Presented by the The Idee Levitan IHC Endowed Lecture Series
Thursday, May 8 / 5 P.M. / Free
Mary Craig Auditorium
Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara
For reservations call 893-4809.

Okwui Enwezor served as the Artistic Director of Documenta XI, the celebrated exhibition of contemporary art featuring the work of 116 artists, that ran from June to September of 2002 in Kassel Germany. This symposium provides a venue for discussing the nature of curatorial practices in the contemporary global sphere of art through an engagement with the practice of Okwui Enwezor, artistic director of Documenta XI. Documenta XI achieved a marked transformation of critical and curatorial practice in contemporary art through its engagement with international contexts of contemporary art practice. Enwezor's attempt to make sense of the rapid changes and transformations within the global public sphere in which contemporary art operates today engendered a very complex curatorial paradigm for this exhibition. The symposium brings together eminent artists, art historians and curators to discuss the emergence of new paradigms of curatorial practice in this new century.

Panelists

Okwui Enwezor (Artistic Director, Documenta XI)
Charles Gaines (School of Art, California Institute of the Arts)
Renée Green (Department of Art Studio, UCSB)
Dick Hebdige (Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB)
Laurie Monahan (Department of the History of Art and Architecture, UCSB)
Sylvester Ogbechie (Department of the History of Art and Architecture, UCSB)
Christopher Scoates (Chief Curator, University Art Museum, UCSB)
with Stephan Miescher (Department of History, UCSB) as moderator.

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