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  1. —Research Seminars
Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in the 1990s
30 April 2010
Tate Britain, London (UK)

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      Charles Esche, Seminar Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Contemporary Art in the 1990s, 30 April 2010, Tate Britain, London, Photo: Raquel Villar-Pérez

  2. This symposium will explore the social turn in exhibition-making in Europe and North America in the 1990s, looking at the part played by political activism, institutional critique and forms of socialisation influenced by the media and the moving image. Questioning labels such as ‘Kontext Kunst’, ‘social engagement’ and ‘relational aesthetics’, the participants will discuss developments in recent contemporary exhibition history, including exhibitions staged outside of the art institution that engaged with site in the broadest sense. Speakers will include Claire Bishop, Gregg Bordowitz, Sabeth Buchmann, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Stéphanie Jeanjean, Renate Lorenz, Christian Phillip Müller, Stefan Schmidt-Wulffen and Charles Esche.

  3. Video Recordings

    1. Claire Bishop, Christian Philipp Müller, Charles Esche: Discussion
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    2. Sabeth Buchmann, Stéphanie Jeanjean, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Stefan Schmidt-Wulffen: Discussion
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    3. Round table of participants: Discussion
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    4. Doug Ashford, Renate Lorenz, Stefan Schmidt-Wulffen: Discussion
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    5. Renate Lorenz : Lecture
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    6. Doug Ashford: Lecture
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    7. Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt: Lecture
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    8. Christian Phillip Müller: Lecture
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    9. Sabeth Buchmann: Lecture
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    10. Stéphanie Jeanjean : Lecture
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    11. Claire Bishop: Lecture
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    12. Charles Esche: Welcome
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  4. Program
    Friday, 30 April 2010

    EXHIBITIONS AND ACTIVISM

    • 10.10 Doug Ashford on the 1988-89 exhibition ‘Democracy’ at the DIA Art Foundation New York (a project by Group Material)
    • 10.45 Renate Lorenz on the 1993 exhibition ‘Trap’ at Kunst-Werke, Berlin (curated by Minimal Club in Munich, Büro Bert in Düsseldorf, Art in Ruins in London)
    • 11.20 Questions – led by Stefan Schmidt-Wulffen
    • 11.40 Tea and coffee

    ART IN THE SOCIAL SPHERE?

    • 12.00 Claire Bishop on three exhibitions from 1993, ‘Culture in Action’ in Chicago, ‘Unité d’Habitation’ in Firminy and ‘Sonsbeek’ in Arnhem
    • 12.40 Christian Philipp Müller in response
    • 13.00 Questions – led by Charles Esche
    • 13.20 Lunch break

    CONTEXT, RELATIONALITY, PARTICIPATION

    • 14.30 Sabeth Buchmann on Kontext Kunst and Institutional Critique in exhibition-making in Germany in the 1990s
    • 15.00 Stéphanie Jeanjean on the viewer’s experience and the social dimension of the exhibitions that gave rise to the Relational Aesthetics label in France in the 1990s
    • 15.30 Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt on the social dimension of artist-run spaces in the UK in the 1990s, specifically in Glasgow and London
    • 16.00 Questions – led by Stefan Schmidt-Wulffen
    • 16.30 Tea and coffee

    PANEL DISCUSSION

    • 17.00 Review of the day, with questions to all the speakers, led by Charles Esche
    • 18.00 End

  5. Organised by

    Organised by Afterall, at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, as part of the Exhibition Histories project and in conjunction with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and FORMER WEST. With support from the Goethe Institute and the Institute Française.