On display : artists and shops

Lead and designed by Becky Shaw, this symposium will bring together five artists whose practices explore different types of shopping, from fashion boutique, to mall, to supermarket, thriftshop and cornershop. These presentations will be paired with contributions from researchers in other fields, including geography, literature and history, as a means to draw out connections and new observations. Examining past experiences of shopping will be a key aid to examining the present.

Speakers included Bill Brown (University of Chicago), Christine Hill (Bauhaus Weimar), Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield, Jaspar Joseph-Lester (Sheffield Hallam University), FrenchMottershed (artists), James Heartfield and Karin Dannehl and Nancy Cox (University of Wolverhampton)