Borders and Crossing Them
Sara Naim (b. 1987, London) is a Syrian artist who grew up between Dubai and London. Her practice investigates human perception, through studying sight itself. Also fundamental to her practice is the notion of boundary, which she explores through visualizing micro-formations and their surrounding sinuous lines. She often uses scientific apparatus to make her sculptural photography, video and installation works.

Hamja Ahsan is an artist, writer, activist and curator based in London and Maastricht. He is the author of the book Shy Radicals: Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert, recently made into a documentary film by Ridley Scott Associates.
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Performance intervention as a critical practice against inaction: crafting body politics and geographies of labour
Raisa Kabir is an artist and weaver, who utilises woven text/textiles, sound, video and performance to address cultural anxieties surrounding nationhood, textile identities and the cultivation of borders. 

Chila Kumari Burman is an artist examining representation, gender and cultural identity through her practice. She works across the mediums of print making, painting, installation and film.

Spiralling
Tarek Lakhrissi (b. 1992, Châtellerault) is a visual artist and a poet based between Paris and Brussels. He currently teaches at CCC Research Master Program of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD (Geneva School of Art and Design).

The Fluid Space
Lyne Ismail has always been fascinated with the dual conceptions of art and science and how they influenced one another.
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Live Call by Lydia Ourahmane will be performed via +33623477681 on Friday 11 December from 09:00GMT for 24hrs. 

Susan Schuppli is a researcher and artist based in the UK whose work examines material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters and climate change. Current work is focused on the politics of cold. 

We are delighted to host a talk exchange between Slade School of Fine Art and Bangkok University, Visual Arts Department, School of Fine and Applied Arts. Kata Sangkae (Bangkok University): Artist in Transition- Politics and Pandemic and Neil Jeffries (Slade School of Fine Art): Reluctant Reliefs.

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via Zoom. Meeting ID: 930 0440 6769 

Curating Nation: narratives of difference and belonging
Hammad Nasar is a London-based curator, researcher and strategic advisor. He is presently Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art where he co-leads the ‘London, Asia’ project; Principal Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London; and co-curator of British Art Show 9 (2021-22). 

The Future Anterior 
Larissa Sansour works mainly with film, and also produces installations, photos and sculptures. Central to her work is the dialectics between myth and historical narrative. Born in East Jerusalem, Palestine, her recent work use science fiction to address social and political issues, dealing with memory, inherited traumas, power structures and nation states. 

Vulnerable & Pessimistic, Yet Still Laughing
Cédric Fauq (b. 1992) is a Paris–based French curator. He was recently appointed curator at Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

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Art, debt, capitalism and revenge
In this talk, Max Haiven discusses the threads that connect his last book Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization (2018) with his newly released Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts (May 2020).

The video of this lecture is available on UCL Media Central.

"Tap into my brain, little beasts" takes place online at 5pm on 15 May via Microsoft Teams. The video of this lecture can be seen on UCL Media Central.

All The Bad Things I’ve Done.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on UCL Media Central.

This talk has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule in the future. Watch this space for updates.

One of the most daring yet poetic voices in the contemporary art scene, artist Chen Chieh-Jen (b. 1960, Taiwan) cultivates critical reflections on (post-) colonialism, power structure, state violence, and the system of neoliberalism.

In Praise of Shadows
Alexandria Smith’s work interweaves memory, autobiography and history to explore girlhood experiences that culminate in the complexities of Black identity and its relationship to the body.

Rebelling for Life by Naomi Leake
Extinction Rebellion is a global environmental movement which believes we are facing an unprecedented global emergency. Our joint loss is huge. Half of all animals have ‘vanished’ in just one lifetime. We are in an Ecological crisis, a mass species extinction. Our course is set to planetary system collapse.

‘O’er Campagna’s meadows the bold Britons ride’: English encounters with Italian animals in the Roman environs
Dr Robert Hearn is an Assistant Professor in Human Geography at the University of Nottingham, with a specific focus on cultural-historical geography and environmental History.

