Friday 10 October 2008, 10.00–17.30

Tate Britain  Auditorium and Clore Gallery Foyer
£25 (£15 concessions), booking recommended
Price includes drinks afterwards

    

What is British Art? A Third Text Project

10 October 2008 
 
Draft Programme
 
09.30 - 10.00 Registration

10.00 – 10.05 Welcome and opening introduction: Paul Goodwin, Cross Cultural Curator, Tate Britain
 
10.05 - 10.15 Welcome address: Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Emeritus Professor of Political Theory, Hull University
 
10.15 - 10.45 Rasheed Araeen, Founding Editor, Third Text

 
Morning: The Production of Knowledges in British Art.
 
Panel 1
Chair: Juliet Steyn, Lecturer in Cultural Policy, City University

10.45 - 11.25 Peter Osborne, Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University

To Each Present, Its Own Prehistory

11.25 – 12.05 Mel Gooding, Writer and Critic

Aubrey Williams: A Case in Point

 

12.05 - 12.45 Panel discussion (morning plenary): Rasheed Araeen, Peter Osborne, Mel Gooding. Chaired by Juliet Steyn.

12.45 - 13.45 Lunch

 
Afternoon: Post-war Artist Trajectories and the Rise of Americanism 

Panel 2
Chair: Peter Osborne

13.45 - 14.25 Michael Corris, Professor of Fine Art, Sheffield Halam University

Against Historicism: The British Reception of Minimal Art

 
14.25 - 15.05  Alison Green, Lecturer in Art History and Theory, Central St Martin’s School of Art 

Futuricity in Four Seasons

  

15.05 - 15.25 Tea 

   
Panel 3
Chair: Richard Cork, Writer and Critic
 
15.25 - 16.05 Leon Wainwright, Lecturer in History of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University

Varieties of Belatedness in the Story of British Pop

16.05 - 16.45 Neil Mulholland, Director, Centre for Visual & Cultural Studies,

Edinburgh College of Art

Creative Britons and Scottish Independents

 

16.45 - 17.15 Panel discussion: Michael Corris, Alison Green, Leon Wainwright, Neil Mulholland. Chaired by Richard Cork.

 

17.15 - 18.00 Plenary discussion with Rene Gimpel, Art Dealer

18.00 Conference closes

 

18.00 - 19.30 Drinks and Third Text A Very Special Issue launch in Clore Foyer