Landscape, Cities, People

The Project

Landscape, Cities, People is a three-year, European-funded collaborative project of exhibitions, conferences, audience development and education activities. The project will be coming to an end in 2012 but it has been an exciting and rewarding project for Fabrica to have been involved in.

The Landscape, Cities, People project has helped build and broaden audiences for contemporary visual art by creating a sustainable model for Audience Development. It also works to improve the quality of arts education services and increase access to those services for young people, marginalised people and communities; and enables visual arts professionals to engage with the audiences, markets and work-based opportunities in the cross border region.

Find out more

One of the outcomes of the project is Iris, a tri-lingual online contemporary arts magazine. Iris is focused on the Iris Contemporary Art Network, which consists of the six project partners. The Iris website highlights work of the artists who are exhibiting or in residency and a broader range of events, workshops and discussions either taking place at the galleries or with some link to the organisations involved.

Iris focuses on information for audiences and tourism, we have also developed another website which is dedicated to the activities and outcomes of Landscape, Cities, People with regard to the processes and actual work being undertaken within the project. For more details go to the LCP website lcpeurope.eu

Follow European Project Manager Lisa Finch as she goes Through the Tunnel blogging about the development of LCP and other European collaboration projects. You can also follow Lisa on Twitter.

Partners

Fabrica – Brighton, UK
aspex – Portsmouth, UK
Netwerk – Aalst, Belgium
Kunst&Zwalm – Zwalm, Belgium
la malterie – Lille, France
L’H du Siège – Valenciennes, France

Key messages

-Through Landscape, Cities, People we are committed to promoting accessibility to contemporary visual art.
-We are committed to offering a platform to the voices of participants in the project at all levels.
-Landscape, Cities, People is supported by the European Union within the framework of the Interreg IVa ‘@ Mers Seas Zeeen’ cross-border cooperative programme.