Hanky Day: Recent Visual Representations of Conflict in Northern Ireland
A one day symposium presenting interdisciplinary approaches to the visual representation of the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Saturday 26 November 2005
Manchester Metropolitan University
In 1972, on Bloody Sunday in Derry, thirteen people were killed by the British Army during what had originally been a peaceful protest. As people tried to help the dying they were themselves fired on and killed. The image of Father Edward Daly holding aloft a white handkerchief as he tried to bring the seventeen year old Jackie Duddy to safety has become one of the most pervasive icons of over thirty years of conflict. Hanky Day brings together artists, filmmakers and critical commentators who have made a significant contribution to the recent representation of political conflict in Northern Ireland.
Speakers include:
Graham Dawson, cultural historian, University of Brighton. He is currently completing a book on cultural memory, the Irish Troubles and the peace process for Manchester University Press, and has published several articles on this theme.
Rita Duffy, visual artist, Belfast, whose work since 1988 has been closely engaged with issues of political conflict in Northern Ireland.
Amanda Dunsmore, visual artist, Limerick. Her recent work in installation, photography, sound and video draws upon the archive of material collected by the artist during a residency at HMP Long Kesh / The Maze during the late 1990s.
Margo Harkin, filmmaker, Derry. Her current projects include a feature documentary on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry and she is also co-developing a drama on the 1980-81 Hunger Strikes in Long Kesh Prison.
Cahal McLaughlin, Media Arts, Royal Holloway College, is a documentary filmmaker whose work has been shown on C4, BBC and RTE. His current research is on recording testimonies from political conflict in Northern Ireland.
Louise Purbrick, History of Art and Design, University of Brighton, and author of 'The Architecture of Containment' in Donovan Wylie, The Maze, Granta, 2004.
The symposium will take place on Saturday 26 November 2005 between 1.30 and 6.00pm in the Lecture Theatre 5, Geoffrey Manton Building, All Saints Campus, Manchester Metropolitan University.
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