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Screenings and presentations addressing the relationship between the natural world and the moving image, with international filmmakers, artists and scholars. Curated by Anat Pick and Silke Panse, in association with QMUL and the UCA. Free symposium also at Queen Mary University. See full programme here. Booking information:Full day tickets: £20/£15 concession (£10 Whitechapel Gallery Membe...   [more]

Hear a combination of nominators and nominees involved in Designs of the Year describe their take on design innovation in this fast-paced series of timed presentations. Devised by Klein Dytham Architecture and deriving its name from the Japanese for ‘chit-chat’, PechaKucha sees each speaker talk about 20 images for 20 seconds each. Speakers include Patrick Bergel, Christophe Egret, Duncan Fitzsimons, Adrian...   [more]

In 1787, the painter Élisabeth-Louise Vigée de Lebrun presented a self-portrait at the Paris Salon. She was harshly attacked by critics for one feature of the portrait: in smiling, she showed her white teeth. Quite why the kind of smile so familiar in our day could provoke outrage will be investigated in this talk. In fact, eighteenth-century Paris was unique in Europe in seeing the emergence of such a sm...   [more]

Join us for an opportunity to hear Simon Starling discuss his practice in relation to his commission for the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain. For this commission Starling took as the point of departure the Tate Collection and the building that holds it, producing an installation that challenges ideas of linear time and highlights the continuum of art practices, historic and contemporary. I...   [more]

Shortlisted artist Cristina de Middel speaks about her work. Cristina De Middel (b. 1975, Spain) is nominated for her publication The Afronauts (2011, self-published). In 1964, after gaining independence, Zambia started a space programme led by Edward Makuka Nkoloso, sole member of the unheard of National Academy of Science, Space Research and Philosophy. The programme, whose aim was to send the fir...   [more]

In the context of our 'artist collective' season, please join us for an in conversation with The Lloyd Corporation. The Lloyd Corporation is a collaborative project that began in 2010 between Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees, encompassing works in sculpture, installation, print, video and text. The practice takes various social, material and aesthetic dimensions of the contemporary urban enviro...   [more]

This conversation accompanied by a screening of excerpts from Reanimation will address how video and performance art pioneer Joan Jonas develops new work often departing from literary references and working together with various artists. Jonas will give an insight into how she creates the different stages and formats that form a body of work, focusing on her most recent project Reanim...   [more]