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image courtesy Freud Museum London.
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screenshot from Conversations in the Time of Corona online, 2020
Talk
Conversations in the Time of Corona: Live
5 Dec 2021
Regular hours
- Sun, 05 Dec
- 19:00 – 21:00
Cost of entry
£15
Address
- 20 Maresfield Gardens
- Hampstead
- London
England - NW3 5SX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Finchley Road
- Nearest tube: Finchley Road, 5 min walk from Museum
- Finchley Road & Frognal , 5 min walk from Museum
This event continues dialogues from The Foundation for Arts & Psychoanalysis' Oral History Collection video series Conversations in the Time of Corona, with curator Fedja Klikovac and artists Zineb Sedira and Richard Wentworth.
About
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way we live – and the way we think. The sense of disruption it provoked has also served as a platform for reflection and dialogue. This can be seen in the issues that have been brought to the fore during this period, such as the Black Lives Matter movement and the renewal in conversation surrounding colonial heritages and the role of public monuments.
More than a year after recording the online dialogues in our Oral History Collection video series Conversations in the Time of Corona, curator Fedja Klikovac meets again artists Zineb Sedira and Richard Wentworth – this time in person and in front of a live audience. They will be joined by Dan Hicks, Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. The event will also have virtual participations by representatives of art institutions in the Middle East: Dr Adila Laïdi-Hanieh, Director General of the Palestinian Museum, and Heba Hage-Felder, Director of Beirut’s Arab Image Foundation.
Conversations in the Time of Corona: Live will take place at the Freud Museum London, where the participants will continue exploring the broad impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and discuss the many cultural and political issues that have arisen during these difficult times. In line with the project’s broader mission to actively support a dialogue between East and West, the pandemic’s repercussions in different geopolitical circumstances will also be addressed. Topics of conversation will include approaches to collective memory, the future of museums, and our role in the production of cultural heritage.
A commentary by HE Hassan AL Balawi, First Counsellor at the Mission of the State of Palestine to the EU, Belgium and Luxembourg, will open the floor to audience questions.
Following the Event, Dan Hicks will be signing his latest book, The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, at the museum’s bookshop. Drinks will be provided.
