Art may test the limits of social, moral and legal acceptance. Daniel McClean will through current as well as examples from the 16th century art world speculate on what the co-existence of these models of artistic production/distribution within contemporary culture says about art, the law and the relationship between them. Works by Santiago Sierra will be a natural part of the lecture.

McClean will in his lecture present how different moments in contemporary artistic production and distribution are linked to the law. He will identify and discuss three main models: the transgressive model where the law is intentionally transgressed by the artist through the artwork; the protective model where art has not been created deliberately to engage with the law, but the law is invoked by artists or galleries generally as claimants in order to protect art at some stage, and the operational model where the law is used often playfully as a tool by artists to be incorporated into the artwork and to reflect upon the rules that govern the social, economic, aesthetic and legal spheres and the law as a form of social power.

Daniel McClean is a lawyer specialising in art law, intellectual property law and medial law, practising at Withers LLP (London and New York). He acts for leading international artists and galleries including recently, the Haunch of Venison gallery against the UK Customs authorities. He has edited two publications, The Trials of Art (2007) and Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture (2002). He is also an independent curator. His most recent exhibitions is Offer and exchange: sites of negotiation in contemporary art (2007-2008), co-curated with Lisa Rosendahl and produced by Electra.

As a point of departure for his talk, Grimonprez will use a work, the so called YouTube-o-theque, that is shown in the lobby at Magasin 3. This collection of video clips taken from the Internet’s endless flow of information, illustrate his interest in how media influences our perception of reality. Starting with this general theme of interest Grimonprez will then mainly focus on the making of his newest film Double Take, shown as part of the exhibition at Magasin 3.

In conjunction with the exhibition Zidane – A 21st Century Portrait we present an evening program including film screening, bar and special guests. Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf, professor of art history at Stockholm University and Henrik Ystén, editor in chief for Offside Magazine will talk about their shared fascination with football.

During the evening the artwork Numéro 10, 2006 (120 min) by Massimo Furlan – a filmed performance from Parc des Princes, Paris – is screened.

Chief Curator Richard Julin meets Jonathan Monk over a conversation about a conversation. Monk has been called anything from artistic vampire to court jester in his mixing of high and low and harnessing of artistic legacy to serve the personal.

6pm: A heart-specialist’s view on heartbeats

by Cecilia Linde, professor and senior physician at ‘Hjärtkliniken’ Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, talks about our physiological and cultural knowledge of the heart in relation to her expert experiences.

7 pm: Something of our own selves: talking archives

by Sue Breakell, archivist, Tate, London
Taking as its starting point Boltanski’s use of archival forms and practices, this talk will offer an archivist’s perspective on the nature and meaning of archives in contemporary culture. It will consider the generative possibilities of the use of archives in art practice, and the particular ways in which such traces speak to the individual experience of the viewer through a kind of “microhistory”.

Café, bar and mingling. Free entrance.
The exhibition is open 5pm – 9pm, welcome to donate your heartbeat before the lectures start.

A conversation between Sofia Hultén and chief curator Richard Julin in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition BETWIXT – SOFIA HULTÉN between KENDELL GEERS, GABRIEL OROZCO, JONATHAN MONK, COSIMA VON BONIN, PAUL CHAN and MONA HATOUM.

A conversation between Christian Boltanski and Tessa Praun, curator of the exhibition.

Lecture by Roman Buxbaum, the founder of Foundation Tichy Océan and producer of the film about Miroslav Tichy that was shown as part of the exhibition.

It is difficult to bungle a good idea – Conceptual art and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings

Drawing environments. On the ‘technology’ of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings.

Sabeth Buchmann is an art historian and critic. She is professor for modern and postmodern art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Chair of the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies. She writes contributions for books, magazines and catalogues regularly and is a member of the Advisory board of the Berlin based magazine Texte zur Kunst. She is the author of Denken gegen das Denken. Produktion – Technologie – Subjektivität bei Sol LeWitt, Hélio Oiticica und Yvonne Rainer 2007 and Co-editor with Alexander Alberro of Art After Conceptual Art 2006. Free entrance to the lecture. Language: English.

*Sentences on Conceptual Art, Sol LeWitt exhibition catalogue, The Nordic Watercolour Museum 2002.

Sol LeWitt always felt that he was best represented through his work and never liked the idea of being filmed or photographed. Follow the artist in a rare exception when we show a filmed conversation between Sol LeWitt and curator Gary Garrels. The evening starts at 6pm with a presentation of the exhibition Seven Wall Drawings by curator Elisabeth Millqvist accompanied by special guests who all have experience of LeWitt works. The film screening starts at 7pm. Free admission to the event. Welcome!