Fighting History panel discussion

How is ‘history’ made? Whose histories are recorded for posterity? How have extra-institutional impulses complicated official (art) histories?

This panel discussion focuses on notions of history, cultural memory and ‘history from below’ - allowing space for a critical reflection on how ‘history’ is made, and asking questions about whose histories are recorded for posterity in historical and contemporary art and curatorial practice.

What are the ways in which artists might work with historical materials and cultural memory? How do practitioners in other fields utilise visual materials arising from historical events? What new theories of looking and seeing arise from this work?

This event explores the ways in which historical memory is utilised as an artistic strategy and visual materials provide a means of allowing space for the reclaiming ‘hidden’ or ‘forgotten’ histories.

Inspired by the Fighting History exhibition, join us for a conversation amongst some of the most dynamic contemporary British voices on the relationship between history and contemporary visual culture.

Alex Farquharson, Director of Nottingham Contemporary (and recently appointed Director of Tate Britain) chairs a panel including artists Uriel Orlow and Chloe Dewe Mathews and historian and curator S. I. Martin.