2008 Walters Prize judge's talk
Judge’s Public Lecture
Catherine David
Contemporary Arab representations
Thursday 30 October 6pm
Catherine
David, director of the 2009 Lyon Biennial,
presents the
2008 Walters Prize judge’s lecture.
AUT Lecture
theatre WA220 – free entry – see map
Catherine David
has worked at the National Museum of Modern Art at
the
Centre Georges Pompidou (1982-90), the Galerie
National du Jeu de Paume
(1990-94) and the Witte de With,
center for contemporary art in Rotterdam
(2002-04).
She
is highly regarded for her role as director of documenta X
(1994-97)
and her acclaimed project Contemporary Arab
Representations 1 and 2,
produced in association with the
Tàpies Foundation (2003). More recently,
she was a
Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2005-06), where
she
worked towards a project entitled Di/Visions: Culture
and politics of the
Middle East (2007).
In the spring
of 2008 she received the Bard College Award for
Curatorial
Excellence.
Catherine David is currently
chief curator at the Direction des Musées de
France
(French Museum Board) and has been invited to curate the
2009
Lyon Biennial.
This lecture is kindly
supported by AUT School of Art & Design