A Return to the Point of No Return
a talk by Brian Dillon
Brian Dillon will talk about the theory and practice of reconstruction and revisiting in contemporary art and literature, and argue for a politically and aesthetically productive kind of "critical nostalgia". The discussion will touch on the works of W. G. Sebald, Robert Smithson, Tacita Dean and Jane & Louise Wilson, among others.

Sunday 8th March 11am

SVA, 4 John Street, Stroud

Tickets : £3.50
Croissants and coffee will be on served

Brian Dillon is UK Editor of Cabinet magazine, a quarterly of art and culture based in New York. He is also currently an AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Kent. His memoir, In the Dark Room (Penguin, 2005) won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. His writing has appeared in, among other publications, frieze, Modern Painters, Art Review, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Dublin Review, Wire and Sight & Sound. His book Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives will be published by Penguin in 2009. A native of Dublin, he lives in Canterbury.

This talk is the second in a series of sunday events organised in conjunction with ‘retrace: scripting memory’ an exhibition by Emily Smith, the site08 darbyshire award winner. The exhibition runs from 28th February - 15th March at SVA



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