Friday 17 March 2006, 10.30–17.00

Chair: Dr Steven Gartside (MIRIAD)

Can documents make memories?
How does documentary make, shape and alter history?
Can we locate truth within a document?

Leading voices come together to discuss 'documentary' in all its complexity. Professor Nigel Warburton (OU) and David Campany (University of Westminster) discuss the reliability versus the instability of documentary. Professor Annette Kuhn (UCLAN) examines the limits and tensions between the documentary and memory. Dr Ben Highmore (UWE Bristol) and Camilla Brown of the Photographers Gallery, trace the history of documentary into contemporary art. All grapple with documentaries ability to make the complex seem simple and its power to make meanings.

Tate Liverpool 
£40 (£20 concessions), booking required
Price includes lunch and tea
Places strictly limited

  

This event is related to the Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now exhibition