5.45 pm at Art Exchange
Curator Jess Twyman will tell us about the ideas behind Larry Achiampong and David Blandy’s ‘A Lament for Power’. Made in collaboration with academics from the University of Essex while artists-in-residence, together they explore the ethics of scientific discovery and the complex relationship between science, politics and race in our age of avatars, video gaming and DNA Ancestry testing.
Jess will expand on the ideas behind this thought-provoking film, including its focus on the rarely told story of black American Henrietta Lack’s contribution to science, while also exploring the film’s use of popular culture such as the gaming world’s Resident Evil 5 as a vehicle to speak about the world around us.
All welcome.
