Transmission Lecture: Ella Gibbs
12 FEB 4 - 6PM
Sheffield Hallam University
The Transmission Lecture Series, Agency: (Labour, Work, Action) in association with the Art Sheffield Festival 2013 continue with guest speaker Ella Gibbs, hosted by T C McCormack. Hosted at The Pennine Lecture Theatre, Howard Building, City Campus.
About the Speaker:
Since the mid-nineties Ella Gibbs’s investigation into public and social space has led to the development of a range of process-led projects, encouraging the invention of self-organised structures that integrate skills exchange and informal learning systems – sometimes described as utopian prototypes or models for living and working together. In 1997 she co-founded Belt, a space in between, in an old factory space in Vyner Street, London, as a live/work laboratory for dialogue and experimental projects.
Commissions include: Look Ahead Housing and Care, 2007; Spare Time Job Centre, Chisenhale Gallery, 2003; and Night Stop Cinema, on the boat Jubilee on the River Lea, 2001. She established Pilot Publishing with artist Amy Plant, developing a wide range of communitybased experimental projects including Laburnum Pilot, a street magazine commissioned by the Drawing Room, 2004, and Energy Café, a horsebox transformed into a mobile off-grid community kitchen.
Now living and working from a boat, her research into local food production, off-grid cooking, and seasonal foraging continues.
