Thursday 8 April 2010, 18.00–19.30

Using different techniques from painting to 16mm films, Ellen Gallagher opens up windows on to a universe in which narratives of history and identity are at once pulled apart and re-imagined. Her work is affected through its subtle straddling of the aesthetic, social and political, in the collision of historical realism with science fiction, or the austere structures of minimalism with mass-media representation. 

Gallagher is a key figure within international contemporary art and her incredibly layered work an integral feature of the Afro Modern exhibition and its narratives. Tate Liverpool is delighted to present this in-conversation with Gallagher and US-based academic Romi Crawford as an insight into her work in the exhibition (Deluxe 2004-5 and Bird in Hand 2006) and her wider practice.

Ellen Gallagher lives and works in New York and Rotterdam. She received the American Academy Award in Art in 2000, the Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 1997 and the 1996 MacDowell Colony Award.

Romi Crawford is a professor of Literature, Africana and Visual Critical Studies in the Liberal Arts Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was previously Curator and Director of Education and Public Programmes at the Studio Museum in Harlem. 

This event is supported by Tate Liverpool Members. 

Tate Liverpool  Fourth floor galleries
£8 (£6 concessions), booking recommended
Please note this talk will take place in the gallery with standing room only. A limited number of gallery stools will be available.

This event is related to the Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic exhibition