Part 2: Talk by Cornelia Parker.

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

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.

A discussion with all the speakers chaired by Gill Perry.

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.

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.