Brighton Photo Biennial 2012 online booking open now A packed programme of talks, tours, symposia and workshops runs throughout BPB12. Many events are free, but booking for ticketed events is open now. Scroll down for some highlights or find out more on our website | |
 © Jamie Hawkesworth from Four Versions of Three Routes 2012 | |
Four Versions of Three Routes Bus Tour with Adam Murray from Preston is my Paris Sunday, 7 October An alternative interpretation of Brighton’s landscape with an active tour of a site specific work commissioned for BPB12. Board the special BPB12 bus and Adam will give an introductory talk en route to the city’s debated constituency borders where you'll be encouraged to create your own interpretation of the routes. | |
 © Omer Fast, still from Five Thousand Feet is the Best, 2011, Digital film, 30 minute loop, Still by Yonn Thomas. Courtesy of the artist, Arratia Beer, Berlin and gb agency, Paris Brighton Photo Biennial 2012 Discussion Day Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton Saturday 6 October £15/10 Join us for the first day of the Biennial and a great line up of panel discussions, each exploring a different angle of our theme Agents of Change: Photography and The Politics of Space. Topics addressed will include: What happens when photography is shown out of established gallery and publishing contexts? How have artists addressed classified and government controlled spaces in their work? Speakers include BPB12 artists: Edmund Clark, Ronnie Close, Omer Fast, Julian Germain, Jason Larkin, Corinne Silva and Thomson & Craighead alongside BPB12 curators Celia Davies and Ben Burbridge. Panel discussions will be chaired by TJ Demos, David Batty and Julian Stallabrass. Open to all, the day will be suitable for students, practitioners and anyone who wants to find out more about the thinking behind this year's festival. There will be time between talks to catch the central Brighton BPB12 exhibitions and a lunch-time return bus-trip to the opening of Critical Image Cairo at the University of Sussex. If you're in Brighton for the weekend why not round off your day by letting your hair down at the Brighton Photo Fringe party? | |
 © Trevor Paglen They Watch the Moon, 2010, C-print Courtesy of Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne and Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco. BPB12 Symposium: Photography’s Contested Spaces University of Sussex, Brighton Saturday, 20 October £10 A one day symposium exploring the political challenges and possibilities faced by photography today. Focusing on the effects of the financial meltdown and the changes digitisation has made to culture, the event considers four related aspects of photography as sites and tools for political contestation: images, participation, institutions and curation. Topics to be addressed include the online flow of activist imagery; occupation and the image; citizen photography; participatory practices; cuts to public arts funding; the museum as a political site; and the politics of digital curation. Speakers include: Jorge Ribalta (Independent Curator), Charlotte Cotton (Independent Curator), Liam Devlin (University of Wales Newport), Jon Pratty (Arts Council England),Ben Burbridge (Brighton Photo Biennial Co-Curator), Sarah James (UCL), Melanie Friend (University of Sussex); Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin (artists); Sally-Jane Norman (Director, Attenborough Centre), Stephanie Schwartz (UCL), Anthony Luvera(artist) and Pauline Hadaway (Belfast Exposed). | |
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Anna Fox Sunday, 7 October | Sean O'Hagan Sunday, 4 November |
Which eight photographs would you take with you to a desert island? Loosely following the format of Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Stephen Bull (Photography Course Leader, University for the Creative Arts) chats with Anna Fox and Sean O' Hagan, discussing each guest's choice and examines how they reflect their life and career. | |
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