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Peripheral Visions: Urban Space and Photography


A one day conference taking place at the
Sallis Benny Theatre, University of Brighton,
Grand Parade, Brighton.


Saturday October 29 2005 11.00 – 18.00

This conference will seek to explore aspects of visioning the spaces of 
the
city through photography and the relationships of urban photography to 
the
narrative possibilities offered by film and literature. Through bringing
together practising photographers, filmmakers and novelists, the 
conference
will consider in what ways have different mediums contributed to our
understanding of the city, and in what ways they might equate with
contemporary urban experience. And if the city itself is being 
fundamentally
transformed in the era of globalisation what remains of its previous
symbolic value?  Thus, whilst the modern city has often been seen as
synonymous with its sites of economic, political and cultural power, 
this
conference will attend to the importance of marginal and peripheral 
urban
spaces, and the city’s geographical as well as social ‘edges’


Contributors to the conference: the photographers Mark Power and Rut 
Blees
Luxemburg, the novelist Iain Sinclair, filmmaker and writer Chris 
Petit, the
cultural historian Stephen Barber and writer on photography Joanna 
Lowry.

Conference Fee: £25/ £10 concessions (full-time students/unwaged). Fee
includes lunch and morning and afternoon tea/coffee. Payment by cheque 
only
and made payable to ‘University of Brighton’ to be sent to the address
below.

Contact: David Green, School of Historical and Critical Studies, 
University
of Brighton, 10/11 Pavilion Parade, Brighton, BN2 1RA.

Tel: 01273 643014     Fax: 01273 681935    Email: [log in to unmask]


Notes on the Contributors


Mark Power is one of the UK’s leading documentary photographers and a 
member
of the prestigious Magnum photographic agency. His most recent projects 
and
publications include The Shipping Forecast (1997) The Treasury Project
(2002) and Dome (2000).

Rut Blees Luxemburg has exhibited her photographs widely both in the UK 
and
abroad and her work has been included in many key exhibitions of
contemporary photography. Her practice has very largely focused upon
nocturnal images of the city and these feature in the publications 
London –
A Modern Project (1997), ffolly (2003) and Liebeslied/My Suicides (2000)
which was transformed into an opera and performed at the ICA, London 
(2004).

Chris Petit is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. Since his first
feature film Radio On (1979) he has written and directed numerous 
feature
films and documentaries for both cinema and television. He has often
collaborated with Iain Sinclair, in particular for a trilogy of films 
made
for Channel 4 and on the screen version of London Orbital (2002). He has
also published several novels and written on film.

Iain Sinclair – novelist, poet and essayist - is regarded as one of the 
UK’s
most inventive writers. Since the publication of his earliest works in 
the
1970s, the city of London has proved more subject than setting for his
writings. His collection of essays Lights Out for the Territory (1997) 
won
wide-spread critical acclaim and brought Sinclair’s work to a wide 
audience.
He has in the past collaborated on projects with the photographer Marc
Atkins and the filmmaker Chris Petit. His latest book – Edge of Orison –
will shortly be published by Penguin.

Stephen Barber is Professor of Media Arts at Kingston University. His 
books
include Fragments of the European City (1995), Extreme Europe (2001), 
Tokyo
Vertigo (2001), and Projected Cities (2002). His forthcoming books 
include
Raw City/The Memory of Europe, a novel Tokyo Slaughterhouse, and a
collaboration on a catalogue by the photographer Xavier Ribas, 
Sanctuario.
‘The Independent Newspaper’ has called him ‘a cultural historian of real
distinction’ and ‘most dangerous man in Europe’.

Joanna Lowry is Reader in Visual Theory at the University College of the
Creative Arts at Maidstone. She has written widely on photography, 
video and
contemporary art for such journals as Creative Camera, Portfolio and
Contemporary Visual Arts. She has also published major essays on the 
work of
Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman, Douglas Gordon and Ori Gehrst.




Peripheral Visions: Urban Space and Photography


Sallis Benny Theatre, University of Brighton,
Grand Parade, Brighton.

Saturday October 29 2005 11.00 – 18.00


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