Date/Time
Date(s) - 30/06/2013
11:00 am
Location
Oriel Mostyn
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Date: 30.6.2013
Time: 11am-3pm
Venue: Mostyn, 12 Vaughan St, Llandudno, LL30 1AB
Speakers: Aurelien Froment, Bedwyr Williams, (artists)
Alfredo Cramerotti (Director, Mostyn),
Adam Carr (Curator, Mostyn)
11am-12pm Presentation by Adam Carr about the art historical background of the relationship between artwork and viewer and its growing status over time.
Carr’s presentation, titled “The Viewer and Conceptual Art & Conceptual Art and The Viewer” will look at the history and legacy of conceptual art investigating its inception, its main proponents and how it looks at the world around us with particular focus on the role of the viewer.
12pm-12.45pm Lunch
12.45pm-2.45pm Panel Discussion
Some forms of Conceptual Art engages the viewer in ways that they may not be accustomed to in relation to their experience of artworks and exhibitions. The panel will be talking about how shows like “YOU”, the current MOSTYN exhibition, respond to the visitor, and are subject to perpetual change and re-order in accordance to their activity, thereby challenging conventional codes of behaviour in the context of a gallery space.
How do these works engage and forge relationships with audiences in distinctively different ways from any other works of art? How is the role of the viewer elevated and placed into the centre uniquely? Does it build a different alliance between Viewer, artwork and gallery?
This is an opportunity to hear about the “You” exhibition from Curator Adam Carr and discuss the development of the role of the “viewer”, with artists Aurelien Froment and Bedwyr Williams and Alfredo Cramerotti, director of MOSTYN.
Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator and editor working across TV, radio, publishing, writing and exhibition making. He co-curated Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2010, the Maldives Pavilion and the Wales Pavilion at the 55th Venice Art Biennial, 2013. He directs MOSTYN, Wales’ leading contemporary art institution, and the itinerant projects AGM Culture and Chamber of Public Secrets. He is Research Scholar at the European Centre for Photography Research, University of Wales, Newport, and Editor of the Critical Photography series by Intellect Books. His own publications include the book Aesthetic Journalism: How to inform without informing (2009).
Adam Carr was born in 1980 in Chester. Since May 2012 he has been Visual Arts Programme Curator at MOSTYN and has been working on the new visual arts programme which opened in April of this year. He has previously worked as a guest curator for the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin, Italy, among others. From 2006 to 2007 he was an adjunct curator for Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, and later in 2007 he became a visiting professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Norway. He has also curated a number of other exhibitions for institutions and gallery’s worldwide. As a writer he is widely published and is a regular, contributing writer for a number of magazines, including Flash Art International, Mousse, Spike Art Quarterly and Kaleidoscope.
Aurélien Froment was born in Angers, France in 1976. He lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. His practice involves a variety of media informed by moving images and performance. Recent shows include Il Palazzo Enciclopedico at the 55th Venice Biennale, Curiosity: Art and the Pleasure of Knowing (Turner Contemporary, Margate), 9 Intervals (Mother’s tankstation, Dublin).
Bedwyr Williams was born in St Asaph, in 1974 and lives and works in Caernarfon.
His work includes performance, sculpture and painting, posters and photography.
He draws on his own experiences, utilising humour to reveal both his and our own complex neurosis and idiosyncrasies. His installation, text based works and live performances explore subject matter ranging from growing up in Colwyn Bay with size 13 feet, to a mini bus crash with four other artists in residence (in which he is the only survivor).
Solo exhibitions include ‘Dear Both’, Ceri Hand Gallery, London, 2012; ‘My Bad’, Mission Gallery, Swansea, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2012; ‘Nimrod’, Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales, 2011; ‘The Jinx’, 1857, Oslo, 2010; ‘Nimrod’, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, 2009, and ‘Methodist to my Madness’, The Bakery, Annet Gelink, Amsterdam, 2009.
Bedwyr Williams will be representing Wales at the 55th Venice Biennale, 2013
For further information please follow this link: http://www.cerihand.co.uk/artists/1/bedwyr-williams/
If you are interested in booking for this session please contact sabine@helfagelf.co.uk
This project has received funding through the Rural Development Plan for Wales 2007-2013 which is funded by the Welsh Government and the European Agricultural fund for Rural Development
