Lisa Baraitser of Dept of Psychosocial Studies speaks at the Visualising from Memory Event at UEL
The Psychosocial Studies Research Group and the Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London
Visualising From Memory: Trauma, Art and Narrative in the work of Barbara Loftus.
Friday, 28th of November, 2-5 pm, SD 1.12 (Sports Dock), Docklands Campus, University of East London.
All Welcome, no booking required.
Barbara Loftus is Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Psychosocial Studies Programme, University of East London. She is a figurative painter who combines traditional studio practice with performed re-enactment, historical research and digital media to feed into her image-making process. The theme of her current work is the convergence of personal memory and major historical events. Her mother Hildegard’s long-held silence, only broken in 1995, unlocked a door into the spirit of a ruined Europe, recounting personal experiences of growing up as a Jew in Germany during the inter-war period. Through a series of visual narratives which take the form of paintings, graphic sequences, film and bookworks, Barbara Loftus constructs a visual interpretation of trans-generational memory, mining the experience and perceptions from two generations divided in time by the second world war – her mother’s and her own. Her focus on specific details of everyday life frames significant memory images that have the capacity to act as historical ciphers of human experience.
Short Film Screening: Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), Images of Memory
Speakers:
Julia Winckler (University of Brighton), Barbara Loftus: Archival and Artistic Practices.
Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck, University of London), Late Memory: Mothering, Delay and the Virtual Past.
Nicola Diamond (University of East London), Loss, Absence and the Uncanny Nature of the Void: Exploring Alterity and the Body Symptom in the Aftermath.
Docklands Campus, University of East London, E16 2RD, Nearest tube station: Cyprus, DLR (http://www.uel.ac.uk/campuses/docklands/)
Full details: http://events.uel.ac.uk/eventarchive/visualising-from-memory.php