AFTERNOON

EVENING

MORNING

SESSION 1 – CONCEPTUALIZING

AFTERNOON

SESSION 2 – CRAFTING

EVENING

MORNING

SESSION 3 – ARTISTS AS READERS

AFTERNOON

SESSION 4 – WORLDING

EVENING

Marcus Boon
Marcus Boon is a writer, journalist and Associate Professor in the English Literature department and the Social and Political Thought program at York University, Toronto. He is author of the books In Praise of Copying (Harvard University Press, 2010) and The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs (Harvard University Press, 2005). (website)
Marcus Boon: “2011 Annual Report on Drugs and Creativity” (Introduction by Roberto Tejada) [83 min]

Melissa Lam
Melissa Lam is a curator and academic on faculty at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has worked on the curatorial team for the Vancouver Biennale before moving to Hong Kong, as well as participated in the Shatin Sculpture Project (Sun Hung Kai development) along with independent curated exhibitions with Para/Site Art Space, ARTHK Hong Kong International Art Fair,and at the Exchange Square Rotunda. Her academic publications include books and articles on: Postmodernization and Globalization; Diaspora studies; and a Comparative Study of Literature and the Visual Arts. She is Chair of the International and Multidisciplinary Interface for the Association of the Arts of the Present (U.S.A.), an academic organization.
Melissa Lam and Aaron Levy (Introduction by Mark Harris) [68 min]

Aaron Levy
Aaron Levy is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Slought Foundation, and lectures in the English and History of Art Departments at the University of Pennsylvania. His current activities at Slought Foundation are situated at the intersection of art, social theory, and advocacy. These include “Architecture on Display,” a research initiative published by the Architectural Association in London, which explores architecture’s vexed relationship with its publics, and the way architecture problematizes its own display; the “Perpetual Peace Project,” a series of public dialogues on peace with the European Union National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC), International Peace Institute (IPI), and others that travels to Kigali, Rwanda in July; and, more locally, “How to Get Started,” a long-term interactive installation at Slought Foundation, created in partnership with the John Cage Trust, that features a rarely heard performance by John Cage and will evolve over time through the participation it invites from its public. He writes and publishes frequently; “Towards a Politics of Evasiveness” is available online in the May 2011 issue of Domus.
Melissa Lam and Aaron Levy (Introduction by Mark Harris) [68 min]

Order of the Third Bird
Order of the Third Bird is a small group of practitioner-friends working at the convergence of performance, aesthetic theory, and art-appreciation. Their aim is to evolve a (hitherto unknown and as-yet-to-be-fully-determined) practice of sustained attention suitable to the occasion of a work of art in need, and to mobilize this shared practice in a series of interventions and engagements.
(website)

A.L. Steiner
A.L. Steiner uses constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, writing, collaboration, performance and curatorial work as seductive tropes channeled through the sensibility of a cynical queer eco-feminist androgyne. Steiner is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, the co-curator of Ridykeulous, a founding member of W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) and collaborates with numerous visual and performing artists. Her work has been recently featured at P.S.1/MoMA, Tate Modern and The New Museum, and will be currently featured at ICA/Boston and The Zacheta National Gallery of Art. She is a 2011 visiting core faculty member at USC’s Roski School of Fine Arts in Los Angeles. Steiner is based in Brooklyn, NY and represented by Taxter & Spengemann.
Fia Backstrom and A.L. Steiner (Introduction by Jessica Chalmers)
[87 min]

David Levi Strauss
David Levi Strauss is the author of From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual (Oxford University Press, 2010), Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, with an introduction by John Berger (Aperture 2003), and Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics (Autonomedia 1999, and a new edition with a prolegomenon by Hakim Bey, 2010). Strauss was a Guggenheim fellow in 2003 and received the Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in 2007. He is now Chair of the graduate program in Art Criticism & Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York (http://artcriticism.sva.edu).
David Levi Strauss: “From Metaphysics to Invective: The Craft of Writing as Haunted by the Art Object” (Introduction by Elizabeth Finch) [63 min]

Lynne Tillman
Lynne Tillman is the author of five novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays and two other nonfiction books. She collaborates often with artists and writes regularly on culture. Her most recent book is Someday This Will Be Funny (2011), a collection of short stories. Her last collection of short fiction, This Is Not It (2002), included 23 stories based on the work of 22 contemporary artists. Her novels include American Genius, A Comedy (2006) and No Lease on Life (1998), which was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the Fiction Editor at Fence Magazine, Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany, and a recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Lynne Tillman: “To Narrate Is To Tell” (Introduction by David Deitcher) [50 min]

Anne Wagner
Anne Wagner, Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of York, is also Class of 1936 Professor Emerita of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published widely on 19th, 20th, and 21st century art, and has been translated into German, Chinese, Spanish, Dutch, Hebrew, and Basque. Her books include Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux: Sculptor of the Second Empire (Yale University Press, 1986), Three Artists (Three Women): Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O’Keeffe (University of California, 1996) and Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture (Yale University Press, 2005). A House Divided: On American Art Since 1955, will appear in November 2011.  Essays on Haegue Yang and Eva Rothschild appeared this past spring.
Anne Wagner: “Discipline and Pleasure” (Introduction by Judith Rodenbeck) [53 min]