David Blandy in conversation with Annie Jael Kwan
Chaired by Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé
As part of Atomic Light- David Blandy
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
Saturday 11 March 2023
1:30 - 2:30pm
Free, please book here
David Blandy, Sunspot, 2023, film still © the Artist. Courtesy of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan
Annie Jael Kwan is an independent curator and researcher, whose exhibition-making, programming, publication, and teaching practice is located at the intersection of contemporary art, cultural and pedagogical activism. She leads Asia-Art-Activism, the research network, and Asia Forum for the contemporary art of Global Asias.
Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé is a Lecturer in Digital Media Practice with the University of Southampton. Her book Gothic Remixed (Bloomsbury, 2020) examines contemporary remix culture through the lens of monster studies, and her co-edited collection Embodying Contagion (UWP / NWO Gold Open Access, 2021) explores how fantastical metaphors of contagion have infiltrated the way news media, policymakers and the general public view the real world and the people within it. Megen is also an editor of the Genealogy of the Posthuman, an Open Access initiative curated by the Critical Posthumanism Network.
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Southampton SO14 7DU
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Atomic Light is co-commissioned by John Hansard Gallery and Towner Eastbourne, supported by Arts Council England, The Elephant Trust and Screen Archive South East.