Carbon Slowly Turning: Movement, Energy, Landscape Conference
MK Gallery, 900 Midsummer Blvd, Milton Keynes, MK9 3QA
On the occasion of the Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning exhibition, MK Gallery and the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art are collaborating on their third conference.
The conference is imagined as a conversation with the exhibition, using the exhibition as a point of departure. At times, Pollard’s work will be directly referenced and, at others, ideas and strands of dialogue will emerge and escape from it. We are interested in thinking about movement, and the connections between the histories of art, energy, body cultures, landscape, geology, physiological aesthetics both historically and in the present. The movement of the body in space and through time has preoccupied Pollard across her career, whether she is working with photography, kinetic sculpture or ceramics. Bodies, both real and metaphorical, are perpetually set in motion – twisting, turning, bowing, walking, dancing, sweating, punching – engaging with ideas and questions about ecology, temporality, race and gender as they move across the landscape.
Speakers include: Evan Ifekoya, Richard Hylton, Gilane Tawadros, Liz Wells, Ella S. Mills, Cora Gilroy- Ware, Sheena Calvert, Ajamu X, Jackie Kay and Ingrid Pollard.
The conference is also available to attend online
