Revisiting History

Revising History was a two-part programme comprising: 1. Three exhibitions of new moving image work by Richard Billingham, Kathleen Herbert and Anna Bunting-Branch at Hardwick Gallery, 2, A one-day symposium of screenings and discussion with the artists and invited speakers at the University of Gloucestershire, and panel discussion at The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum. Richard Billingham was in conversation with Kieran Cashell, Kathleen Herbert was in conversation with Ele Carpenter, Anna Bunting-Branch was in conversation with Naomi Pearce. Dr Kieran Cashell is a lecturer in Critical & Contextual Studies in Limerick School of Art & Design, LIT and is author of Aftershock: The Ethics of Contemporary Transgressive Art (IB Tauris, 2009) The Revising History symposium enabled each of the film-works to be studied and explored in depth with a succession of screenings and discussions between the artists and invited speakers