Conference: Memory, Media, Global Formations (CCCS)
University of Greenwich, 30th April and 1st May 2009
Screening
Thursday 30 April
3pm-6pm: Greenwich Picturehouse (info)
For the Record (55mins -2009) by Mairead McClean
Screening and Q&A with Henry McDonald
Conference
Friday 1 May 2009
Queen Anne Court, Greenwich Campus
9.30am: Registration and coffee
10am - 1pm (Edinburgh
Stephanos Stephanides
Leo Burley
2pm - 6pm:
Marianne Franklin
Jeffrey Olick
Susannah Radstone
The concept of cultural trauma has become increasingly central to contemporary cultural, political and academic debate. This transdisciplinary conference considers academic and creative approaches to understanding the processes associated with collective memory, its signification, preservation and reproduction through mediation.
Is the memory of others also our own? By taking into account that it might be, societies expand their sense of identity and belonging. Conversely social groups can and very often do refuse to recognise the existence of others’ trauma and the validity of their memory and such refusal is manifested through particular media practices and artefacts.
How have artists, film makers, media producers and academics generated and intervened in debates on global formations, national identity and cultural homogeneity?
This conference will explore possible responses to the proliferation of (personalised) media production, dissemination and social networking in order to understand and analyse memory from within and create new collectivities and conceptualisations of memory.
Memory-Media_Global Formations
two performances in duet
Friday, 1st May : 10.30am. Convene in Edinburgh (075) Queen Anne Court
Mark Wayman: Some Instructions
Mark Wayman takes as his starting point the fabric, function and significance of a chosen location. Through an intense verbal description of it he spins an elaborate alternative version. The place may be mundane, but the artist's meticulous monologues reveal its miniature histories, disturbing our perception of what may previously have seemed familiar.
Mark Wayman has exhibited widely in the UK and Europe including Royal College of Art, Camden Arts Centre, ICA & the British Library.
1.30pm. Queen Anne Courtyard
Jiva Parthipan: Terror of Living
On the I5 January 2007 the British press reported another attempt to foil a terrorist threat. This involved a group trying to make a chapatti (Indian bread) flour bomb. The great British love affair with Indian food had taken a whole new meaning this time around. By rearranging material from found media with personal encounters with terrorism and anti-terror (ism), the artist explores the terror of living as he cooks, demonstrates and narrates, navigating through one of the pressing concerns of our times.
Jiva Parthipan’s work has been seen at the Tate Modern, Arnolfini, Fierce Festival, Sadlers Well and the National Review of Live Art.
Further info: C.Smith@gre.ac.uk