Surrealist Film Screening and Symposium

Krzysztof Fijalkowski is professor of visual culture at Norwich University of the Arts. Since completing his PhD on the Surrealist Object in 1991, his major area of research and publication has been the history and theory of Surrealism, leading to a range of publications in academic journals and exhibition catalogues as well as monographs.

María Íñigo Clavo is an assistant professor at Open University of Catalonia and Lecturer at MA in Curating Art and Public Programmes at Whitechapel Gallery. She has been linked to research projects at University of Essex and University of the Arts London and University of Sao Paulo, where she also taught. She has collaborated with publications such as e-flux journal, Stedelijk journal, Third Text, Afterall, Pompidou and Museum of Art of Sao Paulo, Art in Translation (Taylor & Francis).

Michael Löwy (b. in Brazil and based in Paris since 1969) is currently Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). His writings have been translated into 30 languages. Recent works include: Romanticism against the current of modernity (with Robert Sayre), Duke, Duke University Press, 2001. Fire Alarm. Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the concept of history‘, London, Verso, 2005; Morning Star. Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2009.

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• Fully accessible toilets are located on every floor on the concourses.
• A quiet room is available to use in the Natalie Bell Building on Level 4.
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