AN INVITATION TO
AN ART AND SCIENCE SALON
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 7 AND SATURDAY NOVEMBER 8
We hope you will be able to join us for this, the second in a series of Art and
Science Salons at Cove Park funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. This year, the artist
Christine Borland and the curator Francis McKee, in association with the Glasgow
School of Art (where they are academic researchers), have developed the programme
attached. As you will see, it focuses on communication between artists and scientists
and how both relate to their public, their audience or their patients.
For the past five years the Gulbenkian Foundation has been running programmes that
encourage artists from across the art forms to engage with new thinking and practice
in science and technology. Occasionally the Foundation has facilitated artists and
scientists to meet for informal 'salons' to discuss ideas. Last year the Foundation
held its first salon in Scotland, at Cove Park, an occasion that included
contributions from an astrophysicist, a neuroscientist, a stage designer and a poet,
among others.
We would be most grateful if you would let us know if you are attending by email or
phone at least four days before the event. You will see from the attached schedule
that meals are provided - and there will be vegetarian options. Even with the generous
funding of the Gulbenkian, Cove Park and the organisers are also subsidising this
salon. Therefore, if you are able to make a contribution, however modest, to the costs
of the meals, we would be most grateful.
Cove Park is a Charity that runs artists residencies each year, giving space and time
for research and professional development to artists in all the arts disciplines. It
is situated on the hillside above Loch Long, 40 miles west of Glasgow and with
spectacular views north into Argyllshire, south down the Firth of Clyde. Directions by
train and car are attached. You can reach us by phone on 01436 850123 and by email on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Our address is Cove Park, Peaton Hill, Cove, Argyll and Bute, G84
0PE.
We look forward to welcoming you to Cove Park
Peter and Eileen Jacobs
Founders.
Art & Science Salon 2003
Funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Organised by Christine Borland and Francis McKee on behalf of Cove Park.
Presented in association with the Glasgow School of Art.
This salon is the second in a series of Arts and Science Salons funded by the
Gulbenkian Foundation. It focuses on communication between artists and scientists and
their publics.
Programme
Day 1. Friday 7th November
10 - 11.15
Christine Borland, artist and Dr. Marek Dominiczak, Director of the Medical Humanities
Unit run by Glasgow University Hospitals in collaboration with the Glasgow School of
Art. 1) What the Unit is, how it can contribute to both Art and Medicine. 2)
Discussion and presentation of the Special Studies Module designed for medical
students at Glasgow University.
11.30 - 12.30
Two Sisters, One Doctor and a Professor. Jacqueline Donachie, artist, & Darren
Monckton, research scientist at the Institute of Genetics at Yorkhill Hospital,
Glasgow. An overview of recent and continuing collaborative research into the
inherited genetic condition Myotonic Dystrophy and it's effects, both medical and
social, on patients and their families.
2.00 - 3.15
Canon Bill Hall & Ross Sinclair - Real Life & Religion, The Artists Residency
Programme at Durham Cathedral is currently celebrating it's 20th anniversary. Bill
Hall will talk about the relationship between art, artists and the church and the
effects on the works produced in this context. Ross Sinclair has been an advisor to
the residency programme for the last 2 years and will discuss examples of his own
works which investigate the relationship between art, religion and spirituality.
3.45 - 4.45
'Bending Spacetime in the Basement' The work of Grace Weir presented by curator,
Francis McKee.
Recent collaborative works between the artist and physicist Ian Elliot which
investigate how and why events happen in a particular way. Physical laws like the
theory of relativity & quantum theory are imbued with the possibilities of everyday
experience.
5.00 - 5.30
Glasgow School of Art & Glasgow Medical School students present results of their
week's workshop residency at Cove Park.
6.00 - 8.00 Buffet Dinner
After Dinner, Optional
Screening of Arts Council of England 'Pioneers in Art & Science'.
A film directed by Ken McCullen.
'Art Poetry 7& Particle Physics' (screen time 1 hour) comprises a wide-ranging
collaboration between legendary author and critic John Berger, and world-leading
particle-physicists from CERN in Geneva - including Michael Doser, who last year
succeeded in manufacturing 'anti-matter', the quest for which provides part of the
narrative of the film
Day 2. Sat 8th November
10.30 Coffee and informal rounding up/conclusions
Cove Park would like to thank Christine Borland and Francis Mckee for organising this
Salon and Sian Ede, Director of Arts, Gulbenkian Foundation for making it possible.
TRANSPORT
GETTING TO COVE PARK
>From Glasgow city
Trains run every half hour between Glasgow Queen Street and Helensburgh (20 mins by
taxi from COVE PARK).
Alternatively, trains run from Glasgow Central to Gourock where a passenger ferry
service crosses the Clyde to Kilcreggan (10 mins drive from COVE PARK).
>From Glasgow International Airport
Glasgow International Airport is served by BA, British Midland and Easyjet. The
airport is 45 minutes drive from COVE PARK. Glasgow Prestwick Airport is served by
Ryanair. The airport is 45 min bus ride and then a ferry.
Alternatively, trains run from Paisley Gilmour Street railway station, which is 10
minutes by bus from Glasgow Airport, to Gourock, allowing you to connect with the
passenger ferry.
To/from Gourock
>From Glasgow Airport take the no. 60 bus, from bus stop 3 opposite the main
>entrance/exit of the terminal building, to Paisley Gilmour railway station. At
>Gourock follow the signs to the Dunoon Ferry/Ferry \Terminal building. The ferry to
>Kilcreggan leaves the quay just before the terminal and tickets can be purchased on
>board.
DIRECTIONS BY CAR
� On M8, go west through Glasgow
� Cross Erskine Bridge going North
� Take A82 signed Crianlarich.
� Keep going along Loch Lomondside
� Take A 817 signed Garelochead
� Drive 10 mins to roundabout
� Take road signed Arrochar
� Drive one mile to second roundabout
� Take road signed (in red) Coulport
� After 4.4 miles turn left immediately after sign 'Accident Blackspot'
� To T-junction and turn right
� Cove Park is 300 yards on the left
SPT is Scotland's only passenger transport authority and includes bus, rail,
underground and ferry services.
Enquiries
Traveline: 0870 608 2 608
Web site: www.spt.co.uk
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