Talk: Locked Room Scenario — Baroness Susan Greenfield, How Can Neuroscience… by Artangel

Locked Room Scenario: a group show in a warehouse in Hoxton. A number of artists and a range of work: sculptures, paintings, photographs, performance and video. You’d made an appointment to see the show. When you arrived, the building was open but the exhibition appeared to be closed. Or maybe the show was over, and the works were waiting to be taken away?

Offering fragmentary glimpses of an exhibition, inaccessible spaces, partially visible artworks, and leftover or discarded pieces of information, Locked Room Scenario prompted a number of questions. Who were these artists and what are their interconnected histories? What was Gander's role in bringing the exhibition together in this warehouse?

To complement Ryan Gander's Artangel project Locked Room Scenario, a range of talks explored some of the myriad, loosely associated themes he alighted upon in devising the work. In her talk, Professor of Pharmacology at Oxford University and a neuroscientist, writer, and broadcaster Baroness Susan Greenfield asks How Can Neuroscience Help Us Understand Consciousness?

To find out more about Locked Room Scenario, visit: http://www.artangel.org.uk/projects/2011/locked_room_scenario

Recorded at the Tab Centre, Shoreditch, London, on 7th October 2011

Image: Photograph by Julian Abrams