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This symposium takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring relationships between artists and models, multi-racial interwar communities, historical subjects, sexuality, gender and the work of previously neglected artists.

This symposium takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring relationships between artists and models, multi-racial interwar communities, historical subjects, sexuality, gender and the work of previously neglected artists.

This symposium takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring relationships between artists and models, multi-racial interwar communities, historical subjects, sexuality, gender and the work of previously neglected artists.

This symposium takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring relationships between artists and models, multi-racial interwar communities, historical subjects, sexuality, gender and the work of previously neglected artists.

A discussion with Prof. Laura Marcus (Oxford University) and writer and critic Prof. Sukhdev Sandhu (NYU), chaired by Tate Curator Sonya Dyer

The talk addresses some of the thoughts and observations emerging from the inter-disciplinary debates around the nature of the performative and live art in order to identify future trajectories for performance in this highly mediated digital age

Documentary photographer Susan Meiselas, whose work features in Conflict, Time, Photography discusses her illustrious career in photojournalism with curator Simon Baker.

What is the value of being a citizen? What are the values that will or should guide the future citizen? How can we rethink the idea of value away from a purely economic model of worth?

Speakers are Thomas Struth, Penelope Umbrico, Massimo Vitali and Lauren Marsolier and Mishka Henner. The panel is chaired by William Ewing, Director of Curatorial Projects at Thames & Hudson.

In the early 1980s the German artist Sigmar Polke became a dedicated scholar of pigment manufacture. He favoured highly toxic, banned or otherwise exotic substances, but as a modern day alchemist he shrouded his knowledge in mystery.

Join Ciara Phillips as she discusses her collaborative projects, her Turner Prize nomination and other work with Emily Pethick, Director of The Showroom.

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) is best known for his pioneering work on technology, culture and art, making enduring contributions to aesthetic theory and Western Marxism.

Gregory J. Markopoulos is a key figure in the history of independent film and was, alongside Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren and Andy Warhol, a pioneer of the New American Cinema of the 1960s.

The discussion includes case studies from Latin America amongst other examples. Speakers include Justin McGuirk author of Radical Cities alongside Andreas Lang from public works, a London-based non-for-profit art and architecture practice.

This event takes the BMW Tate Live Performance Room as illustrative of the ways in which performance is responding to a highly mediated world, where performance often comes into being simultaneously live and online.

What are the exhibitions that truly changed the course of the discipline, provoked public reactions and contributed to a more complex understanding of what exhibition-making means today?

Introduction to the film screening by special guests from Polke’s family who will discuss his relationship to film and Christof Kohlhöfer will also discuss his collaboration with Polke.

This half-day conference examines the motivations of artists, producers and institutions to work in the context of interdisciplinary events, and asks where is this interdisciplinary practice headed?

This audio recording aims to situate Sigmar Polke's significance within a wider art historical context before unpicking the complex layers of his diverse practice, raising questions around what makes his art of such contemporary relevance today.

A riveting and candid conversation charting Wangechi Mutu’s career to date via her varied sources of inspiration, including her current exploration of the possibilities of printmaking, mythology and more. Audio recording.

When Naum Gabo left Russia in 1922, he did not know that he would never return. Like many of his contemporaries, circumstances forced him to move from his new home in Berlin to Paris, London and Cornwall, before finally settling in the United States.

When Naum Gabo left Russia in 1922, he did not know that he would never return. Like many of his contemporaries, circumstances forced him to move from his new home in Berlin to Paris, London and Cornwall, before finally settling in the United States.

When Naum Gabo left Russia in 1922, he did not know that he would never return. Like many of his contemporaries, circumstances forced him to move from his new home in Berlin to Paris, London and Cornwall, before finally settling in the United States.

In this audio recording Angela de la Cruz discusses her work with curator, Carolina Grau.

Ricky Burdett, Enrique Peñalosa, Sir Richard Rogers and Deyan Sudjic discuss the book 'The Endless City', which takes six major cities as its focal point and examines the key social, structural and economic factors critical to creating a thriving city

Turner’s powerful evocation of the landscape and revolutionary use of paint has been an inspiration to subsequent generations of artists. Audio recording of a workshop at Tate Britain.

