Symposium: If you remember it...

04 September – 05 September 2010

Ikon hosted a major symposium organised in conjunction with This Could Happen To You: Ikon in the 1970s. Taking place over a weekend the event offered an opportunity to focus on issues that were prevalent at the time, both at a local and international level. Consideration of Birmingham as a changing city in the 1970s, the local art scene, the nature of the national arts infrastructure and Ikon’s place within it were set against bigger pictures of the economy, arty politics, the women’s movement and global conflicts.

Panellists included journalist Terry Grimley, founding partner of Associated Architects Walter Thomson, Director of Ikon Gallery in the 1970s Simon Chapman, and artists Alexis Hunter and Jesse Bruton. A keynote paper by
Andy Beckett, Guardian journalist and author of When the Lights Went Out (2009) provided the background for these conversations.

Symposium Schedule (PDF 45kb)

Symposium: If you remember it....
Ikon, 4 & 5 September 2010