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Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 16:15 +0100
From: Farida Vis <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Aftermath Images: Location and Memory in Post-Conflict
Representations
Aftermath Images: Location and Memory in Post-Conflict Representations
A one-day symposium presenting interdisciplinary approaches to imaging the
consequences of conflict
Saturday 19 May 2007
1.30 - 6.00pm
Lecture Theatre 7, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan
University
Many recent art practices have been concerned with the aftermath of
political conflicts. Artists have used photography, film and other media
as a means of recording the sites and traces of conflict, adopting
'forensic' or 'archaeological' metaphors to describe their approaches. The
intentions of these practices have often been to record and memorialise
that which is usually unseen or not remembered through media
representations of conflict. This symposium aims to explore recent art
practices producing post-conflict images and involves both academics and
visual practitioners in a discussion of the place art has as a set of
practices that can create new visual languages through which the meanings
of conflict can be explored.
Speakers:
Aisling O'Beirn, Associate Lecturer in Sculpture, University of Ulster.
Aisling will speak about her recent work that investigates post-conflict
Belfast through a constantly expanding collection of urban myths,
anecdotes, landmarks, place nicknames, and hand drawn maps.
Angus Boulton, Research Fellow, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Angus will discuss the development of his practice and his current project
examining art film and photography as vehicles of contemporary visual
archaeology and historical narrative through the representation of
abandoned Soviet military bases within the former Eastern Bloc.
Simon Faulkner, Lecturer in Visual Culture, Manchester Metropolitan
University. This talk focuses on the 'Necropolis' project by Israeli
photographers Roi Kuper and Gilad Ophir on abandoned Israeli military
sites, considering how these pictures raise questions about the place of
the military in Israeli society and allude to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
Colin Graham, Lecturer in English at National University of Ireland
Maynooth. He is author of 'Deconstructing Ireland' and 'Ideologies of Epic'
and co-editor of 'The Irish Review'.
His talk is entitled 'Not this: Photography and Peace in Northern Ireland'.
Mark Phelan, Lecturer in Drama at Queens University Belfast. He has
published several articles on Irish theatre and photography.
His talk is entitled 'Temenos, Trauma, Topography and Photography:
Remembering the Disappeared'.
RECEPTION AND SCREENING
The Symposium will be followed by a reception and the screening of Angus
Boulton's film 'Cood Bay Forst Zinna' (2001).
TICKETS: £20 full / £5 students (cheques to Manchester Metropolitan
University) To reserve a place or for further details contact Fionna
Barber
[log in to unmask] or Simon Faulkner [log in to unmask], School of
History of Art and Design, Righton Building, Manchester Metropolitan
University, Cavendish St, Manchester M15 6BG
Links:
www.aislingobeirn.com
www.thethirdspacegallery.com
www.angusboulton.net
www.roikuper.com
www.giladophir.com
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A A Piccini
BA (UBC), MA (Sheffield), PhD (Sheffield)
Research Councils Academic Fellow
Drama: Theatre, Film, Television
School of Arts
University of Bristol
Cantocks Close, Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UP
T: +44 0117 954 5449
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Skype: aapiccini
W: www.bris.ac.uk/drama/staff_research/angela_piccini/
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