Talks & Events

• Summer Reading

  ELI BORNOWSKY, JEFF DERKSEN, MARIA FUSCO, KEN LUM, SVEN LUTTICKEN, JON PYLYPCHUK, CATE RIMMER, MARINA ROY
  August 1–August 31, 2011

  Please enjoy these summer reading “picks” from a selection of local and international artists and writers, including Eli Bornowsky, Jeff Derksen, Maria Fusco, Ken Lum, Sven Lutticken, Jon Pylypchuk, Cate Rimmer, and Marina Roy.

  The PDF is available here.
  

• Speaking Truth to Reconciliation (a project in two parts)

  ABBAS AKHAVAN, RANDY LEE CUTLER, KRISTINA LEE PODESVA, KEN LUM, SVEN LÜTTICKEN, ASHOK MATHUR, TED PURVES, MOHAMMAD SALEMY
  October 23–October 24, 2009

  Speaking Out: A Lamentation for Parrhesian Strategies

  Emily Carr University Theatre, Room 301, South Building

  “My intention was not to deal with the problem of truth, but with the problem of truth-teller or truth-telling as an activity… Who is able to tell the truth? What are the moral, the ethical, and the spiritual conditions which entitle someone to present himself as, and to be considered as, a truth-teller? About what topics is it important to tell the truth?… What are the consequences of telling the truth?… And finally: what is the relation between the activity of truth-telling and the exercise of power, or should these activities be completely independent and kept separate? Are they separable, or do they require one another?”
  —Michel Foucault, Discourse and Truth: the Problematization of Parrhesia (1983)

  In a two-day forum, local and international speakers will consider the possibilities of “speaking out” in the context of cultural production. Speaking out describes adopting a position which is perceived to be oppositional to mainstream cultural production and which chooses to reveal the limitations or structures in the operation of power. Speaking out also implies a consequence to the act of intervening or critiquing these institutions. The act of speaking out is not only intellectual, but extends to the value of the speaker as a social individual, his or her place in society, the consequences on their cultural capital, and the ramifications of talking about things most people do not want to.

  The project will include a publication co-published by Artspeak and West Coast Line.

  FRIDAY OCTOBER 23

  6:30pm / Sadira Rodrigues
  7pm / Ken Lum

  SATURDAY OCTOBER 24

  10am / Sven Lütticken (virtual)
  11am / Ted Purves
  12:30–1:30pm / Break
  1:30pm / Ashok Mathur
  2pm / Mohammad Salemy
  2:30pm / Kristina Lee Podesva
  3pm / Abbas Akhavan
  3:30–5pm / Panel: Randy Lee Cutler, Ken Lum, Kristina Lee Podesva, Ted Purves, Sadira Rodrigues

  Curated by Sadira Rodrigues

• 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.

• Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism Forum

  JEFF DERKSEN, DIEDRICH DIEDRICHSEN, MARIA FUSCO, TOM MORTON, WILLIAM WOOD, TIRDAD ZOLGHADR
  February 27–February 28, 2009

  Emily Carr University of Art + Design
  Theatre 301, 1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver, British Columbia

  Judgment 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