Nottingham Contemporary

A major exhibition from over three decades of America photography, featuring iconic urban images that span from coast to coast. Photographers in the exhibition include:
Diane Arbus, Mark Cohen, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Danny Lyon, Mary Ellen Mark, and Stephen Shore.
The exhibition explores a time when a new generation of photographers experimented with innovative approaches to documentary photography.

This exhibition is a collaboration with the Wilson Centre for Photography.

Suitable for

• Family friendly

Website

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/states-america

This series of study sessions will explore notions of ‘opacity’, ‘imperceptibility’ and ‘disappearance’ from a number of different perspectives, and in relation to questions of ethics, politics and aesthetics.
The Right to Opacity: Glissant and Beyond, with David Eckersley – Tue 30 May, 6.30-8.30pm
Informatic Opacity, with Zach Blas – Tue 13 June, 6.30-8.30pm
The Identity of Non-Identity: Antimonies of Clandestinity and Appearance, with John Cunningham – Tue 27 June, 6.30-8.30pm
Starting From the Self to Depart From the Self, with Helena Reckitt – Tue 11 July 6.30-8.30pm
Unwriting the Author, with David Eckersley – Tue 25 July, 6.30-8.30pm
In collaboration with Centre for Critical Theory, University of Nottingham and M3C

Website

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/study-sessions-6

A night of reckoning, confrontation, loudness and proudness. With music, spoken word, open mic and DJs. Led by QTIPoC Notts and Not Your Model Minority.

Screening of Ka Bodyscapes and Poshida followed by Q&A with directors Jayan Cherian and Faizan Fiaz, chaired by Humaira Saeed.

Website

http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/south-asian-sexualities-film-screening