Peltz Gallery events
Peltz Gallery is delighted to announce a series of events, including four accompanying our current Otherworldly exhibition.
Panel: Is there anybody out there?
Monday 4 November 2024, 6-7:30pm
A panel discussion on the search for life in outer space and what happens if we find it. Chaired by Prof. Roger Luckhurst, we will hear from academics presenting perspectives from science, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, and religion, also inviting the audience to join the conversation.
Talk: Crying with Laughter: Tragedy, Comedy and the "Eco-Artistic" Turn in Chilean Contemporary Art
Wednesday 13 November 2024, 5-8pm
Chile-based French art historian Sophie Halart discusses the place of visual representation and the lyrical registers of comedy and tragedy in the so-called ‘ecological turn’ in recent art from Chile. Followed by drinks and conversation organised by the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS).
Friday 29 November 2024, 6-7:30pm
Simon Barraclough (author of Neptune Blue, Sunspots, and writer in residence at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory 2014) will lead us through a poetic response to the Otherworldly exhibition in the gallery space.
Thursdays, 5-6pm
7 November
14 November
21 November
A tour of Otherworldly by exhibition curators Joshua Goodland and Matt Kimberley.