Where is Adventure? What is Culture?
Sunday 17 October
A discussion of the relationship of art to entertainment, touching on the comedic, being popular and failing miserably.
- Trisha Donnelly (Artist)
- Christian Jankowski (Artist)
- David Robbins (Writer & Artist)
- Nancy Spector (Curator of Contemporary Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
- Chair: Matthew Higgs (Curator, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts)
The Psychology of Collecting
Sunday 17 October
Is collecting an irrational act guided by compulsion and desire? What are the use of objects? What are the motivations behind making, collecting, curating and criticizing art? A discussion of the psychology of collecting and the politics of taste.
- Hilary Rubenstein (Psychologist)
- Eric Troncy (Art Critic and Director, Le Consortium, Dijon)
- Haim Steinbach (Artist)
- Chair: Alice Rawsthorn (Director, Design Museum)
Art In Public
Saturday 16 October
A discussion of the production of art with a specific focus on commissioning large-scale public art projects. What is at stake for the artist? The producer? The wider community?
- Jeremy Deller (Artist)
- Yvonne Force Villareal (Art Producer and Co-founder, Art Production Fund)
- James Lingwood (Co-Director, Artangel and Independent Curator)
- Per Gunnar Tverbakk (Co-curator, Nordic Biennale Momentum 04 and Project Leader, Artistic Interruptions, Nordland)
- Chair: Claire Bishop (Art Critic and Historian)
New Internationalism
Saturday 16 October
Does the rapid development of new art centres encourage greater cultural diversity, or has it resulted in a new international orthodoxy? How can discourse keep up with information? Leading art professionals discuss.
- Vasif Kortun (Director, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, and Co-curator 9th International Istanbul Biennial, 2005)
- Chus Martinez (Art Critic and Curator, sala rekalde)
- Neil Mulholland (Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Theory, Centre for Visual & Cultural Studies, Edinburgh College of Art)
- Adam Szymczyk (Director, Kunsthalle Basel)
- Chair:Alex Farquharson (Art Critic and Co-curator, British Art Show 6)
The Future Museum
Friday 15 October
How does the construction of the buildings that house art effect the way museums function? What is the role of the museum within local and international fields? Can museum programming embrace both experimentation and conservation? What is the vision for the museum of the future?
- Charles Esche (Director, Van Abbemuseum and Co-editor of Afterall)
- Yuko Hasegawa (Chief Curator, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art)
- Beatrix Ruf (Director/Curator, Kunsthalle Zürich)
- Igor Zabel (Curator, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana)
- Chair: Richard Flood (Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Walker Art Center)
Contemporary Collecting
Friday 15 October
What are the motivations and responsibilities behind building a contemporary art collection? From public foundations to private individuals, the panelists discuss their collections followed by questions from the chair.
- Alistair Hicks (Art Advisor to Deutsche Bank AG)
- Harald Falckenberg (Collector)
- Susan May (Head of Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery)
- John A. Smith (Collector)
- Chair: Andrew Renton (Director, Curatorial Programme, Goldsmiths' College and Columnist, Evening Standard)
