‘Primers’ events announced

GI is pleased to announce a new series of ‘Primers’ talks in advance of the 2012 Festival. The talks are a collaboration between GI Festival and the University of Glasgow and offer a chance to hear from some of those involved in projects that will feature in the Festival programme.

All ‘Primers’ will be held on Wednesday evenings at the University of Glasgow unless otherwise stated and are introduced by GI Festival Director Katrina Brown and Dr. Dominic Paterson, Department of Art History, University of Glasgow.

Future ‘Primers’ events take place on 7th and 21st March and details will be announced shortly. Become a G.I.P. now to take advantage of priority booking for these and all ticketed events at GI, as well as a number of other exclusive benefits. Click here for further details.

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Richard Wright
Wednesday 22nd February, 6 - 7.30pm
Yudowitz Lecture theatre
Wolfson Medical Theatre, University of Glasgow

A rare opportunity to hear from the renowned Glasgow-based artist and 2009 Turner Prize winner Richard Wright in advance of his GI 2012 exhibition at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum.

TRANSMISSION / Vasari’s ‘Lives of the Artists’
Wednesday 14th March, 6 - 7.30pm
Yudowitz Lecture theatre
Wolfson Medical Theatre, University of Glasgow

Panel discussion with Dr Evelyn Welch, Fiona Jardine and Jan Verwoert,
 
A panel discussion as part of Transmission’s project for GI 2012, Six Artworks for Your Interpretation. The discussion will take Varsari’s, ‘The Lives of the Artists’ as the starting point to examine the ways in which we assign ‘value’ to contemporary art.

Giorgio Vasari’s, “The Lives of the Artists’ is an encyclopedic overview of the lives of Renaissance artists, retrospectively posited as one of the founding texts of art history. The way artworks were interpreted and evaluated changed dramatically after its publication giving rise to international and institutional networks that still function as a means of distributing and validating artworks.

Transmission are also hosting a bespoke tour, discussion and Q&A at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre on Tuesday 28th February.