Whitechapel Gallery -March Talks and Events
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Talks and Events in March
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Talk: Unfolding Aspen 5+6
Thursday 28 February, 7pm - 8.30pm
Artist Mary-Ruth Walsh and writer and
filmmaker Katherine Waugh use film, audio and text to explore the radical structure and multiple conceptual layers of issues 5 and 6 of Aspen Magazine from 1967, conceived by artist Brian O’Doherty.
More |  Seminar: Booktrek
Friday 1 March, 2pm - 5pm
As Director of the Library at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 1977-1994, Clive Phillpotestablished the Museum's collection of artists' books and has since played a key role in defining the field through critical writing and exhibition making.
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 Seminars: Education: Politics and Practices
Wednesdays 6 & 20 March, 6.30pm-8.30pm
A series of conversations on curatorial and participatory practices with Felicity Allen, Editor
of the Documents of Contemporary Art anthology:Education. Guest speakers address dynamic pressures within UK art institutions through the lens of activism, feminism and globalisation.
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|  Discussion: Salon: Cultures of Capitalism
Thursday 7 March, 7pm - 8.30pm
Does progress always have to mean expansion? Is culture dependent on increasing space, numbers and activity? The final Salon in the series debates our cultural and political obsessions with growth. Speakers include Sarah Chaplin, Stephen Escrittand Allan Stoekl.
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 Talk: Eija-Liisa Ahtila: To Make a Tree
Wednesday 13 March, 7pm - 8.30pm
Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila talks about the mechanics and purpose of filming a spruce tree
as the subject of her cinematic explorations,considering the role of the portrayer and its relationshipto the depicted environment.
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Seminar: Booktrek
Friday 15 March, 2pm - 4.30pm
Gustavo Grandal Montero and Clive Phillpotoffer a selected history of artists' books - discussing seminal and little-known publications and the alternative circuits of distribution that these works pioneered.
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 Ed Atkins: No Prisoners of the Heart
Thursday 21 March, 7pm - 8pm
Writer in Residence Ed Atkins’ new performance elaborates upon hospitality and artistic practice. Atkins “adopts the position of critical parasite -
using the analogy of a tumour to insinuate a
presence within the Gallery”.
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|  Talk: Anya Gallaccio: To Make a Tree
Thursday 28 March, 7pm - 8.30pm
US-based artist Anya Gallaccio talks about the transformative character of her sculpture and her relationship with natural materials with artistsPhyllida Barlow and Jon Thompson.
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