This annual summer symposium will celebrate 25 years of Land/Water and the Visual Arts (and its predecessors) as an active research group.
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The 25th Land/Water and the Visual Arts Research Group Summer Symposium
This annual summer symposium will celebrate 25 years of Land/Water and the Visual Arts (and its predecessors) as an active research group.
Between 2013 and 2017, seven artists associated with the University of Plymouth responded to Cyprus through residencies at Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre (NiMAC). The resulting work indicates a range of different responses to the island and to the complex layers of Cypriot culture, a place where historically the Hellenic and the Islamic were variously entangled and, along with legacies of British colonialism, remain marked now.
Taking the Nicosia practice-led research programme as a focus, the 2018 Summer Symposium hosted by Land/Water and the Visual Arts at the University of Plymouth will focus on ‘residency’ as a means of fostering creative investigations in response to place. Through this case study the symposium invites critical reflection on the pleasures and challenges of working in previously unfamiliar locations.
Find out more the contributors and programmes for the symposium below.