The Media Line Staff
Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:00 - 15:30 Greenwich Mean Time (UTC±0)
A series of talks exploring our complex relationship with cultural heritage. Feat. artists, musicians, architects, academics & curators.
We have a complex relationship with cultural heritage. In celebrating its riches, we must also acknowledge the challenges it presents us.
From the smallest fragment of a poem to a vast archaeological site, protecting, preserving and interpreting cultural heritage is essential for interrogating identities, developing understanding and imagining futures.
Different people lay claim to cultural heritage for different purposes. Archaeologists and conservationists have developed inventive methods to preserve historical material from disintegration and disappearance. While contemporary artists excavate and interrogate archives, histories and personal narratives, and create new work that takes a fresh perspective on today’s realities.