MAPh | Photography and the return of the dead: panel discussion FREE EVENT

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Photography and the return of the dead: panel discussion FREE EVENT

14 August 2010

James MORRISON Worm blood dripping (detail) 2009-10
paper maché and ink in three pieces
Man: 198 x 82 x 78 cm
courtesy of the artist and Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Photography: Simon Hewson

3PM at MGA FREE EVENT

Join prominent photographic artists ANNE FERRAN and ROD McNICOL, and well-known curator and writer HELEN ENNIS as they discuss photography's ability to keep the past alive.

Contemporary culture is obsessed with keeping the dead alive. While vampires and zombies were once the mainstay of horror films and literature, the success of Buffy and more recently the Twilight saga suggest our collective fascination with the undead has reached phenomenal proportions.

Photography is also preoccupied with the undead: it keeps the past alive, in the form of a magical, silvery image. As part of its latest exhibition Living deadly: haunted surfaces and contemporary art, MGA is hosting a panel discussion on photography's ability to keep the past alive.

Bookings preferred mga@monash.vic.gov.au or call 03 8544 0500

MAPh acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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