Jeremy Deller in conversation: Art is Magic

Part of PeopleFest, 5-7 April 2024

This in-conversation event with Jeremy Deller will explore some of his public collaborations and the films which they have generated. Hosted by Rupert Cox from the Granda Centre for Visual Anthropology, it will highlight connections between art and anthropology and touch on his new book ‘Art is Magic’.

Secondly, Dr Katie Smith and some students from Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester will ask about the impact of Deller’s works on notions of British identity and the understanding of fundamental events in British social and political life such as the miners’ strike and Brexit. There will also be time for audience questions.

This event is co-organised by the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology and Creative Manchester.

Creative Manchester is an interdisciplinary research platform based at The University of Manchester. The platform champions research in creativity and creative practice, bringing together research communities with external stakeholders to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities.

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Jeremy Deller, studied Art History at the Courtauld Institute and Sussex University, won the Turner Prize in 2004 for his work ‘Memory Bucket’ and represented Britain in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. He has been producing projects over the past two decades which have influenced the conventional map of contemporary art. He began making artworks in the early 1990s, often showing them outside conventional galleries.

Deller has curated numerous projects including:
‘Iggy Pop Life Class’, Brooklyn Museum (2016); ‘Love is Enough: William Morris and Andy Warhol’, Modern Art Oxford (2014); and ‘All That is Solid Melts Into Air’, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (2014),

Filmwork includes
2019 Putins Happy
2018 Everybody in the Place (an incomplete history of Britain 1984-92)
2010 ‘So Many ways to Hurt you’
2006 ‘Our Hobby is Depeche Mode’

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Rupert Cox, director of Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester. Interested in art-science collaboration, visual and sensory studies, military geographies, eco-acoustics.

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