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As an extension of 2021’s Religion & Art Forum, in 2022 a series of longer format interdisciplinary talks were followed by an extended opportunity for questions and open discussion.


Contact:
Nina Danino  
n.danino@gold.ac.uk

Mark Dean    
artschap.com/projects

Junior Fellow 
James Tabbush 
j.tabbush@gold.ac.uk



Nina Danino, Stabat Mater (1990)
16mm still


Schedule: May-July 2022
6.00-7.30pm UK time via Zoom



9/05/22
José Carlos Diaz: 
Andy Warhol's Revelation


José Carlos Diaz is the Chief Curator at The Andy Warhol Museum. He has curated Farhad Moshiri: Go West; Fantasy America; Becoming Andy Warhol; and Andy Warhol: Revelation currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum. In April 2022 he will open Paola Pivi: I Want It All. Diaz serves on the Board of Trustees for the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) and was a 2018 fellow at the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL). He received an MA in Cultural History from the University of Liverpool and a BA in Art History from San Francisco State University.

Throughout his life as a celebrity artist, Andy Warhol retained some of his Catholic practices, yet his relationship with Catholicism was far from simple. From iconic portraits to appropriated Renaissance masterpieces, Warhol flirted with styles and symbolism from Eastern and Western Catholic art history, carefully reframing them within the context of Pop. Through both obscure works such as the Sunset film commission from 1967, and late masterpieces like the Last Supper series (1986), José Carlos Diaz presented a fresh perspective on the artist.

20/06/22
Tina Beattie: 
Symbolism & Sacramentality



Tina Beattie left her post as Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Roehampton in August 2020. She continues in her role as Director of Catherine of Siena College, based at the University of Roehampton. Much of her research focuses on the relationship between the Catholic tradition and contemporary culture, particularly in areas to do with gender, sexuality and reproductive ethics; Catholic social teaching and women’s rights, and theology and the visual arts. She has a keen interest in Marian theology, art and devotion, and in the relationship between medieval mysticism, sacramental theology, and psychoanalytic theory. More recently, she is engaging in research into environmental theology in the context of Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, approaching environmental issues from the perspectives of literature, poetry, art, music, gender theory and sacramentality.

Tina Beattie presented on: ‘Symbolism and Sacramentality in Art: Medieval and Postmodern Representations of the Little Garden of Paradise’.



11/07/22
Jarel Robinson-Brown:
Catholicism and the French School of Music  



Jarel Robinson-Brown is the Assistant Curate at St Botolph-without-Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories in the Diocese of London. He is also Visiting Scholar in Contemporary Spirituality at Sarum College, Salisbury and Vice-Chair of the LGBT Christian Charity OneBodyOneFaith which works for the full inclusion of LGBT people in the Church. Jarel’s academic interests are in Early Christian History, Patristics, and Egyptian Late Antiquity. He is particularly interested in the body, desire, gender and ethnicity in Christian Late Antiquity and has published in the areas of queer theology, liberation theology and trauma theology. Jarel’s most recent book is Black, Gay, British, Christian, Queer: The Church and The Famine of Grace (SCM Press, 2021)  described by Peter Tatchell as ‘a liberation theology for the twenty-first century. Jarel’s black queer Christian voice challenges the straight white church with a call to overturn its long history of racism and homophobia – and to embrace love, diversity, inclusion and equality for all’.

Jarel Robinson-Brown presented on: ‘Catholicism and the French School of Music: the experience of studying music in Paris, and how that has shaped my faith and identity as a black, queer person of faith, with reference to the uniqueness of the French School’.