.00-16.45: Sheena Calvert (Book Designer) and Ajamu X (Artist), The Book and The Sensuousness of Process
16.45-17.00: Comfort break
Session 3
17.00-18.00: A Life in Protest: Jackie Kay (Poet) and Ingrid Pollard (Artist) in conversation
18.00-19.30: Reception
MK Gallery
900 Midsummer Blvd
Milton Keynes MK9 3QA
To find out more about the conference and exhibition, visit www.mkgallery.org
