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Fine Art at LICA and Lancaster Arts present talks with a range of contemporary artists, open to the public and students alike.

This week, Imogen Stidworthy will be in conversation with LICA’s Dr Nathan Jones, discussing her recent work about “the borders of language”.

Stidworthy’s work asks how we experience and conceive of a space where words are unstable, run out, or fail,and what other forms of understanding might emerge in the face of unreadability—in context, for example, of neurological or emotional conditions,linguistic or cultural differences. Stidworthy has been exhibited in major exhibitions at a.o. Sozhou Biennale, CN (2016), Imperial War Museum, London, UK(2015), Sao Paulo Bienal (2014), Museum Leeuwarden, NL (2014), and solo shows at AKINCI, Amsterdam (2013, 2009, 2005), Matts Gallery London; (2011, 2003).She has curated two exhibitions addressing the borders of language through artworks by many artists, which were shown alongside her own work and other materials such as musical notation and censored book. She has been shortlisted for several awards including the Jarman Award 2011, Becks Futures 2004 and The Northern Art Prize 2008. Stidworthy is represented by Matts Gallery, London and AKINCI Amsterdam.

Nathan Jones is a lecturer in Fine Art (Digital Media) at Lancaster. His book Glitch Poetics looks at the contemporary conditions for language, and is due out with Open Humanities Press in 2019.

Gallery Image: (1) Imogen Stidworthy, Sacha (Listening), 2011-12. (2) Imogen Stidworthy, ALEX, 2001-02. (3) Imogen Stidworthy, Closing/Close by, 2011. All images Copyright Imogen Stidworthy 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Matts Gallery, London