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In June of this year Belfast Exposed opened an exhibition focusing on contemporary experiences of Migration. They will now be hosting a number of talks and public discussions around the same theme.
Wednesday 27 September 2006
Wednesday 27 September 2006
6pm
7.15pm
Belfast Exposed
Free
Event
ARTIST’S TALK SERIES II, 27 September, 6 – 7.15pm
Terence Wright will discuss his ongoing research into contemporary media images of refugees. He will identify some historical archetypes that are used to portray the subject of forced migration and question the role of the mass media in aiding the relief of humanitarian crises.
Dr Terence Wright is Reader in Theoretical Studies in Visual Art at the University of Ulster
Breda Beban is currently exhibiting as part of the British Art Show 6. Recent exhibitions and presentations of Beban’s work have taken place at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Reina Sofia, Madrid and Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. In 2002 Beban curated Imaginary Balkans, a group exhibition which was on show at Site Gallery, Sheffield (2002); Cornerhouse, Manchester and at the Stills Gallery, Edinburgh (2003). Beban will discuss a current curatorial project entitled imagine art after, a multi-stage project, the first phase of which was exhibited online with a dialogue about the project hosted by Guardian Unlimited in November and December 2005.
For online details see: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/imagineartafter/story/0,16630,1599667,00.html
Breda Beban was born in Serbia and raised in Macedonia and Croatia. She lives and works in London and Sheffield where she is a Professor of Visual Arts at the Sheffield Hallam University.
Leander Harding
028 9023 0965
www.belfastexposed.org
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