The navigate discussions taking place in the Stubnitz bar will stimulate conversation and debate by offering the navigate audience the opportunity to meet and talk with a selection of festival artists.

Three to four artists will be invited to attend each 90 minute session and engage in questions and answers facilitated by Simon Herbert, who will focus on personal artistic strategies in the wider context of navigate. The emphasis is on the informal structure of the event and the social atmosphere of the bar and the onus is on the audience to bring up their own questions for the artists, or open up the discussion with observations they would like to share with the other participants.

navigate promises to be a complex mix of works that will delight and enrage, perhaps, as much as engage.

This is your chance to rant/celebrate/interrogate!



Friday 1 July 15:30 - 16:15

e-Xplo in conversation with special guest Jon Winet

Jon Winet is an American artist who works as part of the collaboration Margaret Crane/Jon Winet, producing projects revolving around politics, art, language and image in the information age. In 2002, they created Monument, a hybrid art, technology and experimental journalism hypertext project on the internet, commissioned by Locus+ in Newcastle. The work explores Newcastle and north-eastern identity in the contemporary landscape of cultural regeneration and global economics.

In conversation with e-Xplo about their experiences working on Sleeping Dogs Lie, the artists will explore some of the shared interests and concerns that form a point of departure for both practices.


Friday 1 July 16:15 - 17:00

Participating artists from the navigate programme in discussion


Saturday 2 July 15:30 - 17:00

Participating artists from the navigate programme in discussion


Sunday 3 July 15:30 - 17:00

Participating artists from the navigate programme in discussion


Sunday 3 July 13:00 - 13:30

platformnortheast presentation

platformnortheast is an informal association of artists, individuals and organisations who support the development, presentation and critical evaluation of live art practice in the North East of England. Newcastle based artist and platformnortheast coordinator Ilana Mitchell will give a brief presentation about the groupÕs recent activities and invite discussion about future possibilities.

www.platformnortheast.org