On the conditions of politics
Thursday 28 June 2007
10 am - 6 pm
 
Conway Hall, South Place Ethical Society, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

9.30am
Speakers to arrive, tea and coffee to be served.

10.00-10.30am
Public to arrive and registration.

10.30 Session 1
Paul Chan, artist, New York
Melanie Gilligan, artist and writer, London
Mediated discussion: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery

11.40  Session 2
Gustav Metzger, artist, London
Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck, University of London
Mediated discussion: Massimiliano Gioni, Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
 
Lunch 12.45 – 14.00: A light lunch will be provided for speakers

14.00 Session 3
Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Leeds University and Professor Emeritus, University of Warsaw
Suhail Malik. writer and Senior Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths
Mediated discussion: Edgar Schmitz, artist, London
 
15.10  Session 4
Milan Rai, co-editor of Peace News and a founder of the anti-war group Justice Not Vengeance
Yates McKee, critic and art historian, New York
Mediated discussion: Lisa Le Feuvre, Curator of Contemporary Art, National Maritime Museum, Lecturer on the Curatorial Programme at Goldsmiths
 
16.20  Session 5
Hilary Wainwright, Research Director of the New Politics Programme at the Transnational Institute and editor of Red Pepper
Florian Schneider, filmmaker, Munich
Mediated discussion: Panel/Edgar Schmitz and Lisa Le Feuvre
 
18.00   End / drinks

Evening: Dinner