Keynote Speaker
Credibility & Confidence: Behind the Scenes with Artists Today
In conversation with Dr. Sarah Thornton
Friday, March 27
10:00 - 11:30 AM, Auditorium 190
Free Admission with registration: www.eventbrite.com
OCAD University, 100 McCaul
OCAD University is
pleased to welcome Dr. Sarah Thornton as the Keynote speaker for the 2015 CADN
Graduate Conference.
Thornton is the author of 33 Artists in 3 Acts, published in English last autumn and
forthcoming in six translations, as well as Seven
Days in the Art World, an international bestseller available in sixteen
languages. She is joined in conversation by Francisco-Fernando Granados, a
Toronto-based artist, writer, and educator working in performance, drawing, and
multidisciplinary critical practices.
In her new book, Thornton asks some of the world’s most
influential artists (including Jeff Koons, Ai Weiwei, Cindy Sherman, Maurizio
Cattelan, and Andrea Fraser) the question: “What is an artist?” A writer,
ethnographer, and sociologist of art, Thornton delivers a hilarious and
dazzlingly candid look at a world where the artist persona is often as famous
as the work. She implicitly asks how and why myths and mystification feed the
intrigue of the artist as act. Researched over five years as Thornton
travelled the globe getting to know hundreds of artists, 33 Artists in 3 Acts tells the stories she amassed after spending
time with the final 33 in their studios and homes, seeing how their messes and
methods, artistic practices and lifestyles combined. Speaking about her
experiences researching and writing the book, Thornton will share what it was
like to have unprecedented access to these artists, and how they altered her
understanding of what artists are, or could be.
On March 27-28, the Multiple Li(v)es of Art/ists &...
Conference presents research by artists and scholars that investigates the
active destabilization of binaries and the permeability of disciplinary
boundaries. Providing opportunities to leverage productive energies and direct
forms of critique through discussion about practices and perceptions, the
conference engages the need for contradiction in how art and artists are
presented and appreciated in the world, and supports fresh methods that (re)ask
important questions.
More information on Dr.
Sarah Thornton: A Canadian who studied in Britain on a Commonwealth
Scholarship, Thornton holds a BA in Art History and a PhD in Sociology. Drawing
from Howard Becker and Pierre Bourdieu, her PhD was published as Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural
Capital. In addition to writing her three books, she has been the chief
writer on contemporary art for The
Economist and has contributed to many publications, television programs and
radio broadcasts. Thornton now lives and writes in San Francisco. Web:
sarah-thornton.com. Instagram: @eyesthornton
More information on
Francisco-Fernando Granados: As an artist and curator Granados has
presented his work in galleries, museums, theatres, artist-run centres, and
other sites internationally and across Canada. His writing has been published
in magazines and art journals including FUSE, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and
Art, and Canadian Theatre Review. He is a member of the 7a*11d International
Performance Festival Collective and currently teaches courses in contemporary
art theory and practice at OCADU and University of Toronto Scarborough. Web:
francisco-fernando-granados.blogspot.ca
More information on Multiple
Li(v)es of Art/ists &... Conference
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Image: Dr. Sarah Thornton.
Photo by Margo Mortiz.
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