Wednesday, 2 October 2019 at 5:00 pm – Wednesday, 2 October 2019 at 6:00 pm

Operation Jurassic: Collaborative Practice

A talk and conversation supported by The Manchester School of Architecture and the departments of History, Sociology and Photogrpahy.

Date: Wednesday 2nd October

Time: 17.00 

Location: Lecture Theatre 312 - Chatham Building

Tickets: Free - Open to all. Just turn up!

Brother and sister Pablo and Roxana Allison were separated for five-and-a-half months from late 2012 through spring of 2013. Pablo was locked up in London for criminal damage after being prosecuted for graffiti writing on trains. Pablo was one of several defendants sentenced as a result of Operation Jurassic, one the UK’s largest cases brought against artists using train carriages as their canvas. Since, the siblings have worked on putting together a visual record of the time and their emotions. The resulting book Operation Jurassic, published by Pavement Studios, will be discussed by Pablo and Roxana in relation to the collaborative processes of its production, and the effect this had on their collaboration in subsequent works. Their ongoing projects deal with themes of migration, displacement and community, through ideas around place, landscape and memory. Pablo and Roxana will be joined in conversation by Professor Alice Kettle and Richard Page.

Richard Page is a photographic artist and Programme Leader of BA (Hons) Photography at Manchester School of Art. Working within documentary and landscape practices, his work considers how space is implicitly bound up with history, memory, and our relationship with place.

Alice Kettle is Professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art. The recent collaborative show, Thread Bearing Witness at the Whitworth, included work by Roxanna.

http://www.roxanaallison.co.uk/  
https://www.pabloallison.co.uk/ 
https://prisonphotography.org/tag/operation-jurassic/