Paint Club

Tableau: Painting Photo Object: links to all video documentation etc here

Detailed schedule of events here

A Conference at Tate Modern

Friday 28 October 2011, 10.30–17.30Saturday 29 October 2011, 10.30–17.30
Why do so many contemporary artists, working across all media (paintings, photographs, objects, installations, live art), build on pictorial traditions of image construction to set the scene for new narratives? Variously described as tableau, dispositif and apparatus, these related conditions have been analysed by some of the most incisive thinkers on contemporary art and form the subject of this symposium.

The word tableau does not seamlessly translate into painting as witnessed in its central use in Michael Fried’s Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before 2008. It has come to stand for a series of discourses that address questions of artistic practice, the status of the art object and questions of spectatorship.

The centrality of tableau to recent discussions about photographic artistic practice is preceded by its presence in France in discussion around an expanded field in painting. Jean-François Chevrier has alluded to the return of tableau as a term and its possible implications in The Adventures of the Picture Form in the History of Photography

Keynote presentations by Philip Armstrong, Fulvia Carnevale, Jean-François Chevrier, Michael Fried, Michael Newmanand research papers by Moyra Derby, Adi Efal, Françis Gaube, Atsuhide Ito, Cédric Loire and Andrea Medjesi Jones.
In collaboration with Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London with additional support from the Institut Français, London
Tableau Project
Research Symposium 2
Fragments, Openness and Contradiction
in Painting and Photography
Saturday 21 May 2011, 10am – 4pm
Red Lion Square Lecture Theatre,
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Southampton Row, London, WC1B 4AP

presentations by:
Moyra Derby (Unversity for the Creative Arts) – Depth as Breadth in Rotation.
Francis Gaube (Université catholique de Louvain) – Thickness and Surface: towards a painterly space.
Atsuhide Ito (Central Saint Martins) – The Promise of Painting: The Spectres of Baroque in Contemporary Painting.
Andrea Medjesi Jones (Anglia Ruskin University) – A Shock to Thought –conditions of the emerging image.
Alexandra Oliver (University of Pittsburgh) - Illuminating Obscurity: an interpretation of the relationship between Jeff Wall and Manet.

Research Symposium 1, 10am - 4pm at Central St Martins, The Viewing Theatre, 109 – 111 Charing Cross Road

presentations by:
Catrina Cojanu (RCA) – Painting as Gaze: On the Revelatory Force of the Arabesque
Adi Efal (University of Cologne) – The two faces of the figure: plastic and philological
Cedric Loire (Lille University) – title tbc
Bettina Reiber (CSM) – Theorising Painting: Modernism, Hegel, Heidegger

Find out more on the Tableau Project blog