Comedian and writer.

Malik Nashad Sharpe is a choreographer and dancer making performances under their aliases Marikiscrycrycry and DANCEw/YUNGMARIK!!

The video of this lecture can be viewed on UCL Media Central.

Swiping Right(-wing): Representation and the Populist Imagination
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou is a Lecturer in Social Theory at University College London, and head of the UCL Sociology & Social Theory Research Group. He is a Senior Editor at the New School’s Public Seminar, where he is leading the research seminar ‘Imaginal Politics’, with Chiara Bottici and Judith Butler. Aris' current book project is titled ‘Speculative Communities: Re-imagining Society and Polity through Finance’.

Céline Condorelli (CH, IT, UK) is a London and Lisbon-based artist, and was one of the founding directors of Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK. She is the author and editor of Support Structures published by Sternberg Press (2009).

The video of this lecture can be seen on UCL Media Central.

Choreographer, Director, Artist
Artist and choreographer Holly Blakey creates work spanning many media including live performance, film and collaborations with visual artists globally.

To coincide with an exhibition of Edward Allington's work at UCL Art Museum.

Ayesha Hameed’s work explores contemporary borders and migration, critical race theory, Walter Benjamin, and visual cultures of the Black Atlantic.

Gray is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, Critical Studies in the Art Department at Goldsmiths University, London. Her research explores the trajectories of militant filmmaking, particularly in relation to liberation struggles and revolutionary movements in Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, Guinea-Bissau and Burkina Faso.

Marguerite Humeau (born 1986, France) lives and works in London. She studied at the Royal College of Art, London, where she obtained her MA in Design Interactions in 2011.
Venue: Wilkins Building (Main Building) Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre

Harold Offeh is an artist working in a range of media including: performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice.
Venue: Christopher Ingold Building XLG2 Auditorium

Christopher Ingold Building XLG2 Auditorium *note venue change. For directions, see the map.

Producer, artist, programmer and hacker.
Venue: Christopher Ingold Building XLG1 Chemistry Lecture Theatre. Please note venue change. For directions, see the map.

Shen Xin graduated from La Salle College of the Arts in Singapore in 2012 and studied for her MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 2014. Through images and events, Shen explores emotions, value judgements and ethics that circulate through individual and collective subjects.

This video of this lecture can be viewed on UCL Media Central.

Utilising various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing and watercolour, Suzanne Treister has evolved a large body of work which engages with eccentric narratives and unconventional bodies of research to reveal structures that bind power, identity and knowledge.

Sophie Jung (b.1982) lives and works in Basel and London. Her practice addresses representation and its pitfalls, both culturally as a system of disguised and shifting signs and personally as a way to track and record life.

The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Adham Faramawy is an artist based in London. His work spans media including moving image, sculptural installation and print, engaging and using technology to discuss issues of materiality, touch, embodiment and identity construction.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on UCL Media Central.

Alia Syed’s recent works combine her interest in storytelling with a compelling presentation of history as visual narrative. Her unique approach sutures different subject positions in relation to culture, diaspora and location. She was shortlisted for the 2015 Jarman Award and her latest film On a wing and a prayer was shown at London Film Festival in 2016.
This video of this lecture can be viewed on UCL Media Central.

Maheke's work considers the potential of the body as an archive in order to examine how memory and identity is formed and constituted. Please note: this lecture will take place at the ANATOMY JZ Young Lecture Theatre, G29, Anatomy Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

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The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Biswas works across different media including painting and drawing, film, digital video, performance and photography. Her art engages with questions of identity, race and gender in relation to time, space and history.

Paul Greengrass is a film director, film producer, screenwriter and former journalist.
The video of this Q&A can be viewed on YouTube.

