Erwin Polanc will be in conversation with collaborator and designer of the book, Oliver Klimpel, and editor, curator and lecturer Christiane Monarchi. The talk will be followed by a book signing.

Erwin Polanc is a photographer working in Graz / Austria,  and teaching photography and multimedia art at the Ortweinschule, Graz. For his most recent project, Evening Standards, Polanc spent twelve weeks in London, charting approaches to the diverse interwoven communities and urban strata and histories. The post-Brexit climate has brought to light the emotional and aesthetic sensibilities of a generation that knows the optimism of the New Labour years only from history books. It is in the streets of Bow, Mile End, and Aldgate East—and not in overpriced homes—that different rhythms and speeds clash, stimulating start-ups, speculation, and development as well as immigrants’ stories.

Oliver Klimpel has been head of the Curatorial Workshop at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation since April 2022. As a designer and curator, he is concerned with the history and methodology of representational politics, analysing problematic aspects of modernity and their public perception. He is a lecturer on design and criticality at the University of Arts Linz. From 2008 to 2015, he was professor of system design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. In 2022, he received an offer to become professor of design and the future at the University of the Arts Bremen. Before that, he taught at international art academies and universities such as the Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London, the London College of Communication, and the Institute for Art and Art Theory at the University of Cologne. He was also a member of the jury at the Brno Biennial 2016.

Christiane Monarchi is a publisher, editor, curator, lecturer, artist mentor and serves on the steering committee of Fast Forward, Women in Photography, and as a trustee of the Centre for British Photography. Christiane Monarchi is the founding co-editor of Hapax Magazine, and founding editor of Photomonitor.