Conversation with David Riff

A conversation with David Riff (of Chto Delat) in Moscow, January 2010 - for Open Space magazine. NB it's all in Russian! Email me for the English version.

Conversation with Xavier Le Roy

On the back of Xavier Le Roy's amazing performances at Boston ICA in April, I organised a lecture by this leading proponent of so-called 'conceptual dance' at the Martin Segal Theatre Centre (at CUNY Graduate Center). The audio will be available online soon.

Art and the Social: Exhibitions of Art in the 1990s

This was another case of doing research through an event - this time preparing a chapter on the 'social turn' for my forthcoming book (to be published by Verso next year). The day looked at exhibition making in the early 1990s, and was produced in collaboration with Afterall magazine and Former West. Highlights included Doug Ashford, Renate Lorenz, and Christian Phillipp Müller. Click here for information on the day-long symposium at Tate Britain - it should be web archived soon.

1968-1989: Political Upheaval and Artistic Change

A selected record of the seminar 1968-1989 which I organised at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw in July 2008 - finally published as an anthology of papers, discussions, and artists' projects. Highlights include essays by Piotr Piotrowski, Branislav Jakovljevic, Tomas Pospiszyl, and a discussion between Grzegorz Kowalski and Artur Zmijewski. Designed by Ludovic Balland.

Where the West Ends?

This was the name of a two-day seminar I organised (with Marta Dziewanksa) at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 18-19 March 2010, under the framework of 'Former West'. It focused on art in the former Soviet Union and its immediate zone of influence after the transition of 1991. Highlights of the event include papers by and discussions with Boris Groys, Ekaterina Degot, David Riff, Tomas Pospiszyl, and Edit Andras. Video clips can be found here.

Compromiso comprado

Another interview in Buenos Aires, this time with Dolores Curia for Página/12.

¿Cuál es hoy el arte comprometido?

Interview with Ana Maria Batistozzi while I was doing research in Buenos Aires in December, in Revista de Cultura Ñ, January 2010. I didn't get to see this before editing so it's probable that I may sound very stupid.