Artspeak
Fillip
Fillip is a publication of art, culture and ideas released three times a year by the Projectile Publishing Society from Vancouver, British Columbia. For more information see: www.fillip.ca.
Exhibitions
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JUDGMENT AND CONTEMPORARY ART CRITICISM
February 14–March 28, 2009
Opening reception Friday, February 20, 8pm
Organized by Artspeak and FillipAs a complement to the forum, Artspeak will house a reading room of texts, publications and journals related to issues of judgment in contemporary art criticism. The reading room will build on Artspeak’s ONSITE programming, allowing a space for study, conversation and information.
A workbook including detailed information about the forum and panelists, as well as a selection of reprinted texts related to issues of valuation and art criticism, will be available free of charge at the reading room and at various galleries throughout the Vancouver. The workbook will function as a primer for audiences preceding the forum to encourage discussion and debate.
For more information see: www.judgmentandartcriticism.com
Talks & Events
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JUDGMENT AND CONTEMPORARY ART CRITICISM
September 28, 20108pm at Fillip, 305 Cambie Street, Vancouver
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Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism Sessions
JO-ANNE BIRNIE-DANZKER, SVEN LUTTICKEN, MARKUS MIESSEN, KRISTINA LEE PODESVA, JORDAN STROM, AMY ZION, TIRDAD ZOLGHADR
March 7–March 28, 2009March 7, 1pm
Architect, writer, and curator Markus Miessen (Berlin), Amy Zion, and Kristina Lee Podesva will discuss architecture as political practice and the nightmare of participation. Miessen’s talk is supported through the Emily Carr University Student Symposium.
March 14, 1pm
Following up on a keynote address by critic/curator Tirdad Zolghadr, we are pleased to screen the film A Crime Against Art (Hila Peleg, 2007). Based on a trial staged at ARCO, Madrid, the film casts Zolghadr and Anton Vidokle as the defendants in a mock trial on a number of polemical issues in the world of contemporary art. This screening is presented with generosity from e-flux, New York.
March 21, 1pm
Curator Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker (Vancouver/Munich) and Jordan Strom will discuss Birnie-Danzker’s curatorial experiences in Vancouver in the seventies and eighties, and, more recently, in Europe and Asia.
March 28, 1pm
For the final event, join us for an open discussion with critic Sven Lutticken (Utrecht). Joining us via Skype, Lutticken will discuss ways of navigating critical judgment within the spaces of contemporary art writing.
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Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism Forum
JEFF DERKSEN, DIEDRICH DIEDRICHSEN, MARIA FUSCO, TOM MORTON, WILLIAM WOOD, TIRDAD ZOLGHADR
February 27–February 28, 2009Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Theatre 301, 1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver, British ColumbiaJudgment and Contemporary Art Criticism, is a two-day forum on the state of contemporary art criticism co-organized by Artspeak and Fillip. Through a keynote address by Tirdad Zolghadr and two panels made up of international critics Diedrich Diederichsen, Jeff Derksen, Maria Fusco, Tom Morton and William Wood, the forum seeks to address what is at stake in the shifting value of judgment within contemporary art writing. A renewed interest in the efficacy and function of art criticism has arisen in the last decade, embedded in art market speculation, global conflict and recent economic crises. This forum will engage with the key issues produced from these conversations, specifically returning to the role of valuation in contemporary art writing.
The forum will result in a book-length publication of papers and conversations derived from the event to be co-published by Artspeak and Fillip in late 2009.
For more information see: www.judgmentandartcriticism.com
FEBRUARY 27, 7PM / Keynote: Tirdad Zolghadr
Tirdad Zolghadr podcast: http://fillip.ca/podcast/2009-07-10
FEBRUARY 28, 10:30AM – 1PM / Panel One: Kristina Lee Podesva, Tom Morton, William Wood
William Wood podcast: http://fillip.ca/podcast/2009-07-17
Tom Morton podcast: http://fillip.ca/podcast/2009-07-24
FEBRUARY 28, 2:30PM – 5PM / Panel Two: Jeff Derksen, Diedrich Diederichsen, Maria Fusco
Diedrich Diedrichsen podcast: http://fillip.ca/podcast/2009-08-07
Maria Fusco podcast: http://fillip.ca/podcast/2009-07-31
Publications
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Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism
Title: Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism
Writers: Jeff Derksen, Diedrich Diederichsen, James Elkins, Maria Fusco, Sven Lutticken, Tom Morton, Kristina Lee Podesva, William Wood, Tirdad Zolghadr
Editor: Jeff Khonsary, Melanie O’Brian
Category: Criticism
Design: The Future
Printer: DieKeure, Belgium
Publisher: Artspeak, Fillip Editions
Year published: 2010
Edition: 1000
Pages: 176pp
Cover: Paperback
Binding: Perfect Bound
Process: Offset
Features: Edge painting, green
Weight: 159 g
Dimensions: 19 x 11.5 x 1.5 cm
ISBN: 978-0-9738133-6-4
Price: $20 CDNArtspeak and Fillip are pleased to launch Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism. The result of a public forum and reading room (held in 2009 at Emily Carr University and at Artspeak respectively) that investigated the role of valuation art criticism, this publication features commissioned texts by forum presenters and respondents: Jeff Derksen, Diedrich Diederichsen, James Elkins, Maria Fusco, Sven Lütticken, Tom Morton, Kristina Lee Podesva, William Wood and Tirdad Zolghadr. Examining the efficacy and function of art criticism, the publication focuses on the role of judgment in contemporary art writing and includes transcriptions from forum discussions with the Vancouver audience.
Co–edited by Jeff Khonsary and Melanie O’Brian and co–published by Artspeak and Fillip. The book is distributed by Motto Distribution, Berlin and available directly from Artspeak and Fillip.