Revisit | Carey Young: Vision and Justice

Group of formally dressed judges, featuring eight men and one woman against a red background. The image is overlaid with a reflection of the artist Carey Young taking a photograph.
Carey Young, Court Artist (Supreme Court), 2023. Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

On Friday 19 May 2023, the special event Carey Young: Vision and Justice brought together art historians, legal theorists and women judges to discuss the themes of Carey Young’s exhibition at Modern Art Oxford (25 March – 2 July 2023). You can now revisit the event in full through these four audio recordings.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

In this exciting interdisciplinary day event, speakers expanded on the themes in Young’s exhibition, including relations between law, images and fiction, and between power, gender and the cinematic. Featured in the recordings are speakers (in order of appearance): Desmond Manderson (Director, Centre for Law, Arts and Humanities, Australian National University), Dr. Valerie Hayaert (Research Fellow, School of Law, University Of Warwick), Carey Young (Artist), Anthony Gardner (The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford), Geoffrey Batchen (Prof. of Art History, Oxford University), Yasufumi Nakamori (Senior Curator of International Art [Photography], Tate Modern), Leslie Primo (independent scholar), Dr. Catherine Grant (Reader, The Courtauld Institute of Art), Professor Joan Kee (Dept. of History of Art, University of Michigan) and three judges who participated in Young’s video Appearance (2023); Briony Clarke, Wendy Joseph KC and Victoria McCloud.

This event was presented by Carey Young as part of her Visiting Fellowship with TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities).

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