Urban Encounters: Routes and Transitions Saturday 29 May, 2010 : 10am - 6pm Tate Britain, London£25 (£15 concessions), with post-conference reception For tickets, please book online at:
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/21168.htmor call: 020 7887 8888
Urban Encounters: Routes and Transitions explores the dialogue and practice of visual urbanism to bring together international researchers, academics, photographers and artists concerned with the transitional nature of contemporary urban space. This third annual conference will address how photographic practices and archives intersect with an understanding of local and global routes as ‘places’, considering the temporality of place and the cross-cultural juxtaposition of locales.
This conference approaches the city as a palimpsest of routes and its panels will consider local, global and remembered routes through film, photography and other visual urbanist approaches. Considering the cultural geographies of migration, change, place, identity and the process of making transitions, the conference will facilitate an on-going interdisciplinary dialogue about the growing field of urban visual practice, method and enquiry.
Participants will include:
Yazan Al-Khalili, Goldsmiths, University of London Michael Keith, Oxford University Nirmal Puwar, Goldsmiths, University of London Kuldip Powar, filmmaker Suki Ali, London School of Economics Paul Goodwin, Tate Britain Jilly Traganou, The New School, New York Michael McMillan, independent curator Joseph Heathcott, The New School, New York Zeynep Turan, The Graduate Center, CUNY Tristan Fennell, Fugitive Images Lars Johansson, Fugitive Images Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Fugitive Images and more...
Organised with the Tate Britain and the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths, University of London
This symposium is the centre of the Urban Encounters series, which takes place in several UK-based and international locations this spring, including the London galleries Photofusion and Viewfinder, and at the events Urban Encounters: City to Sea at Bognor Regis, UK in June and Urban Encounters at the Festival of the Image, Manizales, Colombia. More information can be found at
www.urbanencounters.org
