Maeve Brennan to deliver the inaugural lecture in new annual series on 20 March at 6.30pm.
Date: 8 March 2018
The Cass is delighted to announce that artist Maeve Brennan is to deliver the first of a new annual series of history lectures at the School on 20 March 2018.
The Cass Histories Lecture, which is organised by the school’s critical and contextual studies team, invites thinkers whose work demonstrates a sensitive approach to histories.
The Lecture promotes interdisciplinary thinking and dialogue, as a foundational element at The Cass, and provides a forum for reflection on artistic practice that draws from histories, micro-histories, instant histories, oral traditions and current views of histories.
Maeve Brennan works with moving image and installation to explore the historical and political resonance of materials and place. Informed by personal encounters, her work revolves around the shifting economies of objects, densely layered geological, archaeological and urban sites, and the desire to reassemble and rebuild in landscapes laden with the traces of past conflict.
Recent solo exhibitions include The Drift at Chisenhale Gallery, London; Spike Island Bristol and The Whitworth, University of Manchester (all 2017) and Jerusalem Pink, OUTPOST, Norwich (2016). She was a fellow of the Home Workspace Programme at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut (2013-14). She received the Jerwood/FVU Award 2018.
Maeve Brennan's latest film, The Drift, follows the intertwining stories of three characters in contemporary Lebanon: a gatekeeper guards Roman temple ruins, a young car mechanic customises his car from scrap parts, and a conservator pieces together broken clay artefacts.
The event is free to attend but please register in advance.
Image: From The Drift (2017) by Maeve Brennan
The Cass Annual Histories Lecture: Maeve Brennan
20 March 2018, 6.30pm
Lecture Theatre GSB-01 Goulston Street
Please register your attendance in advance