Annual Conference 2002
Culture: Capital: Colony
Liverpool University, 5 - 7 April
This conference marks an important departure from previous AAH conferences in several respects.
Organised by three section convenors, each responsible for a thematic strand in the conference including a number of sessions, this event focuses discussion on three crucial, capacious, and highly contested concepts: Culture: Capital: Colony.
The intention is to encourage contributors radically to assess their art-historical backgrounds and to consider how their interests and perspectives have been formed, and may be changed.
The conference also specifically welcomes those whose backgrounds and practices are in art practice and contemporary art criticism and theory.
Culture: Capital: Colony asks those attending to interrogate the status of historical and contemporary art and art writing in a global context, and specifically to review the impact of European socio-economic and cultural development on the peoples of other continents.
The conference aims to bring the streams of intellectual, academic, and practical art production into critical and creative alignment. Organised in collaboration with the Tate Gallery Liverpool and the Walker Art Gallery, Culture: Capital: Colony concentrates on, and in, a city that itself exemplifies many of the problems, debates, and opportunities that conference sessions and key-note lectures will examine.
Intended as a collegiate and convivial event, coinciding with the 'Grand National Weekend' horse-racing meeting at nearby Aintree, Culture: Capital: Colony aims to make Liverpool the centre, for a while, of debate about the past, present, and future of all the world.
Three keynote speakers will be taking part in two plenary events: Dawn Ades, Partha Mitter and Gerardo Mosquera.
The conference social programme will include receptions at the newly refurbished Walker Art Gallery, the Tate Gallery Liverpool, and John Moores University Art Gallery. A series of visits and tours in the vicinity of the city are planned for the afternoon of Friday 5 April.
This conference marks an important departure from previous AAH conferences in several respects.
Organised by three section convenors, each responsible for a thematic strand in the conference including a number of sessions, this event focuses discussion on three crucial, capacious, and highly contested concepts: Culture: Capital: Colony.
The intention is to encourage contributors radically to assess their art-historical backgrounds and to consider how their interests and perspectives have been formed, and may be changed.
The conference also specifically welcomes those whose backgrounds and practices are in art practice and contemporary art criticism and theory.
Culture: Capital: Colony asks those attending to interrogate the status of historical and contemporary art and art writing in a global context, and specifically to review the impact of European socio-economic and cultural development on the peoples of other continents.
The conference aims to bring the streams of intellectual, academic, and practical art production into critical and creative alignment. Organised in collaboration with the Tate Gallery Liverpool and the Walker Art Gallery, Culture: Capital: Colony concentrates on, and in, a city that itself exemplifies many of the problems, debates, and opportunities that conference sessions and key-note lectures will examine.
Intended as a collegiate and convivial event, coinciding with the 'Grand National Weekend' horse-racing meeting at nearby Aintree, Culture: Capital: Colony aims to make Liverpool the centre, for a while, of debate about the past, present, and future of all the world.
Three keynote speakers will be taking part in two plenary events: Dawn Ades, Partha Mitter and Gerardo Mosquera.
The conference social programme will include receptions at the newly refurbished Walker Art Gallery, the Tate Gallery Liverpool, and John Moores University Art Gallery. A series of visits and tours in the vicinity of the city are planned for the afternoon of Friday 5 April.