Tate Liverpool’s new Artistic Director to deliver lecture at Winchester School of Art
Tate Liverpool’s new Artistic Director, Francesco Manacorda, is to deliver a lecture at Winchester School of Art (WSA) to launch the newly formed research partnership between the two organisations.
The lecture, part of a new Global Futures Speakers Series, will take place on Monday 22 October 2012 at 5.00pm in the Graphics Building at the WSA on Park Avenue, Winchester. This will be the first opportunity for Manacorda, who is also the convenor of Tate Liverpool’s Research Centre, to share his vision for the future of the gallery and the partnership with WSA’s Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media.
The lecture entitled Simultaneity and History will explore how the museum can experiment with alternative approaches in the presentation of art history, moving away from linear narratives to consider different periods and movements as ‘parallel universes,’ using the museum as a virtual time machine with which to explore them.
The research partnership between WSA and Tate Liverpool exists to enhance the ability of both research centres to undertake major projects and contribute original research with outputs that are of benefit to the wider public. It recognises that relevant, critical and original research underpins the activities of both organisations. In May 2012, WSA and Tate Liverpool were awarded an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award grant for four fully funded PhD students. The first student, Oliver Peterson Gilbert, will further his research interests in pop culture of the 1960s and 1970s through working with Tate Liverpool to develop the upcoming exhibition Glam: The Performance of Style. The exhibition is the first to trace the avant-garde genealogy of the Glam era of the 1970s, examining its relationship to painting, sculpture, film, performance and installation art in Britain, Europe and North America. In addition to his work on Glam, Oliver will study the impact of the research partnership on the wider public, developing a framework in which to measure this impact.
In addition to the work of the Collaborative Doctoral Award students, the partnership will be expressed through a variety of activities including publishing, conferences and symposia in the UK and abroad.
Francesco Manacorda has been Artistic Director at Tate Liverpool since April 2012. He was Director of Artissima, the international fair of contemporary art in Turin, from 2010-2012 and was Curator at Barbican Art Gallery, London from 2007-2009. While at the Barbican Art Gallery he curated exhibitions including the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art and commissions by Hans Schabus, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Clemens von Wedemeyer. He also curated the Slovenian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale the New Zealand Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Francesco has written for publications including Domus, Flash Art International and Art Review and has edited several acclaimed publications, among them Radical Nature (2009) and From Futurism to Arte Povera – Portrait of a Collector (2005). He has been Visiting Lecturer in Exhibition History and Critical Theory at the Curating Contemporary Art department at the Royal College of Art, London since 2006. He has a Degree in Humanities from the University of Turin (1993-2000) and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London (2001-3).
For the complete Autumn schedule of speakers and further information on the Global Futures Speaker Series please visit the website – http://www.southampton.ac.uk/wrc/news/events/2012/09/autumn_lecture_series.page
Dr August Jordan Davis
WSA Senior Research Fellow
Winchester Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media
Winchester School of Art
University of Southampton
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