[ecrea] Politics of Visibility Conference

A collaboration between Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art 
<http://www.parasol-unit.org/> and City University London, *The Politics 
of Visibility: Mediating the Global, Local and the In-between* is a 
one-day conference that brings artists and academics together to examine 
the relationship between art, media, transnationalism and power.

Today, this relationship is marked by porosity, captured in myriad 
corrosions of borders, distinctions and forms. And in this space where 
art, media and transnationalism overlap comes a politics of 
representation in which dualisms – between the West and the Rest, cause 
and effect, remembering and forgetting – have proven bankrupt. It is a 
space in which hiding can be a strategy for being seen. This conference, 
then, sets out to explore what new dynamics emerge when art can no 
longer be considered outside the media; when transnationalism can no 
longer be thought of as apart from art.

The work of the renowned Chinese video artist Yang Fudong (showing at 
the Parasol Unit until 6 November 2011) is the conference's conceptual 
pretext, and will be explored in a keynote by Professor *Chris Berry* 
(Goldsmiths). Other speakers will include:

• *Philip Crang* (Royal Holloway)
• *Marianne Franklin* (Goldsmiths)
• *Anthony Gardner* (Courtauld Institute of Art / University of Melbourne)
• *Rachel Garfield* (University of Kent)
• *Janet Harbord* (Queen Mary)
• *Alan Ingram* (UCL)
• *Isaac Julien* (Turner Prize nominee)
• *Shani Orgad* (LSE)
• *Juliet Steyn* (City University London)

The conference will be held on *Friday, 4 November 2011*. For full 
details and programme please visit http://politicsofvisibility.com. 
<http://politicsofvisibility.com/>

The conference fee is £15 / £7.50 concessions 
(students/unwaged/retired). Lunch and tea/coffee breaks are provided and 
the conference will close with a wine reception.

*To register, please visit **http://politicsofvisibility.eventbrite.com 
<http://politicsofvisibility.eventbrite.com/>**.*

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