An A+C symposium in partnership with Norwich Cathedral coinciding with the exhibition ‘Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval’ (at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich 16 May – 4 Oct)*
Programme:
11am Welcome
11.10am Introduction by Canon Dr Peter Doll, Canon Librarian at Norwich Cathedral
11.30am Dr Jessica Barker FSA, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History at The Courtauld and Dr Ed Krčma, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of East Anglia, curators of ‘Living by the Rule’
12.30pm Lunch break (participants buy their own in Cathedral Hostry)
1.30pm Professor Andrew Bick, Professor of Contemporary Art & Reinterpretation at University of Gloucester
‘Parallels in time; The Benedictine Rule, contemporary art, and their lived proximity.’
2.15pm Dr Nicola Simpson, Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts
‘Performing the Rule: Benedictine Pattern Poems.’
3.15pm Norwich Cathedral / Living by the Rule Artists in residence: Deborah Tompsett, Hardy Gru, Lily Bunney
With thanks to The Company of Arts Scholars Charitable Trust for supporting the symposium.
Tickets include tea and coffee but not lunch (participants are invited to bring or buy their own at the cathedral’s excellent café)
*We are sorry the day does not allow for time to view the exhibition but hope that attendees might be able to do so on another day. A+C is also planning to hold its annual weekend retreat in Norfolk in September when viewing the exhibition will be part of the programme.About the speakers
Dr Jessica Barker FSA is a specialist in medieval art, with a particular emphasis on sculpture. She studied at the University of Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she was subsequently Henry Moore Postdoctoral Fellow. She joined The Courtauld in 2018, after two years as a lecturer in world art at the University of East Anglia.
Dr Ed Krčma is Associate Professor of Art History, in the School of History and Art History at the University of East Anglia. His work is on art since 1945, focusing especially on that made in Europe and the United States in the 1950s and 60s, and on contemporary practice. Ideas of particular interest concern questions about art’s involvement with the conditions of everyday life; the image/text dialogue and how this relates to forms of thinking; and the relationship of contemporary art to medieval and early modern art and thought.
Andrew Bick is a practicing artist represented by Hales Gallery in London and Galerie von Bartha, Basel and also works as a curator with a longstanding academic career focused on Phd supervision and postgraduate teaching. At University of Gloucestershire he is research lead for Art and Design, Reader in Fine Art and supervises a number of PhDs in contemporary art practice.
Dr Nicola Simpson is a Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts. Her poetic and curatorial practice explores the influence of Zen and Tantric Mahayana Buddhisms on concrete poetry, kinetic art, participatory art and performance art. These interests inform her research in Creative Health which focus on how innovative and improvisatory creative research methods can explore lived experiences of illness and recovery.
Image: Dom Sylvester Houédard, freedom song, 1967 @ Lisson Gallery; Courtesy Lisson Gallery.