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AV FESTIVAL 12: SYMPOSIA, TALKS & TOURS
Thu 1 March 2012 – Sat 31 March 2012
Symposia, talks and tours ran throughout the Festival, ranging from professional symposia for artists, curators and academics, to informal drop-in exhibition tours for everyone.
The Festival opened with the As Slow As Possible Symposium at mima. It explored ideas of slowness and resistant temporalities in contemporary art and culture with guest speakers: philosopher Eric Alliez, culture and music critic Paul Morley, performance art specialist and writer Laura Cull, and film theorist and philosopher John Mullarkey, plus Festival artists.
For the first time free informal exhibition tours took place each weekend of the Festival, designed and led by Festival volunteers.
Other talks and seminars were run in collaboration with Festival partners Teesside University, CRUMB, Datarama, Contemporary Art Society and Intersections.
Iain Sinclair: Middlesbrough Talk
Thu 15 March 2012, 6–7.30pm
mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern ArtIain Sinclair is a leading writer, filmmaker, poet and psychogeographer...more
Slow Cinema Discussion
Fri 9 March 2012, 11am-12.30pm
Tyneside CinemaA panel of filmmakers and critics discussed their work and current trends within contemporary cinema, including: Lav Diaz... more
Talk: Phill Niblock, Susan Stenger, Yoshi Wada
Sat 3 March 2012, 11am-12pm
Tyneside CinemaA rare chance to hear these musicians talk about their work and shared histories, referencing the New York minimalist... more
Musick to Play in the Dark: A Talk by Rob Young
Sat 17 March 2012, 5–6pm
Tyneside CinemaRob Young is the author of Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music, and Editor-at-Large at The Wire magazine. In a talk... more
As Slow As Possible Symposium
Thu 1 March 2012, 2–5pm
mima, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern ArtTaking its point of departure from the AV Festival 12 theme of slowness, the symposium investigated how we might... more
Exhibition Tour: Trying it for 32
Sat 10 March 2012, 3.30pm
Various VenuesThis tour was part of a series of ‘slow’ tours designed and led by AV Festival Volunteer Guides, to further explore the AV Festival 12 theme: As Slow As Possible... more
Exhibition Tour: SLOW
Sat 17 March 2012, 3pm
Various VenuesThe tour was part of a series of 'slow' tours designed and led by AV Festival Volunteer Guides, to further explore the AV Festival 12 theme: As Slow As Possible... more
Exhibition Tour: SLOW
Sat 24 March 2012, 3pm
Various VenuesThe tour was part of a series of 'slow' tours designed and led by AV Festival Volunteer Guides, to further explore the AV Festival 12 theme: As Slow As Possible... more
Torsten Lauschmann Tour
Tue 27 March 2012, 6.30–8pm
Laing Art GalleryClive Gillman, Director of DCA, Dundee, introduced the work of Torsten Lauschmann in this exhibition tour, organised by Contemporary Art Society... more
Seminar: Distribution and Dissemination after New Media
Mon 5 March 2012, 9.30am
The Literary & Philosophical SocietyFor AV Festival 12 CRUMB delivered a new professional development workshop for contemporary... more
Duration Conference
Thu 29 – Sat 31 March 2012
Culture LabThis international interdisciplinary conference explored the temporality of contemporary public arts practice, organised by Intersections at Newcastle University... more
Datarama #17
Fri 16 March 2012, 7–9pm
Tyneside CinemaDatarama is a democratic data-sharing event led by Polytechnic, an open show-and-tell session for people that like to make interesting things with technology... more
