Panel Discussion | USA Playhouse (Castle of Peace)
IN CONVERSATION
Panel Discussion | USA Playhouse (Castle of Peace)
12 October 2023, 4:10 PM
In conjunction with the installation, ‘USA Playhouse (Castle of Peace),’ artist Jaylon Israel Hicks will be in conversation with Peter Davies, artist and lecturer at Slade School of Fine Art, and Patricia Lee Daigle, curator at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. The panel will be moderated by Camille Crichlow, writer and PhD researcher at the UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. The panel will focus on Hicks’ installation, its conceptual nature, and the broader cultural implications of the work.
Hosted on Zoom by Maximillian William, London. This panel discussion is open to all. Please register here.
7:00-8:00pm
Wednesday 18th October
Jaylon Israel Hicks (b. 1993, Houston, Texas, USA) is an American conceptual artist who lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hicks experiments in a range of media, including but not limited to drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography. While Hicks’ art often focuses on everyday objects, exploring themes of globalisation and connectivity, his works are not austere or mundane. On the contrary, they are emotionally charged documents of contemporary life – they dwell on the self-destructive impulse which has come to define the Anthropocene. In March 2023, Maximillian William, London presented Hicks’ debut solo exhibition Gothica.
Peter Davies, born 1970 in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a painter who lives in London. He studied at Goldsmiths College, London MA in Fine Art 1996, University of Brighton BA (Hons) Painting 1992 and Central School of Art, London, Foundation studies 1989. He recently had an exhibition “From the land of…” at The Approach, London, 2023. For many years he has taught in the undergraduate Painting department at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. In July 2024 Peter will curate an exhibition of emerging artists entitled “On feeling – an exhibition about emotion and subjectivity” at The Approach, London.
Patricia Lee Daigle is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Her recent curatorial projects include Harmonia Rosales: Master Narrative, currently on view Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, In the Moment: Art from the 1950s to Now, and Tommy Kha: Eye is Another, presented as part of the Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art. From 2015-2020, she was Director of The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at The University of Memphis, organizing solo exhibitions featuring the work of Virginia Overton, Jefferson Pinder, and Umar Rashid, among others. Prior to this, she worked at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art as Curatorial Assistant in Contemporary Art. She holds a Ph.D. in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Peter Davies
Camille Crichlow is a London-based writer, researcher and PhD candidate at University College London. Her research interrogates historical and emergent formations of racialism manifest in techno-visual cultures of surveillance. She is co-editor of ArtSchool at Afterall Research Centre (University of the Arts London) – a multimedia platform for collective reflection on the present and potential futures of teaching and learning about and through art. ArtSchool is a space for visual, textual and discursive projects, engaging with current crises of labour, education and issues of visibility.
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