Gerrard O’Carroll Memorial Lecture

Gerrard O’Carroll Memorial Lecture

 

Throughout their career and through carefully choreographed film installations, sound works and photography, Jane and Louise Wilson have explored some of Europe’s least accessible architectural sites: a former Stasi Prison in former East Berlin, the British Houses of Parliament and the huge Star City complex in Moscow, a key site of the Russian Space Programme.

 

For this lecture, the acclaimed artists, who have recently been appointed Professors of Fine Art at Newcastle University, reflect on their practice, considering themes from recent projects including Undead Sun, which builds on their longstanding interest in the technology and architecture of conflict.

 

Named in honour of Gerrard O’Carroll – architect, writer, curator and Senior Tutor in the School of Architecture and Design at the Royal College of Art, London, the Gerrard O’Carroll Memorial Lecture seeks to explore alternative dialogues between art, architecture and design – from the subversive and spectacular, to the intimate and experimental – and features visionary practitioners elaborating on the thought and process behind their work.

 

In collaboration with Adrian O’Carroll and Rosy Head, supported by Adrian & Jennifer O’Carroll.

Jane and Louise Wilson

 

Gerrard O’Carroll Memorial Lecture

FROM: Whitechapel Gallery