An A+C day symposium in partnership with Norwich Cathedral to coincide with the exhibition ‘Living by the Rule: Contemporary meets Medieval’ at the Sainsbury Centre (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

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Image: Dom Sylvester Houédard, freedom song, 1967 @ Lisson Gallery; Courtesy Lisson Gallery.