LSE Arts public exhibition
Date: Monday 25 April – Friday 29 April 2016 PUBLIC EXHIBITION
Time: Mon-Fri 10am-1pm, 2pm-6pm
Venue: Atrium Gallery, Old Building
'Talk to Someone You Don’t Know About Something You Don’t Know 'is an interactive installation by Lara Haworth and Dr Ilya Parkins in collaboration with the LSE Gender Institute. The installation creates a recognisable yet abstract environment where you are invited to come and have a telephone conversation with someone you don’t know, about a subject you don’t know. The project combines the forces of artist Lara Haworth and academic Dr Ilya Parkins to create a compelling installation rooted in original and important research. Exploring questions raised by Dr Parkins’ research project, which resituates obscurity and mystery as potentially hopeful modes of being for people who were otherwise imagined to be fully accessible, the piece encourages conversation, but also gaps, mystery and silence. The ‘something’ that each participant ‘doesn’t know’ might take the form of a question, a topic, or a theme; something personal, perhaps, or long wrestled with, or only just realised. What if one participant wants to keep their unknown thing unknown? Can two strangers discuss something and still preserve its secrecy, and their own? Exploring ideas of mystery, unknowability and invisibility, this contemporary project produces new ways of thinking about, talking about, and ‘doing’ the unknown.
Generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
This exhibition is open to all, no ticket required. Visitors are welcome during weekdays (Monday - Friday) between 10am and 1pm, and 2pm and 6pm(excluding bank holidays, when the school is closed, at Christmas and Easter, or unless otherwise stated on the web listing).
For further information email arts@lse.ac.uk or phone 020 7955 6043.
Just economics and politics? Think again. While LSE does not teach arts or music, there is a vibrant cultural side to the School - from weekly free music concerts in the Shaw Library, and an LSE orchestra and choir with their own professional conductors, various film, art and photographic student societies, the annual LSE photo prize competition, the LSE Literary Festival and artist-in-residence projects. For more information please view the LSE Arts website.
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