The Responsibilities of Representation

Chaired by Ruth Holdsworth with Paolo Favero

part of Making Lift Festival 2008

How can cultural information from one part of the world be shared with another? How is this knowledge relayed through writing or performance? And what part does the traveller play in the telling?

This reflection on Lift’s curatorial approach and its decision to devolve programming power to a network of international and national associates is chaired by Ruth Holdsworth, currently working with University of Bristol and Arnolfini on curating risk.

The discussion focuses on how individuals speak for and on behalf of the collective. Speakers include Lift Director Angharad Wynne-Jones, Lift International Associates Lemi Ponifasio (New Zealand) and Roma Patel (UK), and Paolo Favero (University College, London), a social anthropologist interested in tourism and cultural mediation.