At last – Sinopticon opens!
Six years after Gayle, Eliza and Stephanie first wandered around the V&A pondering the idea of an exhibition that looked at new ways of reflecting on…
Read more...Welcome to the blog
After the thrill of the symposium we want to catch up with everyone who came, speakers, artists, curators, academics – and those that didn’t – and begin to estabish a Sinopticon community. So many intriguing topics were thrown up, and we hope that this blog – manned by our Sinopticon Blogger, Stephanie Douet – will become a virtual arena for us all to share ideas, exchange images, postulate, theorise and generally chew the fat.
Studio visit – Stephanie and Laura
Working in my Norfolk studio with my sheep neighbours (real ones – brown and white, spotty) and fields for the next three miles on the other,…
Read more...Taishan towers
Thousands of these extraordinary fortified towers were built in this region of southern China near Guandong by Chinese emigrant workers returning home from Europe. They have…
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