The international workshop for art critics Three uses of the knife is co-organized by Lithuanian web-based contemporary art magazine www.artnews.lt, the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) and the Information Centre of the National Gallery of Art (IC NGA). The event is aimed at professionals both at the beginning of their careers and with outstanding experience to examine the genres, forms, functions and strategies of contemporary art criticism.
The workshop will endure for two months: every two weeks on Friday audience will get involved into a dialogue-like meetings with internationally acknowledged contemporary art critics, writers, designers, and philosophers.
9 October 2009
CAC reading room (Vokieciu str. 2, Vilnius)
The workshop is dedicated to practical work with texts covering writing and editing skills. It will be guided by the art critic, curator and chief-editor of the CAC Interview magazine Simon Rees (Lithuania), and Ellie Levenson (United Kingdom) who is a freelance journalist and writer, contributor for The Guardian and The Times among others, and an occasional columnist for The Independent.
23 October 2009
National Gallery of Art auditorium (Konstitucijos ave. 22, Vilnius)
The second workshop will examine art criticism in the expanded field, bringing up questions of contemporary art criticism’s functions, strategies of communication and identity of the publisher. Three sessions during the day will be led by Jan Verwoert, a Dutch art historian and critic, curator and a contributing editor of Frieze magazine, writer for Afterall and Metropolis M, Vivian Rehberg – a French curator at the Paris Museum of Modern Art and a critic of contemporary art, and Anders Kreuger, a Swedish curator and writer, Director of the Malmö Art Academy since 2007.
6 November 2009
CAC reading room (Vokieciu str. 2, Vilnius)
The third day is intended to work on so-called Case Studies examining the phenomenon of writing with art and art about writing in its intimate relationship to contemporary art practice. The workshop will be led by Maria Fusco, a British art critic, editor, lecturer, fiction writer and Director of Writing at Goldsmiths College, Will Holder – British performance artist, designer and writer, and Jalal Toufic, a Lebanese writer, film theorist, and video artist.
20 November 2009
National Gallery of Art auditorium (Konstitucijos ave. 22, Vilnius)
The last workshop is dedicated to an attempt to re-examine the current situation of Lithuanian art criticism with participation of art critics, philosophers, theorist of culture and art translators in Lithuania – Alfonsas Andriuškevičius, Gintautas Mažeikis, Artūras Tereškinas and Audronė Žukauskaitė.
The workshop language will be English (except the #4). Workshops are free of charge.
The project received support from The Culture Support Fund and The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.