One Day Sculpture
 
 

 

 

 

ONE DAY SCULPTURE: An International Symposium on Art, Place and Time


Convened by Litmus Research Initiative, School of Fine Arts, Massey University, Wellington New Zealand in conjunction with the Museum of New Zealand 
Te Papa Tongarewa

26 – 28 MARCH 2009

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Overview


Operating as a key mode of critical reflection and analysis, the ONE DAY SCULPTURE symposium brings together leading international curators, cultural theorists and historians, participating artists, writers and curators to address the principal ideas and contexts that have informed the development of the series. The symposium will consider the issues underpinning the commissioning and production of temporary place-responsive artworks in the public domain. In particular it will examine:

  • The ways in which conventional notions of permanency and monumentality are being challenged;

  • How artists are approaching and producing places as unstable, contested sets of relations rather than fixed sites;

  • How ephemeral, performative and viral forms of contemporary art are demanding active engagement outside the gallery or museum; and

  • What the implications are for emergent curatorial practices in terms of presentation and distribution.

Coinciding with the realisation of at least two of the Wellington-based artworks, the symposium will allow for a fluid interchange between the exchange of these ideas and the first-hand experience of commissioned projects. Significantly, the symposium also considers the point of view of the artists involved, and specifically how they have engaged with the curatorial parameters of the ONE DAY SCULPTURE series.


Programme


The symposium will be inaugurated on the evening of Thursday 26th March with a keynote lecture. The following two days will be structured through a series of parallel workshop strands and academic papers, book-ended by presentations on each day. Three workshops and one academic stream will run concurrently, each comprising two 2-hour sessions per day (one morning and one afternoon). These sessions offer delegates an opportunity to consider a ONE DAY SCULPTURE or international project, key historical text or critical issue in a more focused group context. In addition to the workshops delegates will also be able to hear a succession of formal academic papers delivered on the themes outlined below.


The academic paper strand will have no limits on numbers beyond venue capacity.

Each workshop however will be limited to 35 participants.


The three types of workshop strands are:

  • A ONE DAY SCULPTURE project workshop with the artist

  • An international project workshop with the commissioner

  • A close reading of a key text with international critic or art historian

Invited Speakers


Provisional speakers and workshop leaders include:

  • Claire Doherty, Director of Situations and Senior Research Fellow, University of the West of England, Bristol and Curatorial Director of ONE DAY SCULPTURE

  • Maddie Leach, participating ONE DAY SCULPTURE artist

  • Professor Jane Rendell, Director of Architectural Research, The Bartlett, Faculty of
    The Built Environment, University College London and author of Art and Architecture:
    A Place Between (I. B. Tauris, 2006)

  • Jan Verwoert, Guest Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, The Academy of Umeå
    and contributing editor of Frieze

  • Mick Wilson,

  • Javier Tellez, participating ONE DAY SCULPTURE artist

Details regarding symposium fees, travel and accommodation will be posted in due course.


Enquiries


Dr David Cross

Director, Litmus Research Initiative

School of Fine Arts

Massey University

Wellington

New Zealand

d.a.cross@massey.ac.nz