Lethal Theory: Organized Violence and Informal Cities
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)
What Are We Building Now? The Architectonics of Power: Space and the City in Global Realities
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?
- Lu Jie (Founder and Chief Curator, Long March Project)
- Achille Mbembe (Research Professor in History and Politics, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, South Africa)
- Marjetica Potrc (Artist and Architect)
- Saskia Sassen (Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago)
- Chair: Roland Kapferer (Anthropologist)
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.
- Svetlana Boym (Artist and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University)
- Steven Connor (Writer and Cultural Critic)
- Susan Hiller (Artist)
- Jeremy Millar (Artist and Curator)
- Chair: Brian Dillon (Writer and Critic)
Criticizing the Critics
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.
- Adrian Piper (Artist)
- Jörg Heiser (Co-editor of frieze magazine)
Conceptual Painting
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?
- Wade Guyton (Artist)
- Charline von Heyl (Artist)
- Július Koller (Artist)
- Lucy Soutter (Artist, Critic and Art Historian, London College of Communication)
- Frances Stark (Artist)
- Chair: Jan Verwoert (Art Historian and Critic)
Seven Easy Pieces Or How To Perform
Friday 13 October 2006
Artist Marina Abramovic delivered a keynote lecture on the situation of performance today and its development since the 1970s.
- Marina Abramovic (Artist)
Art, Writing, Performativity
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)
Good Taste? Bad Taste?
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?
- Carlo Antonelli (Editor-in-chief, Rolling Stone magazine, Italy)
- Thelma Golden (Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem)
- Darian Leader (Psychoanalyst)
- Tirdad Zolghadr (Writer and Curator)
- Chair: Alice Rawsthorn (Design Critic, International Herald Tribune)
Taste: Factories in the Snow
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.
- Liam Gillick (Artist)
New Performativity
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?
- Francesco Bonami (Manilow Senior Curator at Large, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)
- Eda Cufer (Dramaturg, Writer and Curator)
- Elmgreen & Dragset (Artists)
- Surasi Kusolwong (Artist)
- Chair: Claire Bishop (Art Historian and Critic)
