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Event date
Saturday, March 27, 2004 - 13:00

Sophie Howarth, Introduction  This study day explores the various art practices that have been described as sculpture during the modern period, with particular reference to their avant-garde and aesthetic status. The talks consider the way in which the category of sculpture has been reworked or challenged through concepts such as the 'readymade' as well as through performance and installation art and site-specific commissions.

Event date
Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 13:00

Suman Gupta, Sonia Boyce, Paul Wood, Dominic Willsdon, Discussion 1  This video recording from the Contemporary Art and Globalisation Study Day features a panel discussion between speakers.

Event date
Saturday, March 12, 2005 - 13:00

Sonia Boyce and Dominic Willsdon, Glocal: somewhere between the local and the global  Many contemporary artists reject the idea of their work as ‘political’, as if such a label prohibits it from also being poetic. Sonia Boyce rejects this distinction and discusses how circumstances have conspired to ensure her politicisation. She reflects on why she increasingly falls back on the old feminist adage ‘the personal is political’ to consider the question of the local in relation to the global, and how these two states intertwine.

Event date
Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:00

Melanie Manchot, Kathy Battista, Gill Perry, Gavin Butt, Dorothy Rowe and Catherine Grant, Discussion 8  A discussion between Gavin Butt, Dorothy Rowe and Catherine Grant along with questions from the audience.

Event date
Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:00

Catherine Grant, Baby Butches and Reluctant Lolitas: Performances of Adolescence  Collier Schorr and Hellen van Meene are contemporary photographers who are both known for their seductive, glossy portraits of adolescent girls, coming to prominence in the 1990s with a number of other women photographers who focus on the adolescent in their photography. Their portraits play with traditional voyeuristic modes of looking, with the older female photographer taking the place of the voyeuristic male and the model taking the place of 'Lolita'.

Event date
Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:00

Dorothy Rowe, Wigs of Wonderment: Performing Race and Gender in the work of moti roti  Wigs of Wonderment, a performance piece by Keith Khan's live art group, moti roti, is a self-declared 'investigation of issues around race and gender, as manifest in hair and beauty' where the experience of beauty is performed as a 'sensory journey' for and by its performer-participants.

Event date
Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:00

Gavin Butt, You Cannot Be Serious!: Gender Performance and Queer Authenticity  Performance has often been approached as a sign of non-serious or value-less activity in the 20th and 21st century. For instance, in speaking pejoratively of someone as 'theatrical', we can see how performance is sometimes associated with a lack of authenticity, in this case by implying that they are exaggerated or affected, 'too much' to be taken seriously.

Event date
Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:00

Melanie Manchot, Artist's Presentation  Melanie Manchot will talk through a selection of recent works in relation to a performative approach to photography and portraiture. She will discuss her use of cameras, both moving and still, as tools to create encounters on the threshold between staged and documentary practice. Many of these works are made with strangers, often in public spaces, and aim to articulate relationships between the individual and collective space.

Event date
Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:00

Kathy Battista, Women Artists, Pain and Self-Portraiture  Kathy Battista explores how women artists have used pain (both physical and emotional) as a medium. She considers three historical moments: Frida Kahlo’s works from the 1940s including Without Hope, 1945, Tree of Hope, Keep Firm, 1946, and The Broken Column, 1944; feminist artists Hannah Wilke and Jo Spence’s work from the late 1980s and early 1990s including Intra Venus (Wilke) 1993 and Narratives of Dis-ease (Spence) 1989; and Tracey Emin’s work from the late 1990s.

Event date
Saturday, June 25, 2005 - 12:00

Gill Perry, Introduction to the Themes of the Day  Germaine Greer has described Kahlo as 'the first ever true performance artist'. Gill Perry considers this claim in relation to recent debates about the meanings of performance art, and in comparison with the activities of a later generation of women artists, including the work of Carolee Schneemann, Ana Mendieta and Hannah Wilke from the 1960s and 70s.

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