L-INK to Mike Collier

Times

10.30am – 3pm

Register for the taster session 

Are you 16-21 years old? Are you interested in art, working with artists, curators, collections? Do you enjoy meeting new people and collaborating? Then, L-INK are looking for YOU!

Download the registration form here. 
Please send your completed registration form to learning@laingartgallery.org.uk

Mike’s workshop will ask participants to think about their relationship to others – both other people and other animals (birds, dogs etc). How can art give a voice to and represent this area of research? Before you come to the workshop, please can you think of an animal you would ‘like’ to be, and why. Mike, for example, would choose a badger – he’ll explain why at the workshop, when he will also talk about the way he visualizes birdsong in his work. The second question to think about before the workshop is … do you think it is possible to communicate with animals?

About

Emeritus Professor Mike Collier is a lecturer, writer, curator and artist. He co-founded WALK (Walking, Art, Landscape and Knowledge), a research centre at the University of Sunderland which looks at the way we creatively engage with the world as we walk through it. Much of his work is place-specific, exploring our relationship to a ‘more than human’ world, paying close attention to the environment through which he walks. His current work focuses around an exploration of the dawn chorus, working with composer/musician Dr Bennett Hogg and natural history sound recordist Geoff Sample of Wildsong, and he is interested in interspecies communication asking the question - is this possible?

For more information please visit: https://mikecollier.co.uk

Hodgson Sayers sponsor our young people's programme.