Material Memory: The Post Industrial Landscape as Site for Creative Practice.

Here are a few images from the Material Memory conference, held at Newcastle University on Friday 14 November. The conference programme covered a range of different ways in which the post-industrial environment can be a site for artistic research, intervention and reinterpretation. Speakers represented a broad range of disciplines including contemporary art, geography, architecture and landscape architecture, art history and music. A publication and online documentation will be produced in coming months.

Jane and Louise Wilson - keynote speech

Jane and Louise Wilson - The Toxic Camera

Anne Helen Mydland - Topographies of The Obsolete

Rowland Byass - on in-between spaces and weeds in Berlin

And the city itself.... several bridges over the Tyne

Matters for reflection.....

The Place Sound Builds In Passing

Installation with Trond Lossius at Stiftelsen 3,14 in Bergen, 4 - 9 November 2014.  16 channels of sound and 3 HD video projections. The material presented comes from our ongoing project "The Atmospherics; River Deep, Mountain High" and features sound and video recorded in Sogn & Fjordane and Hardanger, during summer and autumn 2014.

The next iteration of the project will be an installation at Visningsrom USF in Bergen from 5 - 14 December.