Dates:
6 Jun 2009
Location:
British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice
This event was ICF’s inaugural dialogue in a series of events addressing platforms of production and exhibition of the moving image, that is to be continued at the Istanbul Biennial in September and during London Film Festival in October of 2009.
In celebration of the work of Steve McQueen the symposium asked a distinguished panel to reflect on the ways in which the contemporary moving image has become radicalised as a medium of democratic artistic enquiry. In 2009 Steve McQueen presented a work in the British Pavilion which generated considerable international expectation. Will his exhibition reflect the desire of the Director of the 53rd International Venice Art Exhibition, Daniel Birnbaum, to explore through Making Worlds, the production of ‘vision’ or the projection of a world seen and modeled through the work of art?
In particular ICF was interested in discussing how artists have engaged with the mainstream processes of production in cinema whilst retaining their aesthetic and political edge. Does this dialogue between cinema, gallery and digital platforms challenge the curator to find new ways to make the staging of vision memorable? The focus of the discussion would focus on Steve McQueen and his work in the gallery and cinema.
Supported by British Council, Arts Council England and engage, the National Association for Gallery Education
This event was ICF’s inaugural dialogue in a series of events addressing platforms of production and exhibition of the moving image, that is to be continued at the Istanbul Biennial in September and during London Film Festival in October of 2009.
In celebration of the work of Steve McQueen the symposium asked a distinguished panel to reflect on the ways in which the contemporary moving image has become radicalised as a medium of democratic artistic enquiry. In 2009 Steve McQueen presented a work in the British Pavilion which generated considerable international expectation. Will his exhibition reflect the desire of the Director of the 53rd International Venice Art Exhibition, Daniel Birnbaum, to explore through Making Worlds, the production of ‘vision’ or the projection of a world seen and modeled through the work of art?
In particular ICF was interested in discussing how artists have engaged with the mainstream processes of production in cinema whilst retaining their aesthetic and political edge. Does this dialogue between cinema, gallery and digital platforms challenge the curator to find new ways to make the staging of vision memorable? The focus of the discussion would focus on Steve McQueen and his work in the gallery and cinema.
Supported by British Council, Arts Council England and engage, the National Association for Gallery Education
Dates:
6 Jun 2009
Location:
British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice
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