Petrified History, Toxic Nostalgia
Join us for a panel discussion on memory, melancholia, monuments and mythology, featuring four of the artists exhibited in Testament: Roger Hiorns, Elizabeth Price, Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees (Lloyd Corporation), chaired by Gary Younge. Each artist will discuss their proposals for the exhibition, which question the permanent visibility of statues, public art commissioning, and the ways public spaces become contested sites of communication.
Testament is a large-scale group exhibition of 47 artists’ proposals considering the role of monuments. Artists’ contributions seek to magnify a multitude of conversations, from discussions about decolonising institutions, fallism, dislocation, memorialising, remembering and forgetting, to our current relationship with history, along with some intimate and personal responses. Submissions incorporate notes and sketches, drawings, poems, instructions, installations, sculptures, paintings, films, performances, and text, and include critical and celebratory positions and conversations about coping and surviving, ranging from the individual to the universal, and the local to the national.
This event will take place in the Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre on the Goldsmiths campus, a three-minute walk from the CCA. Please find directions to the venue here.
BIOGRAPHIES
Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of The Nation and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media. He has written five books, most recently Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, which won the J. Anthony Lukas prize from Columbia University in New York. He has also won several awards for his journalism which has appeared in The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Granta, GQ, the Financial Times and the New Statesman, as well as BBC radio and television and Channel 4, among others.
Lloyd Corporation is a collaborative project between artists Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees. Their practice utilises sculpture, installation, performance and text, often taking inspiration from informal and local economies. Processes typically involves close dialogue, site-specific research and collection of material culture from which their work takes shape. Selected exhibitions and projects include: Today’s Gift, Brighton CCA (2022), Person to Person, Carlos/Ishikawa (2020), Local to Global, Carlos/Ishikawa (2018), For Some Future Time, South London Gallery (2018), Bankrupt. Bulk Buy. Liquidation. Repossession, Frieze Live, London (2017), Mobile City, Fondazione Prada, Athens (2017), Developing Landscapes, Pump House Gallery (2016), Mirror City, Hayward Gallery (2014).
Roger Hiorns’ work is centred on investigating interactions between organic and inorganic objects, specifically relating to power relations and the perversity of authority. Exhibited in the atomisation of a passenger jet aircraft engine; antidepressants embedded in a complex piece of machinery; the presence of a nude youth aligned with nuanced objects; and a series of aircrafts buried in the earth, Hiorns’ works act as proposals that offer a new understanding of objects, and significantly, of the behaviours they can provoke. Born in 1975 in Birmingham, England, Hiorns lives and works in London. He has been featured in exhibitions at institutions throughout Europe and the Americas, including the Venice Biennale; MoMA PS1, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and De Hallen, Haarlem.
Elizabeth Price makes immersive video installations, which feature diverse historical materials including film and video, documents, plans, photographs and popular music. Price has exhibited in group shows internationally, and has had solo exhibitions at Artangel and Tate Britain, London; the Art Institute of Chicago, USA; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf; Index, Stockholm; Musée D’Art Contemporain, Montreal, and the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid. In 2012 she won the Turner Prize, and in 2013, she won the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award with the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers Museums, Oxford. Throughout her career as an artist, Price has continued to work in academia, and is presently Professor of Film and Photography in the School of Art, Kingston University.
Join us for a panel discussion on memory, melancholia, monuments and mythology, featuring four of the artists exhibited in Testament: Roger Hiorns, Elizabeth Price, Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees (Lloyd Corporation), chaired by Gary Younge. Each artist will discuss their proposals for the exhibition, which question the permanent visibility of statues, public art commissioning, and the ways public spaces become contested sites of communication.
Testament is a large-scale group exhibition of 47 artists’ proposals considering the role of monuments. Artists’ contributions seek to magnify a multitude of conversations, from discussions about decolonising institutions, fallism, dislocation, memorialising, remembering and forgetting, to our current relationship with history, along with some intimate and personal responses. Submissions incorporate notes and sketches, drawings, poems, instructions, installations, sculptures, paintings, films, performances, and text, and include critical and celebratory positions and conversations about coping and surviving, ranging from the individual to the universal, and the local to the national.
This event will take place in the Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre on the Goldsmiths campus, a three-minute walk from the CCA. Please find directions to the venue here.
BIOGRAPHIES
Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of The Nation and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media. He has written five books, most recently Another Day in the Death of America, A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives, which won the J. Anthony Lukas prize from Columbia University in New York. He has also won several awards for his journalism which has appeared in The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Granta, GQ, the Financial Times and the New Statesman, as well as BBC radio and television and Channel 4, among others.
Lloyd Corporation is a collaborative project between artists Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees. Their practice utilises sculpture, installation, performance and text, often taking inspiration from informal and local economies. Processes typically involves close dialogue, site-specific research and collection of material culture from which their work takes shape. Selected exhibitions and projects include: Today’s Gift, Brighton CCA (2022), Person to Person, Carlos/Ishikawa (2020), Local to Global, Carlos/Ishikawa (2018), For Some Future Time, South London Gallery (2018), Bankrupt. Bulk Buy. Liquidation. Repossession, Frieze Live, London (2017), Mobile City, Fondazione Prada, Athens (2017), Developing Landscapes, Pump House Gallery (2016), Mirror City, Hayward Gallery (2014).
Roger Hiorns’ work is centred on investigating interactions between organic and inorganic objects, specifically relating to power relations and the perversity of authority. Exhibited in the atomisation of a passenger jet aircraft engine; antidepressants embedded in a complex piece of machinery; the presence of a nude youth aligned with nuanced objects; and a series of aircrafts buried in the earth, Hiorns’ works act as proposals that offer a new understanding of objects, and significantly, of the behaviours they can provoke. Born in 1975 in Birmingham, England, Hiorns lives and works in London. He has been featured in exhibitions at institutions throughout Europe and the Americas, including the Venice Biennale; MoMA PS1, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and De Hallen, Haarlem.
Elizabeth Price makes immersive video installations, which feature diverse historical materials including film and video, documents, plans, photographs and popular music. Price has exhibited in group shows internationally, and has had solo exhibitions at Artangel and Tate Britain, London; the Art Institute of Chicago, USA; Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf; Index, Stockholm; Musée D’Art Contemporain, Montreal, and the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid. In 2012 she won the Turner Prize, and in 2013, she won the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award with the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers Museums, Oxford. Throughout her career as an artist, Price has continued to work in academia, and is presently Professor of Film and Photography in the School of Art, Kingston University.
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