Event
Lecture performance & Talk
Free event Booking essential 3:15–4:15pm
Lecture Performance Ion Drift: Postscripts on the move
Book via this link 4:30–5:45pm
Salon-style conversation Unlicensed Tropes
Join us for an afternoon of public events on the opening weekend of group exhibition Unlicensed Goods.
Lecture Performance Ion Drift: Postscripts on the move
Ion Drift: Postscripts on the move by Mochu and Merve Ertufan is a lecture-performance that looks at geography as philosophical terrain, set largely around the Aegean region in Türkiye and parts of Greece. Based on an interview with philosopher Kojin Karatani, the work takes off from the origins of philosophical thought in Ancient Ionia. It examines how the systems of thought developed in Ionia reveal that freedom of movement and the emergence of the individual are both tied to the recognition of immanent physical laws, as opposed to speculative, transcendental ideas. The lecture-performance drifts along this ancient medley of thought and sensible matter.
In Conversation Unlicensed Tropes
What surplus meanings are created when images are presented in abundance? What else might be found in the backroom of a Chinatown restaurant? And what could one tell about the British-Asian immigrant experience through the design language of raw edges, deconstructed silhouettes, and subverted Eastern iconography?
In this salon-style conversation, participating artists Anthea Hamilton, Ruoru Mou and A Sai Ta join Billy Tang, curator of Unlicensed Goods, to discuss the operation of mimicry, appropriation and intervention within their practices as ways of challenging dominant cultural narratives and reconfiguring ideas of authorship, identity and belonging.
Header image: Moch and Merve Ertufan, Ion Drift: Postscripts on the move, 2025. Film still.
