The China Experience
12pm, Thursday 16 October 2008
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Carol Yinghua Lu (Writer, Curator and Contributing Editor, frieze) brought together three key players in Chinese contemporary art to discuss the impact of the country’s political, financial and creative conditions on its artists, critics, curators and gallerists. With so much attention focused on China, the panel examined the structures of its art scene and looks at how it compares to Western models.
- Chair: Carol Yinghua Lu (Writer, Curator and Contributing Editor, frieze)
- Weng Ling (curator and founder of the Beijing Center for the Arts)
- Zheng Shengtian (Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art)
- Karen Smith (Writer, Curator and Chinese Contemporary Art Specialist)
A Personal Grammar of Means
3pm, Thursday 16 October 2008
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Artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz in conversation with writer and art historian Roger Cook.
The Aesthetic Responsibility
5pm, Thursday 16 October 2008
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Writer, curator and philosopher Boris Groys gave a keynote lecture on how design today functions as a leading medium of self-revelation and self-positioning in public space. Arguing that design has acquired a new ethical dimension, he contended that where there was once religion, there is now design.
It’s About Time
12pm, Friday 17 October 2008
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Chaired by Jennifer Allen (Writer and Critic), this discussion explored the recent emphasis on temporality in art exhibitions. While considering historical and philosophical precedents, the panel looked at how and why time has become a tool for curators, and questioned the political implications of such an approach.
- Chair: Jennifer Allen (Writer and Critic)
- Carsten Höller (Artist)
- Elena Filipovic (Writer and Independent Curator)
- Peter Osborne (Professor and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London)
The First Pictures I Enjoyed
3pm, Friday 17 October 2008
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Writer and artist Alasdair Gray in conversation with novelist and artist Tom McCarthy.
PASSAGES OF LIGHT
5pm, Friday 17 October 2008
Artist Yoko Ono presented a keynote lecture, demonstrating the continued importance of the performative practices and engagement with audiences that she has pursued since the 1960s.
In Memory of the Image
12pm, Saturday 18 October 2008
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This panel chaired by Stuart Comer (Curator: Film, Tate Modern) looked at the proliferation, immediacy and increasing mobility of images. If we have reached the demise of representation, how do we talk about the image? What are the implications for rethinking terms such as documentary, form and abstraction?
- Chair: Stuart Comer (Curator: Film, Tate Modern)
- George Baker (Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles and editor at October)
- Morgan Fisher (Artist and Filmmaker)
- Hito Steyerl (Filmmaker and Author)
Transhumance
3pm, Saturday 18 October 2008
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Raqs Media Collective performed a selection of reports and conversations gathered from their nomadic practices as artists, curators and theorists.
Something for Everyone
5pm, Saturday 18 October 2008
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Artist, writer, architect, educator, ecologist and radical gardener Fritz Haeg gave a keynote talk exploring populist projects, insular bohemia, activist art, passive entertainment, networked communication, broadcast media, social strategies of isolation, and potential roles for today’s artist in a fractured society.
SLIDESHOW - images from ‘Something for Everyone’
Is the Underground Over?
12pm, Sunday 19 October 2008
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A conversation chaired by music critic Simon Reynolds examined how the notion of subculture has become outmoded through the overexposure afforded by the internet and the media’s rapid assimilation of the marginal. This panel also surveyed the past, present and future of unpopular culture and explores the possibility of alternatives to ‘alternative’.
- Chair: Simon Reynolds (Music critic)
- Cosey Fanni Tutti (Artist)
- Penny Martin (Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion Imagery, London College of Fashion)
- Claire Titley (Music Promoter, ‘Upset the Rhythm’)
The Culture of Denial
4pm, Sunday 19 October 2008
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Influential writer, broadcaster and lecturer Judith Williamson gave a keynote lecture on the skewed relationship between what we known and what we do, examining how the gulf between knowledge and behaviour shapes contemporary culture.
Radical Chic: The marketing of culture, the culture of marketing
Sunday 19th October
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If convergence culture now dominates and everyone is a ‘Creative’, how do artists position themselves? Leading art and media professionals discuss the culture of marketing and the marketing of culture.
Empathy and Criticality
Sunday 19 October
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How should one respond to being affected by art? What is at stake for the critic? Leading critics discuss writing with the emotional engagement of the enthusiastic fan or with the rational distance of the dispassionate observer.
The International Curator
Saturday 18 October
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Aesthetic managers? Creative ambassadors? Cultural entrepreneurs? Leading international curators discuss their role within the production and dissemination of contemporary art.
The Museum as Sculpture
Friday 17 October
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Do spectacular new museum buildings overshadow the art or do they determine the shape of art to come? Leading professionals discuss the interrelationship of art and architecture.
- David Adjaye (UK, Architect and Principal of Adjaye/Associates)
- Wilfried Kühn(D, Architect and Partner in Kühn Malvezzi Projects)
- Chair: Deyan Sudjic(UK, Architecture Critic and Editor of Domus)
The Museum as Sculpture
Friday 17 October
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Do spectacular new museum buildings overshadow the art or do they determine the shape of art to come? Leading professionals discuss the interrelationship of art and architecture.
- David Adjaye (UK, Architect and Principal of Adjaye/Associates)
- Wilfried Kühn (D, Architect and Partner in Kühn Malvezzi Projects)
- Chair: Deyan Sudjic (UK, Architecture Critic and Editor of Domus)
Contemporary Collecting
Friday 17 October
What are the unique responsibilities of those who collect contemporary art and what are their guiding passions? Leading international collectors discuss their collections, followed by questions from the Chair.
Where is Adventure? What is Culture?
Sunday 17 October
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A discussion of the relationship of art to entertainment, touching on the comedic, being popular and failing miserably.
The Psychology of Collecting
Sunday 17 October
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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.
Art In Public
Saturday 16 October
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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?
New Internationalism
Saturday 16 October
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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)
New Internationalism
Saturday 16 October
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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
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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?
The Future Museum
Friday 15 October
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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
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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.
Art, Politics and Popularity
Sunday 23 October
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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?
Picturing the Future
Sunday 23 October
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Combining cultural history and discussions of artistic practice, the panel examined the relationship between contemporary culture and our imagining of the future.
Contemporary Art Versus Its Envelope: Competition and Co-Evolution
Saturday 22 October
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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
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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?
How has Art Changed?
Saturday 22 October
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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.
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
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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.
Architecture and the Museum
Friday 21 October
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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.
The Dilemma of Collecting: The Search for Meaning in a Time of Consensus and High Profit
Friday 21 October
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A frank conversation between three curators about the challenges facing private and public contemporary art collections.
Lethal Theory: Organized Violence and Informal Cities
15 October 2006
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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
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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
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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.
Criticizing the Critics
Saturday 14 October
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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.
Conceptual Painting
Saturday 14 October
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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?
Seven Easy Pieces Or How To Perform
Friday 13 October 2006
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Artist Marina Abramovic delivered a keynote lecture on the situation of performance today and its development since the 1970s.
Art, Writing, Performativity
Friday 13 October 2006
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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)
The Expanded Gallery - Mass Forms for Private Consumption
12pm, Thursday 11 October 2007
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Good Taste? Bad Taste?
12pm, Thursday 12 October 2006
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A discussion exploring the role of taste in the visual arts today. How is individual taste formed? What does taste mean today?
Taste: Factories in the Snow
5pm, Thursday 12 October 2007
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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.
New Performativity
12pm, Friday 13 October 2006
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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?
