Tate Modern, London
Saturday 25 October
11.00-18.30
Diffusion: Collaborative Practice in Contemporary Art
Since the early 1990s there has been a major rise in group-based and
collective art practice. Artist groups and duos, and collaborative relations
between artists and audiences, have become a familiar part of the artistic
landscape. New kinds of practice exploring the idea of art as an expanded
form of intellectual activity have emerged. This symposium brings together
leading artists and writers to discuss the cultural and political
implications of these changes and the revived expectations for an art of the
social. Speakers include Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla (who are
taking part in Tate Modern's exhibition Common Wealth), Bureau d'études, Eve
Chiapello, Cornford & Cross, François Deck, Jochen Gerz, Charles Green,
Brian Holmes, John Roberts and Stephen Wright.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/commonwealth/default.htm
The exhibition, curated by Tate Modern Curator, Jessica Morgan, will explore
the meanings and implications of the words common and wealth including ideas
about the potential use-value of art, how it might contribute to a shared
public prosperity, and what common ground is offered by architecture and
museum galleries. To use a statement by Hirschhorn, the artists in Common
Wealth are interested in making art politically rather than making political
art. Their work seeks to bridge the individual and the communal, by
developing local practices that remain critically aware of the global
situation.
A collaboration with the School of Art & Design, University of
Wolverhampton, with support from the Institut français