With a focus on mainstream images of human migrations, this talk discusses the contemporary commercial aesthetics that influence all visual fields from interior design to fashion and makeup.
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The Beauty of Ageing
Join Samantha Allen for a body positive talk that reclaims our narrative on ageing. Understand why that opposition exists and why we need to create better, less invisible futures for ourselves as women.
Farewell to Postmodernism?
This session will discuss Byung-Chul Han’s book Hyperculture: Culture and Globalisation. Han is one of the most prominent South Korean-born philosophers and cultural theorists.
Reclaiming the Female Body in Art
Explore artists from the 1970s to present day who challenged the norms of representation in an effort to give freedom to a new generation of women. In this session we will focus on artists such as Louise Bourgeois, The Gorilla Girls and Jenny Saville among others.
Beautiful Ruins: Turner’s Venice
This lecture looks at the work of JMW Turner and his inspiration, the poet Lord Byron. It will explain and explore what Venice meant to them, how they saw beauty in its downfall while maintaining the concept of its elegant sophistication.
Wabi Sabi: the impermanent beauty of imperfection
Wabi-sabi teaches us to accept what is not under our control, to strive for excellence rather than perfection, to appreciate failures and flaws, to live simple and slow down our pace. Join Azumi Uchitani in the conversation about Japanese ideas of wabi-sabi and what ‘beautiful’ means.
Restricted Imaginary for Restricted Border Regimes: images of migration shaping migratory policies
This talk will address Western collective imagination of migration by revealing its imprint in various visual fields (e.g. cartography, contemporary art, fashion) and by seeking ways to diversify its expression.
Trailblazers
Join Samantha Allen for a journey through history to uncover great inventions and explore ideologies created by Black men and women that have shifted, disrupted and challenged how we see and experience the world today.
Imagination in Contemporary Art
Many artists depict the scenes around them and look at their surroundings for inspiration. However, other artists create their own worlds entirely from their imagination, while others are drawn to existing stories from mythology or fables. Join us in this session, to look at how imagination has shaped the works by some key contemporary artists, including Takashi Murakami and Paula Rego.
Dreaming Before Nature: the art of the symbolists
This lecture looks at the art of some of the prominent members of the symbolist movement: Odilon Redon, Paul Serusier and Gustav Moreau.