What’s On at The Research Forum

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The Archaeology of Disciplines: or adventures in the analogue archive

5:30pm, 22 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

What does the material archive teach us? I shall explore the transformation in recent years of the analogue archive from a space of receding utility to a space of expanding intellectual enquiry. ...

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Forgetting and Remembering the Sea with Winslow Homer

5:00pm, 25 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

This lecture interrogates Homer’s marines anew by focusing on the unique epistemology and materiality of the ocean. The late photographer and theorist Allan Sekula has called the oceans a “forgotten space.” Indeed, art historians tend to look out to ...

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Considering Collecting: Collecting in the Digital Age

6:30pm, 26 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

This second event in the 'Considering Collecting' series focuses on digital spaces for collecting, with Oliver Miro speaking about Vortic, a virtual exhibitions and events platform. ...

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Ecosensibility

1:00pm, 27 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

Zheng Bo will discuss his practice and thinking on cultivating ecological wisdom in the age of Anthropocene extinction. ...

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Trying to Listen to Medieval Architecture: Between Audiences and Settings and Book Launch for 'Towards An Art History Of The Parish Church, 1200–1399'.

5:00pm, 27 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

This talk reflects on the need to consider what role historical knowledge of architecture should play in the study of architectural soundscapes....

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Open Courtauld Hour: Restaged!

8:00pm, 28 Oct 2021 | Free, booking essential

The Courtauld Gallery will open its doors this November, following the most significant modernisation project in its history. This Open Courtauld Hour will therefore provide a rare back of house tour, a sneak preview to The Courtauld Gallery and the ...

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Representation as a Matter of Fact

6:30pm, 2 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

Since the late ’60s Toren has been addressing the ways in which representation can incorporate that which it represents. His is a unique practice. ...

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The Many Lives of Fragmented Letters: Buddhist Death Rituals, Palimpsests, and Reuse in Medieval Japan

6:00pm, 3 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

While a fading practice today, handwritten letters in medieval Japan were the sole form of communication between long-separated lovers, parents unlikely to reunite with their children, and distant friends, artists, and poets. ...

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'"What do you say about homosexuals?" Gene Swenson’s "Other" Tradition'

5:00pm, 8 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This talk begins with the question “What do you say about homosexuals?,” which critic Gene Swenson posed on tape to Andy Warhol in 1963 (in an unknown recording I uncovered during my research). ...

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Fragmented Illuminations: Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Cuttings at the Victoria and Albert Museum

5:00pm, 10 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

On the occasion of the Fragmented Illuminations exhibition at the V&A (8 September 2021-8 May 2022), curator Catherine Yvard will explore the history of this collection, and highlight some of the exciting discoveries made while researching for the ex...

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On Borderlands. Cross-cultural Encounters in the Alps Around 1500 and the Production of ‘Place’

5:00pm, 11 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This talk takes the castle of Issogne (Valle d’Aosta, Italy) and its distinctive mural decorations as the lens through which to look at the arts in the Western Alps around 1500. ...

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‘Temporary Fabulous Zones’: Che Gossett and Wu Tsang in conversation

5:00pm, 11 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This event brings Tsang and Gossett together in a critical discussion of art, visibility, black and trans poetics, collaboration, and more. ...

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Guerrilla Art and the Politics of Punitive Literacy

5:00pm, 15 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

In this talk, Faye Glessier aims to provide an alternative historical narrative for guerrilla art in the U.S. that emerged in the late 1960s and gained legibility throughout the 1970s. ...

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Not / Making / Marks: On Lygia Clark’s Organic Line

6:00pm, 18 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This talk concerns the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark’s concept of the “organic” line: an interval of space that appears between a painting and its frame, a door and its lintel, or tiles on the floor....

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Harold Rosenberg and “The American Action Painters”

5:00pm, 22 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

Harold Rosenberg (1906-1978) is still primarily known by a single essay, “The American Action Painters,” which was published in ARTnews in 1952.  When the piece appeared in the December issue, the response was phenomenal.  Not only did it galvanize a...

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Investigating Xinjiang's network of detention camps: digital mapping and architectural investigations

6:00pm, 23 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

China has built a vast network of detention camps in the north west region of Xinjiang, as part of its campaign of oppression against Turkic Muslims. It is believed that more than a million people have been detained. Our team used satellite imagery, ...

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Open Courtauld Hour: Can-Can!

8:00pm, 25 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This Open Courtauld Hour invites you to enter a world of splendour, misery and excess! In this hour the electrifying entertainment of the can-can and cabaret of the Courtauld Collection takes centre stage....

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The Last Judgment and the dramaticule 'Orifeus and Oublietta' - Screening and Discussion

6:30pm, 30 Nov 2021 | Free, booking essential

This event will consist of a screening of Barbard Golshiri's 'dramaticule Orifeus and Oublietta' followed by an In Conversation with Professors Sarah Wilson and Sussan Babaie ...

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Workshop :“How close can I get to someone? Will we become each other”: Epistolary Subjects, Objects, and Methods in Feminist Art, Art Writing, and Art History

10:00am, 2 Dec 2021 | Free, very limited space, booking essential

In this participatory workshop involving writing experiments and collective discussions, we will revisit, handle again, the letters we have discovered in the archives of the artists and subjects we study, considering our roles as interlocutors across...

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Around Valentine’s Day, 1980: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller’s Lovesick Letter-pieces

5:00pm, 2 Dec 2021 | Free, booking essential

On the evening of February 14, 1980, the writer and actress Cookie Mueller posed as the ex-boyfriend of the poet and playwright, Gary Indiana, for a performance he was doing alongside another of his friends, Kathy Acker, at the Mudd Club in New York....

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Printing Colour: Renaissance Germany/Victorian Britain

5:00pm, 7 Dec 2021 | Free, booking essential

This online lecture will feature talks from Dr Elizabeth Savage and Dr Kirsty Dootson. ...

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Living Matter in Medieval Denmark

5:00pm, 8 Dec 2021 | Free, booking essential

In this talk, the phenomenon of living matter will be discussed using medieval Denmark as a case-study. ...

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African Diasporic Modernism: The Far-Reaching Tropicality of Black Geographies

5:00pm, 13 Dec 2021 | Free, booking essential

Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism examines the creative manifestations of black modernism, and explicates how tropicality functioned as a key unifying element in African Diasporic art....

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Open Courtauld Hour: Dress-up!

8:00pm, 16 Dec 2021 | Free, booking essential

Get your glad rags on, dust the cobwebs off your favourite and sparkliest outfits and join The Courtauld for its last Open Courtauld Hour of 2021!...

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In Conversation: The Sculpture as Text

5:30pm, 11 Jan 2022 | Free, booking essential

This event will comprise papers by Dr Jonathan Vernon, titled 'The Modern Fragment and the Functions of Language' and Dr Rachel Rose Smith titled 'Barbara Hepworth, language and feeling'. ...

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Structuring a Virtual World of the Buddha: In the Case of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Pavilion (Wanfoge) in Beijing Zhihua Temple (1444)

6:00pm, 13 Jan 2022 | Free, booking essential

Multistoried structures stood out in pre-modern Chinese architecture, built mainly in wood and characterized by horizontal sprawl of spatial arrangement and building complexes....

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The Development of Historical Digital Methods: Late Hokusai as case study

6:00pm, 18 Jan 2022 | Free, booking essential

Tim Clark and Dominic Oldman will share more about their 'Late Hokusai' project and the ResearchSpace system. ...

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Playful Pictures: Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home 

5:30pm, 3 Feb 2022 | Free, booking essential

Chriscinda Henry will present her recently published book, Playful Pictures, which examines the rise of private collection in Renaissance Venice as a diporto, or pastime, practiced within a kaleidoscopic context of domestic leisure that encompassed t...

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Mapping Senufo: Digital Data, Ambiguous Details, and an Artist’s Intervention

6:00pm, 15 Feb 2022 | Free, booking essential

Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi will demonstrate ways in which embrace of digital tools and methods may direct focus back on analog documents and objects as well as their original contexts of production and the research process in productive ways. ...

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Emerson and the Nature of American Republicanism in America's Art

5:00pm, 21 Feb 2022 | Free, booking essential

Tyler Greene will share some of the research and findings from his new book "Emerson's Nature and the Artists: Idea as Landscape, Landscape as Idea". ...

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Digital Art History as Social Art History: Working through Architecture and the Built Environment of Krakow During Nazi Occupation

6:00pm, 8 Mar 2022 | Free, booking essential

The Nazi occupation of Krakow during World War II had a surprising impact on architecture and the built environment. This presentation looks at the intersection of perpetrator interests and victim experiences in building, from high-profile architectu...

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Parmigianino Round Table

3:00pm, 15 Mar 2022 | Free, booking essential

This Round Table brings together a group of world-leading scholars on Parmigianino to discuss their latest projects and research on the artist, one of the most celebrated of sixteenth-century Italy. ...

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Decolonizing Art History with Mexico’s “Tenth Muse,” Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Monday 6th June 2022, timings to be confirmed. | Free, booking essential

What pictorial strategies did Cabrera employ in defense of the colonial muse? How do we today and how did the eighteenth-century viewer understand this portrait? This talk addresses these questions by reading colonial portraits of Sor Juana in dialog...

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