Seven Easy Pieces Or How To Perform
Artist Marina Abramovic delivered a keynote lecture on the situation of performance today and its development since the 1970s.
Duration: 01:17:13
Art, Writing, Performativity
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
Taste: Factories in the Snow
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
Art, Politics and Popularity
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
Picturing the Future
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
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
The Future of the Exhibition
Roger M. Buergel, Exhibition Organiser and Author, Lecturer in Visual Art Theory at Lüneburg University, Germany and Artistic Director, ‘documenta XII’ (2007), discussed curatorial methods and aesthetic experience with Jörg Heiser, co-Editor of frieze. What are the tensions between curator and artist, aesthetics and politics and between thematic display and the single work? Can the renegotiation of these relationships really be made productive?
Duration: 00:56:25
How has Art Changed?
Art and the structures surrounding it have changed significantly over the past 40 years. The panel addressed major shifts in art education, artistic, feminist and curatorial practice, and the expanded geography of the art world.
Duration: 01:07:51
Architecture and the Museum
Zaha Hadid, one of the world’s leading architects in conversation with Alice Rawsthorn, Director, Design Museum, London. Recipient of the Pritzker prize, Hadid recently designed the Rosenthal Centre for Contemporary Art, Cincinatti and is renowned for her commitment to revolutionary forms and ideas. Here she talks to Alice Rawsthorn, about her practice and her particular involvement with key cultural projects.
Duration: 00:59:37
The Dilemma of Collecting: The Search for Meaning in a Time of Consensus and High Profit
A frank conversation between three curators about the challenges facing private and public contemporary art collections.
Duration: 00:39:20
