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– Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
– This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
– This event takes place in the Zilkha Auditorium at Whitechapel Gallery
– You must purchase a ticket to attend the event. Concession tickets are available. If you require a Personal Assistant to support your attendance, we can offer them a seat free of charge, but it must be arranged in advance.
– If the ticket price affects your attendance, please email tickets@whitechapelgallery.org to be added to the guest list (no questions asked, but dependent on availability).
– This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
– British Sign Language interpretation will be provided for this event.
– We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
– This event last approximately 1.5 hours. There are no rest breaks currently scheduled during this event.
– An audio recording of the event can be obtained by emailing publicprogrammes@whitechapelgallery.org following the event.
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
– Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Live Recording
Please note: we audio record all events for the Whitechapel Gallery Archive and possible future online publication via Soundcloud.
This event is fully booked. To join the waiting list, please call the box office on 020 7522 7888.
Join art historian and critic Claire Bishop for a talk drawing on her latest book, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today.
Looking across trends in contemporary practice, from research-based installations to performance exhibitions, interventions, and invocations of modernist architecture, Bishop investigates how our modes of encounter art are changing. She is joined in conversation by art historian Isobel Harbison.
British Sign Language interpretation will be provided for this event.
Claire Bishop is Associate Professor in the History of Art department at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York. She is the author of Installation Art: A Critical History; Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship; and editor of Participation. in 2008 she co-curated the exhibition “Double Agent” at the ICA. She is a regular contributor to Artforum, October, Tate Etc, IDEA, and other international art magazines.
Dr Isobel Harbison is an art historian and Senior Lecturer in the Art Department, Goldsmiths. Her first book considered histories of performance and moving image in relation to the rise of social media, exploring the value of such art in economies of attention and crises of representation (Performing Image, MIT Press, 2019). She often writes for art, film and literary magazines and her next book, a history of one woman’s neon sign designs in 1950s Las Vegas, is forthcoming with Manchester University Press. Shortlisted for the Hay Festival Writer’s Award, she is a 2024 Eccles Fellow at the British Library
