Capturing the ethereal and transient: the Edward Woodman Symposium
- 18 January 2019, 10am
- Southampton City Art Gallery
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The ‘Edward Woodman: The Documentation of Contemporary British Art in Transition’ symposium explored themes of visibility, ephemerality and cultural memory in his seminal photographs, which document art and artists of a key era in British art.
Speakers discussed art documentation from 1979 to1999, and how photographic records have shaped perceptions of history and the art of the present.
It was held at Southampton City Art Gallery, in partnership with John Hansard Gallery, at the same time as the first Woodman retrospective and the publication of ‘Edward Woodman: The Artist’s Eye’.
There were 5 talks and presentations.
Talk 1
The image and the artwork, Imogen Stidworthy, David Ward
Talk 2
Why artists need documentation, Hugo Glendinning
Talk 3
The value of the archive and the organisation of visibility, Keith Piper, Erika Tan, Lois Keidan
Talk 4
The image, the gallery and artist books, Samantha Ismail Epps
Talk 5
Documentation, archives and institutional memory, Jo Bushnell, Woodrow Kernohan, Guy Moreton
