Next Saturday at Yorkshire Sculpture Park Deputy Curator Sarah Coulson and I will host an informal day of discussion looking at the spaces we inhabit and how they affect us. The study day will include a walking tour round parts of the estate that have influenced my work. A selection of short texts will used (and circulated before the day) and read at specific points around the park. The order will be this:
Bothy Gallery – to see MAKE SHIFT exhibition
Screening of Buka (13:30 mins), a short film by artist Boldi Csernak
Greek Temple
Octavia from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Obelisk
Space (Continuation and End) from Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
Boathouse
Extract on the miniature from The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Bird Hide
Extract from Box Man Kobo Abe
The Beach
Picnic by the lake
Shell Grotto
Extract from In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanazaki
West Bretton College Student Halls
Excerpt from Geography of Home by Akiko Busch
Ersilia from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Book a space for £4 (includes parking) HERE