BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5388@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191212T183000 DTSTAMP:20191106T125516Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/tate-liverpool-artists-talk-thea ster-gates/ SUMMARY:Tate Liverpool: Tate Liverpool: Artist's Talk: Theaster Gates DESCRIPTION:ARTIST'S TALK: THEASTER GATES\n\n\n\n12 DECEMBER 2019 AT 16.30 –18.30\n\nBOOK TICKETS\n\n\n\nAn exciting and rare opportunity to hear a rtist Theaster Gates\n\n\n\n\nHear Theaster Gates\, one of the world’s most influential living artists\, discuss his career and art practice. As a socially engaged artist\, Gates' art has transformed places and aims to improve the lives of the people who live there. During this talk\, the ar tist will share his thoughts about his ongoing artistic endeavours on ques tions of land ownership\, displacement\, and interracial relationships.\n\ nGot a question for Theaster Gates? Take part in our audience Q&\;A - y our chance to talk to the artist.\n\nThis talk is taking place at the Mus eum of Liverpool in the Global City Auditorium. See his exhibition\, The aster Gates: Amalgam at Tate Liverpool from 13 December 2019 - 3 May 2020 .\n\nThis event is organised by Tate Liverpool and supported by the Lunder Institute of American Art at Colby College. The Lunder Institute for Amer ican Art supports innovative research and creative production that expands the boundaries of American art. A collaborative initiative with the Colby College Museum of Art located in central Maine\, the Lunder Institute inv ites visiting artists\, scholars\, and museum professionals to engage acro ss disciplines with Colby faculty and students.\n\nTheaster Gates is curre ntly Distinguished Visiting Artist and Director of Artist Initiatives at t he Lunder Institute and his research on the island led to the creation of the exhibition.\n\nBiographies\n\nTheaster Gates\n\nTheaster Gates lives a nd works in Chicago. His work explores value\, economy and material exchan ge in charged social contexts. Gates created the Rebuild Foundation in 2 010\, a non-profit platform aimed at regenerating communities through neig hourhood revitalisation. Many of the foundation's initiatives have focused on Chicago's South Side\, creating hubs and archives for black culture\, which serve as catalysts for discussions on race\, equality\, space and hi story.\n\nMichael Ralph\n\nMichael Ralph is Associate Professor\; Director of Africana Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the School of Medicine at New York University. His research integrates po litical science\, economics\, history and medicial anthropology through an explicit focus on debt\, slavery\, insurance\, forensics and incarceratio n. In 2015 he published Forensics of Capital and he is currently working on 2 books that centre on slavery\, insurance and incarceration. Professo r Ralph has built the multimedia archive\, Treasury of Weary Souls\, the world's most comprehensive ledger of insured slaves.\n\nGrace Wales Bonne r\n\nGrace Wales Bonner is a British fashion designer. In 2014 she launche d her line\, Wales Bonner\, which proposes a distinct notion of luxury via a hybrid of European and Afro-Atlantic approaches. In 2015 she was awarde d Emerging Menswear Designer at the British Fashion Awards and in 2019 Vog ue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour named her as one of the young designers sh e’s most excited about. In 2019 she presented A Time for New Dreams at London’s Serpentine Gallery\, which explored magical resonances within black cultural and aesthetic practices.\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/11/theaster-gates.jpg LOCATION:Tate Liverpool\, Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L3 4BB\, Liverpool\, Un ited Kingdom GEO:53.4003;-2.9927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L 3 4BB\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Tate Liverpo ol:geo:53.4003,-2.9927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191027T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR