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Friday 18th November
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Event [6]
Friday 18 November 2011
7:30pm
Venue: Globe Hall
Talk Session
Awake in the Universe
Susan Hiller, Bracha Ettinger, Julian Stallabrass. Philip Dodd chairs.
Our 2011 opening debate addresses the festival's theme, 'Awake In The Universe' head on. What gives art the ability to raise us from emotional and intellectual slumbers and where is its edge currently to be found?
Controversial art historian Julian Stallabrass, artist Susan Hiller fresh from her retrospective at the Tate earlier this year, and postmodern painter and psychoanalyst Bracha Ettinger debate how art and creativity make us alive.
SOLD OUT
Saturday 19th November
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Event [19]
Saturday 19 November 2011
10:00am
Venue: Art Salon
Talk Session
Art Breakfast
With ArtBelow
Get a shot of inspiration with your espresso. Join ArtBelow's creative director Ben Moore for a high-impact early morning session designed to offer stimulation for those keen to get the most out of the day ahead and reflect on the talks and debates to come.
Price includes breakfast.
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Event [20]
Saturday 19 November 2011
11:00am
Venue: Globe Hall
Talk Session
Imagination, Inc.
Philip Dodd, Julian Spalding, Dai Smith, Cedar Lewisohn. Razia Iqbal chairs.
Power and money play a key role in the arts. But can innovation take place within these walls? Does public patronage awaken or stifle the imagination? And would starving the arts of money mutilate national culture or just possibly make them stronger?
Night Waves host and former ICA director Philip Dodd, radical critic Julian Spalding, Arts Council Wales chair Dai Smith, and Tate Modern curator Cedar Lewisohn debate the politics of imagination.
SOLD OUT
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Event [21]
Saturday 19 November 2011
11:30am
Venue: The Ring
Talk Session
Becoming Human
Bracha Ettinger in conversation with Griselda Pollock
Can art change who you are? Psychoanalyst, painter and philosopher Bracha Ettinger reveals the intricate connections between her critical theory and creative practice to art historian Griselda Pollock.
“Captivating” Judith Butler
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Event [23]
Saturday 19 November 2011
12:00pm
Venue: Art Salon
Talk Session
Banksy and the Media Barons
Julian Stallabrass
Courtauld scholar and photographer Julian Stallabrass charts the rise of a new generation of media-savvy pop artists deeply hostile to the art world and beloved by the mega-rich who collect them.
“a swinging, elegant… delightful assault” Independent
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Event [25]
Saturday 19 November 2011
12:30pm
Venue: The Hall
Talk Session
Nicolas Roeg
In conversation with Josie Rourke
From his early involvement in Lawrence of Arabia, to directing Performance and The Man who Fell to Earth, Nicholas Roeg became known for films that evaded traditional narrative and which have had a lasting impact on cinema. Roeg makes the case for a cinema defined by risks, accidents and misadventures.
“My principal inspiration’ Danny Boyle
"Legendary" Guardian
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Event [24]
Saturday 19 November 2011
12:30pm
Venue: The Ring
Talk Session
Making Art, Making Me
Joanna Kavenna, Bob & Roberta Smith, Brian Dillon. Felicity Evans Chairs.
From Tracey Emin to Philip Roth, there is no shortage of autobiographical art. But is art the means we use to create autobiography? Is it through creativity that we create ourselves?
Artist 'Bob and Roberta Smith', award winning novelist Joanna Kavenna and philosopher and Cabinet editor Brian Dillon go in search of how they are who they are.
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Event [30]
Saturday 19 November 2011
1:30pm
Venue: Lower Gallery
Talk Session
Platform
Whether you want to speak out against art market corruption or unveil your manifesto for a creative revolution, the Platform is a dedicated space for you to put your case. Each slot is 10 minutes, with 5 for talk and 5 for questions. Email Emily.Baker@artandideas.org with the subject title "Platform" to get your slot confirmed in advance.
SOLD OUT
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Event [28]
Saturday 19 November 2011
1:30pm
Venue: The Ring
Talk Session
I Think Therefore Iamb
Rachael Boast, Jamie McKendrick, Harry Eyres. Hilary Lawson chairs.
