Event overview
Public talk by artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien as part of the Visual Cultures Public Programme
"Imaging Capital"
Capital has so far defied effective picturing. Famously, Marx compares it to gravity. Physicists have for centuries written about gravity but these scientific texts have been markedly bereft of illustrations. After all, how would any artist picture Gravity? In my practice as an artist-filmmaker there is a further problem as the images I create have, in theory at least, an indexical relationship to the real. Forgetting CGI technology and so forth for the moment, a filmmaker can only work with what is in front of him or her. That is to say, if it is far from simple to paint, draw or sculpt an abstraction, it is even more difficult to photograph one. How would one write dialogue for what is silent? How would one direct what is incorporeal? Most importantly, how would one film what is invisible?
In CHOREOGRAPHING CAPITAL, an event at the Hayward Gallery that was part of their Wide Open School, I put these questions to the brilliant Geographer and Dialectical Materialist David Harvey. With reference to PLAYTIME: CAPITAL, a multi-screen artwork that is currently in development, I will discuss my research process and search for a conceptual framework that might allow me to picture Capital.
ISAAC JULIEN (b. 1960) is a Turner Prize nominated British artist and filmmaker whose work incorporates film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and sculpture. His 1991 film Young Soul Rebels won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Julien is represented in museum and private collections throughout the world, including MoMA, Tate, the UK Government Art Collection, Centre Pompidou, the Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and the Brandhorst Museum.
Click here to visit Isaac Julien's website
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 13 Dec 2012 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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