Friday 30 April 2010, 10.00 to 18.00
Tate Britain Auditorium
Millbank, London SW1P 4RG
Realised within the framework of FORMER WEST, a contemporary art research, education, publishing and exhibition project (2008-2013).
FORMER WEST is supported by the Mondriaan Foundation, EU Culture Programme, European Cultural Foundation, and the City of Utrecht.
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Art and the Social:
Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in the 1990s
Tate Britain, London, Friday 30 April 2010
10.00 Welcome by Charles Esche
Exhibitions and Activism
10.10 Doug Ashford on the 1988-89 exhibition ‘Democracy’ at the DIA Art Foundation New York (a project by Group Material)
10.45 Renate Lorenz on the 1993 exhibition ‘Trap’ at Kunst-Werke, Berlin (curated by Minimal Club in Munich, Büro Bert in Düsseldorf, Art in Ruins in London)
11.20 Questions – led by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen
11.40 Tea and coffee
Art in the Social Sphere?
12.00 Claire Bishop on three exhibitions from 1993, ‘Culture in Action’ in Chicago, ‘Unité d’Habitation’ in Firminy and ‘Sonsbeek’ in Arnhem
12.40 Christian Philipp Müller in response
13.00 Questions – led by Charles Esche
13.20 Lunch break
Context, Relationality, Participation
14.30 Sabeth Buchmann on Kontext Kunst and Institutional Critique in exhibition-making in Germany in the 1990s
15.00 Stéphanie Jeanjean on the viewer’s experience and the social dimension of the exhibitions that gave rise to the Relational Aesthetics label in France in the 1990s
15.30 Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt on the social dimension of artist-run spaces in the UK in the 1990s, specifically in Glasgow and London
16.00 Questions – led by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen
16.30 Tea and coffee
Panel Discussion
17.00 Review of the day, with questions to all the speakers, led by Charles Esche
18.00 End
