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
Programme:
Thursday 14th March
11.00 – Horniman Museum: Tour of 茶, चाय, Tea Exhibition by Senior Curator of Social Practice Navjot Mangat – this is sign up on a separate Eventbrite
(Travel to Camberwell College of Art, Peckham Road via 363,197, 176 bus and 10-minute walk)
13.30 – Camberwell College of Art: Welcome Tea
14.00 – Welcome and introduction Maia Conran
14.15 – Navjot Mangat - 茶, चाय, Tea
14.45 – Katy Connor: Speculative Tea Rituals in Times of Climate Instability
15.15 – Smriti Mehra, Maia Conran and Claire Undy – Tea’s Times Workshop
15.45 – 16.00 Break
16.00 – Keynote: Kim Knowles Filmic Exchanges with Tea: A Photochemical Ritual
16.45 – Natascha Ng and Disha Kulkarni: How do you take your tea?
17.15 – Screening – Tahireh Lal – Tea post ’23 In conversation with Smriti Mehra
Friday 15th March
10.00 – Charlotte Bruns – Droppings of Tea and Photographs – Moral Support from the Sky in Occupied Netherlands
10.30 – Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák – Was There Any Tea in the Pot?
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30 – Rod Bantjes – The Global Tea Trade through the Lenses of Stereoscopic Realism
12.00 – Synshar Bhaki Pde – The history and romanticisation of the tea plantation and the workers in the North East of India and West Bengal
12.30 – Melanie King - Practice with Tea
13.00-14.00 – Lunch - provided
14.00 – Keynote: Joy Gregory – Seeds of Empire
14.45 – Screening: Paul Greenleaf, Say When (2023), Single channel 4K video, 17.45 mins, stereo sound with questions/ in conversation with Maia Conran
15.15-15.45 - Break
15.45 – Elif Karacimen: From Import Substitution to Cultural Staple: Tracing the Evolution of Tea Cultivation in Turkey
16.15 – Cassie Layton: ‘Correct Weight’: Unveiling Decolonial Narratives in Ceylon’s Tea Plantation Photography through Sound and Video Games
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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University of the Arts London.