IDEAS IN PROGRESS

SPRING

3 February – Dr Marcel Swihoda – Turning Your Back on Convention: The General Politics of Jazz

Marcel Swiboda is a visiting lecturer at the University of Leeds, where he took his PhD on sound, noise and music, and at Goldsmiths Coillege, University of London

17 February – Jean-Paul Martinon – Curating as Critical Practice

Jean-Paul Martinon is Lecturer in Visual Culture, Goldsmiths College, and a freelance curator and art critic.

2 March – Professor Jack Lohman – Transformation in Museums

Jack Lohman is Director of the Museum of London. In 1999 he was appointed by Dr Ben Ngubane, South Africa’s Minister of Culture, to lead the transformation of fifteen national museums including the South African National Gallery. He will speak frankly about this complex and challenging project to initiate change and the Truth and Reconciliation process undertaken on museum objects.

16 March – Dr Lesley Caldwell – Cinematic Rome: A Reservoir of Collective Memory

Dr Lesley Caldwell is Associate Fellow in the Italian department at University College London. With David Forgacs she presents the DVD commentary on Visconti’s Ossessione (BFI 2003). She has published wdiley on Italy and is writing a book on Rome.

30 March – Dr Alexander Kennedy – Stylish Folds in Subjectivity: Queering the Kunstwollen

Alexander Kennedy is a freelance scholar, editor and teacher in the field of queer studies. He is currently editing an international collection under the title of Call to Disorder.

AUTUMN

13 October – Stuart Brisley – The Peterlee Project: 1976 to 2004

Stuart Brisley’s work concerns the possibility and necessity of the relationship between art and social/political engagement. The Peterlee Project began in 1976. When Brisley’s contract ended in 1977 the project became an archive, People Past and Present. Brisley returned to the archive with the aim of completing the project, covering a 100-year period.

27 October – Gill Perry – ‘Do It In The Grass’: Sculpture, Soil and Performance in Ana Medieta’s Silhueta series

Gill Perry is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University. She has published extensively on 20th-century and contemporary European art and 18th-century British art. Most recently she was co-editor and co-author of Themes in Contemporary Art (Yale, 2004) and is currently working on Good and Bad Girls: Gender and Play in Contemporary Art and a monograph on Ana Medieta.

10 November – Laura Mulvey – New Technologies, Varying Spectatorship: Seeing the Old through the New

Laura Mulvey is Professor of FIlm and Media Studies at Birkbeck, University of London> Her many books and articles include Visual and Other Pleasures (1989), Fetishism and Curiosity (1996) and Citizen Kane (1996). She co-directed six films with Peter Wollen and Disgraced Monuments (1994) with Mark Lewis. Her forthcoming book is titled Death 24 x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image>

24 November – Mark Godfrey – Video and Memory in the 1970s: Beryl Korot’s Dachau 1974

Dr Mark Godfrey teaches at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He is currently working on two books, Abstraction and Holocaust Memory (for Yale UP) and the monograph, Alghiero E Boetti (Reaktion Books).

8 December – Yve Lomax

Yve Lomax is an artist and writer. She is also Research Co-ordinator at the Royal College of Art. She has published widely on photography and the ‘art’ of doing/writing theory. Her publications include Writing the Image: An Adventure with Art and Theory (London and New York: I B Tauris, 2000). In her forthcoming publication Sounding the Event (also by I B Tauris), she explore the question of time in relation to the still photographic image and the question of what constitutes the event.