Kunstinstituut Melly Archive

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• Cornerstones — Mieke Bal on Doris Salcedo
  In the lecture Montage in the Turbine Hall: Doris Salcedo’s Political Aesthetics, Mieke Bal takes the Colombian artist’s installation Shibboleth (2007 – 2008) in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall as a starting point.
• Cornerstones — Q&A — George Baker on Pablo Picasso
  A series of landmark lectures on key figures in contemporary art—the "Cornerstones" archive brings together talks by leading critics and artists exploring conceptual, performative, and institutional legacies.
• Cornerstones — Lecture — George Baker on Pablo Picasso
  In his lecture The Squatter: Reconsidering Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, George Baker will propose a new reading of the painting in relation to Picasso’s representation of the body, gender, and sexuality, with potentially transformative effects on our larger understanding of Picasso’s modernism and its legacies in twentieth-century art.
• Cornerstones — Part 2 — Michael Fried discusses the practice of Douglas Gordon
  A series of landmark lectures on key figures in contemporary art—the "Cornerstones" archive brings together talks by leading critics and artists exploring conceptual, performative, and institutional legacies.
• Cornerstones — Part 1 — Michael Fried discusses the practice of Douglas Gordon
  Fried relates Gordon’s work to his own highly controversial essay Art and Objecthood (1967) as well as to various aspects of the antitheatrical tradition in French painting and art criticism from the mid-18th century on. Among the pieces Fried engages with are Gordon’s video installation 24 Hour Psycho (1993) in which the artist appropriates Alfred Hitchcock’s classic movie; Déjà-vu (2000) and Play Dead; Real Time (2003).
• Cornerstones — Part 3 — Dominic Van den Boogerd on René Daniëls
  A series of landmark lectures on key figures in contemporary art—the "Cornerstones" archive brings together talks by leading critics and artists exploring conceptual, performative, and institutional legacies.
• Cornerstones — Part 2 — Dominic Van den Boogerd on René Daniëls
  A series of landmark lectures on key figures in contemporary art—the "Cornerstones" archive brings together talks by leading critics and artists exploring conceptual, performative, and institutional legacies.
• Cornerstones — Part 1 — Dominic Van den Boogerd on René Daniëls
  In the midst of the overheated art market of the early 1980s, Daniëls retained a unique position. He knew how to combine the pleasure of painting with critical, poetic and humorous allusions to the art world and to being an artist.
• Cornerstones — Douglas Crimp’s lecture Action around the Edges is built around the work of Gordon Matta-Clark
  Taking the form of a memoir, it tells of New York City in the 1970s and the correlation between artistic and sexual experimentation; Crimp’s own move from Greenwich Village to Tribeca and from the gay scene to the art scene; about his first confrontation with performance art and the work of Gordon Matta-Clark
• Cornerstones — Anne Wagner on Vito Acconci
  In the lecture Acconci and the Senses, Anne Wagner looks at the work of Vito Acconci and reveals insights into the understanding of the sensory in relation to the development of new media.
• Cornerstones — Chantal Pontbriand on Yvonne Rainer
  Under the title From Choreographer to Cinematographer, Chantal Pontbriand examines the transition Yvonne Rainer made from being a renowned choreographer to becoming a cinematographer.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 3 — Contexts — Change Institution
  Contexts, exploring the history of the profession, conditions and ideas underlying curating, and the increasingly international practice of exhibition making.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 3 — Contexts — Embedded Curator
  Contexts, exploring the history of the profession, conditions and ideas underlying curating, and the increasingly international practice of exhibition making.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 3 — Contexts — Same Exhibition
  Contexts, exploring the history of the profession, conditions and ideas underlying curating, and the increasingly international practice of exhibition making.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 3 — Contexts — Narcissistic
  Contexts, exploring the history of the profession, conditions and ideas underlying curating, and the increasingly international practice of exhibition making.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 2 — Positions — Generation Gap
  Positions, focusing on the daily practice of curating, the importance of building a reputation, the power of curators to shape the canon, and the influence of the market on curating.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 2 — Positions — Practice vs Fashion
  Positions, focusing on the daily practice of curating, the importance of building a reputation, the power of curators to shape the canon, and the influence of the market on curating.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 2 — Positions — Collective activity
  Positions, focusing on the daily practice of curating, the importance of building a reputation, the power of curators to shape the canon, and the influence of the market on curating.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 2 — Positions — Political animal
  Positions, focusing on the daily practice of curating, the importance of building a reputation, the power of curators to shape the canon, and the influence of the market on curating.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 2 — Positions — Academic_intuitive thinking
  Positions, focusing on the daily practice of curating, the importance of building a reputation, the power of curators to shape the canon, and the influence of the market on curating.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 2 — Positions — Independent Curator
  Positions, focusing on the daily practice of curating, the importance of building a reputation, the power of curators to shape the canon, and the influence of the market on curating.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 1 — Expectations — Biennale success
  Expectations, looking at not only the personal expectations of individual curators, but also those of audiences and of artists and how these expectations might influence curatorial practice.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 1 — Expectations — Exhibition future
  Expectations, looking at not only the personal expectations of individual curators, but also those of audiences and of artists and how these expectations might influence curatorial practice.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 1 — Expectations — Curatorial porgrams
  Expectations, looking at not only the personal expectations of individual curators, but also those of audiences and of artists and how these expectations might influence curatorial practice.
• Rotterdam Dialogues: The Curators | Day 1 — Expectations — Responsbilities
  Expectations, looking at not only the personal expectations of individual curators, but also those of audiences and of artists and how these expectations might influence curatorial practice.