Sarah Wilson 2017
Lectures, talks, conference papers|
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Sarah Wilson 2017 Lectures, talks, conference papers |
2017
19/10 Yuri Albert and Algirdas Šeškus in conversation with Sarah Wilson,
White Space Gallery, London
13/10 Saleem Arif Quadri in conversation with Sarah Wilson
‘The Art of Independence: Visions of the Past and Future in India and Pakistan;
12-13 October (Ashmolean, Oxford, and Courtauld, London)
6/10 ‘Entry points: Charting Bangladeshi Art History via Asia’ , Q & A with speaker
Diana Campbell Betancourt, Samdani Art Foundation, Dakar
6/10 ‘Therme Art Project’, Frieze Art &Architecture conference, the Royal Institution
4/7 ‘Zeid’s abstraction’ with Dr Venetia Porter (British Museum Islamic department),
chair Chris Dearcon, (former Director,Tate), Tate Modern
(15/3 ‘Resfest’ Courtauld
(13/3 Introduction: Mary Jacobus on Cy Twombly, Courtauld
(27/1 Franko B, Because of Love, Introduction and Q & A, Courtauld.
2016
11/12 Les Insoumis de l’art moderne, Musée Menjinksy-Écoles de Paris, Paris
28/10 ‘Dubuffet /Deleuze: Métromanie, Capitalism and Schizophrenia’, ‘Dubuffet in Context: European Drawing in the 1940s and 1950s’, Morgan Library, New York
5/10 ‘Suzhou 1937 / Paris 1937: Pavilions, ‘green spaces’ and gardens through time’, ‘Suzhou studies’, Suzhou , near Shanghai
20/9 ‘Aspiration, philanthropy, photography: the vision of Albert Kahn and his legacies for the Silk Road Spirit in the era of globalisation’, 2016 Silk Road (Dunhuang) International Culture Expo Summit’, Dunhuang, Gansu province
5/9 ‘Picasso in China: the opera’, ‘Cold Atlantic, Cultural War, Dissident Artist Practices, Networks and Contact Zones at the Time of the Iron Curtain’, Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia *(keynote)
3/9 ‘Biennale Format at Stake: Utopias, Dystopias, time, space, subjectivity’;
International Biennale Association, Shanghai
1/7 ‘Vested Interests: Les Jeunes Peintres de tradition française’ *(keynote), Jeune France, 1930-1959, Maison Française, Oxford.
22/6 Isidore Isou, achievement, legacy and postwar context’, ‘Speaking East: Lettrisme Now and Then, Centre for Post-Colonial Studies, CPS-SAS, University of London, Paris
Reid Hall, Montparnasse,
28/5 ‘Débat autour du livre ‘Défaire l’image’ with Eric Alliez and Jean-Claude Bonne,
organised by the Collège Internationale de Philosophie (CIPh) Paris,
Médiathèque Hélène Berre, 75102 Paris
24/5 ‘Fernard Léger’s Humanitarian Communism, 1945-1955’ Cologne,
Ludwig Museum
20/5 ‘Olva Sviblova in conversation with Sarah Wilson’, Photo London, Somerset House, (Sergei Chilikov exhibition)
29/2 Gyorgy Kovasnai exhibition tour, Somerset House
28/2 ‘Drawing on the sidelines: animation and the avant-garde outside the Western canon’ conversation with William Kentridge, Andras Santo, Peter Wells, CIA R Research Forum:
5-6/2 ‘The Transformative Power of Art: Richard Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk and Christoph Schlingensief’s participatory experiment: Opera Village Africa’, international conference co-hosted with Sarah Hegenbart, CIA Research Forum: welcome, introduction, session chair.
