John Bock in Conversation with Franz Erhard Walther
Since the early 1960s, Franz Erhard Walther has explored the possibilities of objects and images that prompt viewers to do something other than just look. Walther was an inspirational teacher at Hamburg’s Hochschule für Bildende Künste, and John Bock was one of his students. Bock’s work - in the spirit of Walther’s - transforms action, speech and everyday materials into complex installations. The two artists discuss the potential of doing things with - and amongst - art.
Duration: 01:17:25
Daniel Buren
In a career spanning 40 years, Daniel Buren has created art in public spaces, written critical texts and collaborated with artists from different generations. His work is always site specific and characterised by its use of contrasting coloured vertical stripes, most notably Two Planes (1986) for the courtyard of the Palais Royal, Paris. In 2011 he created work for Turner Contemporary Margate and was honoured with a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. For Frieze Talks, Buren speaks about his approach to his work’s complex relationship to the space in which it is presented.
Duration: 01:25:35
Do you speak English?
English has become the lingua franca of the art world, spoken by people of many nationalities from around the globe. Whose English then are we speaking, and how does its ambiguous status affect what we say?
Duration: 01:22:28
The Luxury of Incommensurability
Unlike politics and writing, art can hold in suspension different, even conflicting ideas, feelings and histories, without forcing us to choose between them. This capacity for incommensurability allows for experiences not socially recognised - as yet not named. Siegel presents a paper arguing that the most exciting form this takes today is painting, in which abstraction and representation intersect and interfere with each other, continuing the secret and long history of modern painting, obscured by decades of ideologically rigid art criticism.
Duration: 01:05:43
Frieze Projects:Shooting Gallery
The relationship between photojournalism and ‘art photography’ is often strained and ambiguous. How do contemporary artists accept or reject the strategies of reportage, and to what effect?
Duration: 01:29:11
Frieze Projects: Bridget Riley
Novelist, essayist and cultural commentator Bracewell spoke to artist Riley about the evolution of her ground-breaking work from the 1960s to the present.
Duration: 00:49:38
Frieze Projects: Ramin Bahrani
Hailed ′director of the decade′ (Roger Ebert ), Bahrani has eloquently told the story of US immigrants in films such as Chop Shop (2007) and Goodbye Solo (2008). Born to Iranian parents, he is at the forefront of ′Neo-Neo Realism′. In conversation with Rebhandl, Bahrani discussed the ′neo′ in realism, and how its limits can be pushed.
Duration: 01:11:59
Frieze Projects: Exhibition Making as Activism
myriad of approaches are taken by artists, writers and curators whose work responds to complex social issues and political situations. To what extent do the political and personal intersect? Can art be effective activism and vice versa?
Duration: 01:24:59
Frieze Projects: Susan Hiller
In anticipation of Hiller′’s upcoming retrospective at Tate Britain, the American, London-based artist discusses with a California-based, British art historian, the transatlantic conundrums of conceptualism, and the role of humour and the unconscious in the creative act.
Duration: 01:10:23
Frieze Projects: Reference vs Reverence
Many of the late-born children of modernism are creating an art caught in a web of historic references. Could reverence, summoning the ghosts and uncharted potentials of unavowed histories, be a critical counter-model?
Duration: 01:24:47
