Event overview
As part of the Visual Cultures Guest Lecture Series, Alia Syed will screen and discuss her film 'Wallpaper.'
In this performative documentary between four generations of women, Syed uses the memory of a wall painting her grandmother made in her late forties to explore the matrilineal relationships within her immediate family. Giving precedence to the relational dynamics of filming, this split screen work intercuts various combinations of video, which documents the process of making a 16mm film, with the actual 16mm footage.
Alia Syed's work embraces a wide range of film practices, eluding a single, definable form. Her art problematises the image particularly in relation to notions of gender and cultural difference. Syed has shown at film festivals around the world including Arrows of Desire (1991) at The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London; Pandemonium (1996) and Views of London (1997) ; 25 years of British Avant Garde at Tate Gallery, London (1991); Beyond Destination at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (1994); Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (1996); Performing Bodies at Tate Modern, London, UK (2000) ; Personal Space, A Century of Artists’ Films in Britain at Tate Britain, London 2003. In 2002, inIVA’s touring exhibition of her films, "Jigar," travelled to London, Walsall, Leigh and The Glasgow Museum of Modern Art. In 2003 she had a solo exhibition at New York’s Talwar Gallery. “Eating Grass” was shown in the Sydney Biennalle and the British Art Show 6. She recently has had Solo shows in The Talwar Gallery New Delhi and the Reina Sophia Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid. She completed her Bachelors in Fine Arts from University of East London in 1987 and Postgraduate work in Mixed Media from Slade School in 1992. Alia Syed also received a decibel artists award in 2004. She currently teaches at Southampton Solent University. Her Film Priya is currently being shown at MoMA New York. An interactive film can be downloaded from aliasyed.net
Dates & times
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10 Feb 2011 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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