Open lectures exploring the work of Nancy Holt, her artistic legacy, and relevance today.
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Meet Milou Allerholm, writer and art historian, Stockholm; Karen Di Franco, curator and writer, London; Teresa Grandas, curator at MACBA, Barcelona; Ingo Vetter, artist and professor, University of the Arts Bremen; Bridget Crone, senior lecturer at the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London; Ben Tufnell, co-founder and director of Parafin, London; and the curators of the exhibition Nancy Holt / Inside Outside: Lisa Le Feuvre, director of the Holt/Smithson Foundation, Santa Fe; and Katarina Pierre, director of Bildmuseet, Umeå University. Lecture language: English.
Nancy Holt (1938–2014) was a central figure in the New York art scene and was an innovator of site-specific installation and the moving image. Across five decades she asked questions about how we might understand our place in the world, investigating perception, systems, and place.
More about the exhibition
Schedule:
10.00 – 10.05
Welcome and introduction by Katarina Pierre
10.05 – 10.35
Why Nancy Holt Now?
Conversation between Lisa Le Feuvre and Katarina Pierre on the legacy of Nancy Holt practise and her relevance today.
10.35 –11.15
Ecological concerns from Land Art to Posthumanism
Lecture by Milou Allerholm, writer and lecturer in art theory and art history, Stockholm.
11.15 – 11.55
Expanded Ecologies of the Image in Nancy Holt’s film work
Lecture by Bridget Crone, Senior Lecturer, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London.
12.00 – 13.00 LUNCH BREAK
13.00 – 13.40
On political concerns in Nancy Holt and other artistic practices in the '70s: The public and the private
Lecture by Teresa Grandas, Curator MACBA, Barcelona.
13.40 – 14.20
Nancy Holt: The Horizon of the Text
Lecture by Karen Di Franco, curator and writer, London
14.20 – 14.35 COFFE BREAK
14.35 – 15.15
All these relationships – How the understanding of site-specificity has changed in my own artistic practice
Artist talk by Ingo Vetter, artists, Bremen
15.15 – 16.00
Closing panel
Participants:
Milou Allerholm is a writer and lecturer in art theory and art history based in Stockholm. She is a recurrent art critic in the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, and writes for art magazines, including kunstkritikk.com, Form Magazine, and Konstperspektiv. 2011–2021 she held the position as Senior lecturer in art history at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She is the author of several publications and books, with an essay on the artist Anna Nyberg appearing in autumn 2022.
Bridget Crone is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research focus on the body in material and speculative terms, questions of “liveness” and the image in relation to performance theory/practice, and the changing relations of body, technology, and ecology.
Dr Karen Di Franco is a curator and writer, working in the fields of exhibition making and art historical research. She specializes in post-1960s feminist art practice and artists’ publishing, alongside the contexts of iteration, fiction writing and performance as points of enquiry in her work.
Teresa Grandas is curator and art historian at MACBA. She has curated a number of exhibitions and published monographs on artists such as Carol Rama, Fina Miralles, Joan Brossa o Takis. Teresa Grandas is responsible for the presentation of Nancy Holt / Inside Outside at MACBA in 2023.
Lisa Le Feuvre is the inaugural Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation. A writer and curator, she previously directed the Henry Moore Institute (2010-17), a center for the study of sculpture, led the contemporary art program at the National Maritime Museum (2005-09), and developed programs across London arts and academic institutions including Birkbeck College, Goldsmiths College, Serpentine Gallery, Tate Britain, and The Photographers’ Gallery.
Katarina Pierre is Director of Bildmuseet, Umeå University, Sweden. Pierre has been instrumental in developing the artistic profile of Bildmuseet, first as Curator from 1995, and then as Artistic Director from 2010. Her research focusses how art addresses post-colonial issues, power hierarchies, and gender. Her recently curatorial projects include solo exhibitions with John Akomfrah, Grada Kilomba, Naeem Mohaiemen, Zanele Muholi, and Zineb Sedira.
Ingo Vetter is a visual artist working with sculpture, photography, and installations based in Bremen, Germany. He teaches as a Professor for Sculpture at the University of the Arts Bremen, with a specific focus on artistic materials and production in globalization. Among his previous appointments were as a professor at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts, Sweden (2006-11), a visiting professor at College for Creative Studies in Detroit, USA (2008), and currently a guest lectureship at Vietnam University of Fine Arts in Hanoi.
Ben Tufnell is co-founder and Director of Parafin in London. Previously he was a curator at Tate and then Director of Exhibitions at Haunch of Venison. His books include Land Art (Tate Publishing, 2006) and In Land: Writings Around Land Art and Its Legacies (Zero Books, 2019). Ben worked closely with Nancy Holt in the last years of her life, curating gallery exhibitions and coordinating presentations of her work in museums in Vancouver, Manchester, Los Angeles, Munich, and elsewhere.