2/2 ‘Asia Time: the First Asian Biennale/ Fifth Guangzhou Triennale: a personal view’, Whitworth Art Gallery with the University of Manchester. ‘Speaking East: Lettrisme Now and Then’
25/1 ‘Asia Time: the First Asian Biennale/ Fifth Guangzhou Triennale: a personal view’University of York
6/1 ‘Kyuchul Ahn’s art practice’: respondent to Boris Groys, in conjunction with Ahn Kyuchul, ‘Invisble Land of Love’, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2015
20/12 ‘Yann Marussich: experience of immobility: 20 years of performance acts’ Geneva, Le Commun, (Bac), Round table with Jens Hauser, Franko B., Bernard Andrieu, Anne Davier, Giorgio Cipoletta, Georges Vigarello, La Ribot, Yann Marussich
5/12 ‘Matisse: Apocalypse, Circus, Jazz’, ‘The painter John Golding and Twentieth Century Art History’, London, Courtauld Institute of Art
30/11 ‘Moscow conceptualism’, London, Pushkin House
27/11 ‘Monory/Lyotard: la scène primitive des Immatériaux’, ‘Les Immatériaux Trente ans après’, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou
2/10 ‘Global, Exotic Spectacular: Amrita Sher-Gil’s Paris.’ London, Sotheby’s
25/9 ‘From Tzara to Prigov’, ‘Curating Language Acts’, Leeds, The Tetley
10/9 ‘The “Resistance of Images”. Narrative Figuration; fiction, politics and lessons for today. Ekaterinburg, 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art
28/3’ The Light of Dead Stars and ‘Les Immatériaux’; Lyotard’s sublime in mutation’;
27/3 ‘Jean-François Lyotard: towards the virtual’(introduction); for ‘Les Immatériaux: towards the virtual with Jean-François Lyotard’ (conference organiser), London, Courtauld Institute.
26/3 ‘‘Dada, neo-dada, Lettrisme: incendiares et pompiers au scrutin de la longue durée’, conference: ‘Le Lettrisme et son temps. Essai de contextualisation’, Paris, Centre allemand de l’histoire de l’art
25/2 ‘Pierre Klossowski, Living currency, Yesterday, today, tomorrow’, Royal College of Art Photography Programme
7/2 ‘Cruel Art: Picasso, Dali and the Banality of Evil’ and panel discussion
Picasso/Dali conference, the Dali Museum, Saint Petersburg, Florida
5/2 Conversation with ORLAN, USFSP Student Center, Saint Petersburg, Florida
2014
25/11 St Petersburg ‘The Courtauld MA: Virtual exhibition’
20/10 ‘Globalisation before Globalisation. Magiciens de la Terre?
Professorial lecture, Courtauld Institute of Art
28/7 Les Immatériaux : memories, questions, friendships’, Kunstverein Dusseldorf, conference ‘The making of ‘Les Immatériaux’
10/6 ‘Fernand Léger’s Marat, Meaning, modernism, palimpsest,’
New European University, Saint Petersburg.
23/5 ‘Authors never die: Barthes’ Mallarmé, Barthes’ Aspen’ for ‘Playground: Magazines and Books as Sites for Art’ in conjunction with ‘Magazyn Aspen, 1965-1971’ exhibition,
Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw
30/4 ‘Artemisia: Galerie Yvon Lambert, 1979’, ‘Can Contemporary Art mix with Old Masters?’, King’s Russia Institute with the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg,
King’s College London (Manifesta 2014 launch with Kasper König)
24/3 ‘Deleuze and interdisciplinarity: from Capitalism and Schizophrenia to the Centre Georges Pompidou’, Institute of Art History, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest
22/3 ‘Judit Reigl’, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
18/3 ‘John Dugger in China’, ‘Search: Asia’, Biennial conference, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
7/3 Eric Boulatov: in conversation with the artist, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
9/2 ‘Deleuze and interdisciplinarity: from Capitalism and Schizophrenia to the Centre Georges Pompidou’, ‘View, A festival of art history’, French Institute, London
8/2 ‘Is the way we look at images today changing art history?’ lecture and discussion with curator Jean-Hubert Martin, artist Richard Wentworth and Michael Archer.
