Visual Cultures Lecture Series 2016/17
Orientations - Locate & Reshape
During the last academic year our Visual Cultures Lecture= series addressed the theme of global transformations. Next year, in order better to understand the context in which art is made and received, we plan to extend the debate from our cultural and contextual awareness of global change through a focused engagement on cultu
ral identities – considering such themes as national or cultural belonging, gender identities and the politics of technology. We aim to create a platform for knowledge exchange through this series of public talks - Each event will host two guests in a conversation chaired by one member of RCA staff to debate subjects that we feel need to be addressed not only within art and education but also in a broader context. Observing societal changes, with instability and uncertainty of this year ahead, we will ask how we can transform, orientate or re-orientate existing practices, disciplines and structures in order to meet these challenges. The big questions for us are to do with how can we address and reshape presumed territories, ideas and models to create other ways of seeing the future.
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Visual Cultures Lecture Series 2015/16
Rise up & Envision
During the previous academic year our Visual Cultures Lecture series has addressed the theme of contemporaneity as an ungraspable concept always to be defined. The series started with presentations from artists and expanded to include contributions from historians, theorists and cultural critics. Next year, to understand the context in which art is made and received, we plan to extend the debate from contemporaneity to a cultural and contextual awareness of global transformations. We aim to create a platform for knowledge exchange through this series of public talks - Each event will host two to three guests in conversation to debate on subjects that we felt need to be addressed not only within education but also within a broaden context. Observing societal changes, with instability and uncertainty of this year ahead, we will ask how we can transform existing practices, disciplines and structures in order to meet these challenges in a sustainable way. Themes to be addressed will include Destructive Heritage, Global Transformation, Transgender Politics, De-colonised Institutions, Sustainable Resources, Activism and the Commons, technology & its use, Post-human…
The big questions for us will be to do with how we continue to operate effectively and sustainably in a context of huge political and economic uncertainty; with diminishing resources, we can’t simply continue to build new structures, so how can we recycle our existing disciplines and institutions without becoming determined by their all too apparent shortcomings? How can we deconstruct presupposed territories/ideas/models and create other ways of seeing the future? The entrance is set as a first come first serve basis so make sure to arrive in advance - doors will open only 10min. All the lectures will be Broadcast Live by this is tomorrow and a screen will be installed outside the lecture theatre to allow extra audience. EXCEPTIONALLY on Friday 16th of October Special Frieze Event with presentations by: 6.30-8pm - Gorvy Lecture Theatre
ÅYR and Castillo/Corrales who will be part of Frieze Projects-
From 4.30-6.30pm & 8-9pm Bar Vulkan from Berlin who will install their performative Bar for the afternoon/evening in the entrance hall of the lecture theatre. Tuesday 17th of November
6.30-8pm - Gorvy Lecture Theatre
Noboru Hidano & Suhail Malik
Tuesday 19th of January
6.30-8pm - Gorvy Lecture Theatre
Richard Sennett & Jonas Staal
Tuesday 16th of February
6.30-8pm - Gorvy Lecture Theatre
Adrian Lahoud & David Cunningham
Tuesday 8th of March
6.30-8pm - Gorvy Lecture Theatre
Marina Warner & Catherine David
Visual Culture Lecture Series 2014/2015
Contemporaneity and other tales
Our confirmed speakers for the Visual Cultures Lecture series this forthcoming year are:
- Richard Tuttle : 17th October 2014
- Joseph Kosuth in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist: 28th October 2014
- Mihnea Mircan : 25th November 2014
- Susan Hiller : 2nd December 2014
- Saskia Sassen : 17th February 2015
More will be announced
The Royal College of Art Visual Cultures Lecture Series 2013/2014, under the title 'Current Modes of Artistic Production', invites artists to investigate various aspects that contribute to the production, circulation and reception of their work. Through in-depth focus on a specific project of each guest speaker, the series aims to give an insight into the complex fabric of artistic production and explore what it means to work as an artist today. All lectures take place at 6.30pm in the Dyson Building, Lecture Theatre 3, RCA Battersea Campus, 1 Hester Road, SW11 4AS, London. Design by Stinsensqueeze ( STSQ ) www.stsq.org
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Lecture Schedule:
12 November 2013: Mark Leckey
26 November 2013: Gerard Byrne
11 February 2014: Christine Borland and Brody Condon
25 February 2014: Laure Prouvost
4 March 2014 : Ulla Von Brandenburg
11 March 2014: Thomas Hirschhorn
For More details: please contact Anne Duffau, in charge of the Special Projects [email protected]
