Hang the Commission!
31 May 2007
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11am - 6pm Serpentine Gallery, London.
Situations launches the Locating the Producers, an international research project which investigates the processes of commissioning contemporary art. This event assembles two opposing teams to debate whether commissioning perverts the artistic process. Involving anecdotal evidence, critical statements for and against and the interjections of an independent moderator, this free day-long event will invite the public audience to vote for the winning argument.
For
Alessio Antoniolli - Director, Gasworks and Triangle Arts Trust.
David A. Bailey - Senior Curator, Autograph ABP.
Aileen Corkery - Curator, Artangel.
Susan Kelly - Artist, Writer, Lecturer in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London.
Jeni Walwin – Curator, Project Director of Public Art Programme, Contemporary Art Society.
Against
Dave Beech - Artist, Writer, Lecturer, Chelsea College of Art.
Neil Cummings – Artist, Writer, Curator.
Andrew Hunt - Curator, International Project Space, Birmingham.
Sally O’Reilly - Writer, Lecturer.
Becky Shaw - Artist, Research Fellow, ICIA, University of Bath.
Debating Moderator
Dr. Mick Wilson – Head of Fine Art, Dublin Institute of Technology.