Status of Difference

What is the status of difference: as moral imperative, sociological fact, cultural strategy or a form of aesthetic engagement? This series is a year-long platform for leading artists and thinkers to layout their visions about the status of cultural difference in the fast-evolving visual arts landscape.

Here's Paul Goodwin, Cross Cultural Curator, Tate Britain, to explain further:

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The next Status of Difference lecture will be:

Doreen Massey
Geographies of Difference
Wednesday 4 November 2009, 18.30-20.00

Eminent geographer and writer Doreen Massey challenges some of the current thinking about space and difference, asking if the very notion of place can be reworked to have progressive meaning in a globalised world. Is it time to re-imagine the geographies of difference?


Doreen Massey
© courtesy Open University


And here's some infomation about previous lectures:

Entangled Modernities
Wednesday 12 November 2008, 18.30-20.00
Writer and critic Kobena Mercer discusses how cross-cultural perspectives modify the standard picture of twentieth-century art; presenting ‘difference’ as a question of mutual entanglements among multiple modernisms and expanding out understanding of the conditions within which art circulates.
Responded to by art historian Dr Dorothy Rowe.


Post-Identity and Difference
Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Debates, So Different, So Appealing?
Wednesday 26 November 2008, 18.30-20.00
Writer, critic and curator Gilane Tawadros offers an insight into the shifting nature of ‘difference’, drawing on her ongoing engagement with artistic and curatorial practices in both the UK, Europe and Southern hemisphere.
Responded to by artist Sonia Boyce.


Richard Hamilton
Just what was it that made yesterday's homes so different, so appealing? 1992
Tate © Richard Hamilton 2008. All rights reserved, DACS


The Otolith Group
Nervus Rerum
Wednesday 4 February 2009, 18.30-20.00
The Otolith Group, founded in 2000 by artist Anjalika Sagar and writer and theorist Kodwo Eshun, presents Nervus Rerum (2008) and talk about their artistic work which rethinks various archives of futurity though moving image, sound, text and curatorial practice. Chaired by Paul Goodwin, Curator: Cross Cultural, Tate Britain.


Still from Nervus Rerum, in the room of Faridi Awad. Jenin Refugee Camp, 2008
© The Otolith Group 2008


Thelma Golden
Post-Black Art Now
Wednesday 11 March 2009, 18.30-20.00
Curator and writer Thelma Golden reflects upon the status of the term ‘post-black art’ in the context of debates about the globalisation of the art of the African diaspora and current notions of cultural difference.


Thelma Golden
Photo: © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders