Creative Time - Living as Form

'Spectacle and Participation: Where are we now?' - a lecture to inaugurate Creative Time's Living as Form project, with a discussion chaired by Mariam Ghani. The video can be watched online here.

The Now Museum: Contemporary Art, Curating Histories, Alternative Models

A major four day conference 10-13 March 2011, organised by myself (on behalf of the PhD Program in Art History at CUNY Graduate Center), in collaboration with Kate Fowle (Independent Curators International) and Eungie Joo (New Museum). Highlights include papers by Manolo Borja-Villel, Okwui Enwezor, Annie Fletcher, Zdenka Badinovac, and the discussion between Dominic Willsdon and Katy Siegel. The graduate student presentations on Sunday 13th are also worth checking out. All panels can be watched online here.

Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Art in the 1990s

This was another case of doing research through an event - this time preparing a chapter on the 'social turn' for my forthcoming book (to be published by Verso next year). The day looked at exhibition making in the early 1990s, and was produced in collaboration with Afterall magazine and Former West. Highlights included Doug Ashford, Renate Lorenz, and Christian Phillipp Müller. Click here for information on the day-long symposium at Tate Britain - it should be web archived soon.

Where the West Ends?

This was the name of a two-day seminar I organised (with Marta Dziewanksa) at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 18-19 March 2010, under the framework of 'Former West'. It focused on art in the former Soviet Union and its immediate zone of influence after the transition of 1991. Highlights of the event include papers by and discussions with Boris Groys, Ekaterina Degot, David Riff, Tomas Pospiszyl, and Edit Andras. Video clips can be found here.

Transnational Communities

Discussion with Tania Bruguera as part of TJ Demos's research network Zones of Conflict, at Tate Britain, 14 February 2009. Click here for info and here for a recording of the event.