Folds in Time: Artists' responses to the Temporal and the Uncanny
Day conference
Convened by Brass Art as part of the Festival of the Unconscious.
This conference brings together artists, curators and writers to examine the ways artists harness aspects of the uncanny and the unconscious in their navigation of physical and imagined spaces. Built around artists'
practices which have responded to the repressed, the unthought or the untold, and which employ fractured, dream-like or metamorphic narratives; the conference will mix keynote addresses with artist-in-conversations.
Participants:
Patricia Allmer, Leading scholar of Surrealism and Chancellor's Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art at University of Edinburgh.
PROGRAM
9.30am - 5.00pm
at the Anna Freud Centre
Morning session:
Registration
Welcome from Director of Freud Museum, Carol Siegel
Keynote: Dr Patricia Allmer
Shadowdance - The Mobile Uncanny
Refreshments
Artists in conversation 1: Brass Art and Rebecca Fortnum
Introduction by Rachel Anderson (Artangel) of screening Yes, these Eyes are the Windows (2014) by Saskia Olde Wolbers
Questions
Lunch
Free entry to Festival of the Unconscious: The Unconscious Revisited at the Freud Museum
Afternoon session:
Keynote: Dr Alison Rowley
Uncanny Returns and the Power of Laughter: Sarah Lucas at the Freud Museum
Artists in conversation 2: Daniel Silver and Rachel Withers
Refreshments
Artists in conversation 3: Lindsay Seers and Pavel Pyś
Questions
Registration: £60 / £45 students and concessions.
(£5 discount for members of the Freud Museum)
There are a limited number of bursary tickets at £20 for students and unwaged.
Reference:
CONF: Folds in Time (London, 4 Jul 15). In: ArtHist.net, Jun 27, 2015 (accessed Jul 4, 2025), <https://arthist.net/archive/10584>.