This Is No Longer That Place: A Public Discussion // Global citizenship, socio-politics and arts

About

Thursday 7 March 2019, 10.30-18.30pm, The Showroom 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ

Global citizenship, socio-politics and arts 

Free, booking essential

MORNING

10.30 – 10.40

Introduction, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Director, The Showroom and Michaela Crimmin, Reader in art and conflict, Royal College of Art; co-director, Culture+Conflict

10.40 – 10.45

Chair: Yaiza Hernandez Velazquez, Central Saint Martins, with research focused on art institutions understood in a broad sense as sites of political import.

10.45 – 11.30

Gurminder Bhambra

Professor Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. Author of Connected Sociologies; and Rethinking Modernity: Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination.

11.30 – 13.00

Oliver Ressler

Artist, produces installations, projects in public space, and films on issues including democracy, migration, forms of resistance and social alternatives.

Daniela Ortiz

Artist, generating visual narratives to critically understand structures of colonial, patriarchal and capitalist power.

Lunch 13.00-14.15

AFTERNOON (1) 14.15-16.15

Art, art institutions and frameworks of representation

Chair: Elvira Dyangani Ose

Natasha Marie Llorens

Curator and writer, with current projects including Children of Violence, a cycle of exhibitions, texts and symposia devoted to the representation of violence in contemporary art

Ane Rodríguez Armendariz

Cultural Director, Tabakalera, Spain, programming international residencies, commissions, and bringing special attention to education programmes

Alicia Chillida Ameztoy

Curator working in both public and private space, including Bestea Naiz/El Otro soy yo. Migraciones políticas y poéticas [The Other is me. Political and poetic migrations].

Tea break 16.15-16.30

AFTERNOON (2) 16.30-18.30

Making sense of culture and identity politics in the context of Brexit

Chair: Michaela Crimmin

Dámaso Randulfe

Artist, architect, and co-editor of Migrant Journal, a 6-issue publication exploring the circulation of humans, matter, goods and ideas, and their impact.

Kathrin Böhm

Artist, focusing on the collective making and culturing of public space, both urban and rural, where shared and collectivised everyday practises are foregrounded.

Access: The Showroom has a step-free entrance on Boscobel Street to the ground floor Gallery space and a platform lift to its first floor Studio space. The first floor is not suitable for wheelchair users, as currently safe evacuation cannot be ensured. 

Please if required contact the gallery in advance of your visit for more access information on 020 7724 4300.

Filming: Please note that the events will be filmed.