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Artfacts.Net @ Tate Modern (7.10.2009)

Good Business is the Best Art

Taking Andy Warhol's notorious provocation as a starting point, this short symposium explores in greater depth some of the issues raised by our current exhibition Pop Life: Art in a Material World.

We extend the discussion to the relationships between art and business and explore artists' strategies and the status of the work of art in an age of mass production. Speakers include journalist Peter Aspden, the Financial Times arts writer, Marek Claassen director of Artfacts.Net, Cosey Fanni Tutti, artist, 'London based artist, curator and writer Alana Jelinek, Iain Robertson, deputy academic director and head of art business studies at Sotheby's Institute of Art, Jaime Stapleton, associate research fellow of the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, Gavin Turk, artist and Catherine Wood, curator of Pop Life: Art in a Material World.

These speakers approach the complex interactions between artists and commerce in contemporary life from a range of critical perspectives.

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£15 (£12 concessions), booking recommended

Timetable of speakers

11.00 Welcome

11.10 Iain Robertson

11.30 Alana Jalinek

11.50 Iain Robertson and Alana Jalinek in conversation followed by Q&A

12.10 Cosey Fanni Tutti in conversation with Catherine Wood

12.40 Q&A

13.00 Break

14.00 Marek Claassen

14.25 Jaime Stapleton

14.45 Marek Claassen and Jaime Stapleton in conversation followed by Q&A

15.05 Gavin Turk in conversation with Nicholas Cullinan

15.30 Q&A

15.45 Break

15.55 Peter Aspden

16.15 Panel discussion

17.00 End