Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker
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, 2009
March 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.