The lure of the lens in art practice and research methods: Cultural Heritage, Mobility and Visual Practices

Date

October 27, 2010

Time

14:00–17:00

Place

Tate Britain: London

Room

Manton Studio

Price

See below

Although much has been written about the lens as a colonial tool, film and other lens-based media remain the media of choice for many contemporary artists and increasingly are also being used as an alternative methodology within the research community.

With a focus on heritage, tourism and contemporary visual practice in the Middle East, this seminar takes as its starting point ESRC funded research recently carried out by geographer Jessica Jacobs (Royal Holloway, UoL) in Damascus and Amman.
http://www.rebrandingthelevant.org/

She uses a form of participatory film-making as the key method for her research, with the camera being used to reveal new insights into how we navigate place and the past.

The seminar will additionally bring together a number of artists/practitioners to show work and compare similar forms of experimental film and video practices.

It ultimately seeks to: address how artists and researchers use lens based practices as creative methodologies, identify where, if at all, similarities may be found between their approaches and to create the space for further discussion and understanding between the two fields.

The seminar features responses by Tate Britain curator Nora Razian. Other confirmed contributors include Damascus-born photographer, Hrair Sarkissian, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler (no.w.here) and Maysoon Pachachi (Oximoron Films).

This Inside Out event is supported by Tate Britain, Research and Enterprise, Royal Holloway, University of London and the Delfina Foundation.

Cost: £12 (£8 concs.)

To book, please click here: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/22409.htm

Organizers

Inside Out Festival

Registration

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