Event overview
Urban Memories - Urban Photographers' Association (UPA) Exhibition - Goldsmiths, University of London - London Festival of Architecture 2017
Cities are living archives and rediscovering their visual history is fundamental in the development of urban photographic practice. Nothing is cast in stone and only interpreted as heritage; the past is illusive and uncanny. How do historical photographs visualise and politicise daily life and architecture in order to commemorate and generate specific social histories, public memories, landscapes and pictorial archives? Cities are not merely architectural metaphors; they are mobile, evolving entities projecting memories deep into the social life of urban dwellers. In what way can urban photography break down social stereotypes and offer alternative ocular archives of cities? 'Urban Memories' tries to answer these questions through a variety of selected visual projects.
The Urban Photographers' Association (UPA) aims to show the work of contemporary international photographers focusing on cities and the urban realm. The photographers and artists shown in Urban Memories represent a diverse range of practices including landscape, architectural, portraiture, fine art, documentary, street-based and object photography; all informed by an active engagement with urban theory and associated research methods. The projects reflect the experiences of personal, often immersive involvement in the urban spaces and they also raise questions about how photography might speak to debates within urban ethnography and visual arts practice.
Exhibiting Artists: Peter Coles, Diego Ferrari, Michael Frank, Gill Golding,
Paul Halliday, Tanya Houghton, David Kendall, David Colm Killeen, Rebecca Locke,
Bas Losekoot, Luc Pauwels, Galit Seligmann, Gesche Würfel, Kyler Zeleny
Exhibition Designer and Curator: Stefano Carnelli
The event is part of the London Festival of Architecture: http://londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/
8 June 2017, 3:00PM – 6:00PM
Professor Victor Seider and Carla de Utra Mendes in conversation with artists:
Peter Coles, Gill Golding, Paul Halliday, Tanya Houghton and David Kendall
The gallery 'walk and talk’ with exhibiting UPA artists will focus on ‘urban memory’ and will be led by Carla de Utra Mendes, a contemporary art historian, critic and curator, who has collaborated with institutions such as Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation/CAMJAP (Portugal) and, currently, with organisations such as Openvizor (UK). Victor Seider an Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, will join her. His research interests include social theory and philosophy, critical theory and collective memory, identity and ethnicities. Carla and Victor lead a research group focusing on relationships between art history, philosophy, memory, architecture and sociology. The gallery talk is a public event and organised by David Kendall (Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London and Urban Photographers’ Association).
Photo © Gesche Würfel
Urban Photographers’ Association
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 30 May 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 31 May 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 1 Jun 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 2 Jun 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 3 Jun 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 4 Jun 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 5 Jun 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 6 Jun 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 7 Jun 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 8 Jun 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 9 Jun 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 10 Jun 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 11 Jun 2017 | 9:00am - 6:00pm |
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