Symposium; Considering the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila 

Where is Where? Eija-Liisa Ahtila 2008

Symposium: ‘Considering the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila’

Saturday 13 March, 2- 5 pm

Symposium: ‘Considering the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila’
BSG House, 226-236 City Road, London EC1V 2TT


This symposium, moderated by Ziba Ardalan de Weck, Director of Parasol unit and Curator of this exhibition, will explore the implications of the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila.


Speakers:
Steven Bode is Director of Film and Video Umbrella, London, a curatorial and production agency that has been active in the UK since 1988, developing film, video and electronic media projects with British and international artists, in collaboration with a broad range of exhibition venues throughout Great Britain. In recent years FVU has facilitated projects by artists including Isaac Julien, Tacita Dean, Ergin Cavusoglu, Gillian Wearing, and others. He has worked with Tate, Ikon Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, BFI Southbank, and the Hayward Gallery, as well as many other venues.


Maeve Connolly is a Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts, Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin. Her research focuses on concepts of public space in contemporary art and culture and her publications include The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site and Screen (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2009) and a co-edited collection of texts and artists' projects entitled The Glass Eye: Artists and Television (Project Press, 2000). Her writing on art and film has appeared in journals such as Afterimage, Artforum, Art Monthly, CIRCA, Contemporary, Frieze, Screen, Third Text and Variant.


Taru Elfving is an Associate Tutor in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London. She is currently curating Contemporary Art Archipelago, an international exhibition project as part of the program of Turku 2011, European Capital of Culture. Elfving is regarded as an expert on Ahtila’s practice and has written extensively on her work.


Isaac Julien is a British artist and filmmaker whose work incorporates different artistic disciplines, including film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture, and uniting them to create a unique poetic visual language in film installations. His 1991 film Young Soul Rebels won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Julien was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for his films The Long Road to Mazatlán (1999) and Vagabondia (2000). In 2008 Julien collaborated with Tilda Swinton on a biopic about Derek Jarman which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival the same year.


£12/£9.50 concessions (includes refreshments)



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