Denzil Forrester’s work is rich, complex and highly sophisticated. The strength of his draftmanship and his extraordinary use of colour enable him to bring to his canvasses dynamic movement, and purposeful power. London’s urban life is his main source of inspiration. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Aaron Angell was born in Kent in 1987. He completed a BA at Slade School of Fine Art in 2011. He currently lives and works in London.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Jon Revett is an artist and educator living in Amarillo, Texas. He is the Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at West Texas A&M University, but he also maintains an active studio practice. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

McKeever commenced working as an artist in 1969 after studying English Literature. His first solo exhibition took place at the ICA, London in 1973. His early work as a painter grew out of a conceptual interest in landscape, painting and photography in which often a photographic element was juxtaposed with a drawing or overpainted.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Timothy Hyman talks about Bhupen Khakhar and his new book, The World New Made. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Tess Jaray was born in 1937 and studied painting at St Martins School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art, where she later taught until 1999. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has work in public collections including the Tate Gallery, the Arts Council and the British Museum. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Richard Gasper (born 1982) is a multi disciplinary artist from London. He studied Painting at the The Slade School of Fine Art 2001-5, BA 1st Hons, Painting at the Royal College of Art, 2005-7 (MA) and was awarded The Sainsbury Scholarship in Sculpture and Painting 2010-11 at The British School at Rome. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Merlin James is a painter based in Glasgow. He studied at the Central School of Art and the Royal College of Art, London. Recent solo exhibitions include 'Meeting at the Building', Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin (current); 'Long Game', CCA Glasgow (current); 'Genre Paintings', Sikkema Jenkins & Co. New York (2015); 'Freestyle', Kunstverein Freiburg (2014); 'Signal Box', Kunst-Werke Institut Berlin (2013). The video of this lecture can be seen on YouTube.

Emma Hart lives and works in London. In 2016 she was won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery and will have a solo exhibition there in 2017.  In 2015 she was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Foundation award for Visual Art. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Widely credited with having contributed to the revival of painting in the 1990s, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans continues to assert its relevance by addressing a diverse range of topics. Quiet, restrained, and at times unsettling, his works engage equally with questions of history and its representation as with quotidian subject matter cast in unfamiliar and eerie light. Painted from pre-existing imagery, they often appear slightly out-of-focus and sparsely colored, like third-degree abstractions from reality. Whereas earlier works were based on magazine pictures, drawings, television footage, and Polaroids, recent source images include material accessed online and the artist’s own iPhone photos, printed out and sometimes re-photographed several times. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Daniel Richter (born 1962) is a German artist based in Berlin and Hamburg.

A British artist of Balinese descent, Sinta Tantra was born in New York in 1979. Tantra is well regarded for her site-specific murals and installations in the public realm.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Da Thirst (b. 2012) is an expanded form magazine and artist conglomerate. Da Thirst works with an international, rotating assemblage of artists, musicians, writers, and cartoonists to produce an annual publication. Da Thirst is distributed throughout Europe and the USA. Recent live events include Da Thirst Issue 3 Launch Party at Golden Grill Kebabs, Haters Gonna Fête at the ICA, and Da Thirst Issue 4 Launch Party at Super Exclusive Secret East London Warehouse Location. Da Thirst is very real. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Jesse Wine, (b. 1983, Chester, UK, based in London) gained his BA Fine Art at Camberwell College of Art (2007) and his MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (2010). The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube. 

Hoor Al-Qasimi, President and Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, is a practicing artist who received her BFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2002), a Diploma in Painting from the Royal Academy of Arts (2005) and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London (2008).

George Henry Longly works with sculpture, video, music and performance.

Born in 1978 in Kent, England, Anj Smith studied at Slade School of Fine Art and at Goldsmiths College in London. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Tintin Wulia was Artist-in-residence at Slade School of Fine Art, 28 September – 6 November 2015 as part of the Transnational Art Network research project at the Slade. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Born in London in 1981, graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2006, undertook a residency at the British School at Rome from 2008 to 2009, and in 2013 graduated from the Royal Academy Schools, London.

