Our friends at ArtAngel have give us a pair of tickets to the following talk:
Return to the Postcolony with T.J. Demos
10 October, 7.30pm, The Tin Tabernacle, £5
In the context of Nowhere Less Now’s many references to historical colonialism, T.J. Demos will discuss his upcoming book Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press). He is an art critic, curator, reader in the Department of Art History, University College London and writes widely on modern and contemporary art. To but tickets:bit.ly/QP8RP0
All you need to do to get the tickets is to email mark@FADpress.com putting I want those tickets in the header first email received gets the tickets.
Lindsay Seers: Nowhere Less Now
About The Show
On until 21 October 2012
The Tin Tabernacle 12-16 Cambridge Avenue Kilburn London NW6 5BA
Conceived specially for an arresting 19th century corrugated iron chapel in Kilburn, known locally as The Tin Tabernacle, Nowhere Less Now is an ambitious new installation by British artist Lindsay Seers.
From the unlikely connections between the chapel, the birth of her great great uncle, George Edwards, the birth of Mina Bergson, artist and sister of French philosopher Henri Bergson, and her own birth exactly 100 years later to the day, Seers has created a journey across time. Entangling global histories with intimate stories, the work explores image-making mediums, sea-faring and migration.
One event leads to another in a world where coincidence takes on the character of necessity. The unfurling narratives project forward as well as backwards, from the present to a future when dates have become irrelevant and photography redundant.
The discovery by Seers of a family photograph of great great uncle Edwards, taken whilst serving with the British navy in Zanzibar, took her in his wake to the islands off Africa’s east coast. Many things came to the surface in this archipelago, considered to be the seat of witchcraft in East Africa; from an Arab princess and a young English sailor drifting in the currents of Empire, to an inscription on a centuries old Baobab tree.
Combining photography, performance, video and animation, Nowhere Less Now is symptomatic of Seers’ relentless search for truths that remain elusive as they slip through the lens.
More Details:www.artangel.org.uk/
