In Conversation: Michael Clegg & Martin Guttmann with Dave Beech

On Saturday 12 August, Michael Clegg & Martin Guttmann were joined by artist, writer and lecturer Dave Beech, to discuss their exhibition, and the process of creating the new work Manchester 1911.

A recording of this event is now available to watch online, visit:

mms://streaming.cornerhouse.org/cleggandguttmann-inconversation

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To watch any of the streams you need the latest Windows Media Player available for Windows or OSX which you can download from http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx

or free VLC player for Windows, Linux or OSX which you can download from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Event details:

Clegg & Guttmann will discuss their exhibition and the process of creating the new work Manchester 1911, which was made by bringing a number of academics, from various institutions in Manchester, together in the context of a colloquim.

Dave Beech has written recently about independent art’s need for it won institutions, identifying an unhelpful aversion to ‘institutions’ within contemporary art’s accepted ideas.In place of this he argues that ” we do not need to avoid institutionalisation, we need fuller, wider and more diverse forms of institutionalisation” *

This talk will explore, through Clegg & Guttmann’s work and Beech’s research, the positive potential of art’s institutions, including the institutionalisation of art.

Dave Beech is an artist, writer, curator and lecturer.

 *Art Monthly, March, 2006