EXPERIMENTALITY
Experimentality is the 2009-2010 Annual Research Programme of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Lancaster University, and is being delivered in collaboration with LICA and many other organisations across the Northwest of England.
It is a year-long collaborative exploration of ideas and practices of experimentation in science and technology, the arts, commerce, politics, popular culture and everyday life. In a linked series of events in the Northwest of England - interdisciplinary workshops, arts events, and an international conference - it brings together leading practitioners from various fields; academics from the social and natural sciences, arts and humanities; and members of the wider public. It uses the notion of the experiment to explore vital questions about the relationship between knowledge and power, freedom and control in the modern world.
For more information, see www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality .
Interdisciplinary workshops:
The Experimental Condition: Programme Launch (15-16 October 2009)
Experiment as Event (19-20 November 2009)
Experimental Subjects (14-15 January 2010)
Experimental Objects (18-19 February 2010 - at the Storey Creative Industries Centre, Lancaster)
Experimentality and Nature (25-26 March 2010)
The Experimental City (14-15 May 2010 - in Manchester)
International conference:
The Experimental Society, Lancaster, 7-9 July 2010
Public arts programme:
15-16 October 2009 - Nuffield Theatre
Mem Morrison - Ringside
17 October 2009 - Lancaster Literature Festival
Steven Hall and Ellis Sharp
23-24 October 2009 - Nuffield Theatre
A2 Company - The Future of Death / part 5
25 October 2009 - Lancaster Literature Festival
Luke Kennard and David Grubb
29 October 20009 - Lancaster International Concert Series
Psappha - Back to (and beyond) the Electric Palace
9 November 2009 - Nuffield Theatre
Michael Pinchbeck and Simon Bowes - Family Double-Bill
26 November 2009 - Lancaster International Concert Series
Gavin Bryars Ensemble - Nothing Like the Sun
27-28 November 2009 - Nuffield Theatre
Tim Crouch - ENGLAND
4 December 2009 (Deadline) Experimentality: Photography Competition
13 January - 6 February 2010
Experimentality Photography Exhibition, Peter Scott Gallery
January - March
Experimental Objects Exhibition, Storey Gallery, Lancaster
2 February 2009 - Nuffield Theatre
Random People - Versions 1-5
12-15 May 2010FutureEverything festival, Manchester - The Experimental City http://www.futureeverything.org/