‘View, A festival of art history’, French Institute, London
18/ 1 ‘Globalisation before Globalisation’ presentation of project, Zacheta National Gallery Warsaw, conference related to ‘Artistic Migrations and the Cold War’
curated by Joannna Kordjak
2013
8/12 ‘Deleuze and Interdisciplinarity: from Capitalism and Schizophrenia to the Centre Georges Pompidou (keynote); ‘Interdiscipline’, AAANZ (The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) Annual Conference, 2013
19- 21/11 ‘Détournements conceptuels: de Roland Penrose à Susan Hiller et Gilbert et George’ powerpoint and text for ‘Carte postale et création. Usages, fonction, enjeux de la carte postale dans le champ artistique (XIXe- XXIe) Centre André C Chastel, Paris-Sorbonne IV, with the Musée de Besançon
22/11 ‘Du réalisme socialiste à la nouvelle figuration’, ‘Autour des Figurations, critiques d’art et artistes dans la France d’après-guerre’ Unversité de Toulouse 2- Le Mirail
7/11 Introduction ‘Network Beaux-Arts, going global: avant-gardes, academies, revolutions’, École Normale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (and host, Paris/London)
9/11 Contemporary art discussion, Riga, Latvia, under the auspices of Rigas Laiks in association with the Lativan Academy of Arts
3/6 ‘Performance and zombie catholicism’, Corpo et Crudeltà, Accademia di Belle Arti, Macerata
22/3 ‘Performance’ introduction, and chair, Metamatic Research Initiative, Tinguely Museum, Basel
2/3 ‘I’m not Franko B’ , ‘Exhibiting Performance,’ University of Westminster
23/2 Chair Utopia III, (CCRAC) Courtauld Institute of Art
2012
10/12 ‘The Urgency of Histories’ with Huang Zhuan and Carol Linghua Lu, Beijing, December, University of Chicago in Beijing
2/12 ‘The Chinese connection: French artists and intellectuals visit China,
1933-2013’ Guangzhou Museum of Fine Arts, China
9/11 ‘”Desire is Everywhere”: Mao and France, 1966-1976 , In Art, In Theory, In Situ’, (Re) Orientations: China in the Western Artistic Imagination From the 1960s to the (Present Day’ Courtauld Institute of Art, London,
5/10 ‘Globalisation before globalisation : Power, abstraction and the School of Paris
Power’ Keynote, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney
20-21/7 ‘Feminities/Mascarades’ + ‘Surrealists in Friendship’(between England and Egypt) Mashrou3 Hagar initiative, (Art Empowers!) Darb 1718, Cairo, Egypt
9/6 ‘The Melancholy of Louis Althusser’ for ‘My Night with Philosophy’,French Institute,
‘Pain and Performance, Spectacle and Soul’ for ‘Regimes of Hardship; Illness and the Enduring Body’, Performance Space, Hackney Wick
29 /5 `Hans Arp/Paule Vézelay’ Lecture, and Round Table for ‘Arp a critical survey’, lectures and book launch, Courtauld Institute
23/2 Chair, ‘The Art Community as Territory of Freedom in Russia. Evolution from “The Wanderers” to “The War” group, Pushkin House
17 /1 Victor Pivovarov, ‘Dictionary of an artist’, in conversation with Sarah Wilson, Pushkin House
12-15/1 ‘Cézanne in Paris’; ‘The Steins’ for Martin Randall Tours, Paris; January 2012
2011
2/12 ‘A Dying colonialism, a dying orientalism: Algeria, 1952’, Politics and the i individual’, University of Warwick,
1/12 ‘A Dying colonialism, Dying orientalism: Algeria, 1952’ Universtiy College London, History of Art research seminar,
26/11 ‘Moscow Romantic exceptionalism, the suspension of disbelief’ for Utopia II, CCRAC, the Courtuald Institute of Art
19/11 ‘Moscow Romantic exceptionalism, the suspension of disbelief’for ‘Removed from the Crowd Unexpected Encounters II; ‘ , DeLVe - Institute for Duration, Location and Variables, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
