What's Next? Lecture Series: 'Parties and Palazzos: The Art of Networking'
15 March 2018 | 6.30pm 8pm
Battersea, Gorvy Lecture Theatre
Free
For this fourth What's Next? lecture we are pleased to welcome: Lynda Morris (curator) and Goshka Macuga (artist), the talk will be lead by the art critic Sacha Craddock. The discussion will focus on what role social events play in the art world and how an artist’s ability to engage with curators, collectors, gallerists and funders can impact on their career.
Featuring a number of informed inside perspectives from artists, curators, critics and gallery and museum professionals, the What’s Next? lecture series will provide insight and reflection on ways in which artists might navigate the complex and often contradictory values and processes that surround the making, distribution and value formation of contemporary art. What's Next? has been developed in collaboration between the RCA School of Arts & Humanities and the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS).
Speakers
Lynda Morris
Lynda Morris is known as a pioneering curator who gave many, now well-recognised, artists their first UK exhibitions, including Agnes Martin (1974), Bernd and Hilla Becher (1974–75) and Gerhard Richter (1977). Further, from 1991 to 2009 she established and curated ASTinternational, an open submission exhibition in Norwich, with a series of invited selectors each year, including Konrad Fischer, Marian Goodman, and Rudi Fuchs. EASTinternational expanded the boundaries of a London-centred UK art scene and turned Norwich into a recognised international hub for contemporary art.
Goshka Macuga
Born in 1967 in Warsaw, Poland, Goshka Macuga lives and works in London. Macuga’s practice encompasses a broad range of media, including installation, drawing, sculpture and photography. Often organized site-specifically, Macuga’s installations and exhibition projects are usually the result of an investigation into a particular location, individual or group. For her show Picture Room at Gasworks Gallery (2003), Macuga examined the structure of the Sir John Soane collection while her exhibition Objects in Relation at Tate Britain, London (2007), was inspired by the spirit of the artistic group Unit 1.
Sacha Craddock
Sacha Craddock is an independent art critic, writer & curator based in London. She studied painting at Central Saint Martins followed by a postgraduate painting degree at Chelsea School of Art before going on to write criticism for The Guardian and The Times. She is co-founder and member of Faculty at British School at Rome, Trustee of the Shelagh Cluett Trust, Trustee of the Art House Foundation and Executive Committee Member of the International Association of Art Critics AICA. Craddock has judged many art prizes, such as the Turner Prize in 1999 and the John Moores Painting Prize in 2008.
This event has been organised by the RCA School of Arts & Humanities. If you have any queries, please contact Anne Duffau for more information.
Speakers
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Lynda Morris
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Sacha Craddock
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Goshka Macuga