Thursday 7th of July, 12.00-15.00pm UK and 19.00 – 22.00pm China
To attend, please register for this webinar: https://rca-ac.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aOQ15HasQAmqFHedhLglOQ
The International Awards for Art Criticism (IAAC Ltd.) will celebrate the launch of the 8th edition of their International Awards in collaboration with their new Partners, the School of Philosophy (Department of the Philosophy of Art), Fudan University in an on-line public forum on 7 July. The event receives additional support from the Minsheng Art Foundation and the backing of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Paris.
In this two-part webinar, the speakers from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London and Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) at the University of Edinburgh will be as follows:
PART 1
What is an appropriate approach to writing criticism about international contemporary art today? How do the channels for contemporary art criticism support or encourage certain approaches to writing about it? And how can the art of criticism be entwined with the artwork without becoming subordinated to it?
Speakers:
Ken Neil, Dean of the School of the Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art, London
Jeremy Millar, artist and writer; Head of the Writing Programme at the RCA
John Slyce, writer and critic; Senior Tutor in the RCA’s Painting Programme
PART 2
The Role of Critical Writing and Reviews in the Archiving and Dissemination of Exhibitions
Speakers:
Juan Cruz, artist, Principal of Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and a Director of the IAAC
Lucy Steeds, writer, teacher and curator, ECA; Series Editor, Afterall’s ‘Exhibition Histories’
Christian Wellkop, Senior Lecturer in modern and Contemporary German Art, ECA
Host: Karolina Lebek, Special Projects Coordinator, School of Arts & Humanities, RCA
Moderators:
Ling Min, a Director and Henry Meyric Hughes, Chair, IAAC Ltd.