Elaine Speight considers how issues raised by the Import/Export event held in Newcastle upon Tyne in December 2005 might apply to artists and networks in provincial locations.
Biographies of Import/Export speakers.
Index of organisations visited or mentioned during the event.
Catherine Bertola and Emilia Telese explain the thinking behind the event.
Janie Nicoll reflects on her continuing relationship with NAN events.
Samuel Dowd and Hayley Skipper of SpRoUt respond to Import/Export.
Isabella Streffen on her own research and its relationship to the Import/Export event
Gillian McIver on international networking.
Helen Sloan looks at changing opportunities for UK artists in the current cultural climate.
Close proximity speaker, David Cotterrell gives his view of the pitfalls and advantages of work in the public realm.
Close proximity offered different means of debate in different locations, Polly Carter examines her reaction.
Improving local networking was one of the main conclusions of Close proximity. Artist David Thomas offers his views.
Emily Collins offers her views on what she saw, heard and learnt at Close proximity.
Poet Markus Lloyd offers his solution to creative isolation.
Jonathan Swain introduces a new series of articles resulting from Close proximity, a two-day NAN event that took place at New Greenham Arts in Berkshire, 21-22 May 2005.
Chris Brown of g39 and Louise Short of Station, devisors of Quo Vadis, reflect on the motives, intentions and themes of the event.
Sarah Jane Pell with an Australian perspective on the impact of this ‘jam-packed’ weekend.
Or: Where do you go? Who goes there? Who are we anyway? Carolyn Black enquires.
Philip Babot on the cross-border and international achievements of artists’ organisations in South Wales.
Paul Glinkowski on the circumstances around cultural barriers and how they can be breached or transformed.
Stewart Noble’s presentation on the benefits and effects of Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS).
Professor Dennis Tourish presented Cults in politics: the psychological dynamics of influence.
Heidi Campbell presented the challenges created by religious online social networks.
John Beagles considers the cult-like behaviour of the art world.
Gair Dunlop responds to Heidi Campbells presentation.
