Event

University of Brighton X Emma Stibbon 

A University of Brighton series of events to coincide with Emma Stibbon’s Melting Ice | Rising Tides exhibition at Towner Eastbourne. 

In this online event, panellists give quick-fire 12-minute artist presentations about photography and performance installations and commissions with themes including bogs, psychogeography and the South Downs.  

Building upon themes of material embodiment within Emma Stibbon’s work, Epha Roe will discuss how such practices are reflected in their photographic practice and symbolically engage with notions of making-with the land and/or the non-human, what ecofeminist scholar Donna Haraway calls ‘sympoiesis’. 

A presentation of ongoing practice-based photography research involving close observation of places with water as an essential element.  The project references artworks in the Towner Collection and advocates for approaches to picturing by working within the landscape, reimagining our relations with nature in close proximity and interdependence. 

A presentation of photographic landscape work that forms part of Costanza Santilli’s postdoctoral research. The work challenges traditional landscape views and explores the nuanced relationship between place, identity, and belonging through original darkroom photographic practices. 

Zoe Childerley will speak about work that was originally a commission for University Hospitals Sussex, which surveys the psycho-geography of the coastline, exploring the concept of wilderness and the search for a primordial connection with the sea.

MUD AND MONSTER SOUP presents work in progress and the upcoming exhibition Bog Bodies with ceramist Charly Blackburn. The photographic and performance series explores estuarine ecologies entangled with the sinister history of the Thames London and the Thames Estuary. The presentation will also discuss sacred offerings and attempts to communicate with supernatural forces associated with local myths and legends. 

We have a budget available to make this event as accessible as possible – this can include interpretation services or other access needs we can meet to enable you to participate.

If you require access arrangements, please email programme@townereastbourne.org.uk two weeks before the event date so that we can book a service if needed.