The Wapping Project launches its new international platform for debate about art, politics, economy, history and science… and anything that needs the attention of a Kitchen Conversation.

The conversations are inspired by the Eastern European tradition of critical discussions about art, world politics and dissatisfaction with the state of affairs that happened in private kitchens during the decades of communism. They are pockets of freedom, spaces for thinking out loud and dreaming up the future.

The first kitchen conversation will take place in San Francisco. London events will start in May 2017.

Kitchen Conversation San Francisco 01: Shifting Ground

Wed the 29th March 2017, 7pm

Timken Lecture Hall
California College of the Arts
1111 8th Street
San Francisco
CA 94107

Free, booking essential by email: kc-sf@thewappingproject.org

The hour-long screening brings together films by five women artists working on the intersection of personal and political. Coming from very different backgrounds and places, they find a poetic response to the very world they inhabit — the places, the time, the memory, the present and the past — Gdansk, Glasgow, County Tyrone and London.

The programme is a journey through geography, time and memory. From the Gdansk Shipyard in Poland, where the downfall of communism began, through snow clad European landscapes about to shift, through childhood memories of Glasgow, Scotland, and a family home in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, during the Troubles, to London in the face of terrorism.

Featuring film work by Meghana Bisineer, Shona Illingworth, Mairéad McClean, Marta Michalowska and Alia Syed.

The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by writer and curator Karen Fiss with artists Jeanne C. Finley, Lynn Marie Kirby and Meghana Bisineer, and The Wapping Project’s director Marta Michalowska.

in Association with
Bay Area Women in Contemporary Art (WICAN)
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California College of the Arts