We are pleased to announce this year’s Key Note speakers for the Sensuous Knowledge conference.
- Michéle Noach
- Florian Dombois
- Chris Wainwright
Themes
Michéle Noach: In 2004 I clambered onto a 100-year old Dutch schooner and sailed North, as far North as you can before reaching the Arctic ice-cap. I sailed into the ice and in some ways I never came back. The voyage was part of Cape Farewell’s programme of taking artists and scientists to climate change ‘front-line’ areas. Thus we cannot only see, feel and record what is happening, but there is also the inevitable cross-pollination of science and art. This is valuable as both parties learn something beyond the exchange of data: about approach, presentation and perspective.
Florian Dombois: Art as Research, Artistic Research, Research through Art etc.: many new terms for something, that seems to be new and still in the growing. But really? Is the idea of research in the arts as new as it seems to be? In my talk I will present a few historic examples from different art disciplines (fine arts, music, architecture, theatre, design) and propose to read them as possible predecessors of our today’s discussion. Furthermore the examples shall be used to sharpen our understanding, which categories might be helpfull in announcing an artwork as a research result.
Chris Wainwright: For my keynote contribution I will propose and illustrate a series of questions, assumptions and challenges for art education in order to stimulate discourse and future agenda-setting around the notion of cross-disciplinary, thematic lines of enquiry. In my role as an artist, educator and curator I want to explore some of the debates surrounding the future direction, agendas and what constitutes a legitimate curriculum and research context, for the modern art school and a question the role and relevance of artists who evidence a commitment to engaging with thematic enquiry involving other disciplines and agencies. I intend to critically question the relationship between subject disciplines and a wider set of parameters of social and cultural conditions that affect, and are in turn affected by cultural practice.
About the Key Note Speakers
Florian Dombois: As an artist, Dombois (born 1966 in Berlin) has focused on the study of tectonics and related phenomena, and on their various representational and media formats.
Read more about Dombois here
Michèle Noach: australian born artist based in London.
Read more about Noach here.
Chris Wainwright: Professor, Artist, Head of Colleges, Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon (CCW), President of ELIA.
Read more about Wainwright here
 Discussion during plenary sessions. |
 Key Note speaker during SK4, Åsa Sonjasdotter |
SK6 presenters
In addition to the key note speakers, we have a number of presenters in the group discussions.
