Artist Talk: Ellen Gallagher in Conversation with Romi Crawford

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.

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Venue

Tate Liverpool, Liverpool

Dates

Artist Talk: Ellen Gallagher in conversation with Romi Crawford 8 Apr 2010

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Road Directions

By Car
Follow brown signs to the Albert Dock. There is a multi-storey car park at Kings Dock (5 minutes walk).

Q-Park Strand Street with 2000 underground spaces can be accessed from the centre of Strand Street which runs past the Albert Dock (5 minutes walk). Liverpool Shopmobility is located on Level 3 (ground floor) of Liverpool ONE, adjacent to the disabled car parking bays within Strand Street Q-Park. Visit the Liverpool One website and call 0151 707 0877.

There are designated accessible parking spaces around the Albert Dock complex (3.3m wide with rear access to parked vehicles). A site map can be found at the Albert Dock website. There are charges for parking. There are speed bumps along the main access roads. It is approximately 120m from the nearest accessible parking space to the gallery.

A convenient drop off point is available by arrangement at Hartley Bridge. Another area is at the side of the gallery via the back service road. However, these are not parking areas.

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By Train
The nearest mainline train station is Liverpool Lime Street. Main line rail tickets are valid for travel from Lime Street Station to James Street Station which is the nearest local station to Tate Liverpool (720m).

By Bus
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By Ferry
Mersey Ferries from Seacombe and Woodside on the Wirral call at the Pier Head which is within walking distance from the gallery. Due to building work, access from the Pier Head to the gallery is currently via the Strand.

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Parking & Transport

• On site parking - Q-Park Strand Street with 2000 underground spaces can be accessed from the centre of Strand Street which runs past the Albert Dock (5 minutes walk). Liverpool Shopmobility is located on Level 3 (ground floor) of Liverpool ONE, adjacent to the disabled car parking bays within Strand Street Q-Park. Visit the Liverpool One website and call 0151 707 0877. There are designated accessible parking spaces around the Albert Dock complex (3.3m wide with rear access to parked vehicles). A site map can be found at the Albert Dock website. There are charges for parking. There are speed bumps along the main access roads. It is approximately 120m from the nearest accessible parking space to the gallery. A convenient drop off point is available by arrangement at Hartley Bridge. Another area is at the side of the gallery via the back service road. However, these are not parking areas.