JG Ballard, Robert Smithson and Tacita Dean

Ballard”s short story The Voices of Time (1956) references Spiral Jetty (1970) by visual artist Robert Smithson, who was a correspondent of his. On this evening we will hear fragments from the correspondence between the three artist-soulmates. For JG Dean ran the unexposed film through the camera multiple times, which resulted in a layered, collage-like work that at the same time explores the capacity of time and location on the celluloid itself.

With an introduction by art historian Mia Lerm-Hayes, who is the author of a book on Tacita Dean and currently holds the Chair of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Amsterdam. The evening is in English.