On three occasions, between the fall of 2008 and the spring of 2009, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art organized three symposia under the title Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists. Each three-day event focused on one agent in the art world, looking at their expectations, positions and the contexts in which they operate.
If a book cannot capture the atmosphere of lively excitement of 35 international critics, 48 curators and 57 artists, not to mention the 500+ visitors who attended each symposium, it can highlight the individual tone and spirit of many discussions that remain, by necessity, unfinished. This book follows a chronological structure, containing selected transcriptions from each symposium and the outcomes of the associated workshops. After this comes a free-wheeling section titled 'What are you talking about now?', a question sent to all the guests in the months that followed the symposia.
Their diverse reactions give a sense of the range of characters, ideas and practices that the symposia brought together.
Published by post editions
co-published with Witte de With, center for contemporary art
Design by Kummer & Herrman, Utrecht
editors :
Design by Kummer & Herrman, Utrecht
editors :
Zoë Gray,
Miriam Kathrein,Nicolaus Schafhausen,
Monika Szewczyk,
Ariadne Urlus
paperback, 272 pp
language: english
ISBN: 9789460830174
