Now That's What I Call Pluralism! (Strangelove)

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Strangelove: moving image festival presents a one-day symposium and screening event, followed by the launch of the newly installed‪ REWIND Videotheque at the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection. 
 
The 1970s and 1980s is a period sometimes characterised as markinga transition from modernist medium specificity to more diverse pluralisticforms of engagement in artists’ film and video in the UK. This symposium andscreening event will trace practice and exhibition through these decades. Itwill range through the diverse practices of the 1970s, and the politicized early 1980s, with a focus on The New Pluralism (Tate 1986), which sought to survey work from first five years of that decade. It will further consider how notions of pluralism may be applied to artists’ moving image practice and exhibition in the 21st Century, in its many contemporary forms and contexts.
 
The day will include presentations by Stephen Partridge (University of Dundee), Patti Gaal-Holmes, and Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths College), who along with CSM students from MRes Art: Moving Image have also curated special screening programmes of rarely seen works of British Video Art and Experimental Film from the 1970s, 1980s alongside contemporary artists’ moving image.
 
Tickets are free and open to the public but booking is essential: BOOK HERE
 
For the full programme of events open to the public and UAL staff and students and for ticket information visit the Strangelove blog: http://strangelove2015.tumblr.com
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Photo credit: This Surface by David Hall and Tony Sinden (1972-3)