Eisa, Ali and Rees, Sebastian. 2022. 'Petrified History, Toxic Nostalgia'. In: Petrified History, Toxic Nostalgia. Goldsmiths CCA, United Kingdom 31 March 2022. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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A panel discussion on memory, melancholia, monuments and mythology, featuring four of the artists exhibited in Testament: Roger Hiorns, Elizabeth Price, Ali Eisa and Sebastian Lloyd Rees (Lloyd Corporation), chaired by Gary Younge. Each artist discuss their proposals for the exhibition, which question the permanent visibility of statues, public art commissioning, and the ways public spaces become contested sites of communication.

This event was part of 'Testament' - a large-scale group exhibition of 47 artists’ proposals considering the role of monuments. Artists’ contributions seek to magnify a multitude of conversations, from discussions about decolonising institutions, fallism, dislocation, memorialising, remembering and forgetting, to our current relationship with history, along with some intimate and personal responses. Submissions incorporate notes and sketches, drawings, poems, instructions, installations, sculptures, paintings, films, performances, and text, and include critical and celebratory positions and conversations about coping and surviving, ranging from the individual to the universal, and the local to the national.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Panel)
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Dates:	Date Event 31 March 2022 Completed
Event Location:	Goldsmiths CCA, United Kingdom
Date range:	31 March 2022
Item ID:	39402
Date Deposited:	18 Aug 2025 10:40
Last Modified:	18 Aug 2025 10:40
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39402

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