SCHEDULE 10.30 – 11.00 Arrive at 12 Carlton House Terrace, SW1Y 5AH for registration 10.30 – 11.00 Tea & coffee served in the Nash and Brandon Rooms 11.00 – 11.10 Introduction by Caroline Douglas, Director, Contemporary Art Society 11.10 – 11.40 Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Galleries Hans Ulrich Obrist will discuss the importance of performance in 21st century practice, as well as the multiple strategies for exhibiting performance artworks in the context of the Serpentine Marathons. 11.40 – 11.50 Questions 11.50 – 12.20 Catherine Wood, Curator of Contemporary Art and Performance, Tate Modern Catherine Wood will talk about programming and collecting performance in the context of the museum and how the two strands of activity influence each other. Wood will discuss Tate’s new research project looking at the archive and collection from a performance-inflected point of view and how the incorporation of performance history, and contemporary practice, is changing our fundamental experience of the museum. 12.20 – 12.30 Questions 12.30 – 13.00 Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Artist Marvin Gaye Chetwynd will speak about the recent acquisition of ‘Brain Bug’ for New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, focusing in particular on the process of working with a public collection to acquire performance work, touching upon topics such as score, documentation, restaging and archive. 13.00 – 13.10 Questions 13.10 – 14.10 Lunch 14.10 – 14.40 Chris Hammond, Director, MOT International Chris Hammond will discuss approaches to collecting contemporary performance, in addition to the current markets for performance documentation, particularly in relation to practices from the 1970′s. Hammond will discuss key examples that emphasise his gallery’s particular strength in performance-based practice, including artists Cally Spooner, Katrina Palmer, Dennis Oppenheim, Ulay, and Laure Provost. 14.40 – 15.10 Henry Lydiate, Creative Arts Business Consultancy The recent revival of interest in Performance Art from 1960/70s has led to a resurgence of performance-related artistic practices over past decade. Difficult challenges arise on an increasingly international scale for artists seeking legal and business frameworks to support creation, performance, dissemination, communication and recognition of their performance-related works; for collectors of such works; for curators and producers of performances; and for art lawyers advising and assisting. Lydiate will explore the two main areas of law that offer some recognition and possible solutions for artists, collectors, curators and other producers, along with related ethical issues. 15.10 – 15.30 Questions 15.30 End SPEAKERS BIOGRAPHIES’ (in order of presentation) Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Co-director of the Serpentine Galleries, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris. Since his first show “World Soup” (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 250 shows. In 2009 Obrist was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and in 2011 received the CCS Bard Award for Curatorial Excellence. Obrist has lectured internationally at academic and art institutions, and is contributing editor to several magazines and journals. Obrist’s recent publications include A Brief History of Curating, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating But Were Afraid to Ask, Do It: The Compendium, Think Like Clouds, Ai Weiwei Speaks, Ways of Curating and new volumes of his Conversation Series. Catherine Wood Catherine Wood is Curator of Contemporary Art and Performance at Tate Modern since 2002. Recent exhibitions include Yvonne Rainer: Dance Works at Raven Row, London (2014) and A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance at Tate Modern (2012). She initiated the online series ‘Performance Room’ in 2011 (Tate/YouTube) and co-directed the opening programme for the Tanks at Tate Modern in 2012, which included the work of Sung Hwan Kim, Ei Arakawa, Tania Bruguera, Boris Charmatz and others. She is author of Yvonne Rainer: the Mind is a Muscle (Afterall One Work series, 2007) and was one of the contributors to Creamier (Phaidon, 2010). Wood is currently working with Tate Research and Exeter University on a new project titled ‘Performance at Tate’ and writing a book titled Performance in Contemporary Art for Tate Publishing (due 2015). Marvin Gaye Chetwynd Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (b. 1973, London) is a British artist whose practice intertwines performance, sculpture, painting, installation and video. Her performances and videos harness elements of folk plays, street spectacles, literature and multiple other genres. They generally employ troupes of performers – friends and relatives of the artist – and feature handmade costumes and props. Through improvisatory, irreverent and carnivalesque dramas, Chetwynd has ranged across a panoramic range of subjects. For over a decade, she has also worked