Friday 27 May 2005, 11.00–17.00

Psychedelia impacted upon music, the arts, design and fashion. Join leading scholars, critics, theorists, artists and designers to explore how the climate of social and political upheaval affected a range of cultural disciplines.

Chair: Jonathan Harris
Author of Writing Back to Modern Art: After Greenberg, Fried and Clark and The New Art History: A Critical Introduction, Jonathan Harris is also co-editor with Christoph Grunenberg of Summer of Love: Psychedelic Art, Social Crisis and Counterculture in the 1960s, Critical Forum: Tate Liverpool/Liverpool University Press, 2005.

Speakers: 
Barry Curtis
Professor of Visual Culture in the School of Arts at Middlesex University, Barry Curtis co-edits a series for Reaktion Books, is a fellow of the London Consortium, has written several essays on Archigram and recently wrote for the catalogue This Is Tomorrow: Art in the Sixties (Tate). He is working on a number of research projects which explore the relationship between environments and states of mind.

Chrissie Iles
Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York since October 1997, Chrissie Iles’ specializations include Minimalism, process-based art of the sixties and seventies, and film and video installation. Co-curator, with Philippe Vergne, of the Whitney Biennial 2006, other recent exhibitions include Jack Goldstein - Films and Performance, and the survey exhibition Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964 - 1977.

Stuart Laing
Professor of Cultural Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Brighton, Stuart Laing has published widely on sixties and seventies literature, media and cultural
studies.

Cally Blackman
A freelance writer, researcher and lecturer Cally Blackman trained in fashion and art history and currently teaches Fashion History and Theory at Central St. Martin's. Her publications include The Pitkin Guide to Costume and 20th Century Fashion: Flappers and Stars. She is currently writing 100 Years of Fashion Illustration (C20th).

George McKay
Professor of Cultural Studies at University of Central Lancashire, George McKay has this year co-edited Community Music: A Handbook and Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain. He also co-edits Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social Cultural and Political Protest.

Gerd Stern and Michael Callahan
A poet and multimedia artist who has worked in both film and video, Gerd Stern and engineer Michael Callahan founded the media arts collaborative USCO made up of poets, artists and engineers. They created multi-media performances and environments which toured US museum and university venues during the sixties.

Tate Liverpool  The Auditorium
£40 (£20 concessions), booking required

This event is related to the Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era exhibition