Venice Agendas V, ‘Artist Gossips and Critics’ Metropole Hotel, Riva degli Schiavoni, 7-9 June 2007

This was the fifth consecutive 'Agendas' to take place at the Venice
Biennale. Venice Agendas is now regarded as a crucial forum for the exchange of ideas generated by the Biennale. At Agendas 2007, leading artists, critics and commentators addressed the question of how artworks constitute and promote debate, considered the potency of art world gossip, and, in a debate with Robert Storr, the Director of the 2007 Venice Biennale, scrutinised his ambitions for an ‘art in the present tense’. Follow the link below for the Venice Agendas podcast:

http://venice2007.wimbledon.ac.uk/

The Venice Agendas symposium has featured at every Venice Biennale since 1999, and has been developed out of Professor Bill Furlong’s ‘Audio Arts’ cassette magazine of interviews with artists, first published in 1973. He has made recordings at the Biennale since 1984, which has included the British representative on each occasion. The ‘Audio Arts’ archive has been acquired by Tate Britain, and is the subject of an exhibition ‘Audio Arts: Bill Furlong’ currently showing at Tate Britain until 27 August 2007. A small part of the vast Audio Arts archive can be accessed online at: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/audioarts/default.shtm.