The Situation Is This: Speaker Series Fall 2011

Posted on Mar 11, 2012 in Projects, The Situation Is This
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Kath­leen Rit­ter, Octo­ber 5, 2011
Fran­cisco Cama­cho, Octo­ber 11, 2011
Samuel Roy-Bois: Inter­locu­tor, Novem­ber 8, 2011
Claire Doherty in con­ver­sa­tion with Lorna Brown (com­ing soon as a Podcast)

Over the last four decades, artists have re-imagined their rela­tion­ship to pub­lic space. Mov­ing from civic squares and lofty edi­fices, pub­lic art has expanded beyond a rela­tion­ship to phys­i­cal struc­tures to a con­sid­er­a­tion of social spaces, cre­at­ing sit­u­a­tions for encounter, par­tic­i­pa­tion and dispersal.

In this expanded field of art and inter­ac­tion, cura­tors, insti­tu­tions and artists them­selves have shifted their rela­tion­ship to the cre­ative process—and the dis­play and cre­ation of pub­lic art. This series of talks will address some of these per­spec­tives; from the evo­lu­tion of cura­to­r­ial prac­tices beyond gallery walls, to artists engag­ing with civic infra­struc­ture, to map­ping the open-ended, tran­sient nature of con­tem­po­rary prac­tice, these speak­ers give con­text to our cur­rent cul­tural situation.

We are grate­ful to our Speaker Series part­ner the Lan­gara Col­lege Cen­tre for Art in Pub­lic Spaces and project fun­ders City of Van­cou­ver 125 and the Pub­lic Art Program.