The Common Guild

Event
Detours
Polly Staple
23 April 2009
7pm
The Trades Hall of Glasgow

The ‘Detours’ series resumes on 23rd April with Polly Staple, appointed Director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery in 2008.

This series of talks presents diverse views from elsewhere by leading curators, critics and museum directors. Speakers explore the connection between practice and context: looking at how different institutions and professional, curatorial practices have taken shape in relation to specific places or situations.

Polly Staple was formerly Editor at Large of frieze magazine, Director of Frieze Projects, Curator at Cubitt Gallery and co-Editor of Untitled magazine. Over the past ten years Staple has produced projects and exhibitions with a range of artists including Pawel Althamer, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Martha Rosler, Lawrence Weiner and Cathy Wilkes, among others. She has contributed to a range of publications and catalogues including frieze, Art Monthly and Afterall writing criticism and essays on artists, including most recently – ‘Film as Critical Practice’, ‘Feminism’, Seth Price, Clemens von Wedeymer, Michael Beutler, Micol Assaël, Johanna Billing, Hilary Lloyd and Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan. May 2009 sees the launch of her new programme for Chisenhale.

The ‘Detours’ programme is a collaboration with The Glasgow School of Art’s School of Fine Art. Begun in March 2008, the series will continue over three years. Speakers to date have included Jenni Lomax, Vasif Kortun, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Juliana Engberg and Richard Flood.

All talks are free and have taken place in the unique Trades Hall of Glasgow, designed by Robert Adam in 1791-94 and now – the medieval cathedral aside – the oldest building in Glasgow still in regular use for its original purpose.