Inagural research seminar - 21st September 2009

2009-2010: Research Seminar Series
Approaching désoeuvrement – the work, research, production

Inaugural research seminar – part of the PG welcome day

Professor Michael Newman
Dispersion after Appropriation – Seth Price and New Art Work

Monday, September 21, 2009
4:30-6:00 pm
Lecture Theatre, Old Mining Building
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
University of Leeds

Current technology has transformed the possibilities for the ways in which art can be produced and circulated. A number of artists, including New York-based Seth Price, have developed multiple practices. As well as showing work, including objects and videos, in the gallery, sound and visual material is archived and redistributed to hobbyists and enthusiasts. The same material may thus function in different ways. And like web sites, artworks and texts are subject to continuous transformation without there being any original or privileged version, fragments of a world in continuous flux where new idioms emerge and disperse.

Michael Newman teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths College in the University of London. He holds degrees in Literature and Art History, and a doctorate in Philosophy from the Katholeike Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He has written extensively on contemporary art, including the books Richard Prince: Untitled (couple) and Jeff Wall as well as essays on Alfred Jensen, Hanne Darboven and Joëlle Tuerlinckx. He has curated several exhibitions, including “Tacita Dean” at the Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2000), on whom his essays have been published by Tate Britain (2001) and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2003). He co-edited Re-Writing Conceptual Art. In philosophy he has published essays on Kant, Nietzsche, Derrida, Levinas, and Blanchot.