The Archive

Part 1. Welcome and introduction, Marko Daniel and Gill Perry

This study day explores issues raised by a major Roy Lichtenstein retrospective at Tate Modern. His extraordinary body of work is the springboard for a critical exploration of ideas around the meaning of pop in the US and UK and its legacy for contemporary art and culture. Curators, academics and artists will contribute to the debates.

Contributor Will Rea. Will is Senior Lecturer in the school of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. He has worked extensively in South Western Nigeria. He has worked with artists in Nigeria and has been particularly involved with masquerade performances in the Ekiti region. More recently he has worked with contemporary makers in Lagos and Ibadan.

This panel discussion, part of a major international symposium at Tate Liverpool, considers recent developments in the globalisation of the contemporary art of Africa and its many diasporas. Speakers include: Leon Wainwright, Chris Spring and Roger Malbert. The event was in association with the exhibition, Afro Modern

A Symposium Exploring The Work Of John Akomfrah, The Black Audio Collective And Other Visual Artists Inspired By The Work Of Stuart Hall 

Key note speakers include: EKOW ESHUN: Writer, cultural commentator and award-winning broadcaster. JOHN AKOMFRAH: Artist, film director, screenwriter and founding member of Black Audio Film Collective. KODWO ESHUN: Co-founding member of the Otolith Group, writer, theorist, film-maker, and curator of the exhibition The Ghosts of Songs: A Retrospective of the Black Audio Film Collective (2007).

The Trinidadian born artist Karen Mc Lean talks about her installation 'Post Colonial Now' first exhibited at Edible Eastside, Birmingham in 2012. In her talk she explains the artistic processes and ideas that were involved.

'On Bees, Hives and the Human' - Part 3 - Rebecca Chesney  This seminar 'On Bees, Hives and the Human' was chaired by Dr Helen Pheby, Deputy Curator, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and was hosted by the University of Sheffield. Rebecca Chesney was artist in residence at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) in 2010. She used her time there to research the bees and other wildlife on the estate, with a view to producing work for an exhibition at the Park's galleries to be held in April 2011.

'On Bees, Hives and the Human - Part 1 - Professor Francis Ratnieks  This seminar 'On Bees, Hives and the Human' was chaired by Dr Helen Pheby, Deputy Curator, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and was hosted by the University of Sheffield. This seminar included contributions from a scientist, a cultural historian and a practising artist. Common themes emerged regarding the relationship of bees to human social, cultural and environmental concerns. There were also difference in emphasis as the balance of creative, scientific and cultural concerns was different for each speaker.