An annual series of Artists’ Talks held at the Architectural Association, organised in collaboration with the London Consortium. Artists and speakers featured in this series included Bernd Behr, Ryan Gander, Jan Mancuska and Ralph Rugoff.

All talks were open to the public and took place at the Architectural Association, 34-36 Bedford Square, WC1.

Friday 2nd February BERND BEHR hosted by Parveen Adams

Bernd Behr is currently showing at Danielle Arnaud Gallery. He will discuss the idea of performing architecture with particular reference to his film ‘House Without a Door’ – German House in Utah built by Eric Mendelsohn for the US military in 1943. Behr develops a fictional interior through connections with German expressionist cinema.

Friday 9th February RYAN GANDER hosted by Olivier Richon

In 2005 Ryan Gander won the Baloise Art Statement Prize at Art Basel and in 2006 the ABN AMRO prize of the Netherlands. He will discuss practice around unfinished and unrealizable projects – in particular an architectural and educational model for a combined Arts Centre and School of Art with a variable distribution of privacy.

Friday 23rd February JÁN MANČUŠKA hosted by Parveen Adams

A Czech artist who has shown at the 2005 Venice Biennale; together with Jonas Dahlberg in Bonner Kunstverien and Kunsthalle St. Gallen , ‘The first Minute of the Rest of the Movie’; and in the 2006 Berlin Biennale. Mancuska will discuss the organisation of space in text installations, its connection to the linear structure of film; and our orientation in space.

Friday 9th March RALPH RUGOFF hosted by Parveen Adams

Ralph Rugoff was Director of CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts since 2000 where he curated many exhibitions. He is a winner of the prestigious Ordway prize (arts writer and curator). Currently Rugoff is Director of the Hayward Gallery. He will give us a brief history of invisible art.