[ecrea] When Is Now? symposium

When Is Now? The Historical Present in Creative Practice


Registration is now open for 'When is Now? The Historical Present in Creative Practice', a symposium organized by the Visual Culture Research Group at UWE. You can register for this event athttp://store.uwe.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=1178&modid=1&compid=1. Feel free to pass on the details to others who may be interested.

Thursday 27th June 2013, 10:00am - 4:30pm
Waterside 2, The Watershed, Bristol
Cost: £15 per person (limited places available, excludes lunch).

This one-day symposium explores the historical present in creative practice. In a cultural climate that valorizes the 'now' what does it mean to occupy the present moment? Our aim is to examine the present tense of creative practice as itself historical as opposed to understanding it as the end point of a linear chronological line. The symposium is motivated by a desire to pay attention to the atmospheric 'thickness' of the present tense in art, media and design practices and to imagine what kinds of experience can be articulated when what Lauren Berlant calls the 'ongoingness' of life is slowed down and brought into visibility. The symposium includes papers on the historical present in relation to painting, sound, photography, film, digital media and video.

When Is Now? is the first event in the 'Visualising Histories' series, which is run by the Visual Culture Research Group at UWE. The series aims to increase the visibility of under-represented and as-yet untold histories of creative practice. The speakers for this first event are:

.	Dot Rowe, Non-Synchronous Cartographies: Frank Bowling's Map paintings (University of Bristol)
.	Deborah Withers, 'Inside the archive or out, times touch': an exploration of temporal co-presence and simultaneity in the age of infinite archive (University of the West of England)
.	Peter Wright, Still Image with Moving Sound: Hearing the Photograph (Nottingham Trent University)
.	Jerry Walton, History of a snapshot: re-creating Bacon's studio (University of the West of England)
.	Betty Nigianni, Is it Avant-Garde? Originality and Repetition as a Historical Paradigm in Tony Oursler's Expanded Video Practice (Winchester School of Art)
.	Katie Davies, Inventing History, Language and Place: Visualising Royal Wootton Bassett and the Ceremonial Borders of the United Kingdom (University of the West of England)
.	Caroline Molley, How do we value the contemporary present? (Coventry University)
.	Rose Butler, In limbo neither here nor there (Sheffield Hallam University)


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