Eliot read verse to escape from the self, and Cocteau likened writing poetry to untying the Gordian knot. Is poetry a means to explore the true nature of the universe, a release from the emotional hinterlands of real life, or merely a linguistic adornment? Is poetry a form of reason or an escape from its shackles?
Philosopher Hilary Lawson challenges three award winning poets, Rachael Boast, Jamie McKendrick, and FT columnist Harry Ayres to examine poetry’s power to awaken us to the nature of the universe.
SOLD OUT
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Event [29]
Saturday 19 November 2011
1:30pm
Venue: Art Salon
Talk Session
The Daily Practice of Curating
Hans Ulrich Obrist
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Event [33]
Saturday 19 November 2011
2:30pm
Venue: Art Salon
Talk Session
The Killing Fields
Benjamin Dix
Photojournalist Benjamin Dix was a liaison between the UN and the Tamil Tigers in the Sri Lankan civil war and one of the last international witnesses to leave. Hear his story.
SOLD OUT
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Event [32]
Saturday 19 November 2011
2:30pm
Venue: Globe Hall
Talk Session
The Naked Truth
Martin Kemp, Griselda Pollock, Hans Maes. Cedar Lewisohn chairs.
Voyeuristic art has aroused lust, fascination and contempt in equal measure. Do artists make us more aware of our physical being-in-the-world? Or is nudity in art a sales tactic?
Leading Da Vinci scholar Martin Kemp, eminent cultural theorist Griselda Pollock, and philosopher of art Hans Maes seek the naked truth.SOLD OUT
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Event [35]
Saturday 19 November 2011
3:30pm
Venue: Art Salon
Talk Session
Dangerous Images
Adrian Arbib
The government doesn't think you should see Adrian Arbib's photography. Discover the place where art, journalism and direct action come into conflict with the law in a rare public appearance from this controversial photographer.
"Inspiring" Guardian
In Association with Hereford Photography Festival
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Event [34]
Saturday 19 November 2011
3:30pm
Venue: The Ring
Talk Session
Swimming and Flying
Mark Haddon
Award-winning novelist and playwright Mark Haddon reveals what his fears of flying and wild-swimming can tell us about the conflict between poetic and rational thought, the power of silence, and the nature of art.
"Remarkable… Impressive… Rewarding" Time Out
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Event [38]
Saturday 19 November 2011
4:00pm
Venue: Lower Gallery
Talk Session
Boo Ritson in Conversation
Former Evening Standard critic Nick Hackworth converses with Boo Ritson, whose work merges painting, sculpture, performance and photography. Ritson’s work can be seen in Poppy Sebire Gallery’s space in the Art Pavilion.
SOLD OUT
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Event [39]
Saturday 19 November 2011
4:30pm
Venue: Art Salon
Talk Session
The Dragon's Heart
Dai Smith & John McGrath
From the Gorsedd of Bards to the National Eisteddfod, Wales has a history of grass roots participation. Arts Council Wales Chair Dai Smith and Director of National Theatre Wales John McGrath ask whether the rest of the UK can learn from this paradigm.
SOLD OUT
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Event [40]
Saturday 19 November 2011
5:00pm
Venue: Lower Gallery
Talk Session
Platform
Challenge the art world at the Platform, a dedicated space for you to have your say. Each slot is 10 minutes, with 5 for talk and 5 for questions. Email crunchplatform@artandideas.org with the subject line "Platform" to get your slot confirmed in advance.
SOLD OUT
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Event [41]
Saturday 19 November 2011
5:30pm
Venue: Globe Hall
Talk Session
Maps of Mystery
Semir Zeki, Adrian Noble, Hilary Lawson. Felicity Evans chairs.
Many have claimed art to be an exploration of the ineffable. Does art help us catch sight of the mystery of being alive, or do we mystify existence at our peril?
Founder of neuroesthetics Semir Zeki, renowned theatre director Adrian Noble and post-postmodern philosopher Hilary Lawson look into the unknown.
SOLD OUT
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Event [42]
Saturday 19 November 2011
5:30pm
Venue: The Ring
Talk Session
American Surreal
Susan Hiller talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist
Having abandoned anthropology to pursue the art of the fantastic, Susan Hiller looks back on the philosophy that has driven her forty-year career at the forefront of contemporary art with the Serpentine’s Hans Ulrich Obrist. Includes a screening of the Last Silent Movie.
