Family Affairs: Acts of Memory and Imagination

Terry Kurgan is a Johannesburg based artist, currently Writing Fellow/Artist in Residence at WiSER where she is working on a book and exhibition that develop in relation to the evocative power of photographs as objects. In this seminar presentation she will discuss the 'unfixed' nature of photography, narrative and memory, and the early stages of her new writing project, which has grown directly out of many years of her visual arts practice. Writing and 'drawing' are closely related to each other, and even though they are generally considered to be quite separate disciplines, for the maker there can be a similarity of process as words glide into drawings, and drawn marks become recognisable as letters or words.