Marxism and the Visual Arts Now

University College London

8-10 April 2002

Plenary Themes:

Marxism and Cultural Practice Today

Art or Aesthetics?



Session Themes

Methodology: Dialectic, Negative Dialectics and other Materialist Modes of
Understanding

Marxism and Aesthetic Value

Stages in the Formation of the Popular and the Crisis of Cultural Studies

The Cultural Heritage of the Eastern Bloc

Racialization, Gendering and Sexing of Class and its Implications for
Marxist Cultural Work

Psychoanalysis and Materialist Theories of the Subject

Technology, Commodification, and Cultural Form in the Era of Globalization

What is Living and What is Dead in the Situationist International?

Issues in Cultural Production in Second and Third World Countries

The Sociology of the Contemporary Art World

Participants include:

Rasheed Araeen

Viktor Arslanov

Michael Baldwin

Anne Barron

Caroline Bassett

Dave Beech

Kirsten Buick

Mary Coffey

Geoff Cox

Angela Dimitrakaki

Steve Edwards

Stephen Eisenman

Tom Gretton

Nicos Hadjinicolaou

Jutta Held

Sean Homer

Anselm Jappe

Paul Jaskot

Boris Kargalitsky

Christina Kiaer

Barry King

Sharon Harper

Michael Hatt

Drew Milne

Stanley Mitchell

Peter Osborne

Giles Peaker

Stewart Martin

Satish Padiyar

Alex Potts

Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Greg Sholette

Pete Smith

Julian Stallabrass

Frances Stracey

Wojciech Tomasik

Alan Wallach

Ben Watson

Otto-Karl Werckmeister

Chin-tao Wu

Slavoj Zizek

WHOLE PROGRAMME

Full rate (£75)

Student/Unwaged (£30)

DAY FEE

Full rate (£40)

WHOLE PROGRAMME

Full Rate (£75)

Student/Unwaged (£30)

DAY FEE

Full Rate (£40)

Student/Unwaged (£17.50)

PLENARY RECEPTION ON DAY 1

Full Rate (£25)

Student/Unwaged (£12.50)

NOTE: The Conference Fee covers tea and coffee and the initial drinks
reception. Participants must make their own arrangements for lunch.
The area
around the college has plenty of cheap places to eat.

For further information contact Nick Grindle

n.grindle@ucl.ac.uk

020 7679 7545

University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Organized by Matthew Beaumont, Andrew Hemingway, Esther Leslie, John Roberts

Sponsored by the Department of History of Art, University College London and
the School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London,
Historical Materialism.

DRAFT PROGRAMME:

Monday 8 April 2001

5.30--6.30pm Registration in UCL Cloisters

6.30--7.00pm Opening Remarks

7.00--9.00pm First Plenary: Marxism and Cultural Practice Today

9.00pm onwards Drinks Reception

Tuesday 9 April 2002

9.30--10.00am Coffee and Registration

10.00--12.30pm Session 1:

A: Methodology

B: Stages in the Popular

12.30--1.30pm lunch

1.30--4.00pm Session 2:

A: Marxism and Aesthetic Value

B: Psychoanalysis and Materialist Theories of the Subject
4.00--4.30pm tea

4.30--7.00pm Session 3:

A: Cultural Heritage of the Soviet Bloc

B: Racialization, Gendering, and Sexing of Class

7.30--10.00pm Speakers' Dinner

Wednesday 10 April 2002

9.30--10.00am Coffee and Registration

10.00--12.30pm Session 4:

A: Technology, Commodification, and Cultural Form

B: Cultural Production in Second and Third World Countries
12.30--1.30pm lunch

1.30--3.00pm Session 5:

A: What is Living & What is Dead in the Situationist
International?

B: Sociology of the Contemporary Art World

3.00--3.30pm tea

3.30--6.00pm Second Plenary: Art or Aesthetics?

6.00--6.30pm Closing Remarks