Creative Time - Living as Form

'Spectacle and Participation: Where are we now?' - a lecture to inaugurate Creative Time's Living as Form project, with a discussion chaired by Mariam Ghani. The video can be watched online here.

The Now Museum: Contemporary Art, Curating Histories, Alternative Models

A major four day conference 10-13 March 2011, organised by myself (on behalf of the PhD Program in Art History at CUNY Graduate Center), in collaboration with Kate Fowle (Independent Curators International) and Eungie Joo (New Museum). Highlights include papers by Manolo Borja-Villel, Okwui Enwezor, Annie Fletcher, Zdenka Badinovac, and the discussion between Dominic Willsdon and Katy Siegel. The graduate student presentations on Sunday 13th are also worth checking out. All panels can be watched online here.

Althamer feature

An essay on Polish artist Pawel Althamer, whose recent project Common Task has involved taking his neighbours on trips to Brasilia, Brussels and Mali, all the time wearing gold bodysuits. His idiosyncratic approach to collaboration invites us to devise idiosyncratic new criteria for analysing it. Artforum, February 2011.

Con-Demmed to the Bleakest of Futures

A hastily penned response to the UK government's cuts to culture and education, for e-flux journal #22 - a special issue reporting on the rise of the right in Europe, guest edited by Paul Chan and Sven Lütticken.

Delegated Performance: Outsourcing Authenticity

A Spanish translation of my essay on delegated performance, in revista Otra Parte (Argentina) no.22, Winter 2010-11. The full version will appear in my forthcoming book Artificial Hells (Verso, Spring 2011).

Deskilling - The Aesthetics of Amateurism

A five-part interdisciplinary seminar series at CUNY Graduate Center, co-organised with Lindsay Caplan (graduate student, Art History), and open to everyone in the city (further info and registration click here).

Guest speakers:
15 October 2010: Caroline Jones, MIT
19 November 2010: Kenneth Goldsmith, writer and ubu.web
10 December 2010: Randy Martin, NYU
25 February 2011: Kristin Ross, NYU
8 April 2011: Gary Genosko, Lakehead

A blog about the seminar series can be found here.

APG feature

A feature on the Artist Placement Group in the October issue of Artforum. Available online here. It's the short version of a chapter from my book, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship to be published by Verso in 2011.