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Art Sessions
Ephemeral art is everywhere, from graffiti to Trafalgar Square; wrapped buildings to performance art. But what's it all about? Is it rooted in the moment or seeking life ever after? What's its relationship to the cult of celebrity? Does it mark a return to the authentic? Is ephemeral art the future or itself a passing ephemeral phenomenon?
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Art in an Ephemeral AgeFriday 13 November 2009, 8.00pm Michael Archer and Julian Spalding
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The Rise of Ephemeral ArtSaturday 14 November 2009, 11:30pm Marius Kwint, Richard Wentworth, Julian Spalding, Arifa Akbar chairs Has art always been ephemeral or is it merely a contemporary phenomenon? Historian Marius Kwint, influential artist Richard Wentworth, and author Julian Spalding get to grips with where we are and where we’ve come from. Independent Art Correspondent Arifa Akbar chairs.
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Selling v. Selling OutSaturday 14 November 2009, 2:00pm Patricia Ellis, Felix Braun, Richard Noble, Godfrey Barker chairs
Can we sell the temporary? And should we want to? When ephemeral art is wrapped and packaged for the marketplace is it destroyed? Radio 4’s ‘Front Row’ correspondent Godfrey Barker charts morality and the market with long-time Saatchi collaborator Patricia Ellis, seminal graffiti artist Felix Braun, and art market specialist Richard Noble.
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Exploring the NowSaturday 14 November 2009, 3:30pm Hilary Lawson, Richard Wentworth, Richard Noble, Jan Dalley chairs
If ephemeral art is about the transient and the fleeting, what is the nature of that moment? Is it possible to capture transience? How can the now be explored? Is experience itself enough to be art? FT Arts editor Jan Dalley goes in search of the present with post-postmodern philosopher and video artist Hilary Lawson, sculptor Richard Wentworth and utopian theorist Richard Noble.
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The Emperor's New Art?Saturday 14 November 2009, 5:30pm Julian Spalding, Godfrey Barker, Sarah Appleby, Felix Braun, Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn chairs Is ephemeral art simply vacuous: of little value and of little consequence? Or is it time to give up on traditional museum culture and the desire for permanence, and embrace the fleeting moment of artistic creation? Julian Spalding and ‘Front Row’ presenter Godfrey Barker debate with Burning Man performer Sarah Appleby and graffiti artist Felix Braun. Artist Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn .
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Ephemeral Art and the Cult of CelebritySunday 15 November 2009, 11:30am Godfrey Barker, Anthony Haden-Guest, Patricia Ellis Is art world celebrity a means of overcoming the ephemeral? Have artists from Michelangelo to Damien Hirst always used celebrity to give permanence to their work? Would art be purer if it was anonymous? Looking beyond the personality cult, art critics Anthony Haden-Guest and Godfrey Barker join long-time Saatchi collaborator Patricia Ellis.
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Art as MemorySunday 15 November 2009, 1:30pm Massimo Bartolini, Stephanie Rosenthal, Jonathan Dronsfield, Sarah Appleby, Jan Dalley chairs If there are no physical remnants of a work of ephemeral art, can it survive as memory alone? What is the role of the observer? What part does the audience play in the life and afterlife of ephemeral art? And does its meaning disappear with the passing of the work? Chaired by Jan Dalley, Installation artist Massimo Bartolini, Hayward Gallery chief curator Stephanie Rosenthal, philosopher Jonathan Dronsfield, and Burning Man artist Sarah Appleby go in search of remembrance.
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The Future of Ephemeral ArtSunday 15 November 2009, 3:00pm Michael Archer, Massimo Bartolini, Charlotte Bonham Carter, Ben Lewis chairs
Is ephemeral art the future of art or merely a flash in the pan? Will it be talked about by generations to come as the art of the early 21st century? If so, what will become of traditional art spaces – what will the galleries and museums of the future look like? Former Ruskin School director Michael Archer, artist Massimo Bartolini and Charlotte Bonham Carter of the ICA peer into the crystal ball.
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