Northern

A symposium
Residency
Performance, artworks, readings, conversations
8 June 2017, 2-6pm
Open space of the Righton Building,
Cavendish Street,
Manchester School of Art , MMU

Free everyone is welcome

For more information

contact Myna Trustram
m.trustram@mmu.ac.uk
t: 0161 247 1118

Fionna Barber
Manchester School of Art

William Card
Blackburn College and Manchester
School of Art

Sara Davies
Manchester School of Art.
The artists residency is an opportunity to experience
Rita Duffy
new places that provide the impetus for new work or a
Artist
fresh engagement with an ongoing project. These
experiences can be both stimulating and difficult: an
Grace Gelder
unfamiliar location is encountered through a habitual
Photographer and facilitator
lens that is hard to shake off.
Myna Trustram
We will show work made during two residencies in the
Manchester School of Art
far north of Norway and Sweden and explore the
relationship between affective engagement,
geographical location and experiential dislocation in
relation to forms of creative practice.
P.T.O.
Programme
14.00 Welcome and introduction

14.15 Sara Davies

Unsettled Residence: Between the lines of the EEA (Permanent Residency) form,
I imagine the North

14.45 William Card

Emmas Running Bath: Uprooting site specific art

15.15 Grace Gelder and Myna Trustram

At the Ricklundgrden Museum: Re-imagining the museum through images and words

15.45 Break tea and coffee

16.15 Fionna Barber and Rita Duffy

Severance: In conversation about residency, memory and the Arctic imaginary

17.00 Concluding conversations with the participants and audience

17.30 Drinks

Participants
Fionna Barber is an art historian at the Manchester School of Art with a particular interest in
issues of location, dislocation and art practice.

William Card is an artist, a lecturer at Blackburn College and a research student at Manchester
School of Art.

Sara Davies is an artist and a PhD candidate at Manchester School of Art.

Rita Duffy is an artist from Northern Ireland whose work focuses on conflict, post-conflict and
the legacies of history.

Grace Gelder is a photographer and facilitator with a research interest in photography

and collaboration.

Myna Trustram works on the PhD programme at the Arts and Humanities Graduate School and
writes about museums and loss.

Prologue
The symposium is part of Prologue, a programme of events in May to July to launch the new
Arts and Humanities Graduate School at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Photography Grace Gelder

Performer Tuuli Malla
Design William Card