Panel Discussion:
Practice For Everyday Life?

In the second of a series of talks in collaboration with The Courtauld Institute of Art initiated to broaden the range of discussion around the exhibition programme at Calvert 22, a select panel will explore key themes raised by the current presentation of work from emergent artists from Russia and asks what we can learn about the cultural imperatives of this country and the relationship of this generation of artists to its complex past.

The artists for this exhibition were co-selected by Joseph Backstein (Director of ICA, Moscow and Commissioner of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art) and David Thorp (UK Curator) and drawn from the ICA, Moscow and the START programme, established by the Centre for Contemporary Art - Winzavod to promote and develop young artists from across Russia.

All of the artists involved demonstrate an engagement with contemporary art that is noticeably in dialogue with ideas currently being expressed elsewhere in the world and several have studied abroad as well as in Russia. With this heightened awareness of global discourse, their practices can be said to operate in direct relationship to the wider political imperatives of our times as well as to a specifically Russian status quo.

Speakers include: artist, Taus Makhacheva and independent curator, Nadim Samman
Chair: Dr Sarah Wilson

Wednesday 27 April 6pm. Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN