Friday 27 October 2006, 10.00–18.00

Practice-based research is often misunderstood. The term itself is ambiguous and uncertain. The aim of this two-day symposium is to explore this area, and to interrogate contemporary methods of thinking about and doing ‘research’. How as a practice does it conceive, write, organise and make art? Does it initiate new strategies and redefine art history, visual culture, curating and fine art practices? How relevant is the disbelief, the unknowing and the forms of new ‘faith’ generated during the process of research? In all of this, what is the meaning and purpose of the archive? Ultimately, is there an over investment in research based practice, and is anything new?

Caroline A Jones from MIT, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, artist Susan Pui San Lok, professor Adrian Rifkin from Middlesex University, artist Jamie Shovlin, artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Peggy Rawes from Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL and professor Molly Nesbit from Vassar College come together to discuss practice-based research and its possible meanings and purposes.

Tate Britain  Auditorium
£45 (£35 concessions), booking required
Price includes cost of the keynote lecture by Janet Cardif and George Bures Miller on Thursday 26 October 2006.

    

Programme

10.00–10.30
Registration
Tea and coffee

10.30–11.30       
Caroline A Jones: Introduction

11.30–12.30       
Susan Pui San Lok and Jamie Shovlin

12.30–13.30         
Lunch (not included)

13.30–14.30           
Adrian Rifkin

14.30–15.30          
Olivia Plender and Jason Coburn

15.30–16.00          
Tea and coffee

16.30–17.30          
Molly Nesbit and Hans Ulrich Obrist

17.30–18.00          
Peggy Rawes: Summation

See also:

  Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Migration of Obsessions   Thursday 26 October 2006