The Sculpture x London Residency Network
The Sculpture x London Residency Network
What does the future of artist residencies look like?
Once considered a subversive model, artist residencies have become embedded in institutional practice – but how can they continue to evolve in response to today’s challenges? This conversation brings together residency providers and cultural practitioners to explore sustainability, access, and alternative frameworks at a time of global uncertainty.
Founded in 2022, the London Residency Network (LRN) connects London-based live/work residency providers to share resources, exchange ideas, and develop best practices. Its members include Flat Time House, National Trust, Create/The White House, The Cosmic House, Residency 11:11, Kenneth Armitage Foundation, and Van Gogh House.
This discussion features LRN-affiliated residency providers alongside Viviana Checcia (Director of Void Art Centre, Co-Director of Vessel, and former Residency Curator at Delfina Foundation) and others. Reflecting on the legacy of the Artist Placement Group, participants will consider the institutionalisation of residencies and how they might adapt to the demands of access, inclusion and sustainability in an unstable world.
The Upper 2 Gallery
1 – 3pm
No booking necessary
This is the fifth in a series of live conversations activating The Sculpture (1971), a key work from the Artist Placement Group, as part of Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself. These discussions are programmed in collaboration with Policy Lab, Incidental Unit and the London Residency Network.
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The Artist Placement Group (APG) was initiated by Barbara Steveni in 1965. The group devised the concept of the ‘Placement’ as a strategy to position artists within industrial corporations and government departments in order to explore the role of art in the decision-making processes of society. In her role as primary strategist and spokesperson she came to see her critical administrative role negotiating behind the scenes as representative of women’s invisible labour more widely, in later years understanding this as her own art practice. Barbara Steveni: I Find Myself includes the important Artist Placement Group work, The Sculpture from APG’s 1971 Hayward Gallery and Dusseldorf exhibitions. The Sculpture comprised a boardroom table with chairs in the gallery space where the APG artist members led discussions with industrialists and government officials as the main focus of the exhibition. Steveni was integral to these negotiations, so it’s in the spirit of highlighting her discursive approach to art-making that we’re re-staging this live artwork in collaboration with Policy Lab, Incidental Unit and the London Residency Network.