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Doors Open – 6:00pm
Talk Begins – 7:00pm
General Admission £18 | Complimentary for Patrons
Tickets available on the door
Post-Talk Set Menu £45
Pandemonia is an anonymous artist who explores consumer culture, self-image, and social media through her meticulously constructed persona: a seven-foot-tall, hyper-idealised woman who embodies the excesses and contradictions of contemporary visual culture. By existing as both artwork and spectacle, Pandemonia blurs the boundaries between critique and participation.
In this talk, she sits down with a panel to examine how media shapes identity, desire, and power. The discussion ranges across body image, the concept of the Übermensch, plastic surgery, advertising, and late-stage capitalism, while also asking whether we are entering an era in which the distinction between the ‘real’ and the ‘unreal’- the authentic and the manufactured - is increasingly difficult to sustain.
Expect an entertaining, provocative, and eye-opening critique of modern culture, one that confronts our collective anxieties around visibility, perfection, gender, and consumption in an image-saturated world.
Topics: Media, Advertising, Fashion, Psychology, Gender
Philosophy of:
Marshall McLuhan (The Global Village);
Judith Butler (Gender);
Ferdinand de Saussure (Semiotics)