2016-2017

This major symposium focuses on the work of William Kentridge, bringing together a range of speakers to explore his relationship to early cinema, drawing practices, abstraction and historical enactment.

The event draws on selected animations, installations and moving image works in the Whitechapel Gallery exhibition William Kentridge: Thick Time  (21 September 2016 - 15 January 2017), addressing concepts of history and temporality, embodiment and subjectivity, technology and tactility, and the self and the sensory.

Speakers include: Ian Christie,  Briony Fer, Tamar Garb, Margaret Iversen, Ed Krcma, Michael Newman, Griselda Pollock and Richard Taws

2-6 pm, Whitechapel Gallery

Artist talk with Linder Sterling

Poster for the event (pdf)

Histories of race, histories of colour:

This informal discussion identifies strategies that attend to the imbrications of race and colour in various histories. How have historical actors, as well as scholars, tapped into colour's resistive potentials to race?  What are some of the tensions and possibilities in attempts to connect local and global histories of race and color? Rizvana Bradley, Mechthild Fend and Natasha Eaton join attendees in discussing scholarship that: engages race and colour's shared materiality; tracks race and colour's sites of reproduction, circulation, and reception; and explores race and colour as related regimes of perception and value.

Glenn Ligon in conversation with Rizvana Bradley and Mignon Nixon

Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 4-6pm

Poster for the event (pdf)