http://www.elainespeight.net en-gb elainespeight.net 2012-3-15T00:00:00Z elainespeight.net http://www.elainespeight.net/page2.htm#114703 I am giving a paper entitled From Place making to Place listening A Reconsideration of Place within the Commissioning of Socially Engaged Art at this event in June Engagement in the Arts 2012 Conference at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. 2012-3-15 22:00:31 http://www.elainespeight.net/page2.htm#114702 I have written an essay with Charles Quick about Piercing Brightness a film by Shezad Dawood that we commissioned through In Certain Places which will be included in an upcoming publication about the artist. The book which is published by Modern Art Oxford will be launched as part of this exhibition Piercing Brightness 2012-3-15 21:44:39 http://www.elainespeight.net/page2.htm#94347 Until the beginning of July I will be working on a creative mapping project with a group from St. Marys Technology College Leyland as part of the Curious Minds programme. 2011-5-20 10:47:48 http://www.elainespeight.net/page2.htm#92868 I am giving a paper entitled Reclaiming Sense of Place at the 10th International Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore as part of a panel organised by Dr. Sephanie Hawke and Dr. Michelle Stefano. Abstract In what ways can art practice respond to the cooption of sense of place as a unique selling point by developing strategies of placemaking which engender a global sense of place by acknowledging and attributing value to the multiple identities and practices of specific places Click here for more information. 2011-4-19 16:01:33 http://www.elainespeight.net/page2.htm#92866 I have been awarded an Action Research bursary by Multistory in West Bromwich as part of their Longhouse project. Over the next six months I will be developing a project that explores how a sense of place might be retained within the town centre which is currently being redeveloped by Tesco. Click here to visit my Longhouse Action Research blog. 2010-10-15 15:23:48 http://www.elainespeight.net/page2.htm#92863 I am currently running a series of workshops on the Islington Canal for Up Projects which are designed to introduce the idea of public art survey the wildlife around the canal and assist the installation of the latest commission in the Secret Garden project by the artist Tania Kovats. 2010-9-20 15:01:25