S.H.E.D at InDialogue Symposium 2019

Abstract

S.H.E.D was commissioned to be situated at Nottingham Contemporary to support a series of dialogic engagement between artists, researchers and InDialogue delegates. It hosted a series of bespoke activities to showcase the diversity of its design and demonstrate how the concept of S.H.E.D can work across mix-media and artists and performative disciplines. The programme of activity was presented through both the S.H.E.D (situated outside Nottingham Contemporary) and through the PODS, which are smaller developed spaces for engagement and in this case, they were curated to be positioned on the stairwell, as an in-between space. The Programme consisted of Photographic exhibition, Presentation of work in progress sharing by Pinchbeck and Smith for 'A Seventh Man', a new show designed for a limited capacity audience situated in the S.H.E.D. This sharing showed how they have adapted the space in relation to their show's themes on migration and work. Dr Alexander Kelly, performed a bespoke version of The Inspiration Exchange, for S.H.E.D - which provided an alternative site for artists, researchers and delegates to come together in the S.H.E.D and experience it as a communal space for discourse. The pods showed film footage from Huw Davis and Phil Basi and Dr Neil Powell from Norwich University of the Arts.