5.15 - 7.15pm. Free
Newton Lecture Theatre 2, Nottingham Trent University
Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey discusses the processes of collecting objects, artworks...
Part 2 14:00 - 16:00 GMT Part 1 11:30 - 13:30 GTM11 - 4pmFree The Space (Level 1)In two parts, Design, Inhabitation, Play and Piero Post-Povera this short...
6.30 - 8.30pm
Free
Cafe. Bar. Contemporary
This conversation will approach the ‘commons’ as both a form of land ownership and as a way of thinking beyond...
Tuesdays 6.30 - 8.30pm
Free
Cafe. Bar. Contemporary
Convened in collaboration with the Nottingham Wasteland Twinning Collective
Wasteland Twinning is a...
Wednesdays 6 -8pm6 Feb/20 Feb/6 Mar/20 Mar/3 AprThe StudyFacilitated by Rebecca Beinart and David Bell, this reading group draws on themes from the work of Gilardi and...
6.30 - 8.30pm
Free
The Space
Over the last 10 years artist and activist collective of one, the vacuum cleaner, has become somewhat notorious for his acts of...
5.00 - 6.15pm
Free
(Departing from outside the main entrance, Nottingham Contemporary)
In collaboration with the University of Nottingham Fine Art Visiting...
6.30pm
Free
Cafe. Bar. Contemporary
This conversation questions the use of art in public planning and place-making strategies and considers alternative means by...
John Newling is a pioneer of public art with a social purpose. His works explore the natural world and the social and economic systems of society – such as money or...
Piero Gilardi was an influential figure in the development of Arte Povera (poor art) in Italy in the late 1960s centred in Turin – a movement that still influences art...
1804 & Its Afterlives brings together international speakers whose path-breaking studies have challenged previous orthodoxies about the Haitian Revolution, its local...
6.30pm - 8.30pm The Space Post-colonial theorist David Scott is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, New York City, and Editor of the journal Small Axe, a...
6.30pm - 8.30pmThe SpaceWith John Cussans (Undead Uprising: An Insurrectionary Grimoire, forthcoming), Mark Fisher (Capitalist Realism, 2009) and Peter Fleming & Carl...
Tuesday 6th November and Wednesday 7th November
Free. The Space
With origins in West Africa, the zonbi entered into a nexus of folk memory in Haiti as a metaphor...
6.30pm - 8.30pm
The Space
Using still and moving images Leah Gordon will discuss the rituals, ceremonies and symbols that honour and perform the pantheon of Vodou...
We presented a major exhibition of Haitian art, the UK’s first for many years. Nearly 200 paintings, sculptures and sequin flags by 35 artists from the 1940s to the...
Film Season
The Space & Offsite
Anachronistic refugees from a lost counterculture with talismans turned tourist trinkets, Upritchard’s hippies and holy fools...
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