Live broadcast from Stockholm, on 14-15 November 2014.
Site Gallery hosted a live screening and discussion of the sixth annual Creative Time Summit from the Kulturhuset in Stockholm. The event explored socially and politically engaged art in a global context as it brought together leading voices in public art and politics.
The debates and dialogues of the Summit were shared with an international community through public screenings around the world, as it took place outside of New York City for the first time.
We welcome the public to join us in Site Gallery’s studio space to watch the event live and discuss the issues and ideas presented during the conference.
Download the Site Gallery screening schedule
The Summit will focus on artists’ work as it relates to the themes of:
– Nationalisms
– Performing the City
– Activating Public Space
– Art in the Age of Surveillance
– Migrations
The Summit included presentations by artists, activists, curators and critics.
Participants include:
Edi Rama, Prime Minister of Albania, and Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, to deliver keynote addresses. Delhi-based artist and filmmaker Amar Kanwar will be awarded the 2014 Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change. Presentations are grouped into thematic sections titled Nationalisms, Performing The City, Activating Public Space, Art in the Age of Surveillance, and Migrations. Presenters include Netherlands-based artist and activist Jonas Staal; English artist and CreativeTime collaborator Jeremy Deller; Swedish independent curator and Director of Tensta Konsthall Maria Lind; Poland and Germany-based curator Joanna Warsza; Turkish artist Ahmet Ögüt; Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Icelandic Parliament member and chairperson of the Pirate Party; United States-based performance artist Jill Magid; Sweden’s Soraya Post, who recently made history as the first-ever elected member of a feminist party to the European Parliament, Ghana ThinkTank, a collective featuring Christopher Robbins, John Ewing, and Carmen Montoya from the United States; Cuban artist Tania Bruguera; and many more.
Summit: Stockholm is a collaboration between the New York City-based Creative Time and Stockholm’s Public Art Agency Sweden, and is co-curated by Nato Thompson, Creative Time Chief Curator, and Magdalena Malm, Director of Public Art Agency Sweden.
Share your thoughts, images and questions with Summit attendees here and around the world by using the hashtag #CTsummit, @sitegallery and @creativetimenyc
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