Art, Politics and Popularity
Sunday 23 October
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?
- Jacques Rancière (Philosopher and Emeritus Professor, University of Paris VIII)
- Brian Dillon (Writer, Art Critic and frieze Columnist)
Picturing the Future
Sunday 23 October
Combining cultural history and discussions of artistic practice, the panel examined the relationship between contemporary culture and our imagining of the future.
- Kodwo Eshun (Journalist and Academic)
- Jennifer Higgie (co-Editor of frieze)
- George Pendle (Author and Journalist)
- Chair: Michael Bracewell (Writer)
Contemporary Art Versus Its Envelope: Competition and Co-Evolution
Saturday 22 October
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.
- Thomas Crow (Getty Research Institute and Professor of Art History, USC, Los Angeles)
The Future of the Exhibition
Saturday 22 October
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?
- Roger M. Buergel (Curator, Lecturer and Author)
- Jörg Heiser ( Co-Editor of frieze)
How has Art Changed?
Saturday 22 October
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.
- Lynne Cooke (Curator, DIA Art Foundation)
- Michael Craig-Martin (Artist)
- Linda Nochlin (Art Historian, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, NYU Institute of Fine Arts)
- Walid Raad (Artist and co-Founder of The Atlas Group)
- Chair: Mark Godfrey (Art Historian and Critic)
Composer and Interpreter
Friday 21 October
Legendary composer and acknowledged pioneer of electronic music, Karlheinz Stockhausen made a rare visit to London to deliver his own, unique brand of lecture with musical examples played by Suzanne Stephens (basset-horn) and Kathinka Pasveer (alto flute). Stockhausen’s lecture took place on the eve of a special performance for Frieze Music at Old Billingsgate Market.
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (Composer)
Architecture and the Museum
Friday 21 October
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.
- Zaha Hadid (Architect)
- Alice Rawsthorn (Director, Design Museum, London)
The Dilemma of Collecting: The Search for Meaning in a Time of Consensus and High Profit
Friday 21 October
A frank conversation between three curators about the challenges facing private and public contemporary art collections.
- Alison M. Gingeras (Adjunct Curator, Guggenheim Museum)
- Richard Flood (Chief Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York)
- Chair: Allan Schwartzman (Independent Curator)
