The Expanded Gallery - Mass Forms for Private Consumption
12pm, Thursday 11 October 2007
A discussion chaired by Alice Rawsthorn (Design Critic, International Herald Tribune) examining how bespoke forms of industrial design, graphics and film have recently moved into the traditional preserves of art. What cultural value do they bring to the spaces of the gallery and the museum?
- Chair Alice Rawsthorn (Design Critic, International Herald Tribune)
- Emily King (Design Historian)
- Marc Newson (Designer)
- Peter Saville (Designer and Artist)
- Francesco Vezzoli (Artist)
I Am Not a Flopper Or…
4pm, Thursday 11 October 2007
For Frieze Art Fair 2007 Mario Garcia Torres reframed the body of work of film auteur Allen Smithee through a series of interventions around the fair. Smithee delivered a keynote lecture elaborating the complex relationships between his public persona and the long filmography for which he has become known.
Script written by Mario Garcia Torres and Aaron Schuster and performed by Stephen Campbell Moore.
Custodians of Culture - The Museum: Institutions of Market or Measure?
12pm, Friday 12 October 2007
A discussion chaired by Massimiliano Gioni (Artistic Director, Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Milan and Curator of Special Exhibitions, New Museum, New York) examining the changing relationship between museums, artists, their sponsors and patrons.
- Chair: Massimiliano Gioni (Artistic Director, Nicola Trussardi Foundation, Milan and Curator, New Museum, New York)
- Lisa Dennison (Executive Vice President of Sotheby’s North America)
- Julia Peyton-Jones (Director, Serpentine Gallery and Co-director, Exhibitions & Programmes)
- Sturtevant (Artist)
Custodians of Culture - Schoolyard Art: Playing Fair Without the Referee
4pm, Friday 12 October 2007
Dave Hickey (Cultural Critic and Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) presented a keynote lecture on the subject of selling without selling out focusing on how sites of commerce have evolved from the white cube to the art fair.
- Dave Hickey (Cultural Critic and Professor of English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Theory & Practice - Art Education Today
12pm, Saturday 13 October 2007
A discussion chaired by Ralph Rugoff (Director, Hayward Gallery) questioning whether market forces have created an emphasis on product over process. Does the current art school curriculum reflect our times?
- Chair: Ralph Rugoff (Director, The Hayward)
- Saskia Bos (Dean, School of Art, The Cooper Union)
- Tobias Rehberger (Artist)
- Anton Vidokle (Artist)
Theory & Practice - Thierry de Duve
4pm, Saturday 13 October 2007
Thierry de Duve (Historian and Theorist of contemporary art and Professor at University of Lille III) presented a keynote lecture. Dedicated to a reinterpretation of Modernism and an examination of its legacies, de Duve is author of several books including Kant after Duchamp (1996) and the forthcoming Held Together with Water: Art from the Verbund Collection.
- Thierry de Duve (Historian and Theorist of contemporary art and Professor at University of Lille III)
Cultural Cartography - Does Art Travel?
12pm, Sunday 14 October 2007
A discussion chaired by Philippe Vergne (Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Walker Art Center) focusing on whether art can really speak across borders. What happens when the local becomes global?
- Chair: Philippe Vergne (Chief Curator and Deputy Director, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis)
- Ekaterina Degot (Writer and Curator)
- Paulo Herkenhoff (Independent Curator and Art Historian)
- Midori Matsui (Art Critic)
Cultural Cartography - Roni Horn
4pm, Sunday 14 October 2007
Roni Horn (Artist) presented a keynote lecture exploring ideas of site-specificity and seriality in her work. Her most recent project, Library of Water (Iceland), is the culmination of a lifelong interest in the relationship of language to place.
- Roni Horn (Artist)
