For the TSP June event we are delighted to announce that photographer Margaret Mitchell and Historian Rachel Hewitt GCU will be presenting their work in regards to the exhibition Beyond Epilepsy. The session will be chaired by Dr Hanna Tweed GU. Mitchell is showing her work on epilepsy and will use this as a springboard…
TalkSeePhotography May was delighted to host Genevia Sills and Sukaina Kubba for a discussion about Sills artistic practice. Sills explores the questionable nature of the autobiography through highly aestheticised images which she carefully stages. Her practice is interwoven with historical and contemporary political concerns around subjectivity of sexuality and its object. In exquisite as well as…
April marks the beginning of TSP’s interrogation of the exhibition by introducing the Swedish Curator Dr Niclas Östlind. Through his PhD, Performing Histories, and exhibitions The Visible and Between Realities, Östlind will take us on a thought provoking journey through the formation of the photographic aesthetic and political representation from 1970 to the present. The…
For the first of two TalkSeePhotography events taking place in April is looking at surveillance. “Watched !”promises a rich and exiting introductions to the different counter practices that examines this increasingly ever present phenomena. We are delighted and very proud to host Dr. Louise Wolthers, curator and research manager at the Hasselblad Foundation in Göteborg,…
Talk See Photography is delighted to present the first of our Incubator Series, which aims to provide a platform for emerging critics, theorists and makers to engage the public with ideas and issues surrounding photography and contemporary photographic practice. Our first event in this series; Making Something Happen, brings together Dr. Benjamin Greenman and John…
Aside from our usual program TalkSeePhotography will 2016 dedicate a number of events to the developments of existing and emerging cultures of Photography in Scotland to explore approaches to commissioning and presenting photography in Scotland. Issues that we will address are during the year are: What relevance do questions of discourse have to makers?…
TalkSeePhotography December was a Curatorial Project Slam held by Melanie Letore, Emma Sandström, John Farrell, Alice Myers, and Ben Rush (Foco/Phoco). Glasgow’s reputation as an internationally important city for contemporary art was this year highlighted once again when the Turner Prize arrived in the Tramway. The narratives about how Glasgow emerged and established itself one of Europe’s…
