Tate Modern London

Shifting Practice, Shifting Roles
Artists' Installations and the Museum
Thursday 22 March 2007, 09.15–18.30

This event is webcast:
http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents

This conference explores the idea that artists’ installations draw into
sharp focus the way in which contemporary artistic practice can
potentially shift the organisational logic of the museum.

Where is the dividing line between installation artist and curator
How
should installations be conserved and reinstalled
How does this practice
affect notions of artistic authorship
This conference looks at places of
friction and resistance between contemporary art and traditional museum
conventions, and considers how the roles of conservator and curator are
evolving in response to particular artistic practices.

The speakers include Claire Bishop (Assistant Professor in Art History at
University of Warwick), Alex Farquharson (freelance curator and critic and
Research Fellow, Royal College of Art), Teresa Gleadowe (freelance curator
and writer), Saskia Sassen (Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the
University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor of Political
Economy in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics),
Jill Sterrett (Director of Collections and Head of Conservation San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art).

This is the last in a series of events across Europe organised as part of
a project, funded by Culture 2000, entitled 'Inside Installations: The
Preservation and Presentation of Installation Art'.
Sponsored by Culture 2000

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£25 (£15 concessions), booking recommended

For tickets book online
or call 020 7887 8888.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/7633.htm

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