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Artist in Residence: International Peripatetic Sculptors’ Society
21st-27th March 2022
This year the Festival is delighted to welcome our artists in residence from Glasgow who will make the festival a reality with audiences and artists alike by presenting a range of exhibitions, talks, walks, panel discussions, workshops and other in-person activities. Peter McCaughey, Roddy Buchanan and Ben Parry will set up base at the Crescent Arts Centre to host the Belfast Division of the International Peripatetic Sculptors’ Society (IPSS).
Imagine Festival of Ideas & Politics Brochure
For the Peripatetic Sculptors Society the action-research of interventionist drifting through the varied ambiences of urban territories, is in part, a philosophical enquiry into the very nature of our being in the city. As a phenomenological approach to action-research, individuals learn through their own experiences and perceptions about the urban environment under investigation. The research activity (or game) must first set out to de-condition the participant into a ‘non-thinking’ state. The necessary ‘letting go’ that opens up perception, frees intuition and focuses the body on its relationship to the physical world is the necessary state for encounter with new systems of knowledge.
Peripatopolis – Performance Method of the International Peripatetic Sculptors Society – Dr Ben Parry, Bath School of Art and Design.