INSIGHTS Lecture: Some kind of love: Actions and reactions to living on a damaged planet with Uta Kögelsberger and Youngsook Choi
Situated on Newcastle University’s campus, the Hatton Gallery has been a vital part of the North East’s cultural landscape since 1925, with a collection of over 3,000 works ranging from the 14th century to today, including pieces by Francis Bacon, Richard Hamilton, and Kurt Schwitters. In this event marking the gallery’s centenary, visual artist Uta Kögelsberger discusses her upcoming exhibition, Some Kind of Love, which explores the intricate connections between human and ecological systems amid environmental change.
Biographies
Uta Kögelsberger, Newcastle University
Uta Kögelsberger, (born Brussels, Belgium) is a German/British artist based across London and California. Her predominantly lens-based practice engages with complex relationships between human and ecological systems in a time of environmental change. It has been recognised through exhibitions in leading national and international arts institutions including LACMA, Los Angeles, the Royal Academy, London, GR, Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, Les Rencontres, France, the Art Night programme in collaboration with Whitechapel and Hayward Art Galleries, London amongst others. It is held in public and private collections including the MFAH and LACMA. She has been awarded the Royal Academy Wollaston Award, the Stanley Picker Fellowship, and the EAA Award for Art in Architecture. Her photographic essays have been featured in Wired, Esquire, GQ, and American Photography. She is Professor of Practice, Fine Art at Newcastle University.
Youngsook Choi, Artist and Researcher
Youngsook is a multi-disciplinary artist of Korean heritage, and also works as a public arts practitioner and researcher with a PhD in human geography. With a particular interest in the brutal hierarchy of neo-liberal system and its institutionalised abuse of human labour and nature, Youngsook often adopts the lived experiences of working-class migrant women as a focal subject. Youngsook worked with various institutions and communities such as Barbican Centre, Milton Keynes Arts Centre, MK Islamic Arts Heritage and Culture in the UK, and Sexuality Museum for Young People, Women and Space Festival in Korea. Youngsook currently lives in East London and is a member of a creative collective RARA.
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