PUBLIC LECTURE: 'More than the sum of the parts?'

‘More than the sum of the parts?’ addresses interrelationships between art practice, architecture, landscape architecture, art history and criticism. The lecture will consider the roles, relationships, scope and creative tensions surrounding artists’ collaborations with other creative disciplines today.

Case studies include The Phoenix Initiative, Coventry and BBC Broadcasting House, London.

Vivien Lovell is a visual arts curator with expertise in commissioning permanent and temporary art within the designed environment. She founded Modus Operandi in 1999 as an independent consultancy, based in the UK.

Lovell was previously the Founder-Director of Public Art Commissions Agency (PACA) from 1987 to 1999. She has managed numerous national public art strategies and commissions for dients including the BBC, Liverpool Housing Action Trust, the Barbican Arts Centre, the Docklands Light Railway and the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields.