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Lectures kick off the New Year at the MAC in 2013
MONTREAL, Jan. 9, 2013, 2013 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) --
The Musée d'art contemporain de
Montréal (MAC) starts off the New Year with a Lecture and Conversation
Series organized by McGill University in conjunction with the MAC
entitled Contemporary Art Between Time and History and a talk by Jane DeBevoise titled Hong Kong as Cultural Construction Site: A View from Asia Art Archive. Held on Wednesday, January 23, this talk is held in connection with
the Canadian Art Foundation International Speakers Series. Admission to
the lectures is free. A complete listing is available at www.macm.org.
Lecture and Conversation Series
Contemporary Art Between Time and History
Contemporary Art between Time and History is a series of eight lectures and conversations that bring together
renowned art historians, curators, artists, philosophers and scientists
to discuss the aesthetic exploration of time through which contemporary
art concerns itself with history. Organized by Christine Ross, James
McGill Chair and Professor of Art History in the Department of Art
History and Communication Studies, McGill University; Marie Fraser,
Chief Curator and Director of Education, Musée d'art contemporain de
Montréal and Francois LeTourneux, Associate Curator, Musée d'art
contemporain de Montréal, the series will take place at the MAC.
Lectures begin on January 16, 2013 and will run until May 23, 2013.
January 16, 2013, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. (in English)
Ecological Time
Amanda Boetzkes, Professor of Art History in the School of Fine Arts and
Music at Guelph University - "Plasticity in an Ecological Time"
Mark A. Cheetham, Professor of Art History in the Department of Fine Art
at the University of Toronto - "Generation(s) and the Genre of Land
Art"
January 30, 2013, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. (in French)
Suspended Time
Conversation between Olivia Boudreau, artist living and working in
Montréal, and Christine Ross, Professor of Art History in the
Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill
University
February 7, 2013, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. (in French)
Parallel Space-Times
Conversation between Laurent Grasso, artist living and working in Paris,
and Stéphane Durand, Researcher at the Centre de recherches
mathématiques (CRM) at the Université de Montréal and Professor of
Physics at Cégep Édouard-Montpetit
February 27, 2013, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. (in French)
Heterochronies
Nicolas Bourriaud, Director of the École nationale supérieure des
beaux-arts in Paris - "The Work of Art in the Age of Heterochronies"
March 13, 2013, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. (in English)
The Archive
Conversation between Okwui Enwezor, Director of Haus der Kunst in
Munich, and Stan Douglas, artist living and working in Vancouver
March 21, 2013, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. (in English)
To Historicize the Contemporary/To Contemporanize History
Jane Blocker, Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History
at the University of Minnesota - "Transitional Objects: Dario Robleto's
Historical Practice"
Rebecca Schneider, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of
Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University - "Acting in
Ruins"
May 1, 2013, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. (in French)
The Coexistence of Local Times
Elie During, Teaching Researcher in Philosophy at the Université de
Paris Ouest - Nanterre, and Lecturer at the École nationale supérieure
des beaux-arts in Paris - "Time Floats"
May 23, 2013, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. (in English)
Returns
Conversation between Eve Sussman, artist living and working in Brooklyn,
and Lesley Johnstone, Curator at the Musée d'art contemporain de
Montréal
Jane DeBevoise Lecture on Asia Art Archive at the MAC
January 23, 2013 from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.
In connection with the Canadian Art Foundation International Speakers
Series, the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal is happy to welcome
Jane DeBevoise, Chair, Asia Art Archive, who will give a lecture in
English titled Hong Kong as Cultural Construction Site: A View from Asia Art Archive. The talk is part of the Asia Contemporary Speaker Series, a
partnership between the Canadian Art Foundation and the Asia Pacific
Foundation of Canada's National Conversation on Asia and its sponsors.
The Asia Contemporary Speaker Series explores the rise of Asia on the
international scene as one of the most compelling stories in
contemporary art.
SOURCE: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
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SOURCE: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Wanda Palma, MACM Head of Public Relations wanda.palma@macm.org Tel.: 514-847-6232
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