In this talk Richard Piran McClary will lay out the methodology he has used to study the site and the dispersed tiles, and demonstrate how this approach can be applied to a range of dispersed colonial-era items, suggest a few ways to address the problems.
This session we will take a look at a broad range of Contemporary artists who, in their own ways, question the world they live in and draw attention to some of the key issues in our society right now. We will see examples of paintings, street art and monumental land sculptures by some of the key figures of Contemporary Art.
This talk presents artists who push their bodies to extreme places in the name of art and experimentation.
This talk will explore the different facets of this artwork to help us to rethink our modern conceptions ‘progress’ and ‘time’.
Dedicated to environmental thinking/feeling, and attending to the structures of inequality that mediate the relations between human and non-human actants, this talk will explore how (art) objects can foster an encounter with alien perspectives, challenging us to fabricate new and better modes of coexisting.
In this talk, drawing on 20 interviews with people living with HIV during COVID-19, Max Morris suggests that creative methods can reframe how viral blame is represented and reproduced by the media, alongside whether the positive/negative binary should be rejected altogether.
This talk will consider the representation of the gangster with regard to its manifestations in post-94 photography, literature, music and cinema. It will address the complexities at stake in the performance of the ‘urban hustler’ and masculine ‘anti-hero’ and explore the tropes of conformity, vulnerability and so-called ‘deviance’.
In this lecture, we will explore the work of the German contemporary artist Gerhard Richter, who has many times in his career been seen as an “outsider” by the art world.
This lecture will explore Rembrandt’s humanity, what drove his interest in these subjects and how he made compelling and compassionate art about some of the marginalised citizens of Amsterdam.
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.