Turner’s powerful evocation of the landscape and revolutionary use of paint has been an inspiration to subsequent generations of artists. Audio recording of a workshop at Tate Britain.

Turner’s powerful evocation of the landscape and revolutionary use of paint has been an inspiration to subsequent generations of artists. Audio recording of a workshop at Tate Britain.

Turner’s powerful evocation of the landscape and revolutionary use of paint has been an inspiration to subsequent generations of artists. Audio recording of a workshop at Tate Britain.

Turner’s powerful evocation of the landscape and revolutionary use of paint has been an inspiration to subsequent generations of artists. Audio recording of a workshop at Tate Britain.

Drawing on the many interrelated and overlapping themes in Susan Hiller's work, this symposium asks how visual imagery can inform the understanding of intellectual ideas.

Drawing on the many interrelated and overlapping themes in Susan Hiller's work, this symposium asks how visual imagery can inform the understanding of intellectual ideas.

Drawing on the many interrelated and overlapping themes in Susan Hiller's work, this symposium asks how visual imagery can inform the understanding of intellectual ideas.

In this audio recording Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento draws upon themes of memory, sexuality, transgression, morality and duality. He is in conversation with critic and writer Adrian Searle.

Gabriel Orozco is in conversation with Jessica Morgan, curator of the exhibition at Tate Modern.

Assistant curator Amy Dickson discusses how the Gauguin exhibition aspires to challenge commonly held assumptions about the artist and his practice by revealing the complexity of his narrative strategies and explore the myths central to his creativity.

Considering Hadid’s concept of architecture and its relationship to space and the city, this audio recording reflects on Malevich’s Architektons, as well as other works of Suprematism, as formative inspiration for her own practice.

The material structures of the TV studio, including sets, production apparatus and control rooms, provide a starting point and a setting for many contemporary artists seeking to explore television’s changing institutional architecture and culture.

This screening and discussion will explore how artists have collaborated with broadcasters in both the public and commercial sectors, ranging from pioneers to contemporary practitioners.

This event showcases a diverse range of artists’ approaches both to television and the archive, including new works by Kate Davis, Kathryn Elkin, Luke Fowler, Torsten Lauschmann, Stephen Sutcliffe and Alia Syed, followed by a discussion.

David Batchelor’s work comprises three-dimensional structures, photographs and drawings, mostly related to a long term interest in colour and urbanism. To coincide with the Malevich exhibition, Batchelor hosts his talk The Story of the Un-Squared Square

How can performance shape our use and understanding of public space? Who is represented through public performative events? What does publicness mean in a global community?

Who do artists think they are? What myths are they rejecting and propagating? What is the social role of artists in different countries around the world today? How do artists negotiate power? Self-belief? Recognition?

Julie Mehretu is an artist whose paintings have been described by curator Douglas Fogle as ‘perfect metaphors for the increasingly interconnected and complex character of the 21st century’. Audio recording.

British-born, US-based artist Anthony McCall talks about new projects, including the recent vertical works, as well as public commissions.

In this audio recording Lizzie Carey-Thomas, curator at Tate Britain, explores the drawings that provide a rare insight into the creative process of the artist.

In this audio recording Ai Weiwei is in conversation with Katie Hill, curator and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Art.

On the occasion of her exhibition in 2010 in the Level 2 Gallery, Rosa Barba has put together a screening programme of her single-channel film works followed by a conversation with curator Ben Borthwick.

Much has been written about Eadweard Muybridge’s work and accomplishments. While we know the bare facts of his life, there is little understanding of Muybridge the person.

Eadweard Muybridge is renowned as a pioneer photographer, scientist and inventor of the zoopraxiscope which he used to project his images to create the illusion of movement. Audio recording.

In this audio recording Leading British Muybridge scholar and specialist in the history of audio-visual media, Stephen Herbert talks about the influential photographer’s experiments with the Zoöpraxiscope, and recent research into Muybridge's 'lost years'