"A hugely influential figure" Nick Serota
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Event [43]
Saturday 19 November 2011
6:00pm
Venue: Lower Gallery
Talk Session
Taken As Read
Jane Wheatley
Times critic and feature writer Jane Wheatley discusses the rise of the book club as an antidote to our atomised age and reveals some of the hidden marvels of contemporary literature.
SOLD OUT
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Event [45]
Saturday 19 November 2011
7:00pm
Venue: The Ring
Talk Session
Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
Adrian Noble
Former Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Adrian Noble investigates whether the mystery and magic of Shakespeare's last plays survive in a rational age.
“Stunning… Beguiling” The Stage
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Event [46]
Saturday 19 November 2011
7:00pm
Venue: Lower Gallery
Talk Session
Crash Landings and Leaps of Faith
Tom Dale
Artist Tom Dale will discuss what compels us to make great gestures even in the face of inevitable disaster. Like his recent sculptures of distorted stunt ramps he will use the role of the stuntman to consider these ideological and existential questions. He will be in discussion with Art Critic and Writer Gabriel Coxhead, who recently curated 'No New Thing Under the Sun' at the Royal Academy and is a regular contributor to Time Out and the Financial Times.
SOLD OUT
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Event [44]
Saturday 19 November 2011
7:30pm
Venue: Art Salon
Talk Session
Ben Moore: X-Rated
ArtBelow founder and filmmaker Ben Moore has been to the throbbing heart of the American sex industry and is back to tell the tale.
"Serious… Engaging" Evening Standard
SOLD OUT
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Event [47]
Saturday 19 November 2011
7:30pm
Venue: Art Salon
Talk Session
Pollock on Pollock Squared
Sylvia and Francesca Pollock.
Sylvia and Francesca Pollock take us back to the origins of Charles & Jackson Pollock’s interest in art and politics, and the events that would lead to a cultural revolution.
‘Utterly remarkable’ RaritanSOLD OUT
Sunday 20th November
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Event [61]
Sunday 20 November 2011
11:00am
Venue: Globe Hall
Talk Session
Dancing With the Devil
Raymond Tallis, Jake Chapman, Matthew Stone. Hilary Lawson chairs.
Writers and artists have often treated the ethics of their time with contempt. But do they also introduce us to a new moral imagination? Is it the responsibility of art to encourage an ethical framework, or is morality a form of convention that threatens creativity?
Philosopher and physician Raymond Tallis, and artists Jake Chapman and Matthew Stone debate the value of darkness.
SOLD OUT
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Event [62]
Sunday 20 November 2011
11:30am
Venue: The Ring
Talk Session
Lust, Love and the Late Madame Picasso
Godfrey Barker
Did love and lust awaken something new in the late works of Picasso? Critic and broadcaster Godfrey Barker tells the mysterious, true tale of a seduction, a suicide, and a courtcase from beyond the grave
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Event [64]
Sunday 20 November 2011
12:00pm
Venue: Art Salon
Talk Session
Yes, It Really Is Beautiful!
Guy Dammann
Do we need to pretend that postmodernity never happened? Guardian and TLS music critic Guy Dammann argues that we must trick ourselves into believing in the objective truth of our tastes in order to be awakened by art’s power.
SOLD OUT
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Event [65]
Sunday 20 November 2011
12:30pm
Venue: Globe Hall
Talk Session
How to Change the World
Martin Kemp, Stephen Frears, Joanna Kavenna. Razia Iqbal chairs.
From Goya to Guernica, art's power to carry political punch is clear. But can and should art be primarily engaged in political change? Is great art necessarily too complex to be reduced to propaganda?
Author of From Christ to Coke, Martin Kemp, novelist Joanna Kavenna and British film director Stephen Frears question art’s power.
SOLD OUT
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Event [66]
Sunday 20 November 2011
12:30pm
Venue: The Ring
Talk Session
The Limits of Art
Raymond Tallis & Julian Spalding.
