` New Hall Events
  • Past event

    Cambridge Conflab with Wysing Arts Centre

    15 March 2011 – 15 March 2011

    Wysing Conflab

    Wysing Conflab

  • About event

    An alternative conference with performances, performance lectures, discussions, screenings, a book launch, and the launch of Wysing’s new project that will be running throughout 2011: The Institute of Beyond. Located in central Cambridge at The New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, and the Corpus Christi Playroom.

    Programme for the New Hall Art Collection:

    1-2.45pm
    Julie Myers, Dr Andrei Bejan, Jo Cobb and Dr Janneke Balk
    Join Head Gardener at Murray Edwards College, Jo Cobb, for a tour of the College garden including a viewing of Julie Myers’ Flora Data, 2010*, developed in collaboration with the Departments of Computer Science and Plant Science at Cambridge University. Followed by an in-conversation.

    Break for tea / coffee.

    3-3.50pm
    Andy Holden and Peter Holden
    A factual exploration of the structure of bird’s nests and nesting behaviour by Andy Holden and his father Peter Holden; who spent 40 years working at the RSPB and has published numerous books on the subject of birds and wildlife.

    4-4.30pm
    Dr Heidi Radke
    A diagnostic performance by Dr Heidi Radke who will explain the inner structure of sculptures by Emily Rosamond, through x-rays taken at Cambridge University Vetenary Hospital. Followed by a screening of the two short films by Rosamond Object Lessons and Dry Pond, 2010*.

    Images courtesy of Wysing Arts Centre