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Workshop: Installation, Creative Practice and Relocating the Archive
19 Jan 2012
Venue: Fire Station Artists' Studios
Lecturer: Roshini Kempadoo
Drawing from an art practice that has interrogated how individuals of Caribbean origin have been visualized historically and her experiences of working with photographic archives more broadly, thisworkshop will encourage participants to engage with the archive as a resource rich in ethnographic content and creative potential, in addition to raising questions about the representational limitations of the documentary image as historical record.
Roshini Kempadoo is a photographer, media artist, and lecturer. Her research, multimedia, and photographic projects combine factual and fictional re-imaginings of contemporary experiences with history and memory. Having worked as a social documentary photographer for the Format Women1s Picture Agency, her recent work as a digital image artist includes photographs and screen-based interactive art installations that fictionalize archive material, objects, and spaces. They combine sound, animations, and interactive use of objects, to introduce characters that once may have existed, evoking hidden and untold narratives. Roshini is represented by Autograph ABP, London. She is currently working on the photographic series State of Play (2011).
By application only.
Application deadline: Monday 7th November 2011.
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