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1. theory		Friday, 6 March / 19:00 Speakers: Roger Buergel, Michael Leja, Ruth Noack, Peter Osborne, Suely Rolnik Subject: Form, Politics, Spectatorship: Documenta 12 as a Case Study*
2. practice	Monday, 23 February / 18:00 Speaker: Maria Lind Subject: The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art		Wednesday, 11 March / 19:00 Speakers: Philip Tinari and Luluc Huang Subject: Mountain Village Hermeneutics: Deviations, Fabrications + Transactions in Recent Chinese Art*	Wednesday, 6 May / 19:00 Speaker: Babette Mangolte Subject: Filming Performance	Friday, 15 May / 10:00 Speaker: Babette Mangolte Workshop: Sound and Image in Media Installation: Two Opposites Fighting for Attention** Wednesday, 27 May / 19:00 Screening: The Sky on Location (1982), dir. Babette Mangolte
3. project				Friday, 8 May / 18:00 Introduction to 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia 2009 Part I. Speakers: Anawana Haloba and Gavin Jantjes Subject: Haloba's participation in 'Fare Mondi//Making Worlds...'* Part II. Speakers: Elmgreen & Dragset, Thora Dolven Balke, Laura Horelli, Martin Jacobson, Jani Leinonen, Nina Saunders and Vibeke Slyngstad Subject: 'The Collectors', staged and curated by Elmgreen & Dragset for the Nordic and Danish Pavilions
	6 March to 20 June 'Nasreen Mohamedi: Notes. Reflections on Indian Modernism (Part 1)'*
4. history		Saturday, 7 March / 14:00 Speakers: Deepak Ananth, Rasheed Araeen, Anita Dube, Ruth Noack, Suely Rolnik, Daniel Rycroft Subject: Nasreen Mohamedi: The Legacy of Indian Abstraction*

all events take place at Nedre gate 7 unless otherwise addressed

*these projects are made possible with funds from 03 (Norwegian Ministry of Foreing Affairs)

**the workshop is open for BA and MA students from all disciplines. An active participation is required, therefore please send an rsvp to Fleur van Muiswinkel at fleur@oca.no

***this event is organized by OCA in association with KORO

Deepak Ananth is an art historian, critic and curator based in Paris. He currently teaches at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Caen, Normandy. His curatorial projects have included exhibitions of contemporary French art, 19th-century French painting, Surrealism and contemporary Indian art. He has written on a range of modern and contemporary European and Indian artists, mostly for museum publications.

Rasheed Araeen is an artist, writer and the founder of Third Text and Third Text Asia. He has been working as an artist since 1953, and in 1965 he pioneered minimalist sculpture. After having been active in various groups supporting liberation struggles, democracy and human rights, he began to write, in 1975, and then started publishing his own art journals: Black Phoenix (1978), Third Text (1987) and Third Text Asia (2008). He has curated the exhibition 'The Essential Black Art' (1987) and 'The Other Story' (1989).

Roger M. Buergel was the artistic director of documenta 12, and is now the chief curator and deputy director of programs at the Miami Art Museum. Previously Buergel has worked as an independent curator of museum exhibitions and as a scholar of visual theory who has lectured at the University of Lüneburg, Germany.

Initially trained as an art historian and critic, Anita Dube works as an artist. Dube came to her sculptural practice through her involvement with the Indian Radical Painters and Sculptors Association, a group of young artists formed in the 1980s in Baroda whose self-styled social and political consciousness contrasted with the more established narrative painting of the Baroda School.

Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset have been collaborating as an artists' duo since 1995, and have exhibited in art institutions around the world, including Tate Modern and the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, both in Paris.

Anawana Haloba completed her studies at the National Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, in 2006. She is a graduate of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2008). Haloba has participated in CAPE 2007, the Sharjah Biennial (2007), Manifesta 7 (2008) and the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008), among other international exhibitions.

Luluc Huang writes on international art, film and fashion. She has worked as Asia representative for Artforum (2006–08), curator at the non-profit art space Universal Studios-Beijing (now Boersli Gallery; 2005–06) and editor of the Chinese online film forum Rear Window (2003–05).

Michael Leja teaches History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His book Looking Askance: Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp (2004) traces the interactions between the visual arts and the skeptical forms of seeing engendered in modern life in northeastern American cities between 1869 and 1917.

Since January 2008, Maria Lind is the director of the Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. In January 2009, Lind received the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. From 2005 to 2007 Lind was the Director of IASPIS (International Artist Studio Program in Sweden) in Stockholm, and prior to that, she was the Director of Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany.

The French-born, New York-based experimental filmmaker Babette Mangolte was one of the first women accepted into the cinematography programme at L'École Nationale de la Photographie et de la Cinématographie in Paris, founded by Louis Lumiére, in 1964. She moved to New York City in 1970, where she worked as the cinematographer for Chantal Ackerman and Yvonne Rainer among others. In her work as director from the 1970s, Mangolte focused on performance documentation, working with artists such as Richard Foreman, Robert Whitman, Trisha Brown and Lucinda Childs. Among the films directed by Mangolte are What Maisie Knew (1976), The Camera: Je or La Camera: I (1977), Four Pieces by Morris (1993) and Seven Easy Pieces (2007).

Ruth Noack is an art historian, lecturer, independent curator and art critic. Together with Roger M. Buergel she co-curated documenta 12 in 2007. Noack also teaches film theory at the University of Vienna. From 2002–03 she served as the President of the Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art in Austria and from 1994 has worked as an art critic for Camera Austria and Texte zur Kunst.

Peter Osborne is a Professor of Modern European Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University, London, and editor of the journal, Radical Philosophy. His books include The Politics of Time: Modernity and Avant-Garde (1995), Philosophy in Cultural Theory (2000), Conceptual Art (2002) and How to Read Marx (2005). He is the editor of the three-volume Walter Benjamin: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (2005).

Suely Rolnik is a psychoanalyst, cultural critic, independent curator and Professor at the Universidade Católica de São Paulo and a guest lecturer at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture Master; the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona Independent Studies Program; and the Départament de Danse, Université de Paris 8. She is the author, along with Félix Guattari, of Molecular Revolution in Brazil (Semiotext(e), 2007).

Dr Daniel J. Rycroft is Lecturer in the Arts and Cultures of Asia at the School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He is also Director of the Film Studies and Art History course, and Director of the MA Cultural Heritage programme. He is founding editor of a new journal titled World Art.

Philip Tinari is a writer and curator based in Beijing. He is a contributing editor to Artforum, and founding editor of artforum.com.cn, the magazine's Chinese-language website. In 2007, he opened Office for Discourse Engineering, an editorial studio focused on publishing, research, and translation related to contemporary art in China. Tinari has written for publications including The New York Times Magazine, Parkett, Art AsiaPacific, McSweeney's, The Wall Street Journal and the Chinese journal Dushu.