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Professor Sharon Morris Inaugural Lecture
By UCL Joint Faculty
Date and time
Tue, 12 May 2015 18:30 - 19:30 GMT+1
Location
Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
2nd Floor Wilkins Building UCL, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT United KingdomDescription
“The first smile”: a poetics of the ephemeral and durational
The poetics of communication: the whisper, song, smile, cry, tear…
Commencing with Sharon Morris’s first audiovisual work, ‘Family Portrait’, About Time, ICA, 1981, and introducing her current photographic work, which responds to an album of salt-prints created by Mary Dillwyn in 1853, this lecture presents a selection of artworks and poems that raise a series of questions. Where have we come from? Who are we? And in seeking to locate where we are now, by implication, who are we becoming?