Transport for LondonArt in public contexts: the contemporary approach
Emma Kay © 2004
This symposium provides an opportunity for you to hear about contemporary approaches to producing innovative works, whether temporary or permanent, in a range of contexts.
Speakers have been invited on the basis of their experience and reputation for producing challenging works of art in equally demanding situations.
The audience will have an opportunity to put forward their thoughts and questions in the concluding panel discussion.
This event coincides with the launch of 'Platform for Art: Art on the Underground' and the rebrand of Platform for Art to Art on the Underground.
Conference packs will be available to download at the beginning of November.
Tuesday 27 November 2007, 10am–5pm, London Transport Museum,
Covent Garden.
Tickets: £25/£10 concessions
Limited places available, so book now to avoid disappointment.
Speaker Biographies
Mark Beasley is Curator of Creative Time, New York. Creative Time “presents the most innovative art in the public realm. From their base in New York, they work with artists who ignite the imagination and explore ideas that shape society.” For the last decade Mark Beasley has practiced as an independent curator, writer and artist based in London. Forthcoming projects and publications include ADVENTURE: Showdown at the Pig Palace, City Projects, London with Stephen Beasley and Nick Bullen (Napalm Death, Scorn, Black Galaxy) and LOUDSPEAKER: An anthology of spoken word projects, with Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York and Book Works, London.
Claire Doherty is a curator and writer who leads SITUATIONS as a Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at the University of West of England in Bristol. From 1995-2000 she was Curator at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, and from 200 – 2001 she developed a new curatorial programme for Spike Island in Bristol. Subsequently she has completed various independent curatorial projects including being an associate Curator for FACT in Liverpool. In her current role at UWE, she leads SITUATIONS, a research and commissioning programme devised to investigate the significance of place and context in contemporary art.
Mark Titchner is an artist based in London. He was nominated for the turner Prize in 2006 and has completed significant works in a range of contexts from commercial and public galleries to the public realm. In 2004 he produced I WE IT, a temporary work for Platform for Art’s Gloucester Road station exhibition site. Mark has recently exhibited work in the Lithuanian Pavillion at Venice Biennalle 2007, Vilma Gold Gallery in London and also presented a considerable solo exhibition at Arnolfini in Bristol for which he was nominated for the Turner Prize.
Carina Plath is Co-curator of Muenster Skulpture Projects 07 alongside Kaspar Konig and Brigitte Franzen. Concurrently she is Director of the Westfaelishcherkunstverein, Munster. For the last 30 years, Sculpture Projects Munster has placed the best in contemporary sculpture before the inhabitants of this small German town. In recent years the audience for this considerable project occurring every 10 years has grown to draw visitors from all over the globe establishing itself as a significant moment in the contemporary art calendar.
Achim Borchardt-Hume is Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art at Tate Modern. Born in Germany, he moved to London in the early 1990s after having completed his MA in Art History at the University of Bonn. He subsequently undertook a Ph.D. on the rapport between art and politics in Fascist Italy at the University of Essex. Having contributed to major exhibitions such as The Romantic Spirit in German Art (Hayward Gallery, 1994) and Art and Power (Hayward Gallery, 1995) in 1996 he joined the Serpentine Gallery where he curated a mid-career survey of works by Stan Douglas and worked with a wide array of international contemporary artists including Cindy Sherman, Doug Aitken, Yayoi Kusama and Kutlug Ataman. Following positions of Curator and interim Head of Art Gallery at Barbican Art Gallery, where he was responsible for the first major UK-exhibition of works by Christian Marclay, in early 2005 he joined Tate Modern where he has since curated a series of Collection displays as well as large-scale exhibitions including Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World and The Unilever Series 2007 Doris Salcedo: Shibboleth. He is currently preparing a major exhibition focusing on the late work of US painter Mark Rothko.
Tamsin Dillon is Head of Platform for Art.
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