Art, Memory and Place
14 September 2022, Turner Contemporary
Event documentation by Margate-based filmmaker, Daniel Gemsa (Video Clinic)
This seminar, held at Turner Contemporary in Margate, posed the question: how does art allow us to think about memory and place?
Our speakers were: curator, Matthew de Pulford and artist, Katie Hare who worked at artist-run spaces, Limbo and Crate, from 2008-2015, and spoke about the legacy of their friend and artist, Lizzy Rose, who died aged 33 after a long battle with a chronic illness, trans-disciplinary artist-curator Benjamin Sebastian and co-founder of ]performance s p a c e[, and Conservation Architect and Director of Margate-based architecture practice, Studio Sam Causer.
The discussion aimed to convene people and perspectives that can help reimagine the future of artist-led spaces, centred around the following questions:
What and who ‘makes’ a place?
What happens to the artist communities that use and come together in a space?
If a place ceases to exist what’s lost? What can be kept?
How vulnerable are culturally important places to destruction and erasure?
How can places be preserved, shared and continue living?
This event was organised by Art360 Foundation and supported by the British Art Network (BAN). BAN is a Subject Specialist Network supported by Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre, with additional public funding provided by Arts Council England. It led to the founding of the British Art Network, A Place-Based History of Art with Flat Time House and Chelsea College of Arts/the Barry Flanagan Estate.