Monday, September 8, 2008

SESSION 1: The Question of Placement and Architecture

Main Gallery

• Tiffany Bell (Project Director of the Dan Flavin Catalogue Raisonne, Guest Curator of Dan Flavin: Constructed Light) "The Ando Space and the Concept of the Flavin Installation" (Watch Bell's overview here. )
• Emily Rauh Pulitzer (Founder and Chairman, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts) "Flavin's Ephemeral (exhibition of '73 in St. Louis) and Site Specific (Clayton Road) Works"
• Richard Gluckman (Principal, Gluckman Mayner Architects) "Working in Architecture with Dan Flavin" (Watch Gluckman's overview here. )
• Michael Govan (Director, Los Angeles County Musuem of Art) "Is There an Ideal Architecture for Minimal Art?" (working title)

SESSION 2: The Question of Process

• Mary Beebe (Director of the Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego) "Dan Flavin at the Portland Center for Visual Art (1976)"
• Steve Morse (Studio Director, Dan Flavin Limited) "Working with Dan Flavin"
• Marianne Stockebrand (Director, The Chinati Foundation) "The Curator's Possibilities with an Oeuvre like Flavin's" (working title)

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

SESSION 3: Dealing with the Ephemeral

Lower Main Gallery

• Francesca Esmay (Conservator, Dia Art Foundation) "Documentation and Reproduction of Electric Light"
• Susan Cahan (Des Lee Endowed Professor, Contemporary Art, University of Missouri, St. Louis) "Remembering to Remember the Experience of Dan Flavin" (Watch Cahan's overview here. )
• Peter Nisbet (Daimler Benz-Curator of Busch Reisinger Museum and Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge) "Addressing Titles"

SESSION 4: Dealing with the Ephemeral II

In Front of the Water Court

• Martha Buskirk (Associate Professor of Art History and Criticism, Montserrat College of Art) "Documenting the Once and Future Project" (Watch Buskirk's overview here. )
• Francesca Herndon Consagra (Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Saint Louis Art Museum) 
• Robin Clark (Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego) "Radiating Context: Contemporary Works with Light"

For more photos from this symposium, please visit the Pulitzer's Flickr page.