Friday 26 January 2007, 18.30–20.00

Tate Modern is setting up a thematic display on the subject of 'Living History', bringing together different works of art from our collections that are directly related to social, political and historical events in living memory.

Taking its title from a 1974 song by Bob Marley, Chris Ofili’s No Woman No Cry (1998) is a tribute to the family of Stephen Lawrence, a London teenager who was murdered by a racist gang. Ofili’s work here becomes the starting point for a discussion about the way in which this event has become a focus for political activism, remembrance and, through Doreen Lawrence and the Stephen Lawrence Trust, ongoing change in society.

This discussion between Doreen Lawrence, mother of Stephen; Ekow Eshun, broadcaster and director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in London; and David Adjaye, architect of the Stephen Lawrence Centre, explores one of the key events of living history in Britain.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
Free, no bookings taken
Limited numbers if galleries are crowded

  

This event is related to the In Focus: Living History exhibition