Whitechapel Gallery - What's On: October Talks & Events

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Talks & Events  October

Highlights Big Ideas: RoseLee Goldberg Thu 5 Oct, 7pm | £9.50/7.50 concs Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear RoseLee Goldberg speak outside of New York. To coincide with the new exhibition Commissions from Performa’s Archives, the curator and founder of Performa offers insights from her ground-breaking career. Championing contemporary artists working with performance since the 1970s, Goldberg provides innovative platforms for this medium, which continues to experience a major resurgence. Book Now Talk Big Ideas: Naeem Mohaiemen Tue 10 Oct, 7pm | £9.50/7.50 concs Following his stand-out work at Documenta 14, artist Naeem Mohaiemen’s lecture explores failed utopias of the political left and questions who has the right to narrate contested histories. Book Now Film Anton Ginzburg Sun 1 Oct, 3pm | £9.50/7.50 concs Recent films of New York based artist Anton Ginzburg, known for his investigations into historical narratives and poetic studies of place, representation and post-Soviet identity. Book Now Film   Irene Solà: Beast Thu 12 Oct, 7pm | £9.50/7.50 concs The award-winning Catalan artist, poet and film-maker presents short films alongside a special reading, investigating ideas of communication, intimacy and storytelling. Book Now  Talk Climate Control  Thu 26 Oct, 7pm | £9.50/7.50 concs What is the relationship between geopolitics, conflict and climate change? Artists, a writer and a researcher bring their views and distinct ways of addressing the complexity of these issues: Fiona Harvey, Simon Faithfull, Mike Hulme and Jasmijn Visser. Book Now Coming up November Jane and Louise Wilson: Gerrard O’Carroll Memorial Lecture Thu 9 Nov, 7pm | £9.50/ 7.50 concs The acclaimed artists reflect on their practice, considering themes from recent projects including Undead Sun, which builds on their longstanding interest in the technology and architecture of conflict. Read More From our friends National Portrait Gallery Until 21 January 2018 To coincide with the artist’s first major London retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery will display selected works from Ruff’s series of Porträts (Portraits), passport-style portraits of his friends and art-school colleagues, reproduced on a huge scale. In their monumentality, the portraits reveal every surface detail of their subjects. Read More