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Courtauld two day conference: 'Between Culture & Capital: Art, Institutions & Corporate Patronage

Between Culture & Capital: Art, Institutions & Corporate Patronage

Date: 1.00pm - 6.00pm, 10th October (with registration from 12.30pm) - 11th October, 10.00am - 18.00pm (with registration from 9.30 am)Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute of Art.Tickets: contact researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk for more details.Speakers (subject to confirmation/changes): to include Jaime Stapleton (Birkbeck College), Sue Daniels (Arts & Business, London), Julian Stallabrass (Courtauld Institute of Art), Carey Young (artist, London), Deborah Doane (CORE (Corporate Responsibility) Coalition), Alexander Alberro (University of Florida), Swetlana Heger (artist, Berlin), Chin-Tao Wu (Academica Sinica)This two-day conference will examine the cultural capital produced and traded in relationships between art, art institutions and their corporate sponsors. With special emphasis on art practice and art production from the 1990s and after, the conference will look at the cultural conditions, economic and state policy supporting intersections of art production and business patronage. This will include a focus on the aesthetics of corporate image-making as well as the rhetoric of the neoliberal economy, the intersection of arts policy and public goods, and the role of art consultancies and/or art-business agencies in fostering relationships between the arts and corporate sponsors. Institutions supporting and exhibiting art production will be examined in relation to institutional branding and fashion, within the spaces of the museum and gallery, and the resulting changes and innovations in exhibition practices when navigating courses between art production and sponsorship. The conference will also look at changing forms of art-work and labour, legacies of institutional critique, and post-conceptual artistic strategies for critical and collaborative involvement with corporate funders. Supported by LCACE and the British Academy.