GROPIUS’ IMPINGTON, ART AND RURAL COMMUNITIES
This consisted of a year long research conducted as part of a residency at Impington College (more here) to contribute to the 75th anniversary (2014/15) of the only British building by Gropius, adopting an ‘art as interface in society through dialogue’ approach. Gropius modernist building’s use by the rural community (eg. agricultural workers migrating to the area in1930’s) informed workshops, performances, sculptures, roundtable, symposium, screenings, events and publication, including:
– ‘dialogic and interdisciplinary’ roundtable discussion (Cologni with Anna Santomauro from Vessel, Tahara Fitzwilliam from Circuit Cambridge, Julian Klein director of Institute for Artistic Research, Berlin) on the 24th of October 2014, part of the conference Building Interdisciplinary Bridges Across Cultures, CIAN network University of Cambridge.
– lo scarto, site specific, Castelvetrano Selinunte, April 2015 Sicily http://rockfluid.com/lo-scarto;
– lo scarto (touch), participatory investigation, July 2015 in #TransActing A Market Of Values, presented by Critical Practice and forms part of Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Graduate School’s Public Programme http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2015/7/11/-TransActing-A-Market-of-Values/.
– ‘Pre-linguistic Dialogues’ at Cognitive Futures 2015 — Forging Futures from the Past: History and Cognition Conference Oxford University, 13-15 April 2015
-Elena Cologni interviewed by Brainard Carey on Yale University Radio, May 2015 , including a preview of the work for Impington Gropius Building , available here http://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/elena-cologni/
–Artistic Research: Practice and Research re-defining each other, seminar at University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Graduate School, Wednesday 28 January 12.30-1.30. 1.30-2.30 Session 3 (chaired by Pam Burnard)
– Lo scarto, A Dialogic Approach For The Artist As an Interface in an Intercultural Society, CARU | Arts re Search Conference 2015, Oxford Bookes
Festival of Ideas Cambridge 2015 program:
– A Modernity which Forgets, exhibition at Impington Village College, October 2015, Cambridge Festival of Ideas, with related publication
-Workshops: Gropius’ Impington: art and the rural, by Rebecca Beinart and Gropius’ Impington: power, space and memory, by Elena Cologni
pics from Becky’s workshop (left), and Elena Cologni’s (right)
Gropius’ Impington: power and space, art and the rural, symposium :Introduced by the Principal Robert Campbell, contributors include: Gulsen Bal, Rebecca Beinart, Cristina Bogdan, Elena Cologni, Alana Jelinek, Ian Nesbitt, Bram Thomas Arnold, London Fieldworks, Aid & Abet among others, at Impington Village College, October 2015, Cambridge Festival of Ideas
pics from talks by Cristina, and Jo and Bruce (London Fieldworks)
pics from the talks over lunch: David, Sarah, Bram, Jo and Bruce
– Cologni, Elena, art practice and research, in A & R | ARTI E RICERCA | ARTS AND RESEARCH conference, November 2015, Accademia di Belle Arti di Catania
– ‘Reciprocal Maieutics: An Approach For The Artist As an Interface In an Intercultural Society’. In Pamela Burnard, Elizabeth Mackinlay, Kimberly Powell, The Routledge International Handbook of Intercultural Arts Research, London, New York, Routledge Publishing (2016)
