Current Students and Staff

Radar: Connecting Oceans in Conversation

• 18 July 2024
• 3.30pm-6pm
• Room 3.23, Loughborough University London
• Event website

About this event

Come along for a workshop led by Harun Morrison, followed by artist talks and in-conversation with Morrison and fellow artists Sonia Levy and Gabriella Hirst.

This event is co-curated by Radar (Loughborough University) and Curating the Sea, a long-term collaborative research project by Dr Pandora Syperek (Loughborough University London) and Dr Sarah Wade (University of East Anglia). It brings together three artists whose work engages with oceans, waterways and the politics of how we exist alongside them.

Harun Morrison is an artist and writer whose work takes many forms in its explorations of social and environmental justice and ecology; from community gardens, to rethinking traditional sea songs, to a deck of cards or a board game.

Sonia Levy has a research-led filmmaking practice; her Radar-commissioned film 'Creatures of the Lines' (2022) explores how desires for economic growth and linear progress has produced straightened forms in England’s watery terrains.

Gabriella Hirst works primarily with moving image, performance, and with the garden as a site of critique and care; her recent work Ambergris delves into myths of living within whales.

Accessibility

There is step-free access into the building and lifts to all floors. If you have any access requirements or anything you would like us to be aware of when running the event, please let us know via the booking form or email LUArts@lboro.ac.uk in advance of booking and we will do our best to accommodate them.

This event is generously funded by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.