MAM Art Course 09
No. 6 "Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art"
Japanese-English simultaneous translation available
- Date & Time
- 14:00-16:00, March 29 [Sun], 2009
- Lecturer
- Okwui Enwezor (Curator / critic / poet)
- Organizers
- Mori Art Museum, Academyhills
- Corporate Sponsor
- UBS Group
- Okwui Enwezor Profile
- Born 1963 in Nigeria. Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at San Francisco Art Institute. Served as Artistic Director of Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany (2002) and the 7th Gwangju Biennale in Korea (2008). Has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues, anthologies, and journals. Founder and editor of Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art. In this lecture, Okwui Enwezor will argue his perspective on the recent discourse of how we could document contemporary art and use its archive.
- What art can do for society. Learning about the art of the future.
MAM Art Course 2008-2011 -
“MAM Art Course” is a series of educational courses, created in partnership with UBS, that explores diverse facets of contemporary art.Having got off to a great start earlier this year, the courses will continue for three years and will seek to investigate the complex web of relations that exists between art and society in relation to three key themes: A for art, B for business and C for culture.
