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