Artists, Gossips and Critics
JUNE 7,8,9 2007, 9.00 11.30am. Metropole Hotel, Riva degli Schiavoni,
Venice
This is the fifth consecutive 'Agendas' to take place at the Venice Biennale.
Venice Agendas is now regarded as a crucial forum for the exchange of ideas
generated by the Biennale. At Agendas 2007 leading artists, critics and
commentators will address the question of how artworks constitute and promote
debate, consider the potency of art world gossip, and scrutinise Biennale
curator Robert Storr’s ambitions for an ‘art in the present tense’.
Venice Agendas V is organ?sed by: Wimbledon College of Art, University of the
Arts London; Audio Arts (London), Newport School of Art Media & Design,
University of Wales; Visual Research Centre Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
& Design, University of Dundee (Scotland); Edinburgh College of Art
(Scotland), Sheffield Hallam University (England). In collaboration with The
British Council, (London) and 1:1 Projects, (London and Rome).
Venice Agendas will be streamed online live. Please note the times and date
below when the webcast will be live.
To listen to VENICE AGENDAS live please
press here http://195.194.24.19:7070/wca.sdp .
Day One: Thursday 7 June 9 -11.30am (8.00 - 10.30am UTC)
IS ART A FORM OF
DEBATE?
Chairs: Sharon Kivland, Jaspar-Joseph Lester
Panellists: John
Beagles, Polly Gould, Richard Grayson, Dan and Lia Perjovschi, Cesare
Pietrouisti
Day Two: Friday 8 June 9 -11.30am (8.00 - 10.30am UTC)
GOSSIP, RUMOUR AND
ANECDOTE
Chair: Professor Stephen Partridge
Panellists: Gavin Butt, Sacha
Craddock, Richard Demarco, Ian McKay, Francesco Ventrella
Day Three: Saturday 9 June 9 -11.30am (8.00 - 10.30am UTC)
‘ART IN THE
PRESENT TENSE’: A LIVE DEBATE
Chair: Professor Mel Gooding
Panellists:
Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, Joseph Backstein, Professor Michael Corris, Professor
Robert Storr, Professor Angela Vettese
For general inquiries and to reserve a place at the symposium, contact Claire
Foss, Research Centre Administrator, Wimbledon College of Art, University of the
Arts London, Merton Hall Road on
+44 (0)20 7514 9706, email:
c.foss@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk
For questions about Venice For Agendas V, panellists and partner institutions
contact Dr Malcolm Quinn, Agendas Co-ordinator, Wimbledon College of Art,
University of the Arts London, Merton Hall Road on
+44 (0)20 7514 9713,
email: m.quinn@wimbledon.arts.ac.uk
