Talk
How to Be Hospitable: Art and the Public Sphere Symposium
5 Apr 2008
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
Cost of entry
Admission Free
Address
- City Observatory
- 38 Calton Hill, EH7 5AA
- Edinburgh
Scotland - EH7 5AA
- United Kingdom
About
Dave Burrows (artist)Burrows will discuss three concepts - discursive formations,
minor forms of expression and 'partial objects' - to explore art
scenes and their audiences.
Mark Hutchinson (artist and writer)
Hutchinson will talk about slogans, drawing on the work of the
linguist Jean Jacques Lecercle in the book The Violence of
Language and in the essay Lenin the Just in the book Lenin
Reloaded.
Freee (artists)
Dave Beech, Andy Hewitt and Mel Jordan
Freee (Beech and Hewitt) will address ideas of the counter
public sphere aswell as a critique of participation.
Mel Jordan will chair the event.
Places are free but limited, to book please contact :
mail@collectivegallery.net or tel : 0131 220 1260