City Breaks?
Art and Culture in Times of Expediency
19 – 22 October, 2006
Static, Liverpool
City Breaks? Art and Culture in Times of Expediency explored the idea of culture as an expedient, which has gained legitimacy in the West (Yudice, 2003), and underpins enormous capital investment in a contemporary art infrastructure (of late in China). Increasingly, culture is supported as a purveyor of economic development and a tool to remediate social inequality. This trend has produced a contradiction for art whereby accountability and visibility jar with self-organisation and open-ended processes of valorisation.
Speakers:
Ackbar Abbas, Cecilia Andersson/Work Ltd, Christian Nolde/ Biomapping, Claire Bishop, John Byrne, Yvonne P. Doderer, Nina Edge, Charles Esche, Flying City, Beatriz Garcia, Jonathan Harris+Felipe Hernandez/CAVA, Pablo Helguera/ The School Pan-american Unrest, Manray Hsu, Gerardo Mosquera, Amalia Pica, Jean Francois Prost, Francesca Recchia/ StalkerLab, Sala-manca, Stealth Unlimited, Paul Sullivan/Static, Ti-Nan Chi, Stephen Wright, George Yudice.
Follow these links to download Windows Media Files of the presentations and discussions.
Thursday Evening – George Yudice:
Art and Culture in Times of Expediency
& John Byrne (moderator)
mms://video.livjm.ac.uk/external/public/international06/thurpm.wmv
Friday Morning – Panel discussion:
Visibility, Performance and Non-Knowledge Production.
Gavin Jantjes, Gerardo Mosquera, Amelia Pica, Charles Esche & Lewis Biggs (moderator)
mms://video.livjm.ac.uk/external/public/international06/friam.wmv
Friday Evening – Yvonne P. Doderer:
Cities, Arts and Cultures: the Integrated Spectacular
& Paul Domela (moderator)
mms://video.livjm.ac.uk/external/public/international06/fripm.wmv
Saturday Morning – Panel discussion:
Context Sensitivity, Regeneration and Competence
Manray Hsu, Stephen Wright, Nina Edge, Jean-Francois Prost
& Beatriz Garcia (moderator)
mms://video.livjm.ac.uk/external/public/international06/satam.wmv
Saturday Evening – Akbar Abbas:
Urban Fantasies and the Art Event: Biennales in China
& Manray Hsu (moderator)
mms://video.livjm.ac.uk/external/public/international06/satpm.wmv
Sunday Morning Session One:
Presentation of the work shops and plenary discussion
Cecilia Andersson/ Werk Ltd, and Imogen Stidworthy, Christian Nolde/ Biomapping, Flying City, Jonathan Harris+Felipe Hernandez/CAVA, Pablo Helguera/ The School Pan-american Unrest, Sala-manca, Stealth Unlimited, Paul Sullivan/Static, Ti-Nan Chi. Francesca Recchia / StalkerLab
mms://video.livjm.ac.uk/external/public/international06/sunone.wmv
mms://video.livjm.ac.uk/external/public/international06/suntwo.wmv
Conference organiser: Paul Domela, paul@biennial.com