Friday 18th November

• Event [6]
  Friday 18 November 2011
  7:30pm
  Venue: Globe Hall
   
  

  Talk Session

  Awake in the Universe

   

  Susan Hiller, Bracha Ettinger, Julian Stallabrass. Philip Dodd chairs.

  
  

  Our 2011 opening debate addresses the festival's theme, 'Awake In The Universe' head on.  What gives art the ability to raise us from emotional and intellectual slumbers and where is its edge currently to be found?

   

  Controversial art historian Julian Stallabrass, artist Susan Hiller fresh from her retrospective at the Tate earlier this year, and postmodern painter and psychoanalyst Bracha Ettinger debate how art and creativity make us alive.

  SOLD OUT

Saturday 19th November

• Event [21]
  Saturday 19 November 2011
  11:30am
  Venue: The Ring
   
  

  Talk Session

  Becoming Human

   

  Bracha Ettinger in conversation with Griselda Pollock

  
  

  Can art change who you are? Psychoanalyst, painter and philosopher Bracha Ettinger reveals the intricate connections between her critical theory and creative practice to art historian Griselda Pollock.

   

  “Captivating” Judith Butler

  SOLD OUT
• Event [24]
  Saturday 19 November 2011
  12:30pm
  Venue: The Ring
   
  

  Talk Session

  Making Art, Making Me

   

  Joanna Kavenna, Bob & Roberta Smith, Brian Dillon. Felicity Evans Chairs.

   

  From Tracey Emin to Philip Roth, there is no shortage of autobiographical art. But is art the means we use to create autobiography?  Is it through creativity that we create ourselves? 

   

  Artist 'Bob and Roberta Smith', award winning novelist Joanna Kavenna and philosopher and Cabinet editor Brian Dillon go in search of how they are who they are.

  SOLD OUT
• Event [34]
  Saturday 19 November 2011
  3:30pm
  Venue: The Ring
   
  

  Talk Session

  Swimming and Flying

   

  Mark Haddon

  
  

  Award-winning novelist and playwright Mark Haddon reveals what his fears of flying and wild-swimming can tell us about the conflict between poetic and rational thought, the power of silence, and the nature of art.

   

  "Remarkable… Impressive… Rewarding" Time Out

  SOLD OUT
• Event [42]
  Saturday 19 November 2011
  5:30pm
  Venue: The Ring
   
  

  Talk Session

  American Surreal

   

  Susan Hiller talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist

   

  Having abandoned anthropology to pursue the art of the fantastic, Susan Hiller looks back on the philosophy that has driven her forty-year career at the forefront of contemporary art with the Serpentine’s Hans Ulrich Obrist. Includes a screening of the Last Silent Movie.

  
  

  "A hugely influential figure" Nick Serota

   

   

  SOLD OUT
• Event [41]
  Saturday 19 November 2011
  5:30pm
  Venue: Globe Hall
   
  

  Talk Session

  Maps of Mystery

   

  Semir Zeki, Adrian Noble, Hilary Lawson. Felicity Evans chairs.

   

  Many have claimed art to be an exploration of the ineffable. Does art help us catch sight of the mystery of being alive, or do we mystify existence at our peril? 

   

  Founder of neuroesthetics Semir Zeki, renowned theatre director Adrian Noble and post-postmodern philosopher Hilary Lawson look into the unknown.

   

  SOLD OUT

Sunday 20th November

• Event [64]
  Sunday 20 November 2011
  12:00pm
  Venue: Art Salon
   
  

  Talk Session

  Yes, It Really Is Beautiful!

   

  Guy Dammann

  
  

  Do we need to pretend that postmodernity never happened? Guardian and TLS music critic Guy Dammann argues that we must trick ourselves into believing in the objective truth of our tastes in order to be awakened by art’s power.

  SOLD OUT
• Event [66]
  Sunday 20 November 2011
  12:30pm
  Venue: The Ring
   
  

  Talk Session

  The Limits of Art

   

  Raymond Tallis & Julian Spalding.

   

  They met at Crunch 2010. Now physician, novelist and poet Raymond Tallis and controversial critic Julian Spalding are ready to unveil their new, radical and utterly compelling theory of art, the limits of artistic freedom, and the dangers of the status quo. Are formal constraints stultifying or liberating? Has the contemporary art world lost sight of necessary limits to artistic practice?

   

  “Illuminating” Guardian

  SOLD OUT
• Event [67]
  Sunday 20 November 2011
  1:00pm
  Venue: Lower Gallery
   
  

  Talk Session

  Crunch Lunch: Dining With The Devil

   

  Matthew Stone & Eleanor Lindsay Fynn

   

  Artists Matthew Stone and Eleanor Lindsay Fynn lead a forum discussion on the issues raised by the morning’s debate on art and ethics, Dancing with the Devil.

  SOLD OUT
• Event [69]
  Sunday 20 November 2011
  1:30pm
  Venue: The Ring
   
  

  Talk Session

  Inside The Mind's Eye

   

  Semir Zeki, Bryan Appleyard, Elisabeth Schellekens. Hilary Lawson chairs.

  
  

  Neuroscientists claim they can pinpoint the brain's creative centres. But can art and creativity be reduced to brain function?  And if artistic wakefulness is simply an extension of biology, what does this mean for our understanding of free will, truth and imagination?

   

  Founder of Neuroesthetics  Semir Zeki, philosopher of art Elisabeth Schellekens, and award-winning feature writer Bryan Appleyard investigate the limits of art and science.

  SOLD OUT
• Event [73]
  Sunday 20 November 2011
  2:30pm
  Venue: Globe Hall
   
  

  Talk Session

  Unpleasure

   

  Jake Chapman in conversation with Nick Hackworth

  
  

  As one half of the most consistently provocative pairing in contemporary British art, Jake Chapman is no stranger to controversy. In conversation with Paradise Row founder Nick Hackworth, Chapman reveals the inspirations behind such seminal works as Insult to Injury and Death, and the nuances of his darkly comic, pessimistic philosophy.

  SOLD OUT