Side Gallery presents a discussion with Lungs Project on their experiences with the arts scene in North East England.
Lungs Project has recently wrapped up a three-week takeover of the @Amber_Sidegallery Instagram account, where they curated photography from the US, UK and the African continent focusing on the documentation of everyday people in their bedrooms. Expounding on their principle mission to promote the work of artists and writers from underrepresented backgrounds, Lungs Project will explore the potential pitfalls of essentialism and the burden of representation in the arts. In an attempt to define a nuanced approach to representation, the talk will introduce samples from varied writings on the issue, as well as combine Lungs Project’s past experiences in practising art as Black and brown creatives within the regional scene of North East England.
Book tickets to reserve a place at this FREE zoom talk:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-myth-of-diversity-a-conversation-with-lungs-project-tickets-115639058537
Please note that the talk will be recorded and published online in the week following the event and made available at Dialogues on Lungs Project’s website.
Lungs Project:
Web: lungsproject.org
Social: @lungsproject
Email: info@lungsproject.org
Angela Burdon (she/her) is an independent curator, artist, and activist based in Dayton, OH, US. She has completed a Master’s Degree in Curating at the University of Sunderland, UK. Taking a broad approach to cultural production, her curatorial interests lie in the social history of art, focusing on the inclusion of marginalised communities, and widening participation and engagement programming. In her artistic practice, she uses photography as a tool to examine and expand cultural narratives centring Black identity.
Sheyda A. Khaymaz (they/them) is an artist, writer, and nomadic curator. They hold a Master’s in Curating from the University of Sunderland, UK and is a current PhD student in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, US. Khaymaz’s practice is primarily concerned with the production of knowledge in the everyday and examining the hegemonic imaginaries in culture through an epistemological framework. Their current research explores the overlapping boundaries between the subjugated ‘other’, social space, and historical textual objects.
Side Gallery:
Address: 5-9 Side, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Telephone: +44 191 232 2208
Web: http://www.amber-online.com/sections/side-gallery
Social: @Amber_Sidegallery
Email: side.gallery@amber-online.com
Dedicated to documentary photography since 1977, Side Gallery is committed to exhibiting the best in international humanist documentary, its concerns rooted in a long-term engagement with working class, marginalised and threatened communities in the North of England – and by extension with the experiences of those documented by some of the finest photographers working across the world. It is committed to preserving and making accessible these extraordinary bodies of work, whilst using them to inform, lever and sustain the new production that will continue to take documentary practice forward. Side is centrally concerned with visual narratives: the quality of the imagery; the aesthetic and moral questions that are raised; sharing visions of the world and the marginalised experience to which they are able to give such insistent power.
Image Credit: Angela Burdon © Ahmed, Sunderland, 2006.