The Last Temptation of the Contemporary:
Art/Architecture Experimentation with Heritage
Istituto Veneto, Venice
When a scholar of historic preservation is exhibited within this year’s Biennale and contemporary artists or art institutions increasingly thread themselves into the very fabric of historical neighborhoods, a whole new kind of conversation is necessary. The gallery is turned inside out and the street is turned outside in. A new wave of experiments actively erases the line between art and architecture to rethink the future of the past.
A lively panel discussion of artists, architects, historians, critics, collectors, and curators on the new forms of dance between experimental work and heritage. Organized by T-B A21
and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University (GSAPP), this joint symposium has been triggered by the Jorge Oteiro-Pailos’s installation The Ethics of Dust: Doges Palace, Venice, 2009 in the Arsenale.
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DATE: June 6, 2009
LOCATION: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti Palazzo Franchetti, Sala del Portego S. Marco 2847 / Campo S. Stefano, Venice
PARTICIPANTS:
Mark Wigley (Dean of Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation / Columbia University)
Jorge Otero-Pailos (Professor of Historic Preservation / Columbia University)
Francesca von Habsburg (Chairman, T-B A21)
Daniela Zyman (Curator, T-B A21)
Boris Groys (Professor of Philosophy and Art History at the Academy of Art and Design, Karlsruhe, Germany and Global Distinguished Professor at the New York University)
Norman Rosenthal (Exhibitions Secretary, Royal Academy of Arts, London (1977-2007))
Thomas Krens (Guggenheim Museum)
Dan Cameron (Founder and Artistic Director, Prospect New Orleans, and Visual Arts Director, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans)
Cerith Wyn Evans (Artist)
Maja Hoffmann (Collector, LUMA Foundation)
Lorenzo Fusi (International Curator, Liverpool Biennial `10)
Doug Aiken (Artist)
John Rajchman (Philosopher. Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Columbia University)
(list of speakers tbc)