K.U.Leuven - Arts Faculty
Erasmushuis
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21/03
B - 3000 Leuven
Events > Lectures
The Lieven Gevaert Centre collaborates with the Flemish vzw “Lieven Gevaert Leerstoel”, which organizes each year various lectures at St-Lukas Brussels and at the Photomuseum Province of Antwerp.
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20th November 2009, 11 - 13u
Victor Stoichita
La Seconde Peau. Quelques considérations sur le symbolisme des armures à la Renaissance.
Carles Guerra (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) gave a lecture on documentary photographic practices in contemporary art, and on the work of Bruno Serralongue in particular (in collaboration with Wiels Centre for Contemporary Art).
Location: Wiels, Brussels
28th March 2009
PHOTO symposium. Film in Perspective
International Photo-Festival Knokke-Heist
with contributions by Victor Burgin, David Campany, David Claerbout, Steven Jacobs and Alexander Streitberger
Organisation by Alexander Streitberger and Hilde Van Gelder of two intensive research workshops, one in Leuven and one in Louvain-la-Neuve with Victor Burgin, in presence of the artist.
Topic: the importance of his photographic and audiovisual artistic production for theoretical debates on the position of photography in contemporary art.
Closed sessions for master students Art History and Cultural Studies, for doctoral and advanced researchers.
November 18 2008
Els Opsomer
Organisation of a workshop around the work of photographer and audiovisual artist Els Opsomer, in presence of the artist, in the building of Brussels Biennial (postsorteercentrum Brussel-zuid), by Alexander Streitberger and Hilde Van Gelder.
Closed session for master students Art History and Cultural Studies, for doctoral and advanced researchers.
May 7th 2008
T.J. Demos
' Contemporary Video and its Relation to Globalization: The Work of Steven McQueen, the Otolith Group and Hito Steyerl'
Lecture organized in the framework of the Philippe Van Snick Project.
Location: auditorium Zeger Van Hee (DV1 91.56) (College De Valk, Tiensestraat 41, 3000 Leuven)
Date: May 7th 2008 at 7 p.m.
T.J. Demos is an art critic and Lecturer in the Department of History of Art, University College London. He writes widely on modern and contemporary art, and is a member of Art Journal 's editorial board. His essays have appeared in journals such as Artforum, Grey Room , and October , and he recently wrote the introduction to Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography (Phaidon 2006). His book, The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp , is forthcoming from MIT Press in early 2007. He is currently working on a new book-length study of contemporary art and globalization.
May 14th 2008
James Elkins
'How Camera's, People and Sea Slugs See the World: Notes on a Book Written Against Camera Lucida'
Lecture organized in the framework of the Philippe Van Snick Project.
Location: Erasmusgebouw, Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, 3000 Leuven
Date: December 14th 2006 at 7 p.m.
January 19th 2006
Prof. Eric de Chassey
"Constructed Abstract Situations in the Urban Cultural Continuum: British Abstract Art in the 1960s"
Lecture organized in the framework of the Philippe Van Snick Project.
Location: Oostende, PMMK,
Date: January 19th 2006 at 11 a.m.
The Lieven Gevaert Leerstoel participated at the international scientific conference on social realism in contemporary photography, held in september 2005, with the lecture of WJT Mitchell.
June 27th 2005
Jeff Wyckoff
"Science as a medium. Art as a tool"
For more information on the artist, read the article by Prof. Hilde Van Gelder in Image [&] Narrative.
