Document – Time – Memory: in art, film and photography
Tate Liverpool
Friday 17th March 2006
10.30am - 5.00pm
£40 (£20 concessions)
Places strictly limited
Includes lunch and refreshments
This one day conference considers ways in which documentary material has been used in art, photography and film. Documentary, as well as art practices, can often become involved in the construction of one set of images, which can be at the expense or the erasure of another set of competing representations. The tensions over questions of authenticity, truth, and history all come into play as material is turned into art work. Papers will explore the influences and creative potential of documentary, as well as assessing the tensions, controversies and complications involved in dealing with the shifting boundaries between fact and fiction.
This event complements the Tate Liverpool exhibition Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, which runs 3 February – 23 April.
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Chair: Steven Gartside
Speakers include:
Camilla Brown (Photographers’ Gallery)
David Campany (University of Westminster)
Margaret Harison (MMU)
Ben Highmore (UWE Bristol)
William Raban (artist filmmaker)
Nigel Warburton (Open University)
Booking: telephone Tate Liverpool on 0151-702 7400
Further Information can be obtained from Dr Steven Gartside:
E: s.gartside@mmu.ac.uk
T: 0161 247 6224
The conference is a collaboration between Tate Liverpool and the Location, Memory and the Visual Research Group, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University