9 /11 ‘Colonialisme: des Indélicats à Ousmane Sow’ / ‘Colonialism : From the Indélicats to Ousmane Sow’ for Les Artistes afro-américains et la France. Sur les traces d’Henry Ossawa Tanner /Afro American Artists and France: In Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Footsteps Musée d’Orsay/INHA , Paris
26/5 ‘Moscow Romantic exceptionalism, the suspension of disbelief, Courtauld staff seminar,
21/7 ‘Jean Genet, from existential to post-colonial’, Nottingham Contemporary, 21/7
18/5 ‘Jean Daive : qui êtes-vous ? Qui sommes-nous ? , Rencontres autour de « Peinture Fraîche ». Colloque ENS-Lyon Jean Daive, Narration sous condition’ Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyons 14/5 (to be read in absence)
15/4 ‘Moscow Romantic Exceptionalism ’ Moscow House of Writers, Stella Art Foundation
19/3 ‘Body conceptual, Body Spectacle : Robert Morris / Michel Journiac’, Expanded Conceptualism, Tate Modern, (Introduction19’3, Lecture 20/3
25/2 ‘Bergson before Deleuze : how to read informal painting’, for ‘Bergson and his Postmodern and Immanent Legacies’
14/1 ‘Hodin, Manessier et moi’, for ‘Modern Mind: Joseph Paul Hodin at the Tate Archive’, Tate, (LCACE collaboration, Courtauld Institute Research Forum with AICA UK,
2010
1/12 ‘In Progress: Expanded Conceptualism’, University of Cambridge Graduate Seminar, December 2010
23 /11 ‘The Visual World of French Theory’, CUNY Graduate Centre, NewYork
10 /11 ‘The Visual World of French Theory : Figurations ‘ Courtauld Institute of Art and French Institute, London
23/10 ‘The look of Libé: Cieslewicz and his Circles between Warsaw and Paris’, ‘Networks and Sociability in East European Art’, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, October 2010
28/9 The Visual World of French Theory: Interventions’ Dora Maar Salon, Menherbes
5/7 ‘Anticipating the Olympic Games: London today’ for ‘Entrepart’ France, Courtauld Institute of Art
19/6 ‘Philosophy in the boudoir: Pierre Molinier’s queer sexuality as oeuvre’ for Querying Surrealism, Querying Surrealism’, 5th international symposium on Surrealism, The Edward James Foundation, West Dean College, Sussex
29/5 ‘Aragon et le réalisme en peinture’ for ‘Aragon et les Arts’, (ITEM), Maison Elsa Triolet-Louis Aragon, Saint-Arnoult en Yvelines; Real Soc Daniel Bougneux
30/4 `Ekphrasis and castration: shock and awe’ Pierre Klossowski e os Poderes da Imagem, Lisbon, Centro culturel de Belém
19/3 ‘Olga Chernycheva: Tenderness and Danger’ for `Where the West Ends’ (‘Former West’ conference) Warsaw Museum of Modern Art
8/2 ‘Religion as medium’, for ‘Art et Spiritualité’, Paris (Mme Renée Moineau)
1/2 ‘The Imaginary Museum and the Future Collections’ for ‘Future Collections: imagining research collections in the 21st century’, Edinburgh College of Art
2009
30 /11 ‘Manessier, Fautrier, Yves Klein’ ; "Sainte Face, visages du Christ, visages de Dieu dans l’art contemporain XIXe-XXe siècle’, INHA, Paris
2/11 ‘The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations’ CUNY Graduate Center
New York (Former West seminar)
22/10 Marx et l’art : une renaissance?, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, round table with Dmitri Gutov, Jean-Michel Alberola, Henri Cueco, Véronique Fau, Sarah Wilson, videos by Dmitri Gutov.
2/10 ‘Cho Delat? Que faire? What is to be done? Humanism and humanist
education in art-historical practice’, Penser l’Europe, Romanian Academy of
Arts and Sciences, Bucarest.
28/9’The Visual World of French Theory: Figurations and Confrontations’
New European University, Saint Petersburg
25/ 9’New London, multiculturalism and contemporary art’, Moscow Open University.
