Event overview
The Department of Media & Communications' Radical Media Forum: Media Experiments, presents:
"Disrupting The Gaze: Part 1 - Art intervention and the Tate Gallery" by Marc Garrett - Thursday, February 21, 2013, 5:30 (New Academic Building 102)
Marc Garrett will present the first section of his two part paper 'Disrupting The Gaze'. Part one 'Art Intervention and the Tate Gallery'.
We live in a world riddled with contradictions and confusing signals. Our histories are assessed, judged and introduced as fact yet there are so many bits missing. We accept what is given through sound bite forms of mediation and end up using misinformation as our cultural foundations, and then we build on these ‘acquired’ assumptions as our ‘imagined’ guidelines. This critique studies how contemporary artists are challenging these defaults through their connected enactments and critical inquiries of the existing conditions. It highlights a continual dialogue involving a historical struggle between what is condoned as legitimate art and knowledge, and what is not. It looks at a complexity, embedded in our culture and its class divisions in Britain. And draws upon struggles going as far back as the enlightenment, the industrial revolution, colonialism and slavery - to present day concerns with neoliberalism and its dominance. The Tate gallery is used as a reference point and a site of focus for these various historical and contemporary, political and societal conflicts.
The artists’ and art groups featured, such as Graham Harwood, Platform, IOCOSE, Tamiko Thiel, and Mark Wallinger; has each delivered a particular (unofficial and official) mode of art intervention at the Tate Gallery.
Marc is a Net artist, media artist, curator, writer, street artist and activist. Emerging in the late 80's from the streets exploring creativity via agit-art tactics. Using unofficial, experimental platforms such as the streets, pirate radio such as the locally popular ‘Savage Yet Tender’ alternative broadcasting 1980's group, net broadcasts, BBS systems, performance, intervention, events, pamphlets, warehouses and gallery spaces. In the early nineties, was co-sysop (systems operator) with Heath Bunting on Cybercafe BBS with irational.org.
Radical Media Forum: Media Experiments
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Feb 2013 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
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