Event
Detours Discussion
Speakers include: Mike Crang, Nina Möntmann, Toby Paterson, Andrea Schlieker & Simon Groom
8 February 2012
9.30am - 6pm
The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow, G1 3NU
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Audio recordings of the presentations will be posted online in due course.
A one-day symposium about programme and place.
There are many contextual factors that can affect contemporary art programmes, from local politics and finance, through institutional history, to current cultural ambitions and geography. Whether in and for building-based, formal institutions, or in more porous situations including ‘public art’ commissioning, context plays a part in the making of a programme. Is it appropriate or relevant today to imagine that a programme can instill change in a given context? Or is an over-attention to context a constraint to creative programming?
Speakers include:
Mike Crang, professor at Durham University with an interest in cultural geography.
Nina Möntmann, curator and professor at the Royal University College of Fine Arts (KKH) in Stockholm, and editor of ‘Art and its Institutions’ (Black Dog Publishing) 2006.
Toby Paterson, artist, with an interest in architecture, which he deconstructs both materially and politically. Toby has also produced numerous commissions in the public realm.
Andrea Schlieker, freelance curator, lecturer and writer. Curator of British Art Show 6 and the Folkestone Triennial 2008 & 2011.
Simon Groom, Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Chaired by: Katrina Brown
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Presented by The Common Guild and The Glasgow School of Art in association with PAR+RS
Supported by Creative Scotland
Schedule:
9.30 Registration (with coffee)
10.00 Introduction and Housekeeping
10.10 Speaker 1 (40 mins + 10 mins Q+A)
11.00 Speaker 2 (40 mins + 10 mins Q+A)
11.50 Break with refreshments
12.10 Speaker 3 (40 mins + 10 mins Q+A)
1.00 Lunch with sandwiches and tea/coffee
1.50 Speaker 4 (40 mins + 10 mins Q+A)
2.40 Speaker 5 (40 mins + 10 mins Q+A)
3.30 Plenary and final discussion
4.30 Close
4.30-6.00 Detours reception at Mackintosh Museum, The Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew St, Glasgow (transport will be provided)