Department of English
9/7’Two Christs: ecumenicism, sexuality, incarnation’*Keynote
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg, ACE International Conference,
Image(s) and Ethic(s)/L’éthique de l’image
2/6 ‘Kantor and the French Informel’ ‘Kantor was here’ University of East Anglia
15/5 ‘Alina, Ruth, Jacqueline: the context for Szpocnikow in 1970s Paris’,
Alina Szapocznikow, Documents, Works, Interpretations
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw,
26/4 ‘James Coleman’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin in the presence of the artist
16/4 ‘ELLES. Too little too late? Displaying Women’s Art and Cultural Differences’, for ‘Women’s Art as an Institutional Project’, Moscow Museum for Modern Art and Russian State University for the Humanities’
12/3 ‘Picasso, from bolchevik modernism to FBI enemy: politics and style’. ‘Picasso, Peace and Freedom’ Tate Liverpool
2008
23/11/ ‘The art of Oleg Vassiliev’ round table with the artist, Christies, London
? /11round table with Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina,
‘Mushrooms of the avant-garde’ La Rochelle school, London
15/11’Sexuality and the sacred in the work of Germaine Richier’ for
‘Theworld turned inside out: Bronze casting in the 20th century’ Courtauld Institute
10/10’L’Europe, l’histore de l’art et la vue de l’Angleterre’, ‘Penser l’Europe’ Siniai,
26/1’Pierre Klossowski and ‘Living currency’’ (Klossowski’s Monnaie vivante) Tate Modern
2007
19/1 ‘Feminismes’ Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
23/2 ‘Identités’, Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
23/3 ‘Avant-garde and kitsch? Realism. socialist realism and the Paris-New York axis, 1930-11939’, Usable Pasts?American Art from the Armory Show to Art of This Century,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
6/4 ‘Magiciens de la Terre’ Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
4/5 ‘La Russie et nous’ Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
18/5 ‘Pierre Klossowski’ New European College, Bucarest
19/5 ‘The Visual world of French theory’ New European College, Bucarest
27/9 ‘Cuban Mural collectiva’ 1967 and the geopolitics of art history, Council of Europe meeting, Tallin, Estonia
6/10 ‘Le Klossowski de Klee’ Paul Klee et la France, Deutsche Forum fur Kunstgeschichte, Paris
2006
4/2’The Courtauld mafia?’ L’art moderne et contemporain au Courtauld Institute, London’
6th national conference of the APAHAU, (French university professors) Arras
25/2 ‘Soviet Symphony: Lucio Fanti and the Althusserian dream’, ‘ Castle Museum, Warsaw
2/3 ‘Hilma af Klint’ with Lars Bang Larsen, Camden Arts Centre
8/3 ‘The Visual World of French Theory’ CRASSH centre, University of Cambridge
6/4 ‘Worlds apart: the geopolitics of art history’ for panel 10,
‘Writing histories of contemporary art’ AAH conference,
Contents, Malcontents, Dicontents, University of Leeds.
8/3 ‘The Visual World of French Theory’ University of Cambridge
17/6 ‘Serge Poliakoff’ Born in Russia Courtauld Institute
21/8’The Visual World of French theory’ Finnish art history summer school, Turku
19/12 ‘Art et Politique’
2005
10/1 ‘Nadia Khodassievich Léger’, National Gallery, Warsaw
11/1 ‘The Visual World of French Theory’, Castle Museum, Warsaw
12.13.16/5 ‘Jean Fautrier’; ‘Antonin Artaud and Nancy Spero’;’Pierre Klossowski’
Institute for Humanities Research, Ljubliana, Slovenia,
1/6 ‘Tate and the problem of socialist realism’, State Tretyakov Galllery, Moscow
22/9 ‘Le renouveau de l’art sacré apres-guerre’, Ronchamp, l’Exigence d’un rencontre Ronchamp
2004
24/1’What is performance art?’ Department of continuing education, University of Oxford
23/2 ‘Incendiares et pompiers: Picabia et les lettristes’, ‘Après le fin de l’art, 1945-1960’
Musée d’art moderne de Saint Etienne
? Entente cordiale and Bloomsbury lecture Insitut Français, South Kensington
7/6 L’Entente cordiale, Session chair, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
9/7 ‘Schwitters in England: the footnotes’ ‘Kurt Schwitters’, Tate Britain
2003
X/2 ‘In conversationwith Gustav Metzger’ Tate Britain
3/3 Baltic, Newcastle, ‘Cobra’ chaired student discussion
15/3 ‘Erro, Stalinade’, Stalin’s Cultural Legacy, University of Bristol.
