Events Calendar SUMMER 2014 Please find below details of Research Forum events planned thus far. Further details for these and other events are placed on the website as soon as they become available. Please check our website: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/index.shtml and/or Research Forum notice boards regularly. Also note that some dates and times may change and these will be shown on the website. Unless otherwise stated, events are free and open to members of the public. If you would like to receive information via email on specific areas of interest, please contact us: [email protected] APRIL Wednesday, 23 April 2014 but recently there has been an increasing level of 18.00 - 19.00, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre interest in cross-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary Peripheral Visions: Lecture Series on Cross- dialogues. This series of events brings together Disciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Art researchers who will present methods for studying art Art and the Economy from cultural policy, law, and sociology to art The Myth of a Global Art Market historians for closer examination, and asks how they Dr Olav Velthuis (Department of Sociology and could be used within the discipline of art history. Anthropology, University of Amsterdam) These methodological examinations will aim to In the new millennium, the market for contemporary activate dialogues between art historians and art has transformed into a global enterprise, or so it international specialists in social sciences and in law. seems. Chinese and Russian collectors are driving up price levels at Sotheby’s and Christie’s; art fairs have Thursday, 24 April 2014 become the favorite pastime for a global cosmopolitan 18.00 - 19.15, Research Forum South Room elite, while London and New York superdealers have Research Seminar: Art & Vision Science opened branches in multiple cities, including Hong Scientific Connections Kong and Sao Paolo. These global dynamics are Speakers: Nicola Triscott (The Arts Catalyst) and limited to a small top segment of the market, however. Madi Boyd (installation and video artist) Power struggles, differences in taste and the Launching The Courtauld’s new Art & Vision Science organizational intricacies of art markets continue to seminar series, Nicola Triscott, director of The Arts set boundaries to cultural globalization. Catalyst, describes an extraordinary cultural moment, Olav Velthuis is Associate Professor in the in which artists and scientists are developing Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the collaborative responses to scientific questions and University of Amsterdam. He is currently studying the human dilemmas. Her talk draws on 20 years of emergence and development of art markets in the groundbreaking projects at one of the UK’s leading BRIC-countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China). commissioning arts organisations. Velthuis is the author of Imaginary Economics (NAi Madi Boyd’s immersive artwork The Point of Publishers, 2005) and Talking Prices. Symbolic Perception (2009-2013) was the product of a Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary collaboration with leading neuroscientists; the work Art (Princeton University Press, 2005). Together with explores ambiguity in perception and the emergence Maria Lind he edited the book Contemporary Art and of form in a moving-image installation. The premise Its Commercial Markets A Report on Current for her current project, The Fickle Screen , is that art Conditions and Future Scenarios (Sternberg Press, which combines installation and moving image acts in 2012). His journalistic writings have appeared in a particular way on our perceptual consciousness. among others Artforum, the Art Newspaper and the The work involves experimental research, examining Financial Times. interactions between the senses and how these sculpt Series Introduction: The study of contemporary art our visual perception: the connection between how within the field of art history has been making limited one sees and what one sees. uses of the methodologies of social sciences and law, Summer 2014 events calendar (as at 16 May 2014) Nicola Triscott is a cultural producer and writer, Monday, 28 April 2014 specialising in the intersections between art, science, 18.00, Research Forum South Room technology and society. She is the founder and Research seminar: Modern and Contemporary director of The Arts Catalyst, one of the UK’s most Belgrade's Student Cultural Centre and the distinctive arts organisations, distinguished by 'International Artists' Strike ambitious artists’ commissions that engage with Marko Ili ć (The Courtauld Institute of Art) science (including projects by Tomas Saraceno, Ashok Sukumaran, Aleksandra Mir, Otolith