2013 Creative Time Summit: Art, Place, and Dislocation in the 21st Century City, New York, USA
The fifth annual Creative Time Summit brings together an international cast of artists, architects, planners, politicians, activists and theorists to examine the pros and cons of the belief that the arts are a necessary ingredient in the making and remaking of cities. Keynote speakers are Neil Brenner, Professor of Urban Theory and Director of the Urban Theory Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; Lucy Lippard, writer, art critic, curator, and activist; and Rebecca Solnit, who has written extensively on the environment, politics, place, and art.
25-26 October, www.creativetime.org
Impakt Festival: Capitalism Catch-22, Utrecht, Netherlands
Through lectures, visual art and film programmes, the 24th edition of the annual Impakt Festival will look at the past, present and future of capitalism and its possible alternatives. Three curators – The Amsterdam collective Monnik (NL), Florian Wüst (DE) and Benjamin Fallon (UK) –present three separate programmes that share the belief that we are all defined by the capitalist system we operate within. The festival includes the exhibition, To The Reader, featuring work by, amongst others, Liam Gillick, Bureau d’etudes, Marika Troili and Paul Sullivan.
30 October-3 November, www.impakt.nl
Singapore Biennale 2013: If the World Changed, Singapore
The fourth edition of the Singapore Biennale invites artists to reconsider ‘the world we live in, and the worlds we want to live in’. Featuring works by 82 artists and artist collectives from 13 countries, mainly in the Southeast Asian region, many of the pieces have been commissioned by the Biennale and are being shown here for the first time. The works intend to explore areas such as spirituality, histories, the self and the other, exchanges, nature and geographies.
26 October-16 February 2014, www.singaporebiennale.org
30th Council of Europe art exhibition: The Desire for Freedom – Art in Europe Since 1945, Krakow, Poland
This exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow presents mainly video works made over the last five decades. Featuring 47 artists from 17 European countries, the works were chosen for the way they represent the social and political landscape of contemporary Europe, and pose questions such as: How do individuals want to live? In what way do they come to terms with history? How do they behave when faced with authoritarian regimes? Co-financed by the European Commission, the exhibition includes work by, amongst others, Marina Abramović, Marcel Broodthaers, Yves Klein and Richard Long.
Until 26 January 2014, www.mocak.pl
9 Artists, Minneapolis, USA
The Walker Art Center presents 9 Artists, an international group show that looks at the changing role of the artist in contemporary culture. Featuring Yael Bartana, Liam Gillick, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Renzo Martens, Bjarne Melgaard, Nástio Mosquito, Hito Steyerl and Danh Vo, the exhibition includes 40 works, old and new, and examines ways that the artists ‘negotiate the complicities and contradictions of living in an ever more complex and networked world’. Curated by Bartholomew Ryan, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center, the show includes sculpture, drawing, installation and video.
Until 16 February 2014, www.walkerart.org