on an extensive series of paintings collectively titled Bat Opera. Throughout this series, the theatrical tropes of Chetwynd’s performance work are closely echoed: the paintings reflect a concurrent affinity for Brechtian drama, street theatre, puppet shows and ceremonial pageantry. Marvin Gaye Chetwynd studied Social Anthropology at University College London before studying art at the Slade and the RCA. She has performed and exhibited internationally, and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2012 for ‘Odd Man Out’ at Sadie Coles HQ (restaged at Tate Britain, London, from October 2012 to January 2013). Henry Lydiate Henry Lydiate has specialised in business and legal issues relating to international art business for over 30 years, since being called to the English Bar in 1974. He has written a regular column for Art Monthly since its first issue in 1976, and his collected articles are published as the Artlaw Archive by Artquest for which he also provides online advice to artists (www.artquest.org.uk). He is the founding partner of The Henry Lydiate Partnership LLP (www.thehenrylydiatepartnership.com), the creative art business consultancy whose clients include artists, dealers, collectors, auction houses, artists’ estates, foundations, museum and gallery collections, and public art institutions. His portfolio includes designing and delivering postgraduate business and legal modules for Sotheby’s Institute of Art London and, Southwestern University Law School Los Angeles, and the University of the Arts London where he is Visiting Professor in Artlaw. Chris Hammond Chris Hammond founded commercial gallery MOT International in 2006, opening a second space in Brussels in 2011. In 2015 the gallery will open a third space, also in Brussels, on the Avenue Louise, expanding the scale and ambition of the exhibition programme. At MOT International, Hammond established the early careers of artists such as 2012 Turner Prize winner Elizabeth Price, and 2013 Turner Prize winner Laure Prouvost. The gallery has concentrated on developing a programme that foregrounds a high proportion of conceptual, video and performance based practice, particularly with historically-significant artists who have been under-represented in European and US markets. In the last three years, Hammond has expanded the roster to work with artists such as Ulay, Dennis Oppenheim, Braco Dimitrijevic, Seung-Taek Lee and Nil Yalter. As an independent curator, Hammond has worked with artists such as Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Paul McCarthy, Derek Jarman, Stephen Willats and Omer Fast. ATTENDEES Adeane, Maddy, Art Fund Avery, Victoria, Contemporary Art Society Bannister, Corrine, White Cube Bardsley, Sophia, Contemporary Art Society Baxendale, Jo, Arts Council England Bevan, Sara, Imperial War Museum Bodor, Judit, National Museum Wales Browning, Rachael, Art Fund Bryne, Michael Carlton, Judith, Matt’s Gallery Carver, Julia, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Chetwynd, Marvin Gaye, Artist Cooke, Rachel, Observer Magazine Cooper, Harriet, British Council Crofton, Marcus, Contemporary Art Society D’Alancaisez, Pierre, Waterside Contemporary Delaney, Julie-Ann, Scottish National Galleries Dingle, Robert, Contemporary Art Society Dorney, Kate, Victoria and Albert Musuem Douglas, Caroline, Contemporary Art Society Eastman, Jamie, Live at LICA Elson, Sarah Ferreira, Christian, Goldsmiths University Fletcher, Steph, Salford University Gonzales, Giovanni, Goldsmiths University Graves, Alun, Victoria and Albert Grimes, Teresa, Tin Type Gritz, Anna, South London Gallery Hammond, Chris, MOT International Kaplinsky, Helen, freelance curator Karia, Amisha, Paintings in Hospitals Kleinknecht, Gregor, Klein Solicitors Klemmer, Martina Lake, Simon, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery Lent, Paula Loffler, Harriet, Norwich Museum and Art Gallery Lord, Laura, Sadie Coles Luebbert, Christian, Goldsmiths University Lydiate, Henry, Creative Arts Business Consultancy Malissard, Coralie, Courtauld Institute of Art Metliss, Miriam, Contemporary Art Society Munro, Melissa, National Museums Wales Nisbet, Helen, Contemporary Art Society Obrist, Hans Ulrich, Serpentine Gallery Olczak, Alexandra, Courtauld Institute of Art Parada, Isabel, Arcade Fine Arts Parris, Simon, South London Gallery Philp, Sarah, Art Fund Remes, Outi, New Ashgate Gallery Rockwell, Alethea, Courtauld Institute of Art Siemens, Emma, Goldsmiths University Smith, Richard, Live at LICA Swetina, Isabella Takengny, Christine, Contemporary Art Society Tan, Jack, Goldsmiths University Tedone, Gaia, freelance curator Thompson, Rose, Courtauld Institute of Art Twomey, Clare, Artist Unamun, Sabine, Arts Council England Wallace, Juliette, Courtauld Institute of Art Wallrock, Audrey Watson, Kay, Contemporary Art Society Wood, Catherine, Tate Worthy, Hugo, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery Janecek, Ms Helen Wills, Cathy
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