EVENTS
Series of Lectures "Artists´ Voices"
01/07/2007 – 30/12/2007
Artists’ Voices
Michael Snow, Dara Birnbaum, Dan Graham.
18.30-21.00 h.
This course means one of the most important efforts within the international framework as it focuses on the history of Contemporary Art since the 1960’s up to the present day. Through a development that will prolong in time in order to cover several years, the main purpose of this conference is to listen to the accounts of the most distinguished figures of the last half of the century, in particular the events which have marked the evolution of Contemporary Art. From the authority which confers them to have taken part of the configuration of this account, the participating authors will offer, for certain, new perspectives for the elucidation of the current artistic scene.
Michael Snow
December 6-7, 2007
Michael Snow, born in Toronto in 1929, has worked for longer than 50 years producing some of the most influent and original works of experimental art. Visual artist, musician, filmmaker and art critic, he is the most famous creator in Canada. His works have been showed in the most important museums in Europe and North America. Snow is one of the main experimental filmmakers of the 20th Century and he is precursor of video-art and video-installation.
Dara Birnbaum (Postponed until 2008)
November 14-15, 2007
Born in New York in 1946, where she continues to live and work. Birnbaum's production consists primarily of video art and installations. Her videos of the late 1970s and early 1980s are variations on the same theme, all of them reinterpreting the various formats and the "language" of television using different techniques.
Dan Graham
November 12-13, 2007
Dan Graham(Urbana, Illinois, 1942) lives and works in New York. His work is a reflection of the communicative capacity and the individual and collective perception of art. His works analyse the historical, social and ideological functions of contemporary cultural systems, including architecture, rock music and television. In his representations, installations and architectural and sculptural designs he investigates subjects like the public and the private, the spectator and the artist, or objectivity and subjectivity.