Event overview
MA Photography & Urban Cultures Graduates Panel Discussion with Caroline Knowles
The Panel Members:
Carlo Navato, Frida Wang, Lauren Finch, Marissa Diekhoff
The Moderator:
Caroline Knowles BSc PhD, Professor of Sociology, Co-Director of CUCR
For each of these photographers, mnemonic experiences are essential in inspiring and informing their visual methods. Through various practices, they follow the trails left by memory to discover meanings rooted in the past, but translated in the present. The work of the four presenters will examine how memory is situated within urbanity through many forms. After the session, the presenters will participate in an open discussion and materials from each photographer will be available for viewing.
Carlo Navato’s series, The Forbidden Playground, is an interrogation of place stimulated by the potent childhood memories of explorative adventure. The imprints left by these formative experiences are re-contextualised after many decades through the making of a series of photographic artefacts.
Frida Wang’s visual essay, The Memory Fragments of the Hometown examines the last visual fragments of my hometown, Shidao, which was a beautiful fishing community deep in Eastern China.
Lauren Finch’s work, Objects of Comfort, explores mnemonic objects as aids in creating temporal homes for international students. Through photographs, her series unravels how memories and relationships are imprinted in everyday objects.
Marissa Diekhoff’s project, 150 High Street, uses photographic inquiry and artefacts of memory to examine how a ‘spirit of place’ is affected by modern regeneration practices. The work considers conflicting mnemonic narratives surrounding a particular plot of land as they are produced and proliferated through various spatial, social, and media networks.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Nov 2016 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm |
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