Friday 2 December 2005, 11.00–18.00

Many artists who have worked with photography have resisted the appeal of the single image, exploring instead photography’s connections to documentation or emphasising its serial potential. Jeff Wall, however, has been at the forefront of a group of artists whose tableau photographs demand the kind of sustained attention traditionally reserved for painting or sculpture. Each speaker at this symposium has been invited to talk about a single work by Wall, analysing its distinctive character in terms of intention, production, encounter and interpretation.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£20 (£15 concessions), booking recommended
Price includes entry to the exhibition

    

Full timetable:

11.00–11.30
Michael Newman (Associate Professor in Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Introduction

11.30–12.00
David Campany (Reader in the History and Theory of Photography at University of Westminster)
A Picture for Women

12.00–12.30
Laura Mulvey ( Professor of Film Studies, Birkbeck College)
A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)

12.30–13.00
Steve Edwards (Reader in Art History at The Open University)
A Donkey in Blackpool

13.30–15.00
Lunch and exhibition viewing (exhibition entry free with symposium ticket)

15.00–15.30
Regis Michel (Chief Curator at the Louvre and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art History at Northwestern University)
After 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison, The Prologue

15.30–16.00
Briony Fer (Professor of Art History, University College London)
Night

16.00–16.30
Michael Fried (Michael Fried is JR Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities and Director of the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University)
After 'Spring Snow' by Yukio Mishima, Chapter 34

16.30–16.45
Sheena Wagstaff (Chief Curator at Tate Modern and curator of the Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978–2004 exhibition)
Response to the day

16.45–18.00
Discussion chaired by Michael Newman (Associate Professor in Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

18.00
Drinks reception, auditorium foyer

This event is related to the Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978-2004 exhibition