Archive 2017-18
The Producers Part II: New Positions on Curating
- Venue: Fine Art Lecture Theatre
- Start: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:15:00 GMT
- End: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:00:00 GMT
The Producers Part II: New Positions on Curating, in collaboration with Art Monthly and the newly reopened Hatton Gallery.
This series of talks will examine how curatorial practices have responded to significant changes in the art world. The talks will address, among others, the fallout of an evermore globalised art world; the growing significance of the role of collectors; the reshaping of public sector art economies and the ways in which the development of new technologies has redefined how artworks are made, understood and disseminated.
It builds on the The Producers: Contemporary Curators in Conversation initiated in 2001 by Professor Susan Hiller in collaboration with Newcastle University and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. Recognising the changes that the curatorial profession and the art world have undergone since the original series, these talks will open up the conversation to new positions on curating.
The series will extend over a two-year period. Speakers during the first phase of talks will include amongst others: Erika Balsom (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, King’s College, London and author of Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art), Steven Bode (Director of Film and Video Umbrella), Achim Borchardt-Hume (Director of Exhibitions, Tate Modern), Paul Goodwin (UAL Chair of Contemporary Art and Urbanism & Director of TrAIN (Transnational Art, Identity and Nation Research Centre), Chrissie Iles (Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art), James Lingwood (Co-director, Art Angel), Lisa Le Feuvre (inaugural Executive Director, Holt-Smithson Foundation), and Polly Staple (Director Chisenhale Gallery).
The series is funded by the Newcastle University, devised by Uta Kögelsberger (Newcastle University) and Chris McCormack (Art Monthly), with the generous support and input from staff at the Hatton Galley, from the School of Arts and Cultures, Newcastle University and from Art Monthly.
The talks will be distributed via the Art Monthly website. More information can be found on the Fine Art Events page
Talk 1
30th of January 2018 at 5.15pm Fine Art Lecture Theatre, King Edwards Building, Newcastle University
Erika Balsom is senior lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. She is the author of After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video in Circulation (2017) and Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (2013), as well as the co-editor of Documentary Across Disciplines (2016). Her work has been published in journals such as Grey Room and e-flux, and she is a frequent contributor to Artforum and to Sight and Sound.
Steven Bode is director of Film and Video Umbrella, Britain’s primary commissioners of artists’ film and video. He has initiated and overseen well over 150 different projects, including major new works from internationally-acclaimed artists such as Isaac Julien, Gillian Wearing, Jane & Louise Wilson, Mark Leckey, Johan Grimonprez, Duncan Campbell, Tacita Dean and Ed Atkins. Alongside this commissioning activity, he has curated exhibitions, including, most recently, ‘Somewhere Becoming Sea’ for Hull UK City of Culture, 2017. He has written extensively about video, film and contemporary art for several publications, and has contributed essays to many artists’ monographs.
Chair: Chris McCormack is a writer and associate editor of Art Monthly. He was commissioning editor of ON&BY Andy Warhol (MIT/Whitechapel) and has contributed numerous essays and texts for catalogues, including James Richards’ Requests and Antisongs, Richard Healy’s Lubricants and Literature and the MIT/Whitechapel anthology Moving Image. Alongside his research into vocal development published as part of this year’s Welsh Pavilion in Venice, Voce di testa, he curated the exhibition and edited the book Anarchic sexual desires of plain unmarried schoolteachers.