2010-11

 
Video still: Elizabeth Price, USER GROUP DISCO, 2009
Commissioned by Spike Island 

Simon Critchley
November 2010

Pavilion will collaborate with philosopher Simon Critchley on a uniquely formed public event in Leeds. Critchley is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York. His new book, The Faith of the Faithless, will be published by Harvard University Press in 2011. The event will include contributions by artist Will Holder. Further details will be announced shortly. 

Aurelien Froment
October 2010

Pavilion will collaborate with artist Aurelien Froment during October. Born in Paris and now living and working in Dublin Froment works with photography, film, sculpture and performance to interrogate the way media structures the relation between object and sign, perception and cognition, language and meaning.  Further information will be announced shortly.

Elizabeth Price
Pavilion collaborated with artist Elizabeth Price on a programme of screenings and events during June 2010 including screenings of two video works, WELCOME (The Atrium) and USER GROUP DISCO (The Hall of Sculptures) at the Pavilion gallery. The works form part of The New Ruined Institute, in which each episode unfolds a different room within a fictional museum. Read More

Listen online to a dialogue between artist Elizabeth Price and cultural theorist Eric Prenowitz. Including readings from the script of Price's current work in progress West Hinder and texts by Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin. 

Pavilion commissioned Rachel Withers to write a new text on Price’s work. The text was distributed as a specially designed leaflet that acted as a piece of ephemera emanating from The New Ruined Institute. To receive a copy send your postal address to gill@pavilion.org.uk or view the text online

Frederico Camara
From March 17 - April 30 2010, Pavilion collaborated with Frederico Camara to present In an Ideal World, an ongoing research project creating an atlas of man-made animal enclosures around the world. Devoid of life, the photographs turn attention to the visual representation of natural habitats and, ultimately, to the act of looking.  Read More

Listen online to Frederico Camara in dialogue with Jo Longhurst

A commissioned text by Stephen Feeke, curator at the New Art Centre, Roche Court,  accompanies this work. View online

Should we have faith in art to alter the world?
On 2 December 2009 Pavilion curated an event responding to the provocation we should have faith in art to alter the world. The event responded to current discourse around art and politics, art and activism, relational aeshetics, notions of utopia, the manifesto and art's place within the world. The event was developed as part of Interchange 1, an exploration of visual arts critical debate in Yorkshire and the Humber. Read More

Speakers were Andrew Brown, Dave Beech, Teresa Gleadowe, Matthew Kieran, Heather Morison and Carey Young. Films of each presentation are available to view online 


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