Alanna Heiss, Director of Clocktower Productions, is a leader of the groundbreaking early 1970’s alternative spaces movement in New York City, which radically changed the way large-scale art projects were produced, shown, and seen.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Jake & Dinos Chapman make iconoclastic sculpture, prints and installations that examine, with searing wit and energy, contemporary politics, religion and morality.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Amalia Pica (B. 1978 Neuquén, Argentina), lives and works in London.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

The video of this lecture is available on YouTube.

Venice-born Vitturi arrived in London nine years ago, having graduated in photography and design in Rome in 2004 and served a creative apprenticeship with Fabrica, the famous Benetton-funded communications research centre in Treviso.

Semiconductor is UK artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. In their art works they explore the material nature of our world and how we experience it through the lens of science and technology, questioning how they mediate our experiences.

Jean Spencer was Slade Secretary and Tutor to Students 1988 – 98 and was made a Reader in 1995.

Aura Satz’s work encompasses film, sound, performance and sculpture. In recent years she has made a collection of films that look closely at sound visualisation through various technologies and acoustic devices, in parallel to an ongoing engagement with the question of women’s contributions to labour, technology and scientific knowledge.

Rob Kesseler works in the overlapping territories between Art, Design, Photography, Applied Art and Science.

In this lecture, Michael Bracewell will offer a consideration of cultural studies in relation to creative writing, belles lettres, contemporary art, pop, modern history and autobiography.

A wide range of materials are used to create artists¹s pigments, from minerals to organic dyes, from poisonous compounds to human remains. This talk will present a series of stories associated with the use of colour using examples from the Neolithic to the present which will demonstrate that colour is not the only driving factor in the choice of certain materials.
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Metod Blejec is a multidisciplinary free-range hybrid-creative who works across experimental art, design, education and consultancy. Hiraki Sawa’s video installations present intimate observations in transitory landscapes, familiar surroundings often inhabited by anoetic forms.
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Born in Oxford in 1945, he qualified in architecture in the late 1960s and has worked across the fields of sculpture, stage design, drama, opera, parades, festivals and interior design.

Nina Ashby is a psychic reader, teacher and healer of international repute, born with the ability to see the aura, or subtle energy that surrounds every living thing.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Jacqui Poncelet established herself as a major figure in the international ceramics scene during the late 1970’s and I980’s before diversifying her practice to work in a wide range of media including painting, sculpture and textiles, as well as public commissions one of which was a series wool blankets produced for the Tate with Merlin Tregwynt.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Sophie Raikes is the Assistant Curator (Sculpture) at the Henry Moore Institute.
The video of this lecture can be seen on YouTube.

Meekyoung Shin (b.1967; South Korea) is an internationally renowned London-based Korean artist.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Since the late 1960s Bruce McLean has employed a range of media to consider ‘the condition of sculpture,’ exploring the limits of what a sculpture can be.

Doug Fishbone is an American artist living and working in London. He has shown at Tate Britain, the Hayward, ICA and the Southbank Centre, as well as gaining notoriety for 'dumping' 30,000 bananas in Trafalgar Square (2004).
The video of this lecture can be viewed on Vimeo.

For Bob and Roberta Smith, art is an important element in democratic life. Much of his art takes the form of painted signs.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on Vimeo.

Lisa Lefeuvre is a curator and writer on art and Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.

hance is crucial to Tim Knowles’ work, which is generated by apparatus, mechanisms, systems and processes beyond the artist’s control.
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Nick Crowe is an artist and senior lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths. His work made in collaboration with Ian Rawlinson is primarily concerned with the languages of power, with its grammar and with its rhetoric.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on Vimeo.

Garth Evans is a sculptor who began his career in Britain and now lives and works in New York. The video of this lecture can be viewed on Vimeo.

Tania Kovats is an artist whose practice encompasses sculpture, installation and large scale time-based projects exploring our experience and understanding of landscape. The video of this lecture can be viewed on Vimeo.

