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Event date
Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 10:30
Part 4: speakers Laura Kuhn's talk.
Event date
Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 10:00

Part 3: speakers Helen Baker interviews artist Cornelia  Parker.

Event date
Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 09:30

Part 2: Talk by Cornelia Parker.

Event date
Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 09:00

Part 1: Introduction by Alessandro Vincentelli curator at the Baltic.

Event date
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 17:30
Location
held at Rootstein Hopkins Space, London College of Fashion

Judith Clark and Adam Phillips explore how their respective interests and ideas are expressed through The Concise Dictionary of Dress. In conversation with Lisa Appignanesi  (President of English PEN and the author of the prize-winning Mad, Bad and Sad: a History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present). 

The video is in two parts:

Part 1

Part 2

Event date
Saturday, June 19, 2010 - 09:00
Location
Centre for Contemporary Art

This study day, in collaboration with the Open University, explores art, music and chance, looking at the vital legacy of John Cage’s experimentation in music, composition and art. Speakers include: Cornelia Parker, artist, Laura Kuhn, John Cage Trust, Atau Tanaka, artist / director of Newcastle University Culture Lab, Jeremy Millar, artist and curator, Helen Baker, Gallery Director at Gallery North and Principal Lecturer in Fine Art, Roger Malbert, Senior Curator Hayward Touring Exhibitions and Alessandro Vincentelli, BALTIC Curator.

There are eight parts to this study day.

Event date
Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 10:00

This study day explored issues raised by the Surreal House exhibition and considered the role and meanings of the theme of the house in modern and contemporary art, film, architecture and culture. Contributors included Jane Alison, Senior Curator, Barbican Art Gallery; Gill Perry, Professor of Art History, OU; Barry Curtis, Professor of Art History, Royal College of Art; Brian Dillon, UK Editor of Cabinet; Dagmar Weston, Dr of Architectural Theory, Edinburgh University; Krysztof Fijalkowski, Dr of Art History, Norwich School of Art and James Lingwood, Co Director, Artangel.

Event date
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 18:30

Join Marcus Coates and Gallery Director Anthony Spira for an informal discussion about the artist's work. "…my work is all about our relationship with animals and nature… There is humour in the work, but a serious side explores how we use our relationship with animals to define our humanness." Marcus Coates

This exhibition is the first survey of Marcus Coates’ work in a public gallery in the UK and it includes early film pieces, sculpture, sound, costumes and photographs as well as new work.

Event date
Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 15:00

A discussion with all the speakers chaired by Gill Perry.

Event date
Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 14:30

Cornelia Parker introduces and presents a 6 minute extra of the film Chomskian Abstract (film, 2007).

Event date
Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 13:30

In the run up to COP15 (United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December 2009), Michaela Crimmin gave her personal take on a number of anxieties, interests and opportunities.

Event date
Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 13:00

Drawing on selected images from their work over the last twenty years, Ackroyd & Harvey charted their entry into the unknown territory of the high arctic and the complex world of a changing climate.

Event date
Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 12:30

Over the last few decades artists have been engaging in various ways with both the ‘natural’ environment and ecological issues. This paper introduced some of the controversies and debates confronting artists, critics, historians and theorists engaged with these concerns. It explored some problems of definition, and the complex and differing ways in which art – in particular installation art - mediates these issues to a wider audience.

Event date
Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 10:30

Discussion and question session chaired by Bob Spicer.

Event date
Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 10:00

Climate change is almost always presented as an urgent near-term science and policy problem. But this fails to recognise how climate change forces us to revise how we think about our ethics, politics and culture. It prompts entirely novel questions about how human beings relate to the world. To call it 'the greatest challenge facing humanity' is to underestimate its significance...

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