Next Wednesday (March 1st) the second Director’s Cut event of 2017 will be taking place in the King’s College Conference Centre at 6:00 PM. We are thrilled to have the filmmaker, critic and curator Mark Cousins visiting, where he will discuss his extraordinary career as one of … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2017
aberdeen: photography exhibition by chris heppell
20th March – 23rd April 2017 / Sir Duncan Rice Library ground floor events area Official Opening Event: Thursday, 30 March 2017, 18:00-19:00 This retrospective exhibition incorporates work from the past 7 years taken while studying for my MLitt and PhD at the University of Aberdeen. Using colour film, an early 1980s Minolta SLR camera with a light leak, … Continue reading
Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960
Amy Bryzgel, Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture, has just published a book entitled Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960 with Manchester University Press. Continue reading
GWW Reading Group (15/2/17): Giorgio Agamben’s “Nudity”
On Wednesday, February 15th, the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Culture’s Reading Group will hold its first meeting of the new year. We will be meeting in Taylor A35 from 12-1 to discuss Giorgio Agamben’s essay, “Nudity.” Continue reading
Trace History of a Performance – a Talk about Estonian performance artist Siim-Tanel Annus
On 22 February, Liis Kibuspuu will give a talk at the University of Aberdeen as part of the Film and Visual Culture Research Seminar series. The talk will take place at 12:00 in Meeting Room 3 of the Sir Duncan Rice Library. All welcome! Continue reading
Director’s Cut: The 25th Anniversary of Candyman with filmmaker Bernard Rose
Join us for a very special Director’s Cut with Bernard Rose, director of influential horror classic Candyman, to celebrate the cult film’s 25th anniversary. Bernard will discuss with the BBC’s Fiona Stalker, his career in film making as a writer and director which began … Continue reading
VISION events – Spring 2017
The GWW CVC is pleased to announce its VISION line-up for Spring 2017! Continue reading