Artist Daniel Ward and curator and writer Richard Birkett discuss Ward’s Peer exhibition and wider practice.
About the speakers:
Richard Birkett is a curator and writer based in Glasgow, UK. He has held roles as Festival Director of Glasgow International (2022-2025); Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (2017-2020); and Curator at Artists Space in New York (2010-2016). He is the author of the book Donald Rodney: Autoicon (Afterall Books, 2022).
Daniel Ward is an artist, writer and filmmaker based in Oxford. His work has been shown at HKW, Berlin, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, and the Museum for Photography, Berlin, amongst others. He was the inaugural recipient of the Michael O’Pray Prize in 2018, an award for new writing on moving-image art supported by Art Monthly and Film and Video Umbrella. He was commissioned by City Projects to write The Politics of Production, a report examining the conditions for producing experimental film in the UK, funded by Arts Council England and published in 2019. His writing has been published in Artforum, Art Monthly, Texte zur Kunst and New Left Review: Sidecar, amongst others. He is currently a PhD candidate at University College London, writing on 20th century British art, politics and film from 1982 to 1997.
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