Tea’s Times Conference
Conference Dates: 14 and 15 March 2024, Camberwell College of Arts, LondonRegister here for Day 1 - 14th March
Register here for Day 2 - 15th March
Drawing together the histories of photography and tea, the University of the Arts and the Horniman Museum, London have convened a conference exploring reciprocity and extraction in photography and tea.
Tea is enjoyed across the globe by individuals and communities every day. It inspires cultural customs and national identities. The Horniman Museum’s origins in the profits of the tea trade are being unpacked through a decolonial lens in their new exhibition 茶 , चाय, Tea. This conference is conceived in response to this exhibition and draws parallels between the founding of Horniman's Tea Company (1826) and the first fixed photographic images, including Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras (also 1826).
From points of departure in colonial practices and the mass productions of the industrial revolution, tea and photography each map a shifting multiplicity of social and political relationships. As interest in environmental practice in photography increases, tea becomes one among other plant-based developers in contemporary use. This conference then will examine photography and tea as the results of processes of extraction, exchange, reciprocity and materialisms, situating these histories relative to colonial and imperial practices.
Confirmed contributors include: Smriti Mehra, Maia Conran, Claire Undy, Navjot Mangat, Paul Greenleaf, Cassie Layton, Charlotte Bruns, Rod Bantjes, Synshar Bhaki Pde, Melanie King, Ruth Hogg, Natascha Ng and Disha Kulkarni, Zsuzsanna, Duncan Wooldridge, Szegedy-Maszák, Katy Connor, Elif Karacimen, Tahireh Lal. With keynotes by Kim Knowles and Joy Gregory.
Please send any questions to: photographyresearch@arts.ac.uk
Address: Camberwell College of Arts 45 - 65 Peckham Road, London, SE5 8UF
Accessibility information:
Step free access to the Peckham Road Lecture Theatre from the North Entrance.
Disabled toilets at basement level.
Refuge points to the North and South of the lecture theatre
Links:
Tea’s Times Exhibition
茶, चाय, Tea Exhibition
Tea Project Horniman Museum
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