This Is No Longer That Place: A Public Discussion

To what extent can art affect change when addressing issues of migration, displacement, and access? Join us for events that explore the capacity of artists and arts institutions to intervene in the current geopolitical climate. 

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.

This is No Longer That Place: A Public Discussion is curated by The Showroom with Michaela Crimmin, Royal College of Art, in association with Tate, for the European Cooperation project 4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture. 4Cs is co-funded by Creative Europe, with UK activities co-funded by the Royal College of Art. 4Cs seeks to understand how training and education in art and culture can constitute powerful resources to address the issue of conflict as well as to envision creative ways in which to deal with conflictual phenomena. Partners include Universidade Católica Portuguesa; Tensta Konsthall; SAVVY Contemporary; Fundació Antoni Tàpies; Museet for Samtidskunst; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs; Royal College of Art; and Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts.  

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.