The Story conference
In my spare time, I organise a conference all about people who tell stories in interesting ways. The website is here:
The speakers for the next one, on Friday Feb 17th 2012, include Fiona Raby, Jeremy Deller, Matthew Herbert, Ellie Harrison and Anthony Owens . Tickets are now available at Eventbrite
Briliant, terrific day. I’m in the crossover place where story and organisation meet, not in a brand and marketing and leadership way but in a building and repairing story systems inside organisations. You gave me much food for thought.
A handful of suggestions for next year’s speakers:
David Gunn at theincidental, who we’ve worked with, is brilliant in a variety of projects using participation and found sound in novel ways and also DJ’s his work http://www.theincidental.com/
David Cotterrell is Professor of Fine Arts and Sheffield University and has done some brilliant work of which I think the most interesting here might be his being embedded with the British Army in Afghanistan and both the work he produced and what he has to say about his permission, as a neutral, to act as custodian and interpreter of what he saw and heard and felt there. http://www.cotterrell.com/
Helen Chadwick’s Dalston Songs http://www.helenchadwick.com/dalstonsongs.html
I think you also need to look at the curatorial and archival world from the other end. Cornelia Parker (or the brilliant Susan Hiller) is half a step in that direction but there’s a bigger step to be taken about thinking of the possibilities with collections and cultural spaces. On our website there’s some stuff about a project on knowledge transfer we did with MLA London funded by the LDA and in the final report on that are a number of people who you could consider, in particular John Entwisle, archivist at Reuters, or Judy Faraday from John Lewis, Stefi Ricci from the Hunterian Museum and Sally McDonald who heads the collections at UCL. Not meaning to get all corporate on you, but I think there’s another angle to come at this from.
Finally Misfits. Bloody brilliant. I googled your background and realise this is down to you. So thank you.