In Process: Explorers Event 2023
Project Art Works invites you to join them at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, in November for a two day In Process: Explorers Event.
Celebrating the close of Explorers, this event will bring together national conversations about how cultural institutions can evolve into more caring and inclusive spaces. In Process will embrace agency in art, systems of care and different artist development practices. This event aspires to be non-didactic and accessible and will include a majority of contributors with lived experience of disability, neurodivergence or as caregivers as well as artists, studios and institutions from around the UK.
The programme includes:
Project Art Works: Why we are still In Process
Explorers Film Festival
Explorers Network Meeting
Support Collective - signposting and information sharing
Artists talks and residencies include: Dexter McLean, Art Riot, Gabby R, Aida Ashall, Barry Finan, Elliot Flanagan, Kate Watson, Annis Joslin, Patricia Finnegan
Contributions from project partners:
ActionSpace, Autograph, Baltic, Intoart, MK Gallery, Outside In, Photoworks, Venture Arts
Tours of the Baltic exhibitions including Project Art Works Residential.
Quiet and sensory spaces, cafes, networking and conversation spaces.
Day 1 - Tuesday 28 November, 10.30 - 16.30
Day 2 - Wednesday 29 November, 10.30 - 15.30
Booking is essential, please book your ticket here.
Aspects of the day will be live streamed. More details coming soon, select an offline ticket to receive links and access.
Explorers is a 6 year programme of exhibitions, artist residencies, activism and conversation with galleries and supported studios, focusing on putting neurodivergent people at the centre of cultural life.
Explorers is supported by Arts Council England and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
There is a ticket fee for this event. If the ticket fee is obstructing you from joining us please contact martin@projectartworks.org to discuss support.
If you are attending with support please email martin@projectartworks.org.
In 2022 the Explorers Event was held at Tate Liverpool. To get a flavour of this event please visit explorersproject.org/explorers-event-2022.