November 2011
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Louisa Adam, External Curator Public Programme of Talks, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
Researchers from across London are invited to participate in a series of conversations to discuss their ideas and respond to some of the themes present in current and future exhibitions. Hayward Gallery
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The Hayward Gallery is closed from February to May 2010 for essential repairs and renewal. It reopens on 19 June with the spectacular exhibition Ernesto Neto. In the mean time the Hayward Touring Exhibitions continue their journey around the country.
#3: ON ‘TRANSGRESSIVE SIGHT’ AND ‘THE VIEWER...
SPEAKERS: TARU ELFVING AND OLIVER HARRIS
Taru Elfving will discuss the act of witnessing and the address of the viewer in contemporary visual culture. Elfving with argue that when the viewer is addressed, or called to witness, the habitual positions and conventional modes of viewing are momentarily unsettled. Yet the viewer becomes simultaneously implicated through the act of witnessing,...
#2: Examining the “experience of the visitor”, Tue...
SPEAKERS: STEFANO COLLICELLI CAGOL & SEPH RODNEY
Stefano Collicelli Cagol introduced his research into the ‘New Wing’ of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, opened in 1954 under the directorship of William Sandberg. Intended to place the institution in constant dialogue with the city, this innovative exhibition space reflected Sanberg’s belief in contemporary art as an agent of change in everyday...
#1 ‘On the “thought-event” through Deleuze’, Tue...
Sam McAuliffe and Sandra Plummer were in conversation on the concept of the ‘thought-event’ through Deleuze.
McAuliffe addressed the logic specific to the incommensurability between the being of the possible and the actual that the event gives to be thought. Follow this link to access ‘Deleuze and the Index of the Possible’.
Plummer considered thought via Deleuze’s account of maps and...