On authorship
Sunday 5 April, 14.00 hrs. Location: Exhibition spaces - Level 1
When Can an Exhibition be a Work of Art?
Alex Farquharson is an internationally renowned curator, critic, university lecturer and writer. His last exhibition ‘If Everybody Had An Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition’ was the second most visited exhibition ever at Tate St Ives. He writes for a range of magazines, including Frieze, Art Monthly and Artforum and has contributed to numerous books and catalogues on contemporary art. As Tutor and Research Fellow in Curatorial Studies on the Curating Contemporary Art MA at the Royal College of Art he
led weekly seminars on aspects of experimental exhibition history. He curated around 40 exhibitions while at Spacex in Exeter and the Centre for Visual Arts Cardiff, 1994 – 2000. He is currently director of the Nottingham Contemporary, a contemporary art center under construction.
F for Fake. Notes on the Signature, Authorship and Authority.
Simon Sheikh is a curator and critic who lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen. He is Assistant Professor of Art Theory and a Coordinator of the Critical Studies Program, Malmö Art Academy in Sweden. He was director of Overgaden – Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, 1999-2002 and Curator at NIFCA, Helsinki, 2003- 2004. He was also editor of the magazine Øjeblikket 1996-2000, and a member of the project group GLOBE 1993-2000, as well as editor of OE critical readers series, published by b_books Berlin. Sheikh curated numerous exhibitions and his texts are widely published in various periodicals such as Afterall, AnArchitectur, Springerin, and Texte zur Kunst.
For entire programme see the SMART website.
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Upcoming screenings:
Thursday 2 April, 18.00
Yesterday Girl (Abschied von Gestern)
(dir. Alexander Kluge, 1966, 84 min)
Saturday 4 April, 16.00
Part-Time Work of a Female Slave (Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin)
(dir. Alexander Kluge, 1973, 87 min)
The exhibition runs until 26 April 2009.