Rotterdam Dialogues: The Artists
2009 WITTE DE WITH, CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART EVENT
Rotterdam Dialogues: The Artists
Apr 16 to 18, 2009
What does it mean to work as an artist today? Usually the results of artistic practice are more visible than the processes leading towards the exhibition of artworks or the conditions and conventions underlying production. From politics, fashions, through market forces, histories and other social forces to private or personal urgencies, artists negotiate several stakes.
With this symposium program we strive to open up these foundational layers, and to reveal their influences on artistic practice. With our selection of speakers, we aim to put a wide range of faces to the title of the artist. Invited guests hail from different generations, work in various disciplines, often fulfilling hybrid roles – artist /curator /critic /teacher – with varying degrees of visibility in the international art world.
Topics:
Each day has an overarching theme, which is then subdivided into more precise topics and questions provoking debate:
Thursday – Expectations looks not only at the personal expectations of individual artists, but also at those of audiences and of other agents involved in the artistic practice.
Friday – Positions focuses on day to day artistic choices, often unintentional, also strategies for entering and maintaining networks and the importance of building a reputation.
Saturday – Contexts explores the general conditions and ideas underlying the profession, the particular influences that shape an individual oeuvre, and the increasingly global framework of art production, discourse and distribution.
Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists
The three-part program of Rotterdam Dialogues culminates in a three-part book, co-edited by the symposia organizers, together with Monika Szewczyk, head of publications at Witte de With. The book serves as an extra site of recollection and further reflection on the proceedings of the three conferences, taking up the conversational form of the symposia.
Conceived by: Zoë Gray, Nicolaus Schafhausen and Ariadne Urlus
Participants: AES+F, Danai Anesiadou, Alex Bag, Yael Bartana, Guillaume Bijl, Bik Van der Pol, Pierre Bismuth, Mark Boulos, Petr Bystrov, Jota Castro, Spartacus Chetwynd, Jan de Cock, Plamen Dejanoff, Simon Denny, Doug Fishbone, Rainer Ganahl, Kendell Geers, Thierry Geoffroy, Nicoline van Harskamp, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Carsten Höller, Richard Hutten, Runa Islam, Luis Jacob, Gabriel Kuri, Matthieu Laurette, Tim Lee, Gabriel Lester, Oswaldo Macia, Josephine Meckseper, Sarah Morris, Deimantas Narkevicius, Olaf Nicolai, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Ulrike Ottinger, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Judy Radul, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Jimmy Robert, Willem de Rooij, Martha Rosler, Nedko Solakov, Superflex, An Te Liu, Piotr Uklanski, Anton Vidokle, Barbara Visser, Jeff Wall, Klaus Weber, Jordan Wolfson
Partners: Post Editions
Generously supported by the Mondriaan Foundation, VSBfonds and SNS REAAL Fonds.
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