Group and Tuesday, 29 April 2014 Critical Art Ensemble) and by the international 17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre dimension of its programme of exhibitions, events, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and research and publications. Nicola has curated Ireland Annual Lecture 2014 numerous exhibitions and events. She lectures and Romanesque Sculpture: Contexts and Perceptions publishes internationally, including books on art and from Lincoln and Pavia to Moissac and Saint-Genis- technology in the Arctic, art and space, and ecological des-Fontaines art. She blogs at www.nicolatriscott.org . Professor Eric Fernie (Honorary Fellow, The Madi Boyd graduated in Fine Art Sculpture from The Courtauld Institute of Art) Slade (UCL), 2005. She has made installations and The lecture is divided into two parts, concerning form short film works for The Science Museum, London and content respectively. The first discusses what is (2011-12), Kinetica (2011, 12, 13), the BFI (2010), special about Romanesque sculpture and how it could and for a Transmediale satellite show at Art have arisen, with particular reference to its Laboratory Berlin (2013). Most recently (2013), her relationship to the buildings it adorns. This section work was selected for an exhibition at The Science also examines the theory that architectural sculpture Gallery, Dublin, curated by Professor Richard was developed out of church furniture. Wiseman. This show will tour the USA and Canada The section on content considers a number of during 2014-15. Her 3D holographic films have been examples, including capitals in the cloister at Moissac, screened worldwide, at public and private events carvings on the façade of San Michele in Pavia, and a including the Vancouver Winter Olympics. relief on the Puerta de las Platerias at Santiago de Compostela. Monday, 28 April 2014 Professor Fernie has held the posts of Professor of 10.00 - 14.15, The Courtauld Gallery and IMAF Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh and Director of Centre for the Study of Drawings The Courtauld Instituteof Art, University of London. He Richard McDougall Workshop Summer 2014 is a fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from of Edinburgh, the Society of Antiquaries of London (of Britain and Germany which he has been President), and the Society of Speakers: include Hugh Belsey (independent Antiquaries of Scotland. His books include The scholar), David Blayney Brown (Tate Britain), Colin Architecture of the Anglo-Saxons (1983), An Harrison (Ashmolean Museum) and Timothy Wilcox Architectural History of Norwich Cathedral (1993), Art (independent scholar) History and its Methods (1995), and The Architecture A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from of Norman England (2000). He has also published Britain and Germany , the first display organised jointly some seventy chapters in books and papers in by The Courtauld Gallery and The Morgan Library & refereed journals. Museum, New York, brings together 28 major drawings and watercolours from both collections. The Wednesday, 30 April 2014 display represents a rare occasion on which to view 17.30, Research Forum South Room works by British and German Romantic artists in Research seminar: Medieval Work in Progress conversation with each other and to consider points of ‘Soli Deo honor et gloria': Reinterpreting the Art and commonality as well as divergence between two Architecture of the Cistercians in Late Medieval distinctive schools. England Please join us for an informal workshop in the Dr Michael Carter (The Courtauld Institute of Art) exhibition space and the Print Room to examine and discuss the drawings and watercolours in the display MAY and in The Courtauld’s collection, by artists including J. M. W. Turner, Samuel Palmer, Thomas Girtin, John Tuesday, 06 May 2014 Robert Cozens, Caspar David Friedrich and Carl 11.00 - 16.45 (with registration from 10.30), Philipp Fohr. Research Forum South Room This workshop is part of the Richard McDougall series Documenting Fashion: Re-thinking the of events held biannually at The Courtauld Institute of Experience and Representation of Dress Art on British watercolour painting post-1750. Speakers: Keynotes by Dr Rebecca Arnold (Oak Ticket/entry details: Open to all, places are free. but Foundation Lecturer in History of Dress and Textiles, due to very limited space advance booking is The Courtauld) and Beatrice Behlen (Senior Curator essential. Now fully booked of Dress & Decorative Arts, Museum of London). Others include: Eva Bezverkhny (The Courtauld), Summer 2014 events calendar (as at 16 May 2014) Sara Chong Kwan (London College of Fashion), Jin Wednesday, 7 May 2014 Joo Ma (Royal College of Art), Lucy Moyse (The 17.30, Research Forum South Room Courtauld), Dr Heather Norris