Bashed on the Head

“Bashed on the Head: Global and Local Tensions in the Life of an Artist,” is the new talk by Lanfranco Aceti, Director of Arts Administration @ Boston University for the TransCultural Exchange conference organized by Professor Mary Sherman at Boston University. Dr. Aceti’s talk, which also gives the title to the panel, will be a moment of conversation between esteemed colleagues and the audience. The panel location is: Boston University, George Sherman Union, 2nd Floor, Metcalf Hall, Small Hall – Thursday, February 25, 2016 3:15pm – 4:45pm.

Moderator: Jean-Yves Coffre, Director, Camac, France. Jean-Yves Coffre’s presentation is supported, in part, by a TransCultural Exchange Travel Grant, and made possible by the generosity of Mrs. Ralph Ghormley. Fellow panelist members are: Moez Surani and Nina Leo, Poet and Multi-disciplinary Artists collaboratively working with language and scent; Alia Farid, Curator, Kuwait Pavilion, 14th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale; Luigi Galimberti, Co-Coordinator, Transnational Dialogues, whose presentation is supported, in part, by a TransCultural Exchange Travel Grant, made possible by the generosity of Mrs. Ralph Ghormley; Flavia D’Avila, Performer and Guest Member, Cultural Policies Committee and Binational Cultural Committee of Santana do Livramento, Brazil.

The panel is an opportunity to meet with Lanfranco Aceti and discuss future projects and activities that he is developing for Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA), the International Association for Visual Culture and its biennial conference THE SOCIAL and Arts Administration @ Boston University.

The TransCultural Exchange conference is hosted by Boston University February 25-27, 2016. The conference serves as a venue for artists to connect and collaborate as the art world transitions from an isolated venue dependent on galleries and dealers to find its place in the increasingly interconnected and globalized community. The theme of this year’s TransCultural Exchange conference is engaging artists with the 21st century art scene—how the digital age can be embraced as a novel format for the presentation of art as discrete from traditional gallery and museum formats and the opportunities this deviation allows with relationship to outreach and audience.

Over 150 curators, leading researchers, gallery owners, funders, critics, artist-in-residency directors and those from other fields looking to work with artists have been invited to participate in the conference, creating a body truly representative of the international orientation and collaborative spirit of the conference. Speakers include Boston’s Chief of Arts and Culture, Julie Burros; President and Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi; and Ann and Graham Gund Director of the MFA Boston, Matthew Teitelbaum. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Mischa Kuball are the feature artists of the conference.