Outset Symposium organised by the A Foundation: Myths of Crossover and Intermedia
15 November 2008
2pm-5.30pm
Catherine Sullivan (in collaboration with Sean Griffin, Dylan Skybrook and Kunle Afolayan), Triangle of Need, 2007. © Catherine Sullivan, courtesy Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels and Metro Pictures, New York
Part of Molten States
Taking Molten States as a starting point the panel will explore issues raised by the exhibition and by recent developments in live art particularly the territory between film and performance.
Speakers include:
Independent film curator Karen Alexander, Berlin based writer and critic Thomas Irmer, artists Gary Stevens and Spartacus Chetwynd and Curator of Tate Modern's World as a Stage Catherine Wood.
Chaired by Sally O'Reilly
Programme:
Panel One 2-3pm: Myths of Crossover and Intermedia
Karen Alexander, Catherine Wood
The work of Catherine Sullivan explores multiple topologies but would be seen by many as occupying a territory between film and performance. The panel will explore the issues raised by the process and philosophy informing her project, Triangle of Need. Issues will include collaboration, stylization and theatricality of filmic performance, Film as a medium of cultural memory and forgetfulness, representations of Race, strategies of narration and the slippage of fiction into history.
Break 3pm-3.30pm
Panel Two 3.30-4.30pm: The Theatre and its Discontents
Spartacus Chetwynd, Thomas Irmer and Gary Stevens
Are the white cube and the black box facing obsolescence? Gary Stevens and Spartacus Chetwynd use different approaches to staging their works but are perhaps not influenced by the discourses that haunt European Theatre. Thomas Irmer has been intimately involved in the radical changes in European theatre but what connections bind the tradition of theatre to its current manifestations?
Plenary Session 4.45–5.30pm
The final session will draw conclusions across the two sessions and invite the audience to further interrogate some of the issues raised.
Tickets:
Tickets for this event are £15 and allow access to all GSK Contemporary events and exhibitions on at the time of visit. Booking recommended.
