Twenty Six Things Explored
Thursday 19 June, 19.00-20.30
Join artist Marion Coutts, a neuroscientist and a film critic to discuss the art and science of the film ‘Twenty Six Things’.
From memory games and psychological tests to sculpture and still life, our three guests will explore their responses to the film and the miscellaneous objects portrayed.
Speakers
Marion Coutts, artist
Lucy Reynolds, art writer, curator and content manager at Luxonline
Hugo Spiers, neuroscientist, University College London
Facilitator
Gill Hedley, freelance curator and writer
This event is free
In support of Twenty Six Things.
Marion Coutts
I work in sculpture, film and video. Recent exhibitions have included 'To Be Continued…' at Helsinki Kunsthalle, 'Responding to Rome' at The Estorick Collection, The New Art Centre, and Chisenhale Gallery. In 2003-04 I held the Kettle's Yard Fellowship at St John's College, Cambridge, and in 2001 the Momart Fellowship at Tate Liverpool. I live and work in London, lecture at Goldsmiths College and am a Research Fellow at Norwich School of Art and Design.
Lucy Reynolds
I am a writer, artist and independent film curator, and my doctorate research explores British expanded cinema. I teach the history and theory of film, specialising in artists' moving image, at the University of Westminster and Birkbeck College and I am Content Manager for Luxonline.
Hugo Spiers
I am a neuroscientist at the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience at University College London. My research investigates how the brain remembers the past and helps us navigate. I am currently funded by a Wellcome Trust Advanced Training Fellowship and use a number of research techniques including human brain imaging, single neuron recording and virtual reality. Recently, with the help of a Wellcome Trust Sciart award, I teamed up with an architect and an artist to create the film installation 'Neurotopographics', which explores how our brain perceives and maps space.
Gill Hedley
I am a freelance curator and consultant. Most recently, I was Director of the Contemporary Art Society which acquires contemporary art to give to museums in the UK. I initiated a major project which made £4m available to 21 museum curators to travel and develop their collections through purchases and commissions. Previously, I was a museum curator and organiser of exhibitions for the British Council (including Francis Bacon in Moscow, 1988, and Richard Hamilton at the Venice Biennale, 1993).