Processing the Past / Where the Light Gets in; Artist Tina Rowe presents a body of work developed during her stay as Arts Researcher in Residence at The British School at Athens (BSA). The research centres upon the photographic negative and the importance of specialist space at a time when digital technologies dominate the arts. Held in partnership with Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts at University of the Arts London.
In this talk, Rowe shares her own practice and the ways her recent residency at the British School of Athens (BSA) has informed her practice-based PhD. Rowe will discuss her use of the BSA archive, questions that have arisen from working with materials she understands and content she had limited experience of, and ways in which this residency contributed to the creation of a new body of work. The work, entitled Processing the Past / Where the Light Gets In centres upon the photographic negative – an essential part of analogue photography that has become obsolete with the advent of digital technologies. However, for practitioners such as Rowe – whose practice is still intimately bound to the darkroom – the negative is a fundamental stage in image-making. At a time when information is increasingly digitised and accessed through screens, this talk will consider the importance of the specialist space as a catalyst for ideas to be exchanged across practices.
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