Reconsidering Global Conceptualism and Photography

Dr Zhuang Wubin and Dr Lucy Soutter revisit photography in conceptualism in Southeast Asia and the USA in the 1970s.

Date and time
Thursday, October 23 · 6:30 – 8pm 

Location
The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, Clinton Road London E3 4QY

 

About this event
25 Years after the Queens Museum exhibition and publication, Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, this discussion provides an opportunity to revisit the roles that photography played in conceptual art in different national and cultural contexts in the 1970s, as well as exploring contemporary shifts in how such works are interpreted.

Dr Zhuang Wubin is a writer based in Singapore who makes photographs, publications and exhibitions. He is the author of Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey (Singapore: NUS Press, 2016). He is currently based at the University of Westminster’s CREAM research centre as the holder of the 2025 British Academy Visiting Fellowship.

Dr Lucy Soutter is a Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster where she is Course Leader of the Expanded Photography MA. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies (London, 2025) and author of Why Art Photography? (London: Routledge, 2018).

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Image: Nirmala Dutt (Malaysia) Kenyataan (Statement) II, 1975