Event overview
The study day invites artists, archivists, lecturers, students and researchers to exchange ideas, debate and respond to questions on art, science, and ethics.
The study day invites artists, archivists, lecturers, students and researchers to exchange ideas, debate and respond to some of the questions underpinning Dora Project.
Combining contemporary art, WW2 London and early rocket engineering, Dora Project aims to critically engage with the politics of the visualisation of memory as art practice and address issues of ethics in art and science. The Dora Project contributes to the 70th anniversary of the end of WW2 and the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Dora Project is led by Françoise Dupré in collaboration with Rebecca Snow.
The study day is a collaboration between Jenny Doussan, Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths and Françoise Dupré, artist and senior lecturer at Birmingham School of Art-BCU, with guest speaker Gabrielle Decamous, Associate Professor, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, Kyushu University, Japan.
Concerns for the day include:
??- Memory: performing memory, witness as subject, memorials, testimonies, archives, local histories, WW2 history
?- The image: the real and history, ethical dimensions of aesthetics and (re)presentation of the unrepresentable, the commodification of the traumatic image
- Time-space: mutability of sites, layered topography through time and socio-political changes
- Ethics in science: science for war, space engineering contaminated by concentrationary universe
More information on the Dora Project
Dates & times
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11 Feb 2015 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
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