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Exploring the Gallery as a site of ‘In Progress’ and Experimental Practice


Just in Time is a symposium exploring the gallery as a site of ‘in progress’ and experimental practice. Artist Becky Shaw will chair the symposium to explore the use of the gallery space in ways that go beyond display, involving unfinished, durational or cumulative practice.

Questions explored will include:

– Why are so many small and large contemporary art organizations keen to instigate project spaces and commission ‘process’?
– Do commissioners of process produce an artwork, or produce the artist at work?
– Are works ‘in progress’ finished?
– Does access to process fascinate, confuse or disengage audiences?
– Do works made ‘in process’ travel through critical and commercial markets any differently to static art objects?
– How does the contemporary flux between process and product in art relate to wider social changes in production?

Workshop
Wednesday 22 October
The first session takes the form of a workshop led by Becky Shaw which will concentrate on key questions to feed into the discussion on day two.

Presentations & Discussion
Thursday 23 October
Invited speakers include:

Zsuzsa Laszlo (assistant curator, Periferic 8, Biennial for Contemporary Art, Iasi, Romania (http://www.periferic.org), involved in the project tranzit.org (http://hu.tranzit.org/calendar) and with the Studio of Young Artists in Budapest, an institution constantly rethinking its position as a representative of artists and an experimental space (http://www. studio.c3.hu)

Karolin Meunier (artist and writer, based in Berlin and is a researcher at the Fine Art Department at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, Netherlands.)

Emily Pethick (Director of The Showroom Gallery, London and previously director of Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht)

Annie Fletcher (curator at the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven and co-curator of ‘If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution’ http://www.ificantdance.org/) via skype

 

Nina Möntmann (Professor and Head of Department of Art Theory and the History of Ideas at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. From 2003 to 2006 she was curator at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA) and is editor of ‘Art and its Institutions’, (Black Dog Publishing, 2006) via skype

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