THE CRITICAL TOPOLOGY OF LANDSCAPE:

VISUAL ART AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE.

Friday 20th April 2007, School of Art and Design, Bath Spa University.

9.30am on               Registration; coffee.

10.35 am                   Lecture Theatre.

10.45 am                   Welcome: Prof. Ron George

10.50 am                   Introduction: Alex Landrum

Morning session: Practical politics (chair: Alex Landrum) 

11.00 am                   Prof. Peter Osborne: Where is the Work of Art?

11.45 am             Ed  Whittaker: Habitus and Exception in Dan Graham's 'Alteration' Project.

12.15 pm                   Shahin Afrassiabi: imagining community

12.45 pm                   Questions

1.00pm -2.00pm Lunch

Afternoon session: Temporal spaces (chair: Alex Landrum)

 2.05 pm            Dr. Andrea Phillips:  The Return of Spatial Romance: How Contemporary Architecture Meet

as Liberal Democracy

2.45 pm             Sandra Symes: Locating Naoshima. Some Notes on Art Practice and Context.

3.15 pm                     Dr. John Chilver:  Morandi with Heidegger

3.45 pm                     Chrystel Lebas: Between Dog and Wolf

4.15 pm                     Edgar Schmitz: Un-setting Activities

4.45 pm                     Questions.

5.00 pm approx.         Close

Artworks will be shown in the foyer screen and at times in the Hall. Artists taking part include Mariele Neudecker, Robert Fearns and Adam Forman