ARTS & HUMANITIES AWARD
Migration, Media, Archive
National Galleries of Scotland
Friday 6 June, 10.30 to 16.30
Free Entry - No Booking Required
Hawthornden Lecture Theatre - Weston Link, National Gallery Complex
A one-day symposium examining the relationship between the politics of
migration and the visual arts. How have artists and filmmakers tackled
the issue of migration and what strategies have they developed to
intervene in migratory politics? What is the history of migration-based
archives and how might they be put to use? What role does migration play
in constituting the visual cultures of globalisation?
Speakers:
Angela Dimitrakaki (University of Edinburgh): 'Life after identity? Art
and politics in the age of global capital'
Steve Edwards (Open University): 'Crowds and commons: figuring
photography from above and below'
Roshini Kempadoo (University of East London): 'A fictional re-imagining
of the Trinidad archive: amendments (2007)'
Áine O'Brien (Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice,
Dublin Institute of Technology): 'Living archives of migration:
collaborative politics and coalitional research'
The symposium is organised by Napier University and the National
Galleries of Scotland as part of the Investigating the Archive project
in collaboration with the University of Dundee and the Royal Society of
Edinburgh. For further details see www.investigatingthearchive.org.
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