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Frieze Talks 2006

Lethal Theory: Organized Violence and Informal Cities

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15 October 2006

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.

  • Eyal Weizman (Architect, Writer and Director of Goldsmiths College’s Centre of Research Architecture)
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What Are We Building Now? The Architectonics of Power: Space and the City in Global Realities

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Sunday 15 October

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

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Ruins of the Twentieth Century

Sunday 15 October

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.

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Criticizing the Critics

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Saturday 14 October

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.

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Conceptual Painting

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Saturday 14 October

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?

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Seven Easy Pieces Or How To Perform

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Friday 13 October 2006

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

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Art, Writing, Performativity

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Friday 13 October 2006

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.

  • Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Professor of English, City University of New York Graduate Center)
  • Gavin Butt (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, London)
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Good Taste? Bad Taste?

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12pm, Thursday 12 October 2006

A discussion exploring the role of taste in the visual arts today. How is individual taste formed? What does taste mean today?

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Taste: Factories in the Snow

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5pm, Thursday 12 October 2007

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.

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New Performativity

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12pm, Friday 13 October 2006

The last decade has been marked by a new type of performance-based art that takes its meaning from both the context and the performers. What factors have determined the emergence of this trend, and what are the key changes?

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Frieze Talks features leading art world figures delivering keynote lectures and debating the prevailing issues in aesthetics, ethics, art production and the wider cultural sphere.

Frieze Talks 2006 was curated by Polly Staple under the auspices of Frieze Foundation, which is generously supported by Cartier, the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union and Arts Council England.

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