29/11 ‘ From Ruins to Life after Humanism: Jochen Gerz for Coventry’.
Public Art, Public authorship, Art, Architecture, Design symposium, Univ. of Warwick’
2002
19/2 ‘Let it all hang out’- Performance and the politics of self-exposure’, Friends Public lecture,
Courtauld Institute of Art.
10/3 Freud Museum and the Courtauld Institute of Art at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS
Chaired: ‘Being Creative, Free Association in Psychoanalysis and the Arts’
with Christopher Bollas, Psychoanalyst, Susan Hiller, artist, Blake Morrison, writer, Robin Holloway, composer.
1/5 ‘Freud according to Cézanne’ University of Cambridge
13/3 Royal Academy of Arts, ‘Art and Revolution, 1968’
16/3 Royal Academy of Arts at the Institut Francais
‘1968: Watershed or part of a continuum?’ co-organised and hosted academic conference with Romy Golan,, Michele Cone, Andrew Hussey, Bernard Blistene, Alfred Pacquement, Catherine David, Jochen Gerz, Karina Bisch.
23/3’L’obligation de l’Interdit, l’ob-scene UK L’Obligation et l’Interdit’ Forums de societé, Centre Georges Pompidou.
15/4 Whitechapel Art Gallery: ‘Reading Performance Art, then till now’
7/9 ‘Art aud and perfroamcne’ + Round table, Antonin Artaud, Kunstmuseum Vienna
Sept ‘In conversation with Daniel Buren’, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
Oct Round table with Orlan, On Beauty Victoria and Albert Museum
Autumn ‘In conversation with Franko B’ South London Gallery
2001
19/1 ‘Pierre Klossowski’ Foire international du livre d’art, Paris
23/3 ‘Pop: les femmes’, Les Années Pop, Centre Georges Pompidou (+session chair)
22/6 ‘ Godard and Figuration Narrative’ Forever Godard, Tate Modern
28/6 ‘De la Bar au folies Bergeres au prison de Toul. Michel Foucault et les arts’
Colloque de Cérisy. Cérisy la Salle / IMEC
11/10 ‘LMH and the visual arts’ (Nicolette and Camilla Gray, Marina Warner, Griselda Pollock, Jennifer Mundy), Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford association, Courtauld Institute]
2000
13/2’Child Art, Modern Art and a British Tradition’ Mall Galleries (for the North London Collegiate School)
8/4 ‘Beauty and the Beast: Orlan and Franko.B.’ AAH conference, University of Edinburg
24/2 ‘Zofia Kulik fromWarsaw to Cyberia’College Art Association, New York
28/10 ‘Pierre Klossowski’Foire du livre internationale , Paris
1999
19/1 ‘Ecole de Paris’? Musée des Beaux-Arts, Luxembourg
27/2 ‘Entre Matisse et Duchamp, le fémininmasculin de l’art des années 70’,
Colloque Supports/Surfaces, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
11/11’Art after the Second World War in France’ Ruskin School, University of Oxford,
[23/11 Antonin Artaud; 30/11Michel Journiac; 30/11 Orlan ‘Beyond painting and sculpture series’ Courtauld]
1998
‘Artaud versus Breton’Edward James and Surrealism, West Dean, Sussex
‘Charlotta Salomon in Villejuif’ Gender Trauma and Creativity: Charlotta Salomon
1997
30/4 ‘Orlan-chimere, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux
5/6 ‘Blue is a cold caress: Jacques Monory and Nouvelle figuration’ Brighton Art Gallery
‘Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Monory: Marxsim and melancholly before postmodernism’
