Saturday 26 May 2007, 15.00–18.00

This afternoon symposium will explore and discuss the particular attraction Brian Wilson’s life and work hold for artists as a way of reconsidering the relationships between popular culture and the avant-garde, visual art and music, and how these cultural expressions arise from social contexts, particularly the case of Southern California since the 1960s.

Confirmed contributors include exhibiting artists Thomas Demand and Fred Thomaselli, exhibition curator Alex Farquharson, Jennifer Higgie (Frieze), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery) and David Toop (author of Ocean of Sound and Exotica).

Tate St Ives 
£10 (£5 concessions), booking required
Combined symposium and party tickets £15 (£10 concessions)

  

This event is related to the If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition exhibition