The China Experience
Carol Yinghua Lu (Writer, Curator and Contributing Editor, frieze) brought together three key players in Chinese contemporary art to discuss the impact of the country′s political, financial and creative conditions on its artists, critics, curators and gallerists.
Duration: 01:41:00
Cultural Cartography: Does Art Travel?
A discussion chaired by Philippe Vergne (Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Walker Art Center) focusing on whether art can really speak across borders. What happens when the local becomes global?
Duration: 01:15:26
Custodians of Culture: Schoolyard Art: Playing Fair Without the Referee
Dave Hickey (Cultural Critic and Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) will present a keynote lecture on the subject of selling without selling out focusing on how sites of commerce have evolved from the white cube to the art fair.
Duration: 00:37:23
Theory and Practice: Thierry de Duve
Thierry de Duve (Historian and Theorist of contemporary art and Professor at University of Lille III) will present a keynote lecture. Dedicated to a reinterpretation of Modernism and an examination of its legacies, de Duve is author of several books including Kant after Duchamp (1996) and the forthcoming Held Together with Water: Art from the Verbund Collection.
Duration: 01:20:27
Custodians of Culture: The Museum: Institutions of Market or Measure?
A discussion chaired by Massimiliano Gioni (Artistic Director, Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Milan and Curator of Special Exhibitions, New Museum, New York) examining the changing relationship between museums, artists, their sponsors and patrons.
Duration: 01:32:20
Cultural Cartography: Roni Horn
Roni Horn presented a keynote lecture exploring ideas of site-specificity and seriality in her work. Her most recent project, Library of Water (Iceland) is the culmination of a lifelong interest in the relationship of language to place.
Duration: 00:41:15
The Expanded Gallery: Mass Forms for Private Consumption
A discussion chaired by Alice Rawsthorn (Design Critic, International Herald Tribune) examining how bespoke forms of industrial design, graphics and film have recently moved into the traditional preserves of art. What cultural value do they bring to the spaces of the gallery and the museum?
Duration: 01:05:31
The Expanded Gallery: I Am Not a Flopper Or…
For Frieze Art Fair 2007 Mario Garcia Torres will reframe the body of work of film auteur Allen Smithee through a series of interventions around the fair. Smithee will deliver a keynote lecture elaborating the complex relationships between his public persona and the long filmography for which he has become known.
Duration: 00:33:40
Theory and Practice: Art Education Today
A discussion chaired by Ralph Rugoff (Director, Hayward Gallery) questioning whether market forces have created an emphasis on product over process. Does the current art school curriculum reflect our times?
Duration: 01:18:49
Lethal Theory: Organized Violence and Informal Cities
Eyal Weizman, Architect, Writer and Director of Goldsmiths College’s Centre of Research Architecture delivered a keynote lecture critiquing military action and the imagination of urban areas.
Duration: 01:26:24