Oxford Brooks University
July? Le marriage du ciel et de l’enfer: peinture et poésie: Graham Sutherland’, L’Art et le livre; hommage à Pontus Hulten, Université de Grenoble
19/10 ‘Boris Taslitzky: Memory, Survival and the image of the camps in France, 1945-1950’
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago,
30/10 ‘Germaine Richier and eschatological space’. Akademie der Kunst, Berlin
1996
31/1 ‘Beckett, Giacometti and the Stage’ (Goldsmiths’ College) Blackheath,
5/3 ‘Willy Ronis’ Mead Art Gallery, University of Warwick
21/9 ‘Schizophrenic silences, Breton, Dubuffet and Art Brut’, University of Glasgow
15/11 ‘The Innocents’ Club: Art and the Popular Front’, Institute of Historical Research,
1995
‘Zoran Music’ in conjunction with Art after Auschwitz, Courtauld Institute
‘Souviens-toi! War, Cold War, aftermath: art across three generations, France and Germany 1945-1995
‘Georges Mathieu, from France to Japan’ International Association of Art Critics
congress, (AICA) Macao
1994
5/3 ‘Eluard et Léger: Libertés? Institut Français,
9/3 & 12/4 ‘Late Picasso: sex, violence and the FBI’ University of Chicago (12/4)
16/3 ‘ The Centre Georges Pompidou’
20/5 ‘Cocteau, Breker and collaboration’, PRIVATE Fascist Writers conference, Institute of Romance studies,
23/10 ‘U.S. GO HOME, Painting, Propaganda and the Parti Communiste Français’ Cold War,PRIVATE
University College London
22/11 ‘Art et politique, 1953: année de crise’ in the presence of André Fougeron, Paris, Ecole des Beaux Arts, with André Fougeron, (IMEC, Fougeron archives 28.18)
1993
17/6 From De Beauvoir to Bardot: Women and their image in postwar France, Paris Post War.
Tate Gallery
18/6 Sartre and art, from Surrealismto existentialism and back
24/9 Genet/ Rembrandt/ Derrida’, Manchester Portraiture conference, PRIVATE
28/10 ‘Dorothea Tanning: Trick or Treat?’ Camden Arts Centre
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1991
25/1 ‘ Configuring the Other Picabia’s Tranparencies’ [Courtauld]
1/2 ‘Matisse and the Orient’ [Courtauld]
6/4 ‘”Degenerate art” and nazi policy in France c 1937-1944’
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
17/6 ‘From fauvism to fascism: the vision of Camille Mauclair’, Fauvist Symposium,
Royal Academy of Arts
1990
April ‘From Barthes to Baudrillard: French theory in its artistic context, 1960-1990’,
AAH conference, Newcastle
1989
‘France, 1945-1953: History, Pluralism and the ‘exposition-spectacle’, unpublished conference paper, Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art. Tblisi, Georgia, 1989.
‘Picasso’s Doves of Peace; Ceramics and the Cold war’, Royal Academy of Arts
‘Picasso and the cold War’ Tate Gallery (Tate Britain)
Jean Dubuffet; from the Asylum to the Sahara
‘From Earth to Body, wound to shroud: Jean Fautrier and Yves Klein’ Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe Tod, Vienna.
‘Erotic Terror: Georges Bataille and Jean Fautrier in the 1940s’ Writing the Sacred,
Architectural Association
‘Autumn Cannibalism: Dali and Lautréamont’, Institute of Romance Studies.
Lecture series on surrealism, Architectural Association.
