Polly Staple
International Lecture Series
Friday, October 24, 2008 | 7:00 PM
Stanford Perrott Lecture Hall | ACAD
Free Admission - everyone welcome
Join Polly Staple, director of Chisenhale Gallery in London and former editor-at-large of Frieze magazine, as she discusses recent shifts in the production and dissemination of contemporary art against the backdrop of Londons current art scene.
Staple instigated the widely acclaimed Frieze Projects program of artists commissions at Londons Frieze Art Fair. In 2006 this program included the Artists Cinema, which screened a series of commissioned 35-mm artists films produced in collaboration with LUX. She also directed the Frieze Talks program, which featured such figures as Marina Abramovic, Zaha Hadid and Jacques Ranciere. Over the past ten years, she has worked with numerous prominent international artists, including Pawel Althamer, Jeremy Deller, Manon de Boer, Liam Gillick, Loris Greaud, Aleksandra Mir, Paola Pivi, Martha Rosler and Lawrence Weiner. She writes on art for such publications as Frieze, Art Monthly and Afterall.
Presented in collaboration with The Banff Centre, and the Alberta College of Art + Design
