What is a curator?

'What is a Curator?', Shifting Practice, Shifting Roles: Artists' Installations and the Museum, Tate Modern, March 2007 (webcast )

The Social in Art

The Social in Art: Between Ethics and Aesthetics, Forum Permanente, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 2006 (webcast)

New Performativity

New Performativity, panel discussion at Frieze Art Fair 2006 with curator Francesco Bonami, dramaturg/theorist Eda Cufer, artist Surasi Kusolwong, and artists Elmgreen & Dragset (audio)

Art in Public

Art in Public, panel discussion at Frieze Art Fair 2004 with artist Jeremy Deller, curator James Lingwood, producer Yvonne Force-Villareal, and curator Per Gunnar Tverbakk (audio)

Ranciere/Sloterdijk

Jacques Rancière/Peter Sloterdijk, co-organised with the Centre for Philosophy, Literature and the Arts, Warwick University, May 2008 (podcast click here).

Rethinking Spectacle

Rethinking Spectacle, Tate Modern, March 2007, co-organised with Mark Godfrey. (webcast)
This symposium aimed to address recent claims that contemporary art is 'spectacularised' and increasingly inseparable from the marketing of large-scale museums. But what do we really mean by 'spectacle' today? And how useful are Guy Debord's ideas (Society of the Spectacle, 1967) for analysing new conditions of the display of contemporary art? Organised to mark the end of Carsten Höller's Test Site (2006) in the Turbine Hall, the symposium sought to question whether this work is really comparable to other forms of mass entertainment. Speakers included: Ina Blom (University of Oslo), Andrea Fraser (UCLA), Frances Morris (Tate Modern), and Sven Lütticken (Free University, Amsterdam).
My lecture was geared towards my undergraduate students at Warwick University, with whom I was producing the research website Rethinking Spectacle (link).

Directed Reality

'Directed Reality: From Live Installation to Constructed Situations', Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, November 2007. (webcast) This is an early version of the Double Agent catalogue essay.

Participation

Participation (London: Whitechapel and MIT Press, 2006), an edited anthology of key texts on the idea of social participation in art from the late 1950s to the present day. The book presents a range of theoretical, artistic and curatorial positions by which to address the collective production and reception of contemporary art.

The book was launched with a discussion at the Whitechapel Art Gallery as part of their series Big Ideas. My discussion with Jeremy Till (Professor of Architecture, University of Sheffield) and Nick Ridout (Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, QMU), September 2006, is podcast here.