Friday 6 March 2009, 19.00–20.00

This panel discussion seeks to explore global perspectives on artists' increasing involvement with the documentary form. Professor Mark Nash (Royal College of Art) and artists Lamia Joreige (Lebanon) and Oraib Toukan (Jordan) discuss notions of artistic agency as one in which the artist crosses back and forth between the domains of reality and fiction in a global context.

Tickets available on a first-come, first served basis from the Clore information desk from 18.00

Followed by the Framing Reality Screening
20.10-21.10
Auditorium

Oraib Toukan, I found myself on Google Earth, Single Channel Video, Mini DV; 17’, 2008
 
Maps are always about the possibility of being somewhere, what about the possibility of being nowhere?  I found myself on Google Earth is a non-linear video essay on temporal travel. It forces multiple parallels between the act of gazing at a map, with a photograph, translating concepts of digital degradation with neurological escapism. The work looks to disorient the viewer in the dialectics of near and far, of the micro and macro. It questions existence overall, by pointing a finger at the map as another image-making attempt to represent existence, but complicating it thereafter.

Lamia Joreige, A journey, DV cam, 41', 2006

A journey follows the artist's grandmother Tati Rose, as her personal story meets the collective History of the Middle East. Born in Jerusalem in 1910, Tati Rose moved to Beirut in 1930 to get married. Her family, among whom was Aunt Marie, her sister, was forced into exile and left Yaffa in 1948 to take refuge in Lebanon. Alternating documents, Super 8mm films, photographs, interviews, landscapes and voice over, the film triggers a reflection on history and on the conflicts in the region, as well as a reflection on time, disappearance and loss.

Tickets available on a first-come, first served basis from the Clore information desk from 18.00

Tate Britain  Auditorium
Free
Seated on a first-come, first-served basis