UEL ADI PGR Research Network, Winter Conference 2020

What is a margin? Who gets to define marginality, and who to inhabit it? What voices have been speaking from a position of marginality in contemporary British arts and culture, and what have they been telling us? And have we been heeding them at all?

This event proposes to reflect upon and re-centres marginality by looking at less traditional modes of representation or practice, focusing specifically on:

• Post/De/Anticoloniality – what is the role of marginality in the discourse about race, culture and identity, and who is speaking from these specific margins?

• Questions of ownership – how does marginality affect the right to narrate and the right to own one’s own work?

• Ethos of accessibility and engagement – from higher education to museums, how do practitioners and cultural institutions account for marginality in their approaches?

• The East End – from marginalisation to gentrification: what is the changing cultural geography of London margins?

• Interdisciplinary perspectives – voices from social sciences, media, civic engagement etc.