Tate Liverpool’s new Artistic Director, Francesco Manacorda, is to deliver a lecture at Winchester School of Art (WSA) to launch the newly formed research partnership between the two organisations.
The lecture, part of a new Global Futures Speakers Series, will take place on Monday 22 October 2012 at 5.00pm in the Graphics Building at the WSA on Park Avenue, Winchester. This will be the first opportunity for Manacorda, who is also the convenor of Tate Liverpool’s Research Centre, to share his vision for the future of the gallery and the partnership with WSA’s Centre for Global Futures in Art Design & Media.
The lecture entitled Simultaneity and History will explore how the museum can experiment with alternative approaches in the presentation of art history, moving away from linear narratives to consider different periods and movements as ‘parallel universes,’ using the museum as a virtual time machine with which to explore them.
Francesco Manacorda has been Artistic Director at Tate Liverpool since April 2012. He was Director of Artissima, the international fair of contemporary art in Turin, from 2010-2012 and was Curator at Barbican Art Gallery, London from 2007-2009. While at the Barbican Art Gallery he curated exhibitions including the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art and commissions by Hans Schabus, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Clemens von Wedemeyer. He also curated the Slovenian Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale the New Zealand Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Francesco has written for publications including Domus, Flash Art International and Art Review and has edited several acclaimed publications, among them Radical Nature (2009) and From Futurism to Arte Povera – Portrait of a Collector (2005). He has been Visiting Lecturer in Exhibition History and Critical Theory at the Curating Contemporary Art department at the Royal College of Art, London since 2006. He has a Degree in Humanities from the University of Turin (1993-2000) and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London (2001-3).
For the complete Autumn schedule of speakers and further information on the Global Futures Speaker Series please visit the website –
http://southampton.likn.co/wrc/news/events/2012/09/autumn_lecture_series.page