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Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:14 +0000
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Subject: The Amnesia Forums Interdisciplinary Forum
The Amnesia Forums
Legions in the Landscape
Tuesday 6th November, 12-4pm
University of Glasgow, Turnbull Hall, Chaplaincy Centre, Southpark Terrace
An interdisciplinary forum for artists, scientists, geographers,
historians, writers and researchers to explore key directions and debates
surrounding current scientific insight into amnesia, and contemporary
discourse around the themes of individual and cultural amnesia, location,
spatial politics and identity.
v How do individual and cultural amnesia transform the evolving social,
cultural and historical landscape that we inhabit?
v Can amnesia be considered as a form of latency, which continues to have
a powerful affect on societal perception and experience of the world?
v Does the monumentalising effect of exhaustive processes of gathering,
examining and archiving materials and evidence in relation to conflicted
historical events conversely precipitate a form of cultural amnesia?
Participants are invited to respond to the questions presented using a
photograph, writing, music, image, film clip or other material of their
choice.
Artist Shona Illingworth will present two key projects currently in
development:
St Kilda (untitled)
Developed in dialogue with cognitive neuro-psychologists Professor Martin
A. Conway and Dr Catherine Loveday. Supported by the Wellcome Trust.
The historical lesions in the physical and cultural landscape of St Kilda
provide an extraordinary physical and metaphorical context within which to
explore theself-experience of broken memory and dense cultural retrograde
amnesia. By creating a multi-layered interplay between Claire, (a woman who
has dense retrograde and anterograde amnesia, and prosopagnosia) and St
Kilda, this project sets out to explore powerful synergies between the
complex space of the mind, and that of the outside world, and in turn,
examine the profound implications amnesia and cultural erasure have on the
social, geopolitical and cultural topologies that inform contemporary
constructions of identity, place and location.
216 Westbound (working title)
Developed with John Tulloch, Professor in Media Studies and an expert in
the study of Risk, andASRF Visiting Senior Research Fellow:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/adamsmith/people/visitingfellows/pr
ofjohntulloch/
in dialogue with Professor Martin A. Conway and Professor Andrew Hoskins.
Production in development with Animate Projects, London.
In exploring the multiplicity of forces at play, the film sets out to
challenge the ‘monumentalising’ effect of the media coverage and subsequent
public enquiry into the 7/7 London Bombings, by countering the public
enquiry’s exhaustive process of gathering, examining and archiving
materials and evidence in relation to the event as a form of closure, to
reanimate questions about the evolving conflicts and fallible processes of
individual and collective memory in relation to major historical events.
Biog:
Shona Illingworth creates video and three-dimensional sound installations
that explore the experience of memory and identity, and the politics of
space. She has worked closely with scientists to explore individual and
collective memory and themapping of mental space onto external terrain,
themes which are explored in the Film and Video Umbrella publication on her
work: The Watch Man - Balnakiel (2011). Her work has been shown at the
Wellcome Collection, London; Museum of Modern Art Bologna; the Hayward
Gallery, London, Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto, Museum
of Fine Art, Lausanne, the R.I.B.A (Royal Institute of British Architects),
and on Channel 4.
Organised in conjunction with the Adam Smith Research Foundation:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/adamsmith/ and the Glasgow Memory
Group
Twitter@memorystudies
Lunch will be provided.
Places are limited: To secure a place please email Jon Lewin:
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