Making Conversation:
Research Festival
16 - 19 November 2023
Thurs to Sun, 12-5pm
Opening Event :
Thursday 16th November, 6-8pm
Muchen Li (MA Fine Art: Photography)
Our annual Research Festival is a celebration of practice-led research, hosted by MA Fine Art Camberwell College of Arts, part of University of the Arts London (UAL).
Events
Scroll down for further information about the workshops taking place throughout the festival.
Introduction
The 2023 Research Festival takes place at A.P.T. Gallery in Deptford from 16 - 19 November: showcasing a display of student-authored zines, artist books, essays and podcasts, with a daily public programme of talks, workshops, screenings, and performances. Featuring guest artists and graduating students from MA Fine Art: Computational Arts, MA Fine Art: Drawing, MA Fine Art: Printmaking, MA Fine Art: Photography and MA Fine Art: Sculpture courses.
This years’ theme, Making Conversation, explores questions around contemporary art practice and creative research, such as:
What can artists contribute to critical conversations about the forces shaping society and culture both locally and globally—from resonant histories and emerging technologies, to climate crisis, labour conditions and mental health?
What might it mean to think of conversation as another material of art practice—something to be crafted and curated?
How does art make conversation with audiences and communities within and beyond the gallery?
All events are free and open to all. See Eventbrite for more details and event booking.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-conversation-fine-art-research-festival-2023-tickets-719848194327?aff=oddtdtcreator
Events
This student-led programme will be punctuated by public events featuring guest speakers (full details to be announced):
In Dialogue with the World – Opening event with panel discussion
Thursday 16 November, 17:00-20:00
Drawing out themes that underpin this year’s Research Festival, a panel of artists and curators reflect on their work with socially engaged practice, embedded research, and creative activism—each bringing a unique perspective on what it means to make art in dialogue with the world.
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Gathering I – Tour of books and zines with APT artist-member Laurence Noga, in conversation with the artists who made them.
Friday 17 November, 12:00-13:00
This tour focusses on materiality and construction—thinking through processes of fragmentation, collage, and binding as ways to communicate complex ideas that emerge from creative practice.
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Gathering II – Tour of podcasts and publications with APT artist-member Charlotte Warne Thomas, in conversation with the artists who created them.
Saturday 18 November, 12:00-13:00
This tour focusses on creative engagements with social and political issues—exploring how art practice can make interventions into ongoing debates, stage provocations, or foreground overlooked perspectives.
Gathering III – Tour of books and zines with APT artist-member Véronique Chance, in conversation with the artists who made them
Sunday 19 November, 12:00-13:00
This tour focusses on the body as a tool of creative research—as active site of encounter, vessel for feeling, or subject of experimentation.
Elbow Room – Closing event with live performances
Sunday 19 November, 15:00-17:00
An afternoon of play and experimentation featuring performance, moving image, and sound to close out this year’s Research Festival.
TO BOOK
If you would like to book any of the events listed above, then please click here to book your place on any of these workshops.
All workshops take place at APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Harold Wharf, SE8 4SA