You are invited to a Learning Lab focusing on Gresham Wooden Horse.
Gresham Wooden Horse is an art project co-created over several years by the artist, Isabel Lima, with residents and community stakeholders in the neighbourhood of Gresham, Middlesbrough.
The Learning Lab will begin with a walk-through of the gallery space with Lima. Followed by a series of invited provocations to aspects of the exhibition, focusing on the translation and impact of a place-based project into a gallery setting. The Learning Lab will facilitate a conversation with a range of invited participants, opening up the project to the collective knowledge of community activists and residents, artists, researchers, policymakers together with visitors to the gallery.
Moderated by Åine O’Brien, Curator of Learning and Research and Co-Founder, Counterpoints Arts.
Counterpoints Arts’ Learning Lab Programme is committed to the collective power of public learning and the constructive risks entailed in pushing the boundaries of accepted knowledge and practice. Exploring migration, the creative arts and social change, together with the role and value of the arts and culture as a necessary, democratic right. Individual Labs facilitate lively exchange and debate, forging alliances between artists and activists, cultural workers, curators, educators, community residents, human rights advocates and policymakers. Breaking down silos and responding to need – where no one participant can claim hierarchy of thought or skill.