- Venue
Rivington Place
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Time
9:00am-5.45pm
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Admission
£35 (£17.50 concessions) Please call 020 7749 1240 to reserve a place
- Artists
“Inspiring ideas on clothing and immigration” (Karin Ahlberg, Anthropology at SOAS)
“Very dynamic, very diverse…I think the format of academics and artists was brilliant” (Anonymous artist delegates)
Second Skins aims to open up a dialogue on ‘cloth and difference’ via a series of cross-cultural and interdisciplinary exchanges. Issues of identity and cultural heritage are readily expressed through cloth and its tactile quality induces personal and collective associations. Cloth ‘speaks’. By drawing together creative thinkers across visual art, design, cultural studies, anthropology and sociology, Second Skins explores the production, consumption and language of cloth, considering:
- Why is there a renewed interest in fabrication – in creative making and the haptic – in the digital age? In what ways are visual artists engaging with and reinventing approaches to textiles and craft practices?
- What role does cloth play in the re-fashioning of identities in geographical and symbolic border crossing? How are race, culture and gender involved in these processes and representations?
- How are indigenous cloths worn, appropriated, collected and displayed in post-colonial and diasporic cultures?
Speakers include: Sokari Douglas Camp, Raimi Gbadamosi, Jessica Hemmings, John Hutnyk, Margareta Kern, Sarat Maharaj, Sarah Quinton, Hans Hamid Rasmussen and Rosanna Raymond
Organised by Christine Checinska in collaboration with Iniva
Tickets are £35 each (£17.50 concessions), the price of the ticket includes lunch and refreshments.
Please contact Rivington Place bookings to reserve a place 020 7749 1240 or email bookings@rivingtonplace.org
Second Skins Programme
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- View on the symposium’s main space before it started Second Skins: Cloth and Difference 30 April 2009 Symposium © Christa Holka
- Dr. Raimi Gbadamosi in conversation in the foyer Second Skins: Cloth and Difference 30 April 2009 Symposium © Christa Holka
- Christine Checinska in the foyer Second Skins: Cloth and Difference 30 April 2009 Symposium © Christa Holka
- From left to right: Christine Checinska, Prof. Sarat Maharaj, Sarah Quinton and Tessa Jackson Second Skins: Cloth and Difference 30 April 2009 Symposium © Christa Holka
- Tessa Jackson’s introduction to the symposium Second Skins: Cloth and Difference 30 April 2009 Symposium © Christa Holka
- Professor Sarat Maharaj’s speech Second Skins: Cloth and Difference 30 April 2009 Symposium © Christa Holka
- Professor Sarat Maharaj Second Skins: Cloth and Difference 30 April 2009 Symposium © Christa Holka
- From left to right: Prof. Sarat Maharaj, Sarah Quinton and Christine Checinska Second Skins: Cloth and Difference 30 April 2009 Symposium © Christa Holka
- Christine Checinska Second Skins: Cloth and Difference 30 April 2009 Symposium © Christa Holka
- Christine Checinska Untitled 2006 © Christine Checinska
- Film still from The Nightingale © Grace Ndiritu, 2003
- Hans Hamid Rasmussen Vers le centre de la terre 240x220cm, presented at Guangzhou triennial 2008Currently exhibited at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo © Hans Hamid Rasmussen
- Cover of John Hutnyk’s first book Picture by Ashis Auddy
- Cover of Jessica Hemmings’ book
- Margareta Kern Nevena (John Galliano dress) from the Graduation Dresses series of photographs © Margareta Kern 2006
- RGb, Dr. Raimi Gbadamosi Flag of the Republic
- Rosanna Raymond G?nang G?near Photo by Greg Semu
- Exhibition curated by Sarah Quinton, 2005 Installation view from Kai Chan: A Walk in the Wilderness Photo by J. Kitchener
- Sokari Douglas Camp CBE Walworth Ladies © Sokari Douglas Camp CBE, 2008
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