They met at Crunch 2010. Now physician, novelist and poet Raymond Tallis and controversial critic Julian Spalding are ready to unveil their new, radical and utterly compelling theory of art, the limits of artistic freedom, and the dangers of the status quo. Are formal constraints stultifying or liberating? Has the contemporary art world lost sight of necessary limits to artistic practice?
“Illuminating” Guardian
SOLD OUT
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Event [71]
Sunday 20 November 2011
1:30pm
Venue: Lower Gallery
Talk Session
Platform
Challenge the art world at the Platform, a dedicated space for you to have your say. Slots are allocated in advance. Each slot is 10 minutes, with 5 for talk and 5 for questions. Email Emily at crunchplatform@artandideas.org to get your slot confirmed in advance.
SOLD OUT
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Event [70]
Sunday 20 November 2011
1:30pm
Venue: Lower Gallery
Talk Session
New British Art Double-Bill
Gallerist Will Lunn talks to artist Darren Harvey-Regan who blurs the division between photography and sculpture, followed by a screening of David Rickard’s Venice Biennale exhibited film of the performance Exhaust and a discussion with the artist.
SOLD OUT
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Event [69]
Sunday 20 November 2011
1:30pm
Venue: The Ring
Talk Session
Inside The Mind's Eye
Semir Zeki, Bryan Appleyard, Elisabeth Schellekens. Hilary Lawson chairs.
Neuroscientists claim they can pinpoint the brain's creative centres. But can art and creativity be reduced to brain function? And if artistic wakefulness is simply an extension of biology, what does this mean for our understanding of free will, truth and imagination?
Founder of Neuroesthetics Semir Zeki, philosopher of art Elisabeth Schellekens, and award-winning feature writer Bryan Appleyard investigate the limits of art and science.
SOLD OUT
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Event [73]
Sunday 20 November 2011
2:30pm
Venue: Globe Hall
Talk Session
Unpleasure
Jake Chapman in conversation with Nick Hackworth
As one half of the most consistently provocative pairing in contemporary British art, Jake Chapman is no stranger to controversy. In conversation with Paradise Row founder Nick Hackworth, Chapman reveals the inspirations behind such seminal works as Insult to Injury and Death, and the nuances of his darkly comic, pessimistic philosophy.
SOLD OUT
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Event [72]
Sunday 20 November 2011
2:30pm
Venue: Lower Gallery
Talk Session
I Should Be In Charge
Bob and Roberta Smith.
John Rogers’ documentary charts the rise of polemical artist Bob & Roberta Smith as they fight the power.
Can art save democracy? What are the limits of art’s political power?
‘Nuanced…and provocative’ Sight and Sound
With a post-show discussion with the star.
SOLD OUT
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Event [75]
Sunday 20 November 2011
2:30pm
Venue: Art Salon
Talk Session
Abstract Graffiti
Tate curator and artist Cedar Lewisohn provides a vibrant account of the outer limits of street art and graffiti that are being explored by artists in cities as diverse as London, Prague, Philadelphia and São Paulo.
“Refreshing” The Rad Dad Collective
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Event [78]
Sunday 20 November 2011
3:30pm
Venue: Art Salon
Talk Session
Taking Over The Gallery
Eleanor Lindsay Fynn
Do white cubes stifle the imagination? Photographer Eleanor Lindsay Fynn unveils a manifesto for reinventing gallery space to overcome the challenges of contemporary visual culture.
SOLD OUT
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Event [77]
Sunday 20 November 2011
3:30pm
Venue: The Ring
Talk Session
From Christ to Coke
Martin Kemp
What unites Che Guevara, Einstein’s brain, the Mona Lisa, and the double-helix of DNA? Oxford scholar Martin Kemp dissects the iconic images that have given rise to the modern world.
“Distinguished” Prospect
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Event [80]
Sunday 20 November 2011
4:00pm
Venue: Globe Hall
Talk Session
New Awakenings
Josie Rourke, Susan Hiller, Mark Haddon. John Tusa chairs.
In the search for artistic insight, what touchstones do creators of all kinds share? Is imagination more important than knowledge, and what are the most effective tools for awakening creativity?
Bestselling novelist and playwright Mark Haddon, Susan Hiller 'one of the most influential artists of her generation’ (Tate), and future artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, Josie Rourke, discuss the rituals and processes that guide their working lives.
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