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2014 Adelaide Festival Artists’ Week program announced

The full 2014 Adelaide Festival visual arts program has been released with a complete line-up of Artists’ Week events and speakers. For the first time, it will include guests from Adelaide Festival’s contemporary music program.

 

ArtistsWeek2014The full 2014 Adelaide Festival visual arts program has been released with a complete line-up of Artists’ Week events and speakers. Highlights include a keynote from Erik Davis (USA) and full day co-convened by internationally renowned art historian, independent curator and writer Lars Bang Larsen (DEN).

Artists’ Week features presentations that explore some of the ideas and approaches within Adelaide Festival’s visual arts program and the Adelaide International exhibition Worlds in Collision. Themes include the visionary, the psychedelic, the digital horizon, undergrounds, the outsider, the marginalised and ideas of the alternative, and other issues shaping contemporary practice.

Under the title of Radical Enlightenment, Larsen has curated a playful day of panel discussion, presentations and performative ‘illustrated interludes’ connected by a rhythmic structure over three sessions. Guests include Marco Pasi (NED), Susan Hiller (UK), Julie Stephens (VIC), Suzanne Treister (UK) and Ramona Altschul (SUI).  Larsen and his research partner Yann Chateigné have recently held similar discussions at the Palais de Tokyo Paris.

An emphasis on alternative readings and radical models runs through other events at Artists’ Week where, over three days, speakers from across Australia and the globe will explore a multitude of approaches, world views and histories that shape or reflect contemporary visual arts practice. Subjects will include Space is the Place, Imagining an Underground and Another Sort of Real.

For the first time, the symposium will include guests from Adelaide Festival’s contemporary music program with the curator of the Tectonics Adelaide, Ilan Volkov featuring in the panel Distortion, Reverb and Noise.

Adelaide International and Artists’ Week curator Richard Grayson says: “The presentations included in Larsen’s section look at narratives and methodologies that have perhaps been sidelined or overlooked by the Rationalist and Enlightenment approaches that determine our culture, to see if certain strands and ideas might be considered as providing an expanded means of understanding, giving us a richer and more complex picture of the world and its operations and new ways that we might negotiate it.”

Adelaide Festival’s colossal visual arts program presents work from more than 40 artists and collectives, featuring the Australian premiere of River of Fundament, a major new seven-part film project by award-winning American artist Matthew Barney and composer Jonathan Bepler; Worlds in Collision, the third Adelaide International 2014; the 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Dark Heart; and some of Australia’s most exciting contemporary Aboriginal artists in Four Rooms at Tandanya. All visual art events are exclusive to Adelaide.

Artists’ Week will run from 28 February to 2 March 2014 as part of the Adelaide Festival.

Photo credit: Susan Hiller. Channels 2013 Installation photograph by Peter White. Courtesy the artist. Timothy Taylor Gallery and Matts Gallery London

 

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