SYMPOSIUM | Encountering Difference

In November 2017, the Difference Goes Speed Dating event hosted a series of encounters between artists, students, academics and industry specialists engaged in lens-based media practices. Using speed dating as a format the speed-dating event aimed to survey the ways in which lens-based practitioners explore the concept of ‘difference’ in their practice. 

Whether focusing on themes of identity, the visual or non-visual representations of race, gender, sexuality, class, language, power, desire and aesthetics, this one-day symposium, will bring together a series of presentations and ‘unfinished’ in-conversations, between artists discussing current and alternative ways of picturing difference in contemporary lens- based practices and beyond.

Keynote: Dr Leon Wainwright, author of Phenomenal Difference: A Philosophy of Black British Art (2017).

Guest artists: Ajamu, Akiko Takizawa and Azadeh Fatehrad.

Artist participants: Pamela Breda, Clare Charnley, Beth Fox, Grace Gelder, Carl Grinter, Lena Heubusch, Caroline Molloy, Sabrina Fuller, Viviana Troya and Lyu Wen.

Closing remarks and screening: Hetain Patel.

This event is convened by Dr Ope Lori, artist and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at TrAIN research centre and presented by the Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School Public Programme.

Tickets:

Students £5

Full Price £7