Between Adaptation and Death – Artist, Critic, Designer, Curator

Thesis-year Criticism and Curatorial Students at OCAD invite you to attend the first annual CRCP Symposium.

Between Adaptation and Death: Artist, Critic, Designer, Curator. Saturday, February 10, 9 am - 6 pm

The separation of professions into specialized practices has become a staple of modernized societies. With changing times we encounter changing mores, and with them the birth, adaptation, and extinction of various professions. How does this affect the roles of the artist, the curator, the designer, and the critic?

What does the term creative professional mean today if professions are defined by their specific objectives and comparable methodologies? Are they all struggling to define themselves relative to one another in order to solidify their credentials within today's complex social landscape?

Six undergraduate and graduate students deliver papers asking:

Should professional interdisciplinarity be encouraged?

What can be achieved - or lost - with the blurring of boundaries?

Might the future foresee further divisions within these creative professions?

How do educational strategies and industry standards affect these discussions?

Also featuring keynote speaker Alex Alberro, Professor of Art History at the University of Florida; speakers include Peter Theodoropolous (U of T), Shirley Yoon (OCAD), J.Bounty (YorkU), Johan Lundh (Konstfack), Liz Pead (OCAD) and Paul Byron (McMaster).

This event will be followed by a reception at 4 pm.

Room 190
The Ontario College of Art and Design
113 McCaul St.
Toronto, Ontario