Gustav Metzger Lecture, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2010. Photograph: Louise Hepworth

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BALTIC and AV Festival present a special lecture by the influential artist and activist Gustav Metzger. In a career spanning over 60 years, this lecture will reflect his life-long exploration of politics, ecology and the destructive powers of 20th-century society. In 1959 he published his first auto-destructive art manifesto, using political and ecological issues as a starting point for his concept of a public art for industrial societies. Metzger was ahead of his time in his adoption of industrial materials and concern for environmental issues. His work is more relevant today than ever and continues to influence new generations of artists and thinkers.

Produced by AV Festival 10 and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.

See Planetary Breakdown symposium.