Presented by Create King’s Cross and Birkbeck College
Friday April 30th 10am to 4pm
This event offers a rare opportunity to explore and discuss the impact that artists and their work can have upon an area, using King’s Cross as a test bed.
The day begins with a walk around some of the iconic spaces and places of King’s Cross considering recent artists’ commissions, and the critical and public response to them, and remembering temporary interventions many of which have disappeared. We’ll also be looking at the physical and social landscape on and around the Railway Lands where the new Central St Martins’ building is taking shape, creating a new hub for arts activity.
This will be followed by lunch at art and architecture prize winning Lumen Arts and a panel discussion to debate the way King’s Cross is changing and how artists are responding to that change. Confirmed panelists include Vicki Lewis, commissioning curator and exhibition organizer, Jeremy Hunt, editor of Art and Architecture journal, and Gadi Sprukt from Tall Tales, the artists group who pulled off the extraordinary Market Estate Project where a housing estate about to be demolished acted as an enormous canvas for 76 artists.
£15 includes walkabout, lunch and seminar