Lecture on RAoul Dufy , Royal College of Art, 1983
Since 1982 lectures have been given outside the Courtauld Institute at the following venues:
London lectures have been given for the University of London (Birkbeck College, Institute of Romance Studies) Art Historian’s Association conferences, and at the Architectural Association, Art History Studies, Camden Arts Centre, Institut Français, Modern Art Studies, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Performance Space, Hackney Wick
Britain
Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, East Anglia, Kent, University of Southampton (John Hansard Gallery) Sussex, the Museum of Modern Art, the Ruskin School of Art and the Maison Française, Oxford; the City Art Gallery, Birmingham; the Institut Français, Edinburgh;
France
Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, Paris-Nanterre X, Unviersité de Versailles/Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Maison Elsa Triolet-Louis Aragon Saint Arnoult en Yvelines, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Deutsches Forum fur Kunstgeschichte, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, La Vieille Charité, Marseilles, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux, Le Nouveau Musée, Grenoble, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, Romchamp, Salle de Conférences,
Europe
The Musée des Beaux-Arts, Luxembourg, the Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Kunstmuseum, Vienna, Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Guggenheim Musem, Bilbao,
Eastern Europe and Russia
The European College Saint Petersburg,
Moscow Open University
Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow
National Gallery and Castle Museum, Warsaw
Institute of the Humanities, Ljubliana, Slovenia
New European College, Romaian Academy of Arts and Scineces, Bucarest
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallin, Estonia.
America
College Art Association, New York, Cornell University, Yale University, New Haven; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania,
Other
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Ile de La Réunion
Museo des Bellas Artes, Las Palmas
Conferences organised and hosted
2015, 27-28/3 ‘Les Immatériaux: towards the virtual with Jean-François Lyotard’ London, Courtauld Institute.
2011 18-19/3 ‘Expanded conceptualism’, Tate Modern with Boris Groys, Nicholas Cullinan
2009 27/2 ‘Art and Espionage’ Social East seminar 7, with Reuben Fowkes,
Courtauld Institute
2006 11/11 Pierre Klossowski, Hans Bellmer, Whitechapel Art Gallery
International Bellmer and Klossowski experts in conjunction with
Exhibition organised at Whitechapel Art Gallery
17 & 19/6 Born in Russia, with the State Hermitage Museum
International experts from American and Paris relating to possible Hermitage travelling exhibition and catalogue
2005 18/11 Moscow Breakthrough, Courtauld Institute of Art
with Academia Rossica exhibition, coinciding with British Council visit
of curators from all Russia to London. Curators from Tate, Moscow etc.
2004 14/10 Entente Cordiale Courtauld Institute of Art Major conference subsidised by French government. July venues Ecole Normale Supérieure, and British Embassy, Paris . Our venue followed a day hosted by the University of Oxford.
2002 17-18/3 1968: Watershed /or part of a continuum?’ French Institute.
In conjunction with Paris Capital of the Arts, included Pompidou Centre director Alfred Pacquement, American scholars (Michel Cone) etc.
1999 27/2 Supports-Surfaces Courtauld Institute with scholars and artists Daniel Dezeuze.Noel Dolla, Pierre Buraglio etc. (co-roganised with Simeon Hunter).
1995 Art after Auschwitz held at the Courtauld to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps. Speakers included Ziva Amisha-Maizels 1994, Memory, the question of Archives, co-hosted with Erika Davies from the Freud Museum, and marking Jacques Derrida’s presence at the Courtauld.
His Mal d’Archives (Archive Fever) was published as a result.
Lecture series organised and hosted
20011 Organising and hosting Friends lecture series with Professor Boris Groys
2007 19/3 Hosted inaugural lecture by Professor Zygmunt Bauman, launching the
London Festival of Europe from the Courtauld.
2006-7 Organising and hosting the visit of Professor Boris Groys, ZKM, Karlruhe
1995 Frank Davis lecture series
10/10 Clementine Deliss(Soas); Charles Jencks (postmodernist); Jacques Herzog (architect), Romy Golan (Yale) ; Benjmain Buchloh (Columbia), Sander Gilman (Chicago), Jean Clair (Musée Picasoo)
2003 Spring Term, Friends Public lectures (relating both to distinguished former Courtauld students (CG, ED, CT, MT) and to performance art and contemporary artists. 21 /1. Christoph Grunenberg (Tate) 28/1 Erika Davies (Freud Museum); 4/2 Claudia Benthien(Berlin);11 /2 Stuart Brisley(artist); 18/2 Alice Maude-Roxby (performance ) 25/2. Daniel Buren (artist); 4/3 Caroline Tisdall (Beuys)l; 11/3 Michael Taylor (curator, Philadelphia