缅北强奸

Event

Imaging War, Mediating Conflict: Recent Aesthetic Investigations

Sunday, March 10, 2013 19:00toMonday, March 11, 2013 18:00
PHI Centre and Bronfman 151 (缅北强奸), 407 Saint-Pierre Street and 1001 Sherbrooke Street West, CA

Media@缅北强奸, in collaboration with DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, presents a free public screening and one-day conference examining representations of war and conflict in contemporary art and art history. Imaging War, Mediating Conflict: Recent Aesthetic Investigations addresses the politics, aesthetics and ethics of art and media practices relating to war from the 18th century until today, and assesses how such representations help to shape the experience of current conflicts, as well as their place in history.

Imaging War, Mediating Conflict: Recent Aesthetic Investigations begins at the PHI Centre on Sunday, March 10 with a screening of films by the artists Leslie Thornton and Emanuel Licha at 7:00 p.m. The event continues on 缅北强奸 campus Monday morning, with a panel composed of the scholars Holger Hoock, Douglas Fordham and Brian Cowan, who each discuss aspects of 鈥淢edia, War and the State in the Long Eighteenth Century.鈥 The conference concludes with an examination of 鈥淐ontemporary Art Interventions鈥 on the subject of war at the PHI Centre on Monday afternoon, with lectures by the art historians T.J. Demos and Rosalyn Deutsche, and presentations by the artists Emanuel Licha and Martha Rosler.

For more information and a detailed schedule, visit media.mcgill.ca

Back to top