There is a bumper crop of curatorial conferences coming up - here's one in France. Not specifically new media... in fact most of the conferences I've heard about are addressing globalisation... Begin forwarded message: > la criée center for contemporary art > Curatorial symposium > Exhibition Practices : Stakes & Perspectives > > 8 March 2007 - 22 March 2007 > > la criée center for contemporary art > place Honoré Commeurec, halles centrales > 35000 Rennes, France > tel.: (+33) (0)2 23 62 25 10 > fax (+33) (0)2 23 62 25 19 > [log in to unmask] > http://www.criee.org > > Symposium at the Museum of Fine Arts (Auditorium) > 20 quai Emile Zola > 35000 Rennes, France > > With (subject to modifications) : > > Thursday 8 March 2007 > Chus Martinez, Director of Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany. > Joanna Mytkowska, curator at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. > Raphaële Jeune, Artistic director of the first contemporary art > biennial in Rennes, France. > Alexandre Perigot, Artist. > > Thursday 22 March 2007 > John Welchman, Professor of Art History in the Visual Arts Department > at the University of California, San Diego, USA. > Hou Hanru, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs and Chair of > the Exhibition and Museum Studies program at the San Francisco Art > Institute, USA. > Manuel Olveira Paz, Artist and Director of Centro Galego de Arte > Contemporanea, Spain. > > In 2007, la criée center for contemporary art will initiate a series > of symposia on exhibition practices in contemporary art. It is our > hope that this first edition will be the beginning of a series rich in > the exchange of experiences and curatorial perspectives. > > The series of symposia on exhibition practices has emerged from la > criée’s project for residencies and exhibitions initiated in 2005 in > the European cities of the Atlantic Arc. This European project has > provided opportunities for productive encounters and collaborations > between visiting artists, curators, directors, international art > critics and artistic directors. > > The discovery of very different ways of working from one context to > another, exchanges around production and exhibition projects, > encounters, often unexpected, with art theoreticians and practitioners > all contributed to our desire to prolong and deepen this reflection, > to make these exchanges public and maintain the connections > established. > > Each symposium will bring together international professionals; these > artists, curators, art historians and theoreticians will be invited > because they analyze and renew exhibition practices in the field of > contemporary art. > > The complementary nature of artistic creation, curatorial practice, > historical research, critical thought and theorization will enrich the > debate and enable the exchange of experiences and the sharing of > projects, thereby contributing to the quality of scholarship and > prospective thought. > > The goal of the 2007 symposium is to share different experiences and > perspectives on the way artists and curators work with the history and > current status of the exhibition, and how they take charge of, > circumscribe or undermine existing exhibition formats. > > How do they propose new ways of working with the artist, giving > priority to directions within the work or to production rather than to > the exhibition or, on the contrary, extending the exhibition model > according to specific conditions of exchange, work and visibility? > > How can we “produce”, “control”, or “free ourselves from” images in > exhibitions in the age of globalization? > > Further information (participants, program, etc.) : > http://www.criee.org/pdf/curatorialsymposium2007.pdf > > Joining the symposium : email at [log in to unmask] > > The symposium 2007 has received exceptional support from > CULTURESFRANCE within the framework of an agreement with the City of > Rennes.