Longdendale Lights: Perspectives (I) and Longdendale Lights: Perspectives (II)

A collaborative video and a conference paper relating to the wider ideas and processes applied, made with American poet Laura-Gray Street, 'From Longdendale valley to Shinning Clough', was presented as part of an international conference 'Cross, Multi, Intra, Trans' conference at the Sheffield Arts Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, UK in September 2017.

The Cross, Multi, Intra, Trans conference was presented by two research networks; The Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, U.K. and Ireland in association with LAND2.

The 'Cross, Multi, Intra, Trans' conference featured an international range of speakers from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Holland, Germany and the USA, and Canada. It took place over 2 days in September 2017.

Street and Creamer presented a paper, 'Longdendale Lights: Perspectives (I) and (II)', outlining the history of their collaboration and the wider issues their work raised in the context of the conference, as part of a panel called 'Inter-genre Inter-national: Artists in Collaboration'.

American poet Laura-Gray Street is Associate Professor of English, Director of Creative Writing and Visiting Writers Series Program at Randolph College, USA.

Details of the Panel Street and Creamer featured also included:
Panel 1: Cantor 9024 Inter-genre Inter-national: Artists in Collaboration

CHAIR: Judith Tucker
Anne-Marie Creamer and Laura-Gray Street - Longdendale Lights: Perspectives (I) and Longdendale Lights: Perspectives (II).
Ann Fisher-Wirth and Barbara Howey - Damage Poison Beauty Ooze: a poet and a painter respond to contemporary landscapes

All those taking part were interested in place, landscape and environment, also featuring field trips around a richly diverse area so, aptly, we know where we are. The conference allowed participants to fully engage with “the challenge of the environmental humanities as a transdisciplinary matrix” (Heise) and aimed to deepen analysis of what it is to work across disciplines; the conference remit aimed to bring critical and aesthetic enquiry into dialogue to explore how creative practice not only informs critical analysis, but is also a critical tool in itself. The conference panel I was part set out to encourage CROSS MULTI INTER TRANS thinking.

Other important UAL Research Online links about this work:
• Details of the art-work that is the subject of this conference presentation and paper, 'From Longdendale valley to Shinning Clough'
https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13902/

• 'In the Open' exhibition at Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery: featuring the collaborative digital film ‘Longdendale Lights to Shining Clough’, made with American poet Laura-Gray Street.
https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13679/

• 'From Longdendale valley to Shinning Clough' was also featured in the exhibition and book, The First Biennial Sino-British Contemporary Art Exhibition, which can be found at this UAL Research On-line link;
http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13678/

• Author
• http://land2.leeds.ac.uk/symposia/cross-...
• https://asleukiland2017.com