Exhibition making as Activism – Whose Politics?

Taking place during the Frieze Art Fair, Frieze Talks was a daily programme of keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions presented by Frieze Foundation and programmed by the editors of frieze magazine.

Exhibition making as Activism – Whose Politics?

12pm, Sunday 17 October

A myriad of approaches are taken by artists, writers and curators whose work responds to complex social issues and political situations. To what extent do the political and personal intersect? Can art be effective activism and vice versa?

* Jeremy Deller (Artist, UK)
* Galit Eilat (Writer, Curator and Founding Director of The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel)
* Emily Roysdon (Artist and Writer, USA)
* Chair: Negar Azimi (Senior Editor, Bidoun magazine)

The talks can be listened to or downloaded from the following website:

http://www.friezefoundation.org/talks/

Guantanamera gets a mention in Freize

‘Guantanamera’ – the overall title of the series of works that Ross Birrell and I made in Cuba and Miami in 2008/09 – has a nice mention in a review in the latest ‘Freize’ magazine. (vol. 133 pp. 151) They have been showing in the gallery of the Swiss Institute in Rome and the Kunsthalle in Basel and now go to the gallery of Valand, the art school in Gothenburg, opening at the end of the first week in October.

David Harding