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A symposium on radical public art and public collaboration: organised by the Department of Art History, University of Warwick, the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, and Coventry School of Art and Design.
Warwick Arts Centre
University of Warwick, Coventry, West Midlands, England.
How can the public collaborate in a radical Public art project? This symposium on public authorship and the limits of contemporary Public art will consider Jochen Gerz's recent work - The Future Monument and The Public Bench - produced for the Phoenix Initiative, Coventry's city centre regeneration project. It will debate the political and social dynamics of public authorship and the cultural function of alternative forms of Public art.
Speakers:
- Jochen Gerz, artist (Paris)
- Christopher Beck, Director, The Phoenix Initiative, Priory Place, Coventry.
- John Fletcher, Chair, The Millennium Forum (formerly Leader, Coventry City Council)
- Sir Richard MacCormac, Chief Architect of The Phoenix Initiative project, MacCormac Jamieson Pritchard, London.
- Dr Jonathan Vickery, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Warwick
- Dr Malcolm Miles, Reader in Cultural and Architectural Theory, University of Plymouth.
- Dr Elizabeth Norman, Sheffield Hallam University.
- Dr Sarah Wilson, Senior Lecturer in History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
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