Reaching Out: Gesture, Texture & Text Symposium

This symposium builds upon the success of the three-day investigation into ‘gesture’ held in Oxford in January 2024. Arising from this investigation was the notion that gestures can be bound within space and time; that they can enact – even preserve – meaning across the structures of images, texts, and performances.

Continuing the investigative nature of the overarching ‘gesture’ project, this symposium aims to look more closely at the interrelations between the idea of the gestural and the textural, with a particular focus on the written word.

The event will be accompanied by a small exhibition of work by the artist Lara Smithson, and will be followed by a drinks reception. We are delighted to welcome the following speakers:

Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)

Dr Natalie Ferris (University of Bristol)

Dr Francesco Giusti (Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin)

Dr Ewan Jones (University of Cambridge)

Lily Stone (University of Cambridge)

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Host or Publisher The Heong Gallery