Professor Andrew Patrizio

Inaugural lecture of Professor Andrew Patrizio, 4 September 2012.

Event details

Lecture title: 'Steps to an Ecology of Scottish Art'

Date: 4 April 2012, 5pm

Venue: Auditorium lecture theatre, Business School

Lecture abstract

How can Scottish art assert its place in today’s highly interconnected, globalised and environmentally challenged world? Can in-depth study of individual artworks create much larger and more complex cultural spaces in which to contemplate national and international problems?

In this illustrated lecture, Professor Andrew Patrizio selects a number of key contemporary artistic practices in our notional ‘Scotland’ and considers them through an expansive ecological model - from Martin Creed to Ilana Halperin and Boyle Family. The lecture title echoes the 1972 book 'Steps to an Ecology of Mind' by visual anthropologist and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson but also will call on Scottish and international figures that offer inspiration for the future study of Scottish visual culture.

As an experiment emanating from Professor Patrizio’s background in exhibition curating, the final form of this talk will be determined by a small group of primary and secondary school pupils, through their preferred ordering of the main artworks to be discussed in the lecture.

Professor Patrizio holds the chair of Scottish Visual Culture at the University of Edinburgh, where he is also director for the ARTIST ROOMS Research Partnership. He was previously a curator at Glasgow Museums and the Hayward Gallery, London.

Lecture video