Charlotte Cullinan and Jeanine Richards are an artist duo whose output is largely involved with the idea that 'the exhibition' can be a medium itself.
The video of this lecture can be viewed on Vimeo.

Mariele Neudecker is an artist whose work explores environments as diverse as north-western Greenland, a domestic house in Brighton and the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich. The video of this lecture can be viewed on Vimeo.

Tomoko Takahashi is a Japanese artist, until 2010 based in London.

Matthew Jarron is Museum Curator at the University of Dundee where he has responsibility for the University of Dundee's historic collections of art and artefacts. The video of this lecture can be viewed on Vimeo.

Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi studied at the Slade in the 1950s. His work was on show in the exhibition Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist at Tate Modern in 2013. The video of this lecture can be seen on UCL Media Central.

Emily Richardson's films explore landscapes and environments to reveal the way that activity, movement and light is inscribed in place.

Anne Hardy is an artist who photographs large-scale interior spaces which she carefully constructs over several months.

Richard Wilson is a sculptor, internationally celebrated for his interventions in architectural space which draw heavily on the worlds of engineering and construction.

Penelope Curtis is Director of Tate Britain.

Sally O’Reilly produces publications, videos and performances that find curious links between apparently divergent phenomena.

Jeremy Millar is an artist, curator of and writer on contemporary art. The video of this lecture can be viewed on Vimeo.

Kodwo Eshun is an artist and member of The Otolith Group (with Anjalika Sagar).

The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Margarita Gluzberg makes painting, drawings, installation and sound work.

Gavin Butt is an art historian and author of Between You and Me: Queer Disclosures in the New York Art World 1948-1963, Duke University Press, 2005 and editor of After Criticism: New Responses to Art and Performance, Blackwell, 2004.

Caroline Achaintre is an artist interested in German Expressionism and post-war modernism.

Gavin Wade is an artist and curator and director of Eastside Projects in Birmingham.

Gail Pickering makes sculpture, installations, performances and films.

Jussi Parikka is a media theorist and author of Insect Media Minnesota Press 2010 and What is Media Archaeology?  Polity Press 2012. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Simon Bill, is a painter known for his oval shaped paintings using diverse material that range from abstract compositions to images that include Mr. Blobby and the duck/rabbit icon.

Ben Rivers is a filmmaker. In 2010 he was shortlisted for the Jarman Award and received a Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists. Recent exhibitions include Slow Action, Picture This, Bristol 2010 and Matt’s Gallery, London 2011. He is represented by Kate MacGarry Gallery London.

Liz Price is an artist Filmmaker artist Exhibitions include The Tent Bloomberg Space London
 Here Baltic Gateshead
 and The Woolworths Choir of 1979 MOTINTERNATIONAL London, all 2012.

Leung Mee Ping has had an international career since graduating from L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France and obtaining her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, USA.

John Russell is an artist whose recent solo shows include Jexus, MOTINTERNATIONAL Brussels 2012; Angel of History: I can see for miles, Focal Point Gallery Southend 2011; and Ocean Pose, Matts Gallery London. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Mark Titchner is an artist who explores systems of belief, focusing on marginalized or forgotten ideologies and objects. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Andrew Hunt is the director and curator of Focal Point Gallery Southend and a jury member for this year's Turner Prize. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Lala Rukh Selim  is a sculptor and and associate professor of the sculpture department at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Dhaka University, Bangladesh. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Robin Mackay is a philosopher and editor and publisher of Collapse Journal of Philosophical Research and Development. The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Steve Goodman aka Kode 9 is a musician, theorist of sonic culture and founder of Hyperdub Records, the record label of Burial and Laurel Halo.

Spartacus Chetwynd stages performances and events that restage iconic, historical events.

Alice Channer is a sculptor concerned with materiality, consumerism and fashion.

The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

Poetry and Patronage: Artist's Thinking at Work in the City.
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The Surge of Contemporary Korean Art.

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The video of this lecture can be viewed on YouTube.

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