Image politic/s

Evidentiary tools such as the analogue camera, the canvas and now digital technologies, have long interrogated the obduracy of facts and the singularity of truth in the hands of artists. Observing political events as they unfold in the present, this panel dialogues with practitioners who have long scrutinised cataclysmic moments of the 20th/21st century, manifesting them through fragments and tableaus that re-frame both real and poetic frictions between events and their representations. At this post-digital moment, how might we infer moments in history and their effects on communities through multiple aesthetic registers? What might be discovered at the interpretive site of art-making that could question the paradoxical status of the image, reconstituted as a meld of evidence, artifact and departure? 

This event  is part of Art is Life: Online as part of our annual festival Art is Life.