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Urban vibrations: selfhood, sound and the city
Detail from Kraków to Venice in 12 hours by Magda Stawarska-Beavan, 2013. Tuesday, 10th May, 2016, 6:30 – 8.30 pm Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB Free – Click here to book a...
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Homing by Jen Southern – original letters from WW1 soldiers are the basis for...
Homing by Jen Southern and Sam Thulin From Saturday 21 May at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston. Saturday 21st May 11am – 4pm. Meet the artists and experience the work. Wednesday 25 May 5 –...
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Vocal Landscapes: bodies, language and place
Wed 1st June, 2016 6pm – 8pm Number 70, Oxford Street, Manchester Free Click here to book a ticket As part of the Practising Place programme, In Certain Places is proud to present an evening with...
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The Expanded City symposium
Image by Gavin Renshaw Thurs 16th June 10am – 4pm (bus pick up from Preston railway station at 9am) Woodplumpton and District Club, Preston Tickets £10 (a number of free tickets are also available)...
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Tracking The Process Of Abandonment
Castle Market by Victoria Lucas, 2013. As part of the Practising Place programme, In Certain Places is pleased to announce the latest essay commissioned in collaboration with The Double Negative – a...
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Cracked Egg: Publication launch, exhibition and guided walks
Fri 17 June, 5 – 8pm In Certain Places Project Space 38 St Peters Street, Preston, PR1 7BS Exhibition continues until 19 June In Certain Places is delighted to host ‘Cracked Egg’ – a project...
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Nostalgic Landscapes: Responses to the British Seaside
Detail from ‘The Sea Breeze Was The Cure’ by Jenny Steele . Wed 6th July, 2016 6pm – 8pm Mitchell and Kenyon Lecture Theatre, Foster Building, Kendal Street, University of Central Lancashire, Preston,...
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When is a star a star?
Preview: Tuesday 28 June, 6–8pm (refreshments provided) Exhibition continues until Friday 8 July 2016 (Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm) Lancashire Science Festival drop-in family event: Saturday 2 July,...
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(Dis)ordering the City: Buildings, Bodies and Urban Space
Detail from ‘Panoply’ by Emily Speed – a commissioned work, made for the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool as part of the TOPOPHOBIA exhibition. Photo by Mark Reeves. (Dis)ordering the City: Buildings,...
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Expanded City Perspectives: Artist Gavin Renshaw
New post by Lauren Velvick on The Expanded City blog: ‘At first glance, Gavin Renshaw‘s contribution to The Expanded City is the one that seems to most directly, and pragmatically relate to the...
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Expanded City Perspectives: Artist Olivia Keith
by Lauren Velvick on The Expanded City blog. There are elements of Olivia Keith‘s work for The Expanded City that are familiar within socially engaged practices, such as using the unwritten knowledge...
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Artist Jen Southern and Cenotaph architect Charlie Mackeith discuss monuments...
Homing – installation view. On Wednesday 9 November,6pm, at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, Homing artist Jen Southern, writer Dominic Smith and award winning Cenotaph architect Charlie...
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The Expanded City event and publication launch
Large-scale drawing on historic map, showing the point at which the Western Distributor carriageway will cross Savick Brook as part of the City Deal scheme, by Olivia Keith, 2016. Friday 18th November...
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INHABITING THE LANDSCAPE: ART, ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE PERFORMANCE OF PLACE (IAN...
Tues 15th November, 2016 6pm – 8pm Tyneside Cinema, 10 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QG Free Click here to book a ticket As part of the Practising Place programme, In Certain Places is...
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Publication launch: Time Travel
Time Travel zines: twentyfourzero by Steph Fletcher and Outward journeys must not be in the past by Cherry Tenneson. Thurs 23rd March, 2017 6pm – 7.30pm The Salutation, 12 Higher Chatham St, Manchester...
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Wetland liminal spaces of the Mersey and the Hunter
Thurs 6th April 2017 6–8pm Mitchell and Kenyon Lecture Theatre, Foster Building, Kendal Street, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE Free: Click here to book tickets In Certain Places...
View ArticlePractice-based PhD opportunity at In Certain Places
Applications are invited for a full-time practice-based PhD (via MPhil) studentship in the School of Art Design and Fashion. Project title: The role and significance of artist’s led exploration in the...
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Practising Place: conversations about art and place
In Certain Places has published a new article on the blog that outlines the whole Practising Place programme, presenting synopses and links to films of each event. Practising Place was a programme of...
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Traces of Place: Mapping the memories of north-west Preston
Traces of Place is a project by artist Olivia Keith, who is mapping, preserving and sharing memories of north-west Preston, an area undergoing rapid change. Olivia is interested in how maps can keep...
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Routes In, Routes Out: Connected City Network event
Thursday 27 July, 6–8pm Avenham Park Pavilion, Avenham Park, Preston PR1 8JT Free: click here to book your place How do we navigate a city and decipher the urban landscape by bike? How can we map a...
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