IAAC 8 Online Forum: The Evolution of Exhibition-Making and Art Criticism in Contemporary Discourse

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 online public forum on 7 July 2022. The event is also supported by the Minsheng Art Foundation and has the backing of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Paris.

With speakers from the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London and Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) at the University of Edinburgh, the webinar will have two parts:

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, RCA

Jeremy Millar, artist and writer, Head of the Writing Programme, RCA

John Slyce, writer and critic, Senior Tutor, Painting Programme, RCA

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 board member of IAAC Ltd

Lucy Steeds, writer, teacher  and curator, ECA; series editor of 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, Director, IAAC Ltd, and Henry Meyric Hughes, Chair, IAAC Ltd

7 July 2022, 12.00-15.00 pm BST (19.00 – 22.00 pm in China)