Conference: Sculpture & Performance

Henry Moore Institute & Tate Liverpool

24 – 26 March 2010
This three day conference will explore the complex relationship between sculpture and
performance over the last century, acknowledging that what sculpture means today is partially
indebted to the impact of so-called ‘performance art’. Speakers will focus on and expand upon
the histories of inter-connections - constructive and destructive, divisive and codependent -
and examine our expanded contemporary understandings of the two. The conference is
international in scope and includes papers from artists, historians of art and performance and
curators, as well as live performances, with the extension of dialogues through discussion. We
are pleased to confirm the following speakers:

Wednesday 24 March, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2-7.30pm

Then and Now: Sculpture & Performance in the US

Chair: Jon Wood (Henry Moore Institute)

John Welchman, University of California, San Diego

Space and Time, Between: Fronts of Sculpture and Performance in the work of Paul McCarthy
and Mike Kelley

Malgorzata Lisiewicz, University of Gdansk

Fathers’ and Daughters’ Acting Bodies: Tony Smith and Kiki Smith

Object, Agency, and Relations

Chair: Peter Gorschlüter (Tate Liverpool)

Aura Satz, London Consortium

Sculptural Fits

Pil and Galia Kollectiv, University of Kent

Can Objects Perform?: Agency and Thingliness in Contemporary Sculpture and Installation

Bertrand Clavez, University of Lyon

Ben Patterson’s ‘Drip Music’: Notes on an assemblage sculpture

Followed by a performance by Florian Kaplick

Thursday 25 March, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 9.30am-7pm

Actions and interventions: the Politics of Public Sculpture and Performance

Chairs: Alex Parigoris (University of Leeds) and Simon Lewandowski (University of Leeds)

Irene Gerogianni, University of Thessaloniki

Putting the ‘form’ in Performance: the case of Theodoros the Sculptor

Maxa Zoller, Lecturer in Moving Image Art, London

KwieKulik’s Open Form Film ‘Activities on Moses’: Polish Expanded Cinema?
Erin Aldana, University of California, San Diego
The Urban Interventions of 3Nos3: artistic action against monumental public sculpture in São
Paolo

Dan Watt, Loughborough University

Let the Artists Die like Dogs!: Performing Objects against the World’s Museum

Katalin T. Nagy, Eszterházy Károly College

Public Sculpture and Performance in contemporary Hungary

Sculpture, Dance, and Choreography

Chair: John Welchman (University of California, San Diego)/TBC

Monty Paret, University of Utah

Oskar Schlemmer’s Grotesque Body: Sculpture and Performance at the Bauhaus

Gary Stevens, Slade School of Art

Playing a Part

Stephanie Rosenthal, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre

Choreography and Installation: The Judson Dance Theatre and Contemporary Practices

Jenn Joy, New York University

Promiscuous Objects: Choreography as Sculptural Practice

The day will include a performance by Michael Dean and the screening of a new film work by
Krysten Cunningham, both former Henry Moore Institute Research Fellows.

Friday 26 March, Tate Liverpool, 12.30pm-6.30

The afternoon will commence with a tour of the Performing Sculpture exhibition with Peter
Gorschlüter and others.

Sculpture & Performance in Britain: 1960s to the present

Chairs: Jon Wood (Henry Moore Institute) and Brian Catling (Ruskin School of Art)

Heike Roms, Aberystwyth University

Enquiring into the properties of sculpture: Tom Hudson’s performance pedagogy in the 1960s

Pierre Saurisse, Sotheby’s Institute of Art

Carving Space: Gilbert & George’s ‘The Singing Sculpture’

Hayley Newman, Chelsea School of Art

The Performance Years (Sculpture)

Mel Brimfield, Artist, London

This is Performance Art: Performed Sculpture and Dance

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Please note days one and two of the conference are in Leeds at the Henry Moore Institute with
the final session on the Friday being held at Tate Liverpool. The main galleries of the Henry
Moore Institute will be closed to the public for two days to accommodate the conference. The
cost for the full 3 day event will be £45, or £15 to attend a single day (concessions half-price).
To book a place contact Kirstie Gregory, kirstie@henry-moore.ac.uk, at the Henry Moore
Institute - seating is limited. For more information about the two venues visit www.henry-
moore.ac.uk and www.tate.org.uk/liverpool.