Sense of Place

“A Sense of Place”
Location based workshop 8th to 14 September 2008.
Saddleworth museum and art gallery Uppermill.

Overview
A series of workshops with intended outcomes of an exhibition, a multi-media presentation and a publication within a week.

Aims
Involvement and collaboration of MA students in a community based project.

Outcomes.
Exhibition – starting with the work done by MA photo students of this years Whit Friday band competition- the exhibition will be developed over the week by the addition of the landscapes and portraits produced in the workshops. Text and poems will also be added.

Presentation – all the work will be edited and produced as a multi-media presentation to be projected at the weekend- possibly to the accompaniment of a local brass band.

Publication- this is the most ambitious aim of the week- to produce a book in 5 days. All the words and images will be edited to form a coherent narrative of a sense of place.

The Workshops

Words and Images
Monday 8th Sept 10-1700
Led by visiting Professor Ian McMillan an exploration of the relationship between words and images – with reflections on dialectic poets and their contributions to a sense of place. An analysis of their interpretations of the communities and landscapes they wrote about.

The Land
Tuesday 9th Sept 10-1700
Led by Ian Beesley – as a response to and collaboration to the poems of Ian McMillan and Ammon Wrigley. A days location shooting – Saddleworth on the edge of the Pennine moors and Peak district contains some of the most dramatic and emotive landscape in England.
Workshop will include a large format session.

Book design
Weds 10th Sept 10-1700
Led by Ian Beesley and Terry Speake - Editing words and images to form a coherent publication. Basic design and layout structure and style. At the end of the day we hoped to have created a PDF of the majority of the book.

Portraits
Thursday 11th 10-1700
Led by Ian Beesley – AM. Large format studio portraits
By Invitation a selection of Saddleworth subjects to be photographed
PM action portraits working with a local primary school, football/rugby team plus any willing volunteers a series of action portraits based on Phillip Halsman Jump photo book.

Multi-media
Friday 12th 10-1700
Multi-media presentation editing/construction of a narrative
Led by Ian Beesley.
Book goes to print – exhibition fettling etc.

Book Launch (possibly)
Saturday 13th 1400-1600
Book launch –projection of multi-media