Lasse will present "i am here' as part of City Portraits panel, at Kings College, London.
Featuring both artists and academics, the panel discussion accompanying the City Portraits exhibition will focus both on the original project and its results, and on wider issues of ethics, representation and recognition in visual and other research. What are the possibilities afforded by representations of the sort featured in the City Portraits project and related installations; do they challenge existing understandings of how people should be represented in social and cultural research; and can they contribute positively to participants' sense of themselves and their surroundings, to their sense of place?
Panelists are:
Paul Sweetman is a Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media &
Creative Industries at King's College London. He is a founder
member and co-convenor of the British Sociological Association's
Visual Sociology Study Group, and co-editor of Picturing the
Social Landscape (Routledge 2004). He has been a member of the
Editorial Advisory Board of Visual Studies since 2008, and a member
of the Editorial Board of Sociology between 2003 and 2005.
Laura Hensser is a British Photographer who
graduated from UCA Farnham with a BA in Photography in 2008. She
has been the recipient of the MI 2 (Prime Minister's Initiative
Fund) to make work at the NID (National Institute of Design) in
Ahmedabad, India. Laura has exhibited internationally and in the
UK, including as part of the group exhibition 'Miscellaneous'.
Recently Laura has been working on a photographic project called
'City Portraits' under the CCI and Cultural Olympiad.
Lasse Johansson (Fugitive Images) works with film,
photography and installation in order to explore issues around the
everyday and the formation of place, with special interest in
public spaces and the identities they give rise to.
Alison Rooke (Goldsmiths) is a visual sociologist whose
teaching and research is concerned with the dynamics of
participation in the city brought about- through arts based urban
interventions, urban planning, research and evaluation as well as
informal spaces of citizenship and community. Alison works in
partnership with a range of arts organisations and institutions
developing collaborative approaches to research and evaluation.