Join Professor Tim Cole (University of Bristol), artist, activist and elected representative Cleo Lake, and sound artist, poet, and writer Ralph Hoyte in a discussion about contemporary issues and questions relating to memorial, public space, and the place of art interventions relating to difficult histories in Bristol, and the UK.
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About the panel
Tim Cole is Professor of Social History at the University of Bristol and Director of the Brigstow Institute, which brings researchers together across the university to work with those outside it exploring what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. His core research has focused in the main on Holocaust landscapes - both historical and memory landscapes - writing books on Holocaust representation and more.
Cleo Lake is the former Lord Mayor of Bristol (2018-2019) and was more recently candidate for Police & Crime Commissioner for Avon & Somerset securing almost 65,000 votes to finish 3rd. During her term as Councillor she was instrumental in getting a Reparations and Atonement motion passed at Bristol City Council. Cleo is a founding member of campaign group Countering Colston and she made international news during her term as Lord Mayor for removing portraits of enslavers from the Lord Mayors Parlour in City Hall.
Involved within the arts and culture sector for almost two decades, Cleo’s experience includes being Chair of St Pauls Carnival, Radio producer and presenter on Ujima 98FM, an ADAD (Association of Dance of the African Diaspora) Trailblazer, writer in residence at the Arnolfini and a Bristol + Bath Creative R&D Inclusion fellow.
Ralph Hoyte is a Bristol/UK-based augmented sound artist, poet and writer. His sound-based practice is either solo or with his 3-man artists’ collective, Satsymph (Marc Yeats, classical contemporary composer, Ralph Hoyte, poet and writer, Phill Phelps, coder, audio-engineer and audio-acoustic musician), creating augmented soundscapes in the areas of contemporary classical music, contemporary poetry and dramatised heritage scenarios discoverable through mobile digital devices such as the smartphone. As a poet, Hoyte writes in the first instance for the voice, his poetic practice ranging from declamatory poetry thru’ live-art poetry to spatial poetry (graphic and sculptural poetry).