Symposium – In-conversation with Jesse Darling

Wednesday 25 February, 6:00-7:30pm
Cliftonville Community Centre, Cliftonville, Margate CT9 2DB

Join OSE Associates Clara Frain-Atallah and Cara Murray, alongside artist and Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling, for an open group conversation inspired by the classical symposium—a shared space where ideas are exchanged, tested, and reshaped collectively.

The conversation will draw on themes central to Jesse’s current practice and interests, including materials that carry both physical and symbolic weight; systems of care, control, and neglect; and the structures—architectural, institutional, and linguistic—that shape how we live together.

Jesse Darling is an artist who writes, lives, and works. His research is concerned with the attempt to make visible the unconscious of European petro-colonial modernity through the history of technology and the production of ideology, or the objects and ideas with which we make up the world.

This event is organised by OSE Associates Clara Frain-Atallah and Cara Murray, and is part of Towards the Edges, Open School East’s Public Programme 2026 – find more events: openschooleast.org/public-programme-2026