Platitudes about Contemporary Art – Popular and Provocative, but True?
Arguing against a range of platitudes about contemporary art.
Duration: 01:10:00
Is the Underground Over?
Music critic Simon Reynolds chairs a panel that examines the notion of a subculture.
Duration: 01:41:28
Something for Everyone
Artist, writer, architect, educator, ecologist and radical gardener Fritz Haeg gave a keynote talk exploring populist projects, insular bohemia, activist art, passive entertainment, networked communication, broadcast media, social strategies of isolation, and potential roles for today′s artist in a fractured society.
Duration: 01:26:11
Transhumance
Raqs Media Collective performed a selection of reports and conversations gathered from their nomadic practices as artists, curators and theorists.
Duration: 00:54:32
The Culture of Denial
Influential writer, broadcaster and lecturer Judith Williamson gave a keynote lecture on the skewed relationship between what we known and what we do, examining how the gulf between knowledge and behaviour shapes contemporary culture.
Duration: 01:23:11
In Memory of the Image
This panel chaired by curator Stuart Comer looked at the proliferation, immediacy and increasing mobility of images.
Duration: 01:34:44
The First Pictures I Enjoyed
Writer and artist Alasdair Gray in conversation with novelist and artist Tom McCarthy.
Duration: 01:12:40
It’s About Time
Chaired by Jennifer Allen (Writer and Critic), this discussion explored the recent emphasis on temporality in art exhibitions. While considering historical and philosophical precedents, the panel looked at how and why time has become a tool for curators, and questioned the political implications of such an approach.
Duration: 01:40:53
A Personal Grammar of Means
Artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz in conversation with writer and art historian Roger Cook.
Duration: 01:34:53
The Aesthetic Responsibility
Writer, curator and philosopher Boris Groys gave a keynote lecture on how design today functions as a leading medium of self–revelation and self–positioning in public space.
Duration: 01:07:00
