SLIDE/TAPE: Symposium
Design School, Loughborough University
In a day of keynote presentations, roundtable discussion and screenings this symposium aimed to broaden the scope of knowledge of the slide-tape, exploring the history, artists and aesthetics of this often overlooked artform since the 1970s and its importance in the field of moving image media.
Speakers/Participants included: Michael Archer (Goldsmiths University of London), Yasmeen Baig-Clifford (Director, Vivid Projects), Nina Danino (Artist, Goldsmith University of London), Katy Deepwell (Critic, Middlesex University), Paul Goodwin (Independent Curator), Keith Piper (Artist, Middlesex University), Cordelia Swann (Artist), and Mo White (Loughborough University).
The symposium examined the histories and context of artists’ use of slide-tape forms and considered why significant works have been omitted from curatorial histories to date. The symposium also looked to explore and reappraise the potential of slide-tape as a medium for new narrative forms.
The symposium closed with a viewing of work by Ian Breakwell and Tina Keane. We were delighted to welcome Felicity Sparrow, partner of Ian Breakwell, who introduced the screening of BC/AD, his last major work charting his decline from lung cancer. The work was be shown alongside Tina Keane’s Clapping Songs.
