Recorded live from Gunnersbury Park Museum, artist Michael Landy, CBE, RA, shared a selection of previous works – including Breakdown (2001) an Artangel commission in which he catalogued and destroyed all of his possessions in a disused department store on Oxford Street and Acts of Kindness (2011) for Art on the Underground – as part of the artistic context for his proposal for the Humanitarian Aid Memorial at Gunnersbury Park.  

The evening continued with a round table discussion between Landy, Humanitarian Aid Committee member Sir Brendan Gormley, Gunnersbury Estate’s CEO, David Bowler and Contemporary Art Society Senior Art Producer, Jordan Kaplan.

Image: Michael Landy by David Bebber

In Conversation with Michael Landy

This one day collaborative seminar brought together the two networks to explore the different aspects of displaying, collecting and preserving sound pieces. The seminar presented a series of short papers from invited artists, academics and curators followed by panel discussions and opportunities for networking.

This seminar focused on different aspects of displaying, collecting and preserving sound pieces. Discussing current commissions (Katrina Palmer, The Quarryman’s Daughters for Art Angel); exhibitions and recent sound displays (for example, Susan Phillipzs: War Damaged Musical Instruments) the speakers considered current theoretical, practical and institutional issues dealing with artists working with sounds as a sculptural medium, informing the networks about current practices in contemporary art.

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The Contemporary Art Society exists to encourage an appreciation and understanding of contemporary art by a wide audience and to donate works by important and new artists to museums and public galleries across the UK.

1 Salome Voegelin

Contemporary Art Society

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