"Re-Contested Sites/Sights" Research Conference
Open Lecture
Artist: Simon Leung Title: Squatting Project/Berlin 1994, poster installation
TrAIN & CCW Graduate School | Re-Contested Sites/Sights Research Conference
Multidisciplinary Research Conference at Chelsea College of Art & Design
Supported by the Transnational Art, Identity, & Nation Research Centre (TrAIN), CCW Graduate School, University of the Arts London
Conference Date: May 8th 2013, 9:30 18:00
Venue: Banqueting Hall and Red Room,
Chelsea College of Art and Design
’Re-Contested Sites/Sights’ is the theme of UAL’s second Doctoral student-led research conference sponsored by the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, and Nation (TrAIN).
The conference will bring together research projects which challenge dominant ways of perceiving identities and bodies, spaces and places as well as questioning their visual representations. Last years keynote speaker, documentary film-maker Eyal Sivan, urged us to ‘re-vision’ these spaces, through acts of appropriation and re-appropriation. These presentations of various modes, from a range of disciplines, will continue to challenge these spaces in what promises to be a day full of creative exchanges of ideas and practices, between Doctoral candidates at the University of the Arts, London and TrAIN, with a selected number of PhD students from other UK Universities.
Keynote Speaker: T.J. Demos is critic and Reader in the Department of Art History, University College London. He writes widely on modern and contemporary art and politics under globalization, and is the author, most recently, of The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary During Global Crisis (Duke University Press, 2013), and Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (Sternberg, 2013). In 2007, he published The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp (MIT Press, 2007). He also recently guest edited a special issue of Third Text (no. 120, 2013) on the subject of “Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology.”
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TrAIN Open Series
The TrAIN Open series is a forum for invited speakers to present exhibition, publication, and research projects in the form of lectures, discussions and screenings.
Taking place at fortnightly intervals on Wednesday evenings during the academic term, the series is open to the public, as well as staff and students across the University of the Arts London.
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Re-Contested Sites/Sights Research Conference
TrAIN & CCW Graduate School | Re-Contested Sites/Sights Research Conference
Multidisciplinary Research Conference at Chelsea College of Art & Design
Supported by the Transnational Art, Identity, & Nation Research Centre (TrAIN), CCW Graduate School, University of the Arts London
Conference Date: May 8th 2013, 9:30 - 18:00
Venue: Banqueting Hall and Red Room,
Chelsea College of Art and Design’Re-Contested Sites/Sights’ is the theme of UAL’s second Doctoral student-led research conference sponsored by the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity, and Nation (TrAIN).
The conference will bring together research projects which challenge dominant ways of perceiving identities and bodies, spaces and places as well as questioning their visual representations.
Find out more about Re-Contested Sites/Sights Research Conference
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Ope Lori
Completed PhD
Image Making and the Oppositional Gaze: Re- Visualizing Western Representations of Race and Gender in the Female Body 1980 - 2010
Summary
This practice-led research takes an interdisciplinary approach to deconstructing and then reconstructing representations of race and gender in the female body, by critiquing stereotypical clichés of lesbian interracial couples in films and dramas between 1980 and 2010, through using my own ‘image-making’ performances for video and photography. These two major signs of difference are contextualized to consider how they interrelate within Western discourse, specifically in the United Kingdom and United States.
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