We hope you are able to join us at our latest Gilbert Lloyd Lecture by British artist, writer, educator and curator, Robin Deacon.
In this talk, Robin will share an overview of his life as an artist, sharing fragments of video, writings and lectures from over twenty years of art making that have taken him all around the world. He will cover subject matter as eclectic as railway modelling, family rituals of television watching, personal histories of vinyl record collecting and his obsession with outmoded video formats.
Robin’s art work and research explore questions of memory and fiction, with an ongoing shift in his role from biographer and academic to storyteller and unreliable narrator.
Robin graduated from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff in 1996, going on to present his performances, lectures and videos at conferences and festivals in the UK and internationally in Europe, the USA and Asia. He has been curated by venues such as Tate Britain and the Barbican (London, UK), the Whitney Museum (New York, USA) and the Centre for Contemporary Culture (Barcelona, Spain) amongst many others.
Robin has received a variety of awards and fellowships from organizations such as the Delfina Foundation, British Arts Council, Live Art Development Agency and Franklin Furnace Inc. He is also a MacDowell Fellow. After a decade in the USA as a Professor and Chair of Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Robin returned to the UK in 2021 to become the Artistic Director and CEO of SPILL Festival, an international biennial of art and culture based in Ipswich, Suffolk.
THE DETAILS
| Date | Thursday 29 September |
| Time | 7.30pm |
| Venue | Erskine May Hall |
| Admission | Free |
| Age suitability | All ages |