Radical Nature Study Day at the Barbican

Saturday 12 September 2009 10:30am - 4:30 pm
Location: Redgrave Suite, Level 4, the Barbican Centre, London EC2Y 8DS

An event exploring the relationship between contemporary art and climate change.

How are artists responding to the urgency of the issue? How does climate change affect culture? This study day maps the possible collaboration between creative thinking and problem solving.

Join artists Cornelia Parker, Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey; Franceco Manacorda, Curator of Radical Nature; Michaela Cimmin, Head of Arts, RSA; and Dr Joe Smith, Senior Lecturer, Geography, OU to engage with this hot topic. The event is chaired by Bob Spicer, Professor of Earth Sciences, OU and Gill Perry, Professor of Art History, OU.

This Study Day will be of special interest to students studying Arts and Humanities, Art History, Earth Sciences and Geography. It is organised by the Barbican in association with the OU.

Tickets £20/ £15 concessions (includes ticket for the Radical Nature exhibition currently showing at the Barbican) available from the Barbican Box Office 0845 120 7500 or online.

The programme for the day

10.30am - 12.30pm Morning focus on Climate change - Chaired by Bob Spicer

10.30am - 11.00am Welcome

11.00am - 11.30am Bob Spicer, Professor of Earth Sciences, Open University Climate Change in Context

11.30am - 12 noon Dr Joe Smith, Open University - Climate Change changes everything

12 noon - 12.30pm Mark Watts, former Environment Advisor to Ken Livingstone, now at Arup

Discussion with all speakers, and opened up to the audience, chaired by Bob Spicer

12.30pm - 2.00pm Lunch break with time to see RN exhibition

2pm - 4.30pm Afternoon focus on mediating through art / artists’ responses to climate change Chaired by Gill Perry

2 .00pm - 2.30pm Gill Perry, Professor of Art History, Open University – ‘A bilious shade of green’? Installation Art and the Evironment: Problems and Possibilities

2.30pm - 3.00pm Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey artists – illustrated talk

3.00pm - 3.30pm Michaela Crimmin, Head of Arts, RSA curatorial concerns-

3.30pm - 3.50pm Cornelia Parker intro & showing Comskian Abstract 2007 film (short 6 mins extract)

3.50pm - 4.30pm Discussion with all speakers, opened up to audience chaired by Gill Perry.

Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969 -2009 exhibition open from 11am until 8pm.

Tickets for Study day include entry to the exhibition on this day only.