IMAGING TIME

Conversations, discussions, connections, sharing, questioning, explaining, examining, learning, talking to each other, challenging views, opinions, and ideas are what makes life interesting. It has always been at the forefront of strangelove that it is in essence a teaching tool. We need to know how we got here and where we go next.

Talking shop is the place where people can come together, talk, discuss ideas and generally share experiences about video art, performance, cinema, literature and in fact, every strand of creativity.

Discussion

The Photographers Gallery London 23 February 2019

In collaboration with The Photographers’ Gallery Imaging Time: Understanding Photography as Time-based Media Discussion launched the 2019 festival.

This panel featuring Phoebe Boswell, Lucy Reynolds, Erica Scourti and Catherine Yass aims to explore the various relationships that photography has with, makes use of, and represents time.

Traditional notions of photography as frozen or captured moments have long since developed into narratives where the photograph acts as ‘a space of becoming’, in which meaning can be made and explored. Photography’s relationship with time has changed in the digital age, where images are increasingly vulnerable to temporal ambiguity through manipulation and retouching, whilst instantaneous production and distribution has also encouraged a resurgence and return to the use of analogue processes.

Symposium

The Quarterhouse, Folkestone 22 March 2019

Our symposium in Folkestone was focused on the question - that most people ask us to define or clarify - what is time based media? It was a term first coined in 1970 by David Hall, an influential video artist. The symposium was not designed to answer the question, it was designed to question the question. And it will be a theme that we will continue in further editions.

We invited the renowned writer, curator and video artist, Chris Meigh-Andrews to chair and devise the discussion and we were very happy to have Keith Piper, Larry Achiampong, Lois Keidan and Jane England to also join us in the discussion.