News and insights

Book launch of 'Stuart Brisley: Performance and its Afterlives'

DACS and Book Works presented an event in celebration of the publication of Stuart Brisley interviews: Performance and its Afterlives.

• 17 December 2020, 5pm

DACS Presents: a talk by Liliane Lijn

DACS launched its digital public programme, 'DACS Presents' with Silvana Bismarck Speaks - a talk by Liliane Lijn.

• 25 November 2020, 6pm

Bronzechain Launch

DACS and Bronze Age Sculpture Foundry launched the Bronzechain partnership.

• 27 November 2019, 6:30-8pm
• Bronze Age Sculpture Foundry Basin Approach London E14 7JG

Tai Shani in Conversation

Hear Turner Prize nominated artist Tai Shani in conversation with curator Rosie Cooper at the Soho Hotel.

• 4 October 2019, 3-5pm
• The Soho Hotel 4 Richmond Mews London, W1D 3DH

DACS Annual Award: Ryan Gander

The audience joined Gander in exploring Perspectives, a talk that considers our inability to change.

• 25 September 2019 - 25 January 2024, 7-9pm
• The Art Workers' Guild 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 3AT

Capturing the ethereal and transient: the Edward Woodman Symposium

A symposium which explored themes of visibility, ephemerality and cultural memory in seminal photographs of a key era in British art.

• 18 January 2019, 10am
• Southampton City Art Gallery

DACS Annual Lecture: Anthea Hamilton

We joined Turner Prize-nominated artist Anthea Hamilton for DACS' inaugural Annual Lecture, who spoke on the evocative theme A Space for Thought.

• 24 September 2018, 7-9pm
• The Art Worker's Guild 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury London, WC1N 3AT

Spaced Out

Artquest and DACS presented Spaced Out - a one-day conference that looked at the changing use of artists’ space in a wider urban context.

• 24 April 2018, 9:30am-5pm
• Central Saint Martins LVMH Lecture Theatre 1, Granary Building Kings Cross London N1C 4AA

Archiving Contemporary Art workshops

Explored practical approaches and theories of archiving contemporary art, with artists, archivists and experts in the field.

• 27 March 2018, 10am

Who Owns the Art World?

An online panel discussion with Hayley Newman, Richard Parry and Morgan Quaintance abut the ethics and economics of the art world

• 14 March 2018, 5pm
• The event was streamed live on Periscope @DACSforArtists and on DACS' Twitter.

Phyllida Barlow in conversation with David Ward and Gilane Tawadros

Listen to our panel debate with Phyllida Barlow in conversation David Ward and Gilane Tawadros, as part of Art360's 'Shooting Performance: Edward Woodman and British Art of the 1980s and 1990s'.

• 30 September - 7 October 2017, 12-6pm
• DRAF Symes Mews London NW1 7JE

Shooting Performance: Edward Woodman and British Art of the 1980s and 1990s

Explore two decades of documentary photography by Edward Woodman in a special exhibition presented by Art360 in association with DRAF (David Roberts Art Foundation).

• 21 September - 7 October 2017, 12-6pm
• DRAF Symes Mews London NW1 7JE