Culture in an Expanded Field

Speaker: Suzanne Cotter
Discussants: Abhay Sardesai and Amrita Gupta Singh

February 2, 2012 | 6.30 pm
Little Theatre, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai

Suzanne Cotter will speak about the global in contemporary art and importance of the local within our new cultural cosmopolitanism. Drawing on curatorial projects past and present, Cotter will offer her thoughts on the role of the arts institution, new historical narratives that are emerging in the contemporary moment, and the challenges associated with presenting art in new cultural contexts. In an era of the global, in which artistic practices from around the world are the focus of attention of curators, collectors and the market, how can we begin to understand more fully the poetics of production as a counter point to the value-laden aesthetics of reception?

Suzanne Cotter is Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Curator, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project and co-curator for the Sharjah Biennial 10. Cotter has held curatorial positions at the Whitechapel Gallery and Hayward Gallery, London and was Senior Curator and Deputy Director of Modern Art Oxford (2002-2009).She has curated major solo and group exhibitions on contemporary art and artists and written for and edited of numerous catalogues and artist monographs, including a forthcoming book on the choreographer Michael Clark.

Abhay Sardesai has been the Editor of ART India, the premier art magazine of India, from 2002. He has written and lectured extensively on art and literature.

Amrita Gupta Singh is an art historian and writer, with an interest in art education and management. In 2002, she joined the Mohile Parikh Center, Mumbai, and has served as its program director since 2005.