Talks and Discussions - 2014

Chaired by Mark Fisher and including John Akomfrah, Kodwo Eshun (The Otolith Group) and Beatrix Campbell – the panel explores The Unfinished Conversation’s investigation of cultural, ethnic and personal identity through the memories of Stuart Hall.

Join curator Flavia Frigeri for a talk on Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs exhibition at Tate Modern. Flavia maps the trajectory for the cut-outs, shedding light on how and when Matisse started making these works.

In this event at Tate Modern, chaired by Lisa Appignanesi, Élisabeth Roudinesco presents this Lacan, of the margins, who heralds times that have become ours, foreseeing the rise of racism and segregation and a depressive society.

The influence of visual anthropology on cinema and the visual arts is explored in this screening and discussion at Tate Modern.

Considering the history of debates on women and photography both internationally and nationally, this panel will examine the changing place of women in the history of photography and within its institutions. Audio recording.

What is liveness and how can we understand it? How can performance challenge how we think about time and space? What do we understand by performativity in contemporary society? Part of BMW Tate Live at Tate Modern, audio recording.

Duchamp’s iconoclasm of a hundred years ago has arrived at the centre of 20th-century art history. What then, are the subversive strategies of today? This discussion focuses on Duchamp and how scholarship and artists approach him today. Audio recording

This panel will look at the changing idea of the global citizen, from whistle blowers to protestors and migrants, which inform an idea of the future citizen. Audio recording.

How have artists dealt with questions of citizenship and political representation through their practice? Can artists instigate a new form of community, simultaneously highlighting while pushing against the boundaries of exclusion? Audio recording

This event at Tate Modern examines how some institutions are responding to pressures to be more active agents within their commuties. Audio recording.