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Thursday 9 September, 7pm

This session looks at alternative art ecologies, and how artists might situate and critically develop their practice outside the conventional art system.

Speakers include curator Mark Pilkington and artist Cathy Ward.

In association with Artquest.

Mark Pilkington is a writer, publisher and event curator. He has written for the Guardian, Fortean Times, Sight & Sound, The Wire, Frieze, and a host of other magazines and journals. His second book, Mirage Men, about exploitation of contemporary UFO folklore in counter- espionage and psychological warfare, was published by Constable Robinson in July 2010. Mark has run Strange Attractor and its press since 2001, editing and publishing books and CDs, organising events and exhibitions and broadcasting on Resonance FM.  He most recently curated the Strange Attractor Salon, featuring nearly 40 artists and musicians, at Viktor Wynd Fine Art. When not squinting with words, Mark can be found playing synthesisers and electronic gizmos with musical outfits including Disinformation, Raagnagrok and Urthona.

Cathy Ward graduated from the Ceramics and Glass department of the RCA in 1988. Ward has independently worked in many places regarded as outside the art circuit in the UK and internationally. Ward has created work especially for venues like The Chamber of Pop Culture at The Horse Hospital, London (Transromantik); PS1 MoMA, New York (Romantic Detachment); Cafe Gallery Projects, London (Destiny Manifest – Eden's End) Her most recent major solo show with Eric Wright, Tender Vessels, was commissioned as winner of the open submission biennale Emergency3 at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth in 2009. Often appearing alongside Visionary and Outsider artists in shows in America such as Internal Guidance Systems; Chthonic! Works by Neuve Invention artists; and Aspects of Mels Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land event Occuring in Radio Space. Ward lives and works in London and has never had representation by any gallery in the UK.


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