Past Talks
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David Campany | Images of Loss and the Loss of Images | Monday, 17 September @ 7pm
| Sep 17, 2012
David Campany will be giving a talk to coincide with the exhibition Moments of Reprieve: Representing Loss in Contemporary Photography on Monday, 17 September at 7pm. Photography seemed to begin by...
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John Sloboda | Representing Casualties of the Iraq War
| Jun 13, 2011
John Sloboda, co-director of Iraq Body Count, will be in conversation with David Birkin on the subject of documenting the 100, 000 + civilian casualties since the 2003 invasion. Iraq Body...
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Margarita Gluzberg | The Consumystic
| May 24, 2011
In this first of a series of lectures, Margarita Gluzberg looks at the structures of consumer desire. The Lecture is an archaeology, a transmission and a translation. The Consumystic speaks with...
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Simon Baker | Conceptual Art and Chaos
| Mar 22, 2011
What would it mean to think about the notion of the work of art at the beginning of the twentry-first centruy by considering the provocative proposition that conceptual art is at...
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Jake Chapman on Pessimism
| Dec 8, 2010
Jake Chapman will be in conversation with Nick Hackworth on the subject of pessimism as a philosophical position. 'Pessimism is not an affliction to overcome but a vector of intellectual discovery...
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John Gray: The Rise and Fall of the Future: The Idea of Progress and What It Means to Be Modern
| May 27, 2009
John Gray will be talking to Nick Hackworth about the ideas that underpin his work including notions of progress in the modern period, utopianism, science and technology as world-changing forces and...
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Cornelia Parker in conversation with Marina Warner
| Feb 11, 2009
Nominated for the Turner Prize in 1997, Cornelia Parker has became known for her installations and interventions, including Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View 1991 (Tate Modern) where she suspended the...
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