Apologies for cross-posting but please find below details of a forthcoming workshop that may be of interest. Spaces are very limited for this free event, so please contact for reservations: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
Face to Face: Visual Cultures and Radical Distrust in the Middle East.
Saturday 11th February 2012, 12.30 – 7.00 pm.
Organised by October Gallery and The Radical Distrust Project, University of Kent.
This workshop featuring Laila Shawa alongside writers, academics and curators will address the ways in which visual cultures construct, represent and contest separatisms, violence and the breakdown of social trust in the Middle East.
In this interdisciplinary, interactive forum we wish to examine the role of various visual modes in the construction, representation and dismantling of separatism and distrust, including: street art, graphic novels/comics, film, architecture/urban planning, photography, painting, installations, art theory and art education. Questions we will be addressing together are:
• How does distrust manifest itself in visual icons and in the organisation of space?
• How do individuals, communities and artists negotiate or contest these visual manifestations of distrust?
• Can visual arts play a role in redeveloping trust between divided groups? What might this entail?
Speakers will include Laila Shawa, Robert Kluijver, Felicity Allen, Wendy Pullan, Gabriel Koureas, and Sue Malvern.
The event is organised by the Radical Distrust Project, University of Kent and October Gallery.
Spaces are limited for this free event so please RSVP to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
www.radicaldistrust.org
www.octobergallery.co.uk
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