David Blandy - 'Other Worlds'
The Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network public programme will continue with an online talk given by the artist David Blandy on 29 January.
David Blandy - 'Other Worlds'
29 Jan 2025, 16:30 – 18:00
Other Worlds - This talk will explore the potential for exploring archives, sites and ideas through tabletop roleplay techniques. David Blandy will talk through his use of worlding, speculative fiction and games in his artistic practice, and the collaborative creation of works such as The World After and Lost Eons.
David Blandy (1976, Lives & works in Brighton) He is represented by Seventeen Gallery, London. His films are distributed by LUX, London.
David Blandy is an artist that makes work that slips between performance and video, digital and analogue, investigating the stories and cultural forces that inform and influence our lives. Collaboration is central to his practice, examining communal and personal heritage and interdependence. With research spanning multiple forms of archive, from historic texts to academic archives, archaeology and ecological theory, twitch streams and film archives, Blandy weaves poetic works that explore the complexities of the contemporary subject.
This online talk is free and open to all and will be hosted on Zoom. Register for the event via the booking link above.
There will be an in person workshop connected to this talk on Wednesday 26th February in London. To register for the workshop please email: nastassja.simensky.20@ucl.ac.uk
The Archaeology-Heritage-Art Research Network examines the varied ways in which archaeology, heritage and art converge across a broad range of concepts and practices, from artistic interventions in the museum space to archaeological interpretations which deploy and take inspiration from contemporary art.
Image courtesy of David Blandy
Further information
Ticketing
Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes