Abstract

A series of presentations and discussion events took place over two consecutive days during the festival, which aimed to extend the ideas explored in Art Sheffield 08. The symposium looked at the theme of exhaustion in different contexts, including art, architecture and politics; focused on artistic professional development and the circulation of artistic labour; and explored ideas of the local and the international.

The Symposium comprised a guided tour, three presentations and talks, and a film screening.

Symposium
Thursday 28th February
Session 1, 3pm – 5pm
Can we rediscover latent potentials in the exhausted conflicts and promises of modernism?
Programmed & chaired by Jan Verwoert.
Speakers: Nikolaus Hirsch, Deimantas Narkevicius.

5.45 pm Screening of Deimantas Narkevicius’ work ‘Energy Lithuania’ in Showroom Cinema.

Friday 29th February
Session 2, 10am – 12noon
Revolution & Exhaustion
Speakers: Babak Afrassiabi & Irit Rogoff
Programmed & chaired by Jan Verwoert.

Session 3, 1pm – 5.00pm
On the Circulation of Artistic Labour: Performing the local and distributing the International and vice versa.
Programmed by Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum and chaired by Becky Shaw.
Speakers include: Jennifer Johns, Annika Eriksson.
Break Out sessions speakers:
Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi, Stephen Beddoe & Russell Martin (ArtQuest), Jeanine Griffin (SCAF) and Katy Woods, Cylena Simonds, Iniva, London