TalkSeePhotography

Please note, unfortunately due to illness Nuno Sacramento will not be able to attend tonight's event. The talk will be conducted by Deirdre MacKenna alone. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

It’s crucial to keep an active and open dialogue about who controls the opportunities to make and show work. So our first event in 2016 will introduce a new strand of enquiry to our programme in order to explore approaches to commissioning and presenting photography in Scotland.

We’re delighted that the first of these dialogues will be between Deirdre MacKenna and Nuno Sacramento, who will outline their approaches as visual art programme-makers and discuss cross-over in roles (artists, writers, producers, programme-makers, commissioners, funders, teachers, curators, consumers and others) and the freelance-institution relationship.

Founding Curator of DJCAD Exhibitions (1994-2001), Director of Stills, Edinburgh (2002-13) and founding Director of Scotlandmigration and Cultural Documents, Deirdre MacKenna is doctoral candidate at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, researching the potential of durational cultural programmes in stimulating sense-making and awareness of context.

Nuno Sacramento was born in Maputo, Mozambique and now lives in Aberdeenshire where he is Director of the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden. He’s a researcher, lecturer, writer, curator, commissioner and programme-maker and is a graduate of the curatorial training programme of deAppel and has a PhD from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee. His work currently addresses issues of land use and ownership, climate change and 'the commons' in relation to art practice.