Cancelled: Listening Session: Last Century’s Leftovers
Please note: this event has been cancelled.
Composed of a broad range of imagery sourced from analogue and digital photography, animation, and motion graphics, Elizabeth Price’s works are often accompanied by scrolling text, narrated by a computerized voice and paired with music. Departing from Price’s artistic practice and career as a 1980s pop icon, join us for a listening session in-conversation with exhibition curator Sam Thorne and the artist on the roles of polyvocality and sonic expression in creating a dense aural environments for her moving image work.
Free. Booking recommended.
Elizabeth Price creates immersive video installations that incorporate digital text and music. She is a recipient of the 2012 Turner Prize and in 2016 she received the Contemporary Art Society Annual Award. Her work has been exhibited around Europe and the United states, including at Tate Britain, London; New Museum, New York; Contemporary Art Society, London; and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.
Sam Thorne is a writer and museum director. Since 2016, he has been the Director of Nottingham Contemporary, one of the largest centres for contemporary art in the UK. He is also the author of a book about art education, titled School: A Recent History of Self-Organized Art Education (2017).