Frieze Art Fair 2009

Frieze Art Fair
15-18 October 2009

Frieze Art Fair takes place every October in Regent’s Park, London. The fair showcases new and established artists to an international audience.

As a part of Frieze a series of talks are staged each year, here are two that may be of particular interest:

Scenes from a Marriage: Have Art and Theory Drifted Apart?

12pm, Friday 16 October

Since the 1980s, when buzzwords like ‘semiotics’ were prevalent in the art world, theory has played an important role in the interpretation, and making, of art. Yet, after all these years, has contemporary art really influenced the way philosophers think? And is theory still relevant to today’s artists?

• Simon Critchley (Chair & Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, New York)
• Robert Storr (Artist, Critic, Curator and Dean of Yale School of Art)
• Barbara Bloom (Artist)
• Chair: Jörg Heiser (Co-editor, frieze)

Art and the State: Back to New Deal Funding?

2.30pm, Friday 16 October

What are the pros and cons of state-funded art and cultural production at a moment of severe economic crisis?

• DD Guttenplan (Writer and historian)
• W.A.G.E (Artist)
• Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (Strategic Managing Director of departure, Vienna; former Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum)
• Yu Yeon Kim (Independent curator)
• Chair: Jenni Lomax (Director, Camden Arts Centre)