Starting today and for three days (11, 12 and 13 of June) the
Montehermoso Cultural Center
(Vitoria-Gasteiz) is hosting the
State of Emergency
conference, which is presented with these intentions:
The term “emerging art” has not only served to support a very specific type of creation, but has also facilitated the emergence of cultural policies and a new economic framework within the art world. But who decides what is emerging? Under what parameters? Is “emergence” a value in itself?
Throughout these conferences, we will try to analyze what values have defined these practices, what influence they have had on contemporary productions, the political objectives that have been pursued in the name of “young art,” and what changes it has caused in the market. We will also analyze how these labels have affected creators and the possibility of developing “an artistic career.”
In a society dominated by the concepts of youth or fashion, it is necessary to generate a space in which to debate the validity of this type of “labels” in this new century and how they have transformed our cultural landscape.
The questions and points proposed for the debate have been of particular interest to us, since they are directly linked to a part of what we want to raise in the project that we presented in the previous post:
Intruder Zone 2
. Specifically – within the discursive framework of the project – we hope that these questions will be raised around the figure of Efrén Álvarez, since his position in the field of art may correspond quite closely to that of the “emerging artist.”
We will try to extract more information about the conclusions of these conferences to add it to the wiki of Intruder Zone 2; we’ll see if it can be done. Full program of the presentations after the jump.
June 11, 6:00 PM
DEFINING “EMERGING ART”.
Els van Odijk (Rijksakademie, Amsterdam)
Jose Luis Brea (Professor of Aesthetics and Theory of Contemporary Art, Carlos III University, Madrid)
Javier Marroquí and David Arlandis (Commissioners, Valencia)
Moderated by: Fermín Moreno
June 12, 6:00 PM
CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC POLICIES IN THE FACE OF THE “EMERGING ART” PHENOMENON.
Jaron Rowan (Researcher and cultural manager. Selected in Art and Research 07)
Julieta de Haro (Technical Director of AVAM, Madrid).
Mark Banks (Open University, Milton Keynes (United Kingdom).
Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths College, London).
Moderated by: Eduardo García Nieto
June 13, 6:00 PM
CONDITIONS OF PRODUCTION FOR ARTISTS. INSTITUTIONS, STAYS AND AID.
Kit Hammonds (Professor of the Master’s Degree in Curating at the Royal College of Art, London)
Lisa Rosendahl (Commissioner “Terms of use”. Selected in Art and Research 07)
Amalia Pica (Artist. Selected in Art and Research 07)
Moderator: Miren Eraso.
More information about the speakers here.