Greg Lucas: Photography as Speculative Journalism (Talk)

Wednesday 3rd March 2010
7.30pm
Rudolph Steiner House
35 Park Road, London NW1 6XT (Map)
Marylebone/Baker Street tube

Cost: £5
30 places

Greg Lucas is a photo-artist whose speciality is a front room slideshow ‘from the other side’. His frenetic monologues explore and exploit how everyday events (past and present) can be connected by photographic facts (not painstaking fictions). His talent lies in his understanding of images and how they communicate meaning, and beyond the obvious absurdity there’s a serious point: photographs are inherently ambiguous – slippery – unreliable messengers.

Greg Lucas is a pataphysician, teaches on MA Photography at De Montfort University and has published, performed and exhibited widely: most recently, a speculative image-text “The Floating Photographer and the Mermaid’s Oars”, for Glen Jamison’s book “Suspicions Of A Peninsula Town’, YH485 Press, 2009. Take a look at his ‘cult’ blogspot, Greg Lucas Connects and see the diabolist and baby-eater Aleister Crowley’s face in an inflamed tonsil. Go there to learn more about the slippery relationship between an adolescent glue addiction and midlife climbing friction. Go there to find out how golf bunkers evolved from potato crisps.