A Symposium With Artist Emma Smith And The Eterphilous Society

Through a process of talks, discussions and a confessional game, October Gallery Education explores intimacy and its relationship to truth, myth making and performance. Using October Gallery’s internal & external, private & public spaces, you are invited to trace the tension between the hidden and the revealed.

Join artist Emma Smith (Camden Arts Centre, Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Modern, Arnolfini) and curator Lucia Garavaglia (ICA, The British Museum) for a Saturday session of art, literature and storytelling in a continuation of their research project The Eterphilous Society: the study of intimacy. They welcome you to join them for a day of sharing and investigation at a gathering of The Eterphilous Society.

The Eterphilous Society (T.E.S) is dedicated to the public exchange of knowledge of the intimate. T.E.S is an art project by artist Emma Smith in collaboration with curator Lucia Garavaglia to research the discipline of eterphilogy: the study of intimacy. T.E.S. produces research, performance and programmes of seminars and workshops. Looking at storytelling, myth and oral traditions, T.E.S. investigates the evolution of the notion of intimacy in contemporary culture operating through collaboration and participation.

Guest Speakers will include Barry Masson, Family & Systemic Psychotherapist and former director of the Institute of Family Therapy and a Master storyteller from the CrickCrack Club.