26th May 2009
Hosted by the AAs new Interprofessional Studio (AAIS), ‘Salon aims to restore the Front Members Room to its original function as a sanctuary of stimulating conversation and the pursuit of knowledge. The large table at the centre of the room forms a site of continual production with daily meetings, discussions and workshops, the outcome of which will form an ongoing, ever-increasing exhibition. Brett Steele and Catharine Patha host a conversation between pairs of collaborators who discuss their joint projects as well as the joys and pitfalls of working together. Art critic and broadcaster Andrew Graham Dixon joins writer and filmmaker, Patrick Dickinson to discuss their collaboration on the BBC documentary ‘I, Samurai’.Artist, curator, and educator Richard Wentworth joins designer Kit Grover to discuss their various collaborations. Ken Arnold, Head of Public Programmes at the Wellcome Trust, joins David Cotterrell, an installation artist and Professor of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam, to discuss their collaboration on the ‘War and Medicine’ exhibition at the Wellcome Collection.
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