Speakers during 'Form, Politics, Spectatorship: Documenta 12 as a Case Study'
Oslo, 6 March 2009
Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Nedre gate 7, 0551, Oslo
www.oca.no / info@oca.no
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) makes available through its website the audiovisual documentation of keynote lectures, panel debates and discussions that have been organised at OCA since 2006 and framed within the OCA semesterplan. The evolving documentation, which can be accessed here includes presentations by participants within OCA's International Studio Programme, International Visitors Programme and public programmes framed within past seminars:
'Film as Critical Practice', November 2007, with contributions: Art is What Makes Life More Interesting Than Art, Kristin Ross, Author and Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University; Politics of the Archive, Hito Steyerl, Artist and Filmmaker and Comrades! Even Now I'm Not Ashamed of My Communist Past!, Boris Buden, Writer and Cultural Critic.
'Form, Politics and Spectatorship: documenta 12 as A Case Study', March 2009, with contributions: Roger Buergel, Artistic Director of documenta 12; Ruth Noack, Curator of documenta 12 and Peter Osborne, Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London
Other contributions now available are discussions with OCA's visiting residents such as Thomas Bayrle and Seth Siegelaub.
The web based audiovisual documentation will continue to evolve in the future months to provide wider access to the public events and discussions held at OCA in past years – providing further presentations held within other seminars such as further contributions to 'Film As Critical Practice', 'The Art of Welfare', January 2006; 'Art, the Social and Gender Politics of the 1960s and 70s', January 2009, and 'The Legacy of Indian Abstraction', March 2009. The aim of the OCA semesterplan is to relate contemporary and historical artistic practice to current cultural, theoretical and political issues and serves as an extension of OCA's Verksted series. For more information on upcoming semesterplan events, please visit: www.oca.no.