What are the kinds of cocreation processes employed by practicing artists? What does good practice in community arts engagement look like? What do commissioners of cocreation projects want from the artists they employ?
Join us at ART // TECH // PLAY where we will explore what co-creation means and how it can help you actively listen and collaborate with your local community. For freelance artists and arts organisations, co-creation is an increasingly in-demand skill, representing good practice, and something that is an increasing requirement from funders too .
SPEAKERS:
Jen Langeskov, Senior Creative Learning Manager at Norfolk & Norwich Festival, spearheads the Festival Connect & Create programme for schools. Jen collaborates closely with numerous artists and cultural organisations across Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to facilitate immersive co-created experiences.
Toby is an award-winning theatre maker, whose practice is based in playful art practices and rooted in community engagement.He has over 10 years of experience of making digital play, with theatre-makers Coney, from phone-based adventures that tour heritage spaces at places like The National Archives. His 5* show, The Eulogy, reached over 7000 people worldwide.
Toby will be sharing his experience of co-creating a digital playable storytelling piece over 3 years with a superheroine named Carmen Power.
JMCAnderson is an Artist, Community Curator and Facilitator underpinned by her socially engaged practice. Anderson uses text, audio, paint and performance within her work to investigate narratives and stories from the past, present and future.
Jade will be showing a film of her performance ‘Crazy Coco’. Crazy Coco is a performance exploring internalised racism as a direct product of a racial classification system and the effects it has had on the artist’s physical and mental health.
The Magic Sandpit is an interactive installation of projected imagery onto sand, designed to provide multi-sensory experiences for pre-school and early years children. Commissioned by The Library Presents to tour Cambridgeshire’s libraries, it projects images onto sand in layers and as the sand is played with, a depth sensor detects the changes made to the surface of the sand, allowing the children to create colourful, tactile creations as well as dig around to find hidden designs.
ATP Live King’s Lynn builds on the We Are Lynn project that seeks to engage local communities in our place-making public artworks.
Agenda:
6:00pm Welcome and chatting
6:30pm Presentations
7:15pm Exploring art
8:30pm Close
This is going to be an unmissable event for artists working in this area and will be ideal to meet like minded creatives, academics and creative technologists from the Norfolk area. Plus, there will be opportunities to interact with artworks on display and make new connections.
This event is part of Collusion’s ART // TECH // PLAY programme and network that supports artists and creatives to develop their skills around creative technologies in a practice-led way.
Supported by Anglia Ruskin University, Norwich University of the Arts, Cambridge Junction, DanceEast, Norwich Theatre,Borough Council of King’s Lynn & West Norfolk and Arts Council England.