Duchamp Accelerated is an international symposium held at OCAD University in Toronto. It brings together academics, curators, artists, and students from around the world in an effort to re-think Marcel Duchamp, his art and ideas, within the contemporary moment. The symposium includes participants from the fields of art history, curatorial practice, architectural history, academia, and art production to discuss and imagine an accelerated Duchamp. This is a Duchamp that speaks not only to the art world, but also and importantly to the worlds of culture and politics, economics and the social. A Duchamp whose art and ideas, directly and indirectly, are able to inform future developments in the conception and practice of art, including our social understanding of art, material culture, consumer society and identity in our era of late capitalism.
March 7-8, 2020
OCAD University, Toronto
100 McCaul Street, Room 190
Saturday 7 March - 9:30am to 5:30pm
Serkan Özkaya (Artist, based in New York City)
Jaime Tsai (The National Art School)
Maxwell Hyett (PhD Candidate, Western University)
Elizabeth Legge (University of Toronto)
David Hopkins (University of Glasgow)
Celia Rabinovitch (University of Manitoba)
Nare Mokgotho (Artist, based in Johannesburg)
Emily Dickson (MA Candidate, OCAD University)
Sunday 8 March - 12:30pm to 6:30pm
Penelope Haralambidou (The Bartlett School of Architecture)
Maya Wilson-Sanchez (MA, University of Toronto)
Dot Tuer (OCAD University)
Yam Lau (York University)
Adina Kamien-Kazhdan (Senior Curator of Modern Art, The Israel Museum)
Julian Jason Haladyn (OCAD University)
For more information about the presenters, abstracts, and full program, please visit: https://duchampaccelerated.wordpress.com/
For inquiries contact: duchampaccelerated@gmail.com