Panel discussion: Technology and conflict in Jananne Al-Ani’s artwork
3.00pm to 4.00pm, pay what you can
Saturday 7 May
A panel discussion at Towner Eastbourne exploring the ideas behind Jananne Al-Ani’s ambitious new moving image work Timelines and Bringing to Light: Jananne Al-Ani curates the Towner Collection.
The panel will discuss themes within Jananne’s practice including conflict, how the technology used in modern warfare impacts contested landscapes and the translation to film of museum objects using digital tools.
Noelle Collins, Towner’s Exhibitions & Offsite Curator, will moderate the discussion.
Timelines is co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Towner Eastbourne with Art Fund support through the Moving Image Fund for Museums. Timelines and Bringing to Light are both on display at Towner until 22 May 2022.
This event is provided on a ‘pay what you can’ basis, nobody will be excluded based on an ability to pay. The suggested contribution is £5 but we welcome more or less depending on your circumstances.
Access
Please email programme@townereastbourne.org.uk by 5pm Wednesday 4 April 2022 for any access requirements and we will do our very best to accommodate them.
About the speakers
Jananne Al-Ani is an artist, researcher and lecturer working with photography, film and video. Her practice is concerned with the power of testimony, representations of landscapes marked by conflict, and the legacy of British power and influence globally. She has exhibited widely with solo shows at the Hayward Gallery Project Space, London; Beirut Art Center, Beirut; National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC; Darat al Funun, Amman; and Art Now: Tate Britain, London.
Noelle Collins' curatorial practice has been developed from a grassroots level through to working with arts institutions including Arts Council Collection (UK), the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and EVA International - Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art. She has been working at Towner Eastbourne since 2016.
Michaela Crimmin is an independent curator and co-director of Culture+Conflict, profiling artists’ work relating to international conflict. Previously teaching at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins; and Head of Arts at the Royal Society of Arts, including directing the Arts & Ecology Centre; and the first works on the Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square.
Andrea Wallace is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter. Her work explores various legal, technological, and ethical questions that arise around art and cultural heritage in the digital sphere. She often uses art and art history to expose how certain legal fictions have impacted the way our society reads, values, and understands cultural heritage and heritage institutions.
Bringing to Light: Jananne Al-Ani curates the Towner Collection, 12 February to 22 May 2022, Towner Eastbourne. Installation view. Photo by Rob Harris.
