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Critic Claire Bishop, known for extensive writing on contemporary art and social engagement, will speak at the Walker on Thursday, October 30 at 7 pm. The first in a fall series of Mack Lectures, Bishop’s talk will focus on the complex ethics of performance and representation in contemporary art, drawing on recent works in which artists such as Artur Zmijewski, Jeremy Deller, and Phil Collins employ others in a piece and examining issues of authorship and authenticity that arise in these situations.
Newly appointed as a professor in the History of Art Department at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, Bishop’s work has centered on a critical examination of how aesthetics and participation are evaluated in work termed “relational.” Her oft-cited article “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics” appeared in the journal October in 2004 (available here) and prompted a lively exchange in the journal’s “letter and responses” page, as her 2006 essay “The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents” did for the letters to the editor section of Artforum. She is also the author of the book Installation Art: A Critical History (Tate Publishing, 2005), and the edited anthology Documents of Contemporary Art: Participation (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2006).
The talk is free; pick up tickets at the Bazinet Garden Lobby desk starting at 6 pm on the night of the event.
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Every so often we like to take a survey of our readers to see what you think. Our last survey was in March of 2007, so it’s time for a new one. The questions are focused on the blogs and a little demographic information, which you can skip if you like.
We’re sweetening the deal this time. If you take the survey, you can enter your name into the pool and we’ll select one person to win a 1GB iPod Shuffle.
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Many of you may remember Solutions Twin Cities as the force that brought us Solutions for the Other 90% last summer during the Design for the Other 90% show. Well, they’re at it again and this time they’ve put together lunch-hour’s worth of presentations on science and art as part of the Innovation 2008 conference at the University of Minnesota this week.
So if you’re in the university neighborhood, head over to the U of M’s McNamara Alumni Center at 11 am on Tuesday, October 21 for a mid-day menu of 6 minute and 40 second presentations by innovative artists, scientists, and educators from the Twin Cities. They will each use their unique perspective to discuss how a fusion of art and science can be used to broaden the appeal of science policy in the public eye. The speakers are:
David Goldes, photographer and professor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Rachel Breen of Invigorate the Common Well
Ananya Chatterjea of Ananya Dance Theatre
Steve Jevning of Leonardo’s Basement
Neil Olszewski of the U of M’s Plant Biology Department
Lawrence Rudnick of the Minnesota Planetarium & Space Discovery Center
Jeffrey Kahn of the U of M’s Center for Bioethics
Best of all, its free! Well, the ideas and inspiration are free. You’ll have to bring your own lunch. For directions and rsvp information go here.
