South London Gallery: The Fiction Machine: Genre as Reparation In Conversation with Michelle Williams Gamaker, Giulia Magno, Elan Gamaker, Kulraj Phullar and Holly Antrum

“Film historian Steve Neale defined genres as “specific variations of the interplay of codes” (1980), and as these variations and codes interact and oscillate, genre continues to expand its potential as carrier of political message, field of activism and site of thematic play.
This roundtable includes guest speakers who will present a short paper of their work and research, all of which focus on the above themes and ideas, namely the reappraisal of and interaction with genre, the fiction machine and cinematic artifice for renewed political engagement.
This is followed by a discussion and a viewing of Thieves, currently showing at the gallery in Michelle Williams Gamaker’s exhibition Our Mountains Are Painted on Glass.”

www.southlondongallery.org/exhibitions/michelle-williams-gamaker/