AICA-USA Panel Discussion during the 2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts
AICA-USA Panel Discussion during the 2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: The Interconnected World in Boston
“What a New Generation of Young Art Critics Thinks”: a panel discussion during 2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: The Interconnected World (April 7-10, 2011) at Boston's Omni Parker House Hotel organized by Transcultural Exchange. The AICA panel is sponsored by The Brooklyn Rail.
What is the role of young critics in the current art world? The panelists will discuss their relevance as vital voices shaping our understanding of contemporary art.
Thursday, April 7, 1:30 – 3:30 pm
The Boston Public Library, Room C05/C06, Boston, MA.
Moderator: Marek Bartelik, President, the National Chapter of the International Art Critics Association (AICA). Panelists: Greg Lindquist, Patricia Milder and Abbe Schriber.
Panel coordinator: Greg Lindquist, critic and artist, member of AICA-USA.
Panelists:
Greg Lindquist is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer. He also writes about art for artcritical.com, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic and ARTnews. Lindquist is a contributing editor for artcritical.comand Art Books in Review Editor for The Brooklyn Rail. He earned his dual masters degree in fine arts in painting and art history from Pratt Institute in 2007. He is the 2009-10 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee and the Sally & Milton Avery Arts Foundation Grantee for the 2009 Art Omi International Artist Residency. Lindquist’s most recent work addressed architectural decay and entropy through an immersive installation of painting and sculpture. He participated recently in Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back, organized by the Laura Palmer Foundation (based in Warsaw) in The Ministry of Transportation building in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Patricia Milder is a Brooklyn based art writer and critic. She is the Managing Art Editor at The Brooklyn Rail; her writings on art, performance, and dance have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, PAJ: A Journal of Art and Performance, Artcritical.com, The L Magazine and in various exhibition catalogues. She holds an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in Art Criticism and Writing, and a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.In 2009 Patricia was selected as a Writing Live Fellow for Performa09. In 2010 she was a guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts, in the Visual and Critical Studies Department. She has been invited to be writer-in-residence at the Mount Tremper Arts Festival 2011, where she will also moderate a panel discussion: “Critical Issues at the Intersection of Performance and Art.” She is currently curating an alternative space exhibition of art and performance with the artist Lizzie Scott, and organizing a panel on “Curatorial Practices in Contemporary Dance,” which will be recorded and published in the 100th issue of PAJ.
Abbe Schriber is a writer and curator based in Brooklyn. Currently, she works in the curatorial department at The Studio Museum in Harlem. where she is organizing StudioSound: OJO, an original audio project for the museum’s front lobby on view in spring 2011. She is a regular contributor for several online publications, including Art Critical and the new literary magazine Full Stop. She holds a BA in Art History from Oberlin College, where she additionally co-curated the exhibitions ‘To Make Things Visible’: Art in the Shadow of World War I, andEnvisioning Edo’s Splendor: ‘The Floating World’ and Beyond.
The 2011 Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: The Interconnected Worldis theinternational forum for emerging and established artists, cultural administrators, residency directors, teachers, critics and curators providing a unique cross-disciplinary platform to network, showcase, support and promote artists' work.Additional Info: We will waive the registration fee for them, which includes the opening night reception and the dinner on April 8. For more info visit: www.transculturalexchange.org