LHub seminar series: What can art teach us about law? An artist talk by Carey Young
- Address
- In-Person: IALS Conference Room, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
- Speakers
- Carey Young (Slade School of Fine Art, University College London), Dr Ogulcan Ekiz (HRC School of Law, Swansea University), Prof Anat Rosenberg (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)
- Event dates
- Contact
- ials.events@sas.ac.uk _
This seminar will host Carey Young, a London-based visual artist and a Professor in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.
For over twenty years Carey Young’s artistic work has used
video, photography, performance, text and installation to address and critique
the field of law. Recently, she created films and photographic series
within courthouses, and featuring female judges, in order to examine the interrelationships
of law, gender and power. She has collaborated with lawyers and legal theorists
to create bespoke legal instruments that are also artistic works, and which
explore law’s relations to the fictional, performative and material. These
works have explored legal specialisms including IP, contracts, land law, outer
space law and human rights, as well as examining specific cases. Young’s works
are held in the permanent collections of Centre Pompidou, Tate and Dallas Museum
of Art amongst others and have been exhibited widely, including at Modern Art
Oxford, Tate Britain, the Hayward Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, The Power Plant
(Toronto), the New Museum (New York) and MoMA PS1 (New York). She is
represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
Recommended viewing and reading:
- Artist website https://www.careyyoung.com/(Opens in new window)
- Two of Carey Young’s short pieces on law, art and her work:
https://www.careyyoung.com/open-justice-by-carey-young(Opens
in new window)
https://brooklynrail.org/2016/03/criticspage/justice-must-be-seen-to-be-done/(Opens
in new window)
- A short video about Carey Young’s recent law-based works: https://youtu.be/YbVmXHun5ZU(Opens
in new window)
Discussant: Dr Ogulcan Ekiz, LHub visitor
2024-2025, and a lecturer-in-law at the HRC School of Law, Swansea
University. Dr Ogulcan’s research areas primarily concern copyright law, its
theory and practice in relation to photography, film, fashion, and visual
arts.
Dr Ogulcan conducted his PhD research at the Queen Mary University of London
with the Humanities and Social Sciences Studentship funding. He studied LLM at
QMUL with the JAL Sterling Postgraduate Bursary Award.
Dr Ogulcan is a member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, a collaborator
of Art/Law Network, and he works closely with Artists’ Union England on
copyright-related matters.
Chair: Prof Anat Rosenberg, IALS
image credit:
Appearance, Carey Young, 2023. HD video, from 4K, silent. 49 mins 30 secs. Installation view at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
This event is free to attend, but booking is required.
