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On Saturday 10 November 2012, Afterall is organising a symposium titled ‘Artist as Curator’ with speakers including Elena Crippa, Ekaterina Degot, Elena Filipovic, Alison Green, Ruth Noack, Willem de Rooij, Valerie Smith and David Teh.

Group Material, Americana, 1985. Installation at the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo: Geoffrey Clements. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Courtesy Afterall.

Artist as Curator 
Saturday 10 November, 10.30 – 19.00

This one-day symposium will bring together artists, curators and theorists to study key moments in the history of artists’ engagement with exhibition-making, and reflect upon how these propositions have affected curatorial practice.

Speakers will discuss projects by Willem de Rooij, Group Material, ruangrupa and Mike Kelley among others. Further case studies include Apt Art and Trekhprudny in Moscow and the Independent Group in the UK.

Programme 

  • Elena Filipovic – ‘When Exhibitions Become Form: A Brief History of the Artist as Curator’
  • Elena Crippa – ‘Display as Practice: Richard Hamilton, Victor Pasmore and their Peers’
  • Ekaterina Degot – ‘Apt-Art and the Trekhprudny Squat as Case Studies of Artists Curating’
  • Alison Green ­– ‘Group Material: Curation, Activism and the Politics of the Studio-Gallery’
  • David Teh – ‘Where Monsoons Meet: Curatorial Currents in Southeast Asia’
  • Valerie Smith – ‘“Something I’ve wanted to do but nobody would let me”:
  • Mike Kelley’s ‘The Uncanny’ (1993)’
  • Willem de Rooij on ‘Intolerance’ (2010) and ‘Residual’ (2012), in conversation with Pablo Lafuente
  • Ruth Noack – ‘Curator as Artist?’

Artist as Curator 
Saturday 10 November, 10.30 – 19.00

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design 

University of the Arts London 
Granary Building 
1 Granary Square 
London 
N1C 4AA

Tickets: 15.00 GBP (Students 10.00 GBP). For more information about the symposium, visit Afterall Events.

Purchase tickets online at the UAL e-store.