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Apocalypse in Art: The Creative Unveiling (June 2018) media archive

The word ‘apocalypse’ originally indicated an ‘unveiling’, and the speaker in the Book of Revelation is a ‘seer’. This is perhaps one of the reasons that this ancient text (and others like it) have generated such a ferment of creative responses in the visual arts – as well as those other non-visual strands of the arts which have their own way of engaging our mind’s eye.

The rich variety of types of artistic unveiling (visual, musical, dramatic, literary) makes an engagement with the creative arts a deeply valuable way of understanding and appreciating the idea of apocalypse, alongside more traditionally academic modes of enquiry.

This conference seeks to explore our relationship to art, its practice, its study and what the arts unveil to us. As artists or as audiences of art we can be profoundly transformed by our encounters with artistic creativity; indeed, we can find ourselves using the language of revelation to describe such encounters, regardless of our individual faith, religion or beliefs. Mark Rothko is quoted as saying, “the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them.”

Day 1 'Apocalypse in Art: The Creative Unveiling' 28th June 2018.

Christopher Rowland: ‘John Saw these things Reveald in Heaven On Patmos Isle’: the Book of Revelation anticipates Blake’s Apocalypse.
Christopher Rowland: ‘John Saw these things Reveald in Heaven On Patmos Isle’: the Book of Revelation anticipates Blake’s Apocalypse.
Kip Gresham: 'In the shadow of Durer.'
Kip Gresham: 'In the shadow of Durer.'
Elena Unger: 'Desert Time: The Silence at the Heart of Apocalypse.'
Elena Unger: 'Desert Time: The Silence at the Heart of Apocalypse.'
Michelle Fletcher: 'Visualising the Apocalypse as a Thing of the Past.'
Michelle Fletcher: 'Visualising the Apocalypse as a Thing of the Past.'
Jonathan Evens: 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'.
Jonathan Evens: 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'.
De/coding the Apocalypse: Exhibition discussion. CenSAMM project director, Simon Robinson talks to artist, Michael Magruder and curator Alfredo Cramerotti.
De/coding the Apocalypse: Exhibition discussion. CenSAMM project director, Simon Robinson talks to artist, Michael Magruder and curator Alfredo Cramerotti.

Day 2 'Art and Apocalypse: The Creative Unveiling' 29th June, 2018.

Eleanor Heartney: ' Revelation as Inspiration: The American Apocalypse.'
Eleanor Heartney: ' Revelation as Inspiration: The American Apocalypse.'
Rebekah Dyer: 'Creative fire performances at David Best’s Temple and Up-Helly-Aa festival.'
Rebekah Dyer: 'Creative fire performances at David Best’s Temple and Up-Helly-Aa festival.'
Lila Moore: 'Technoetic Aesthetics of Revelation and Transcendence - The Horse in the Mind.'
Lila Moore: 'Technoetic Aesthetics of Revelation and Transcendence - The Horse in the Mind.'
Natasha O’Hear: 'Visualising the Biblical Vision.'
Natasha O’Hear: 'Visualising the Biblical Vision.'
Massimo Introvigne: 'The End Times and the Movies of The Church of Almighty God.'
Massimo Introvigne: 'The End Times and the Movies of The Church of Almighty God.'
Matthew Askey: 'The Cross and the Zombie Apocalypse: Two Images for our Time.'
Matthew Askey: 'The Cross and the Zombie Apocalypse: Two Images for our Time.'

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