Joanna Kavenna talks at Crunch Art Festival 2011
This year at Crunch: the art and philosophy festival at hay, Joanna Kavenna will be talking about autobiography in art and the political power of art.
The festival, running from the 18th – 20th November 2011, will be host to an impressive range of cultural, artistic and intellectual figures. From Hans Ulrich Obrist "the most powerful man in the international art world' (Guardian) to Susan Hiller, fresh from her retrospective at the Tate earlier this year, the Crunch 2011 speakers will debate and engage with this year's theme, 'Awake in the Universe'.
Tickets to these events are available here.
Making Art, Making Me
Saturday 19th November, 12:30pm
Joanna Kavenna, Bob & Roberta Smith, Brian Dillon. Felicity Evans Chairs.
From Tracey Emin to Philip Roth, there is no shortage of autobiographical art. But is art the means we use to create autobiography? Is it through creativity that we create ourselves? Artist 'Bob and Roberta Smith', award winning novelist Joanna Kavenna and philosopher and Cabinet editor Brian Dillon go in search of how they are who they are.
How to Change the World
Sunday 20th November, 12:30pm
Martin Kemp, Joanna Kavenna, John Tusa. Razia Iqbal chairs.
From Goya to Guernica, art's power to carry political punch is clear. But can and should art be primarily engaged in political change? Is great art necessarily too complex to be reduced to propaganda? Author of From Christ to Coke, Martin Kemp, novelist Joanna Kavenna, and University of the Arts chair Sir John Tusa question art's power.