Wednesday 26 November 2008, 18.30–20.00

As a writer, critic and curator Gilane Tawadros has researched and worked with ideas of 'difference' in multiple contexts, across varying cultural and geographic sites. In this lecture, the second in the series of The Status of Difference, Tawadros will offer critical insight into the shifting nature of 'difference' by drawing on her ongoing engagement with artistic and curatorial practices in the UK, Europe and Southern hemisphere.

Gilane Tawadros is an international curator and writer. She is Chair of the International Foundation Manifesta, formerly the founding Director of the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA) and joint Chief Executive of Rivington Place in London. She has written extensively on contemporary art, most recently she edited Changing States: Contemporary Art and Ideas in an Era of Globalisation. She has curated numerous exhibitions including Fault Lines: Contemporary African Art and Shifting Landscapes, for the fiftieth Venice Biennale.

The respondent for this talk is artist Sonia Boyce, who came to prominence as part of the Black British cultural renaissance of the 1980s. Her work also references feminism. She was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2007, for services to art.

 

Tate Britain  Auditorium
£7 (£5 concessions), booking recommended
Price includes drinks afterwards