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What Are We Building Now? The Architectonics of Power: Space and the City in Global Realities

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A discussion exploring architecture, urban planning and cultural imagination. What are the new visions and sensations of space, place, boundary and limit?

Duration: 01:12:07

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Ruins of the Twentieth Century

The traditional ruin is an aesthetic compromise between nature and artifice — it embodies the moment when nature begins to reclaim what man has made. This discussion explored the artistic, architectural and cultural remains of the recent past, and imagine what it means to inhabit the ruins of the future.

Duration: 01:11:47

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Criticizing the Critics

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Artist Adrian Piper delivered a keynote lecture dissecting the activity of criticism and considering several different models according to which this activity might be understood — and misunderstood — by proponents of different models, according to their interests and roles in the art world. The lecture was followed by a Q&A with Jörg Heiser, Co-editor of frieze magazine.

Duration: 01:40:21

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Conceptual Painting

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A discussion exploring the relationship between the legacies of conceptualism and contemporary painting. How can we establish criteria for discussing the relationship between conceptual practice and painting today?

Duration: 01:58:03

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Seven Easy Pieces Or How To Perform

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Artist Marina Abramovic delivered a keynote lecture on the situation of performance today and its development since the 1970s.

Duration: 01:17:13

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Art, Writing, Performativity

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A conversation between Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, distinguished Professor of English, City University of New York Graduate Center and Gavin Butt, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Duration: 01:17:37

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Taste: Factories in the Snow

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A keynote lecture on the commercialization of culture. Issues raised related to constructions of taste, the leisure industry and the hegemony of hyper-capitalist service industries.

Duration: 01:19:46

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Art, Politics and Popularity

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Jacques Rancière, renowned philosopher, and Emeritus Professor, University of Paris VIII, whose most recent publication, The Politics of Aesthetics, has won critical acclaim, discussed aesthetics and politics with Brian Dillon, Writer, Art Critic and frieze Columnist. If art is political, what is its constituency? How have modern and contemporary art addressed the idea of a people? How has the relationship between aesthetics and democracy been reconfigured?

Duration: 01:05:44

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Picturing the Future

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Combining cultural history and discussions of artistic practice, the panel examined the relationship between contemporary culture and our imagining of the future.

Duration: 01:16:37

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Contemporary Art Versus Its Envelope: Competition and Co-Evolution

Thomas Crow, Director, Getty Research Institute and Professor of Art History, University of South California, Los Angeles, delivered a keynote lecture. Crow, the author of such seminal art history texts as Modern Art in the Common Culture (1996) and The Intelligence of Art (1999), proposes that the contemporary hyper-expansion of the spaces for art has decisively altered the character of the art designed to fill them. The talk considered the ways in which ‘institutional critique’ in art practice since the 1960s has laid the ground for a Baroque efflorescence of art’s apparatus of display.

Duration: 01:11:24

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Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2009-10

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