CADN ACTIVITIES 2010-2011
VISITING SPEAKERS
2011
James Putnam, "The House of Dreams"
February 7, 7:00 pm
In 1938 Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, fled to London from Vienna to escape Nazi persecution. He settled in a house at 20 Maresfield Gardens, bringing all his furniture and effects to recreate his original consulting rooms. Opened as a museum in 1986, the centerpiece of the house is the ground-floor study with Freud's large library and collection of antiquities as well as the famous couch. On this his patients would lie and be encouraged to re-live previous experiences. For Freud, the house could be equated with the mind and body, a container of the self and our deepest desires and thus our own more overt need to see our houses as extensions of our social selves. Freud's theories have been an ongoing influence to artists. Since the late 1990s, The Freud Museum has been an ongoing site-specific space for contemporary artists whose projects will be discussed.
James Putnam is an independent curator and writer based in London, UK. He founded and was curator of the British Museum’s Contemporary Arts and Cultures Programme from 1999 to 2003. He was also a former curator of the British Museum’s Department of Egyptian Antiquities. He has organized a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions for major museums juxtaposing the work of contemporary artists with their collections. Recently he was a curator for the 2010 Busan Biennale in South Korea, and the collateral events "Distortion" and "Library" at the 53rd Venice Biennale. His book Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium, published by Thames & Hudson, surveys the interaction between contemporary artists and the museum. He was Visiting Scholar in Museum Studies at New York University and currently lectures in Curatorial Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London.
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Francis Frascina, Keele University
"Frames of Atrocity: Resistance and Left Melancholy"
February 18, 6:30
Co-presented with Onsite [at] OCAD University’s colloquium Trauma as a Cultural Phenomenon
Francis Frascina is John Raven Professor of Visual Arts at Keele University (UK). His research interests focus on relationships between art, culture and politics, especially in America, since 1945 and his publications include Art, Politics and Dissent: Aspects of the Art Left in Sixties America and Pollock and After: the Critical Debate, Second Edition.
Trauma as a Culture Phenomenon
Trauma as a Cultural Phenomenon is a colloquium organized in conjunction with the exhibition Adel Abdessemed: The Future of Décor. This event brings together panelists from a range of perspectives — psychiatry, literature, art history, to name a few — for explorations that start from Hal Foster’s proposal that repetition might be the cause rather than the symptom of trauma to consider trauma’s role as a cultural phenomenon. Could it be, for example, that trauma arises as a flashpoint because our cultures and civilizations need it (as Wolfgang Schivelbusch suggests)?
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CADN GRADUATE STUDENT SYMPOSIUM
Within/out Space
April 28
Engaged in an ongoing process of development, the metropolis constitutes a defining aspect of contemporary society and artistic production. Since the rise of industrialization, conceptualizations of the city have been accompanied by notions of anxiety, progress, consumption, isolation, communication and dislocation. Within/out Space will engage with these varying conceptions and examine the metropolis through the lens of artistic engagement. Conditions and theories associated with urban space remain fertile ground for discussion among artists, critics, curators and theorists. This panel will engage with members of the Toronto artistic community whose work addresses issues raised by the metropolis.
The theme unifying all three presenters is that of the constantly evolving urban landscape and the psycho-geographical boundaries that shape our human psychology and identity. He will seek to address the question of how is it that we negotiate the realistic conditions of urban life with media representations and popular culture.
"The face of the city changes more quickly, alas! Than the mortal heart."
- Charles Baudelaire
Speakers:
Evan Tyler, “Psycho-Geography and Urban Spaces”
Evan Tyler is a multi-media artist working in photography, video, drawing, text and performance. After providing an overview of his Having grown up in a small urban center, his ideals of the metropolis have become seminal to his current explorations. In this presentation, he will explore the theme of our discussion – Within/out Space – through three separate but related fascinating projects he has embarked on.
Flavio Trevisan, “The Game of Urban Renewal”
Flavio Trevisan is a visual artist and designer. He will discuss the Regent Park neighbourhood in Toronto and specifically how it was developed in the late 1940s to replace a notorious slum, only for it in turn to become a place associated primarily with crime and poverty. Flavio will present his work The Game of Urban Renewal as an in-depth study about how socio-political concerns continue to impact this particular community.
Keith Bresnahan, “The Metropolis and its History”
Keith Bresnahan is Associate Professor at OCAD U, and a historian and theorist of modern architecture and graphic design. His writing and teaching explore the political, social and philosophical contexts of design. For our panel tonight, Keith will discuss the mapping (in) the city, particularly strategies for visualizing urban structures and flows, and the relation between such representations and lived urban experience. Keith will approach this talk from a historical and theoretical point of view, and the manner in which history has impacted today’s conceptions regarding the metropolis and urban spaces. He will emphasize problems concerning experience and representation, immediacy and mediation.
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