Artists in Conversation

Artists in Conversation comes to the Mead Gallery at the Warwick Arts Centre on Thursday 19 November, from 18:00 to 19:30. It's a conversation chaired by Ekow Eshun, with artists Nengi Omuku, Matthew Krishanu and Emma Talbot on the panel. The three of them will be talking about their work, and Eshun will be leading the discussion.

The talk is part of British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers, the tenth edition of the touring exhibition, produced by Hayward Gallery Touring and curated by Eshun himself. The show brings together work from more than 30 artists, and it's spread across several venues in Coventry rather than held in one place. The whole thing is built around three themes: Moments of Being, Ways of Living and States of Nature, which take their names from Virginia Woolf, Stuart Hall and Timothy Morton respectively.

Those themes set the tone for what the exhibition is after. It looks at how art can question the fear of the other, and how it might move us from the divisions between "us" and "them" towards something more like empathy. Having the artists themselves in the room to talk through it gives you a chance to hear how they're thinking about those ideas in their own practice, rather than just reading the wall text.

It's free and open to anyone who wants to come along, so you don't need to book a ticket. The talk runs from 18:00 to 19:30 at the Mead Gallery, inside the Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry.