Intelligence Squared is proud to present its next debate in Hong Kong, “The Market Is the Best Judge of Art's Quality." The event will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, on Friday, 24 May 2013 to coincide with the inaugural edition of Art Basel Hong Kong.
Consistent with its longstanding global commitment to promoting cultural vibrancy, Deutsche Bank is the lead sponsor of the 2012-2013 Intelligence Squared debate series.
Drinks reception in the foyer of the debate hall Rm N101 from 5:30pm.
Doors will open at 6.00pm and the debate will start at 6.30pm.
Tickets are HK$300 per person, and available through HK Ticketing at
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Debate ticket holders are entitled to access Art Basel during the fair opening hours on 24 May. Please present the ticket at the Info Desk opposite Hall 1E on Level 1 to redeem an admission pass.
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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES:
FOR THE MOTION:
AMY CAPPELLAZZO
Amy Cappellazzo is Chairman of Post-War & Contemporary Development at Christie’s, where she has worked for nearly 12 years.
Besides business development and sourcing consignments, Ms. Cappellazzo is in charge of expanding Christie’s reach in the Post-War & Contemporary Art category, in both traditional and growth markets. She also oversees Christie’s private sales activities across the board and most recently, has spearheaded a partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, launching Warhol @ Christie’s – an innovative foray into the online sales platform. She is a renowned expert of works by many artists, including Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Donald Judd, and Cindy Sherman.
Hailing from Buffalo, New York, Ms. Cappellazzo graduated with a fine arts degree from New York University, where she was a Presidential Trustee Scholar, and completed a Master’s in urban design and city planning from the Pratt Institute. She is also a trustee at the Pratt Institute as well as board member of Artpace in San Antonio, Texas, Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, and Performa in New York. She was formerly an art advisor and curator and a key team member in establishing Art Basel Miami Beach.
JEFFREY DEITCH
Jeffrey Deitch has served as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles since 2010.
Mr. Deitch received an Art Critic’s Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1979 and has contributed catalogue essays for projects at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Whitney Museum in New York.
Mr. Deitch has also curated international exhibitions of contemporary art for the Deste Foundation in Athens, the Touko Museum in Tokyo, and other art spaces. His most influential exhibition was Post Human, which opened at the FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain in Lusanne in June 1992. He also oversaw one of the sections of Aperto at the Venice Biennale (1993) and Form Follows Fiction at the Castello di Rivoli, Torino (2001). Mr. Deitch opened an art gallery, Deitch Projects, in 1996, which has produced more than 250 projects by contemporary artists.
A graduate of Wesleyan University and Harvard Business School, Mr. Deitch was formerly Assistant Director of the John Weber Gallery in New York, Curator of the De Cordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and Vice President of Citibank.
AGAINST THE MOTION:
MATTHEW COLLINGS
Matthew Collings is an artist and writer. He is well known internationally for his books and TV programmes about art.
Mr. Collings has a joint painting practice with Emma Biggs, represented by Vigo Gallery, London. Their exhibition Suspicious Utopias is currently shown at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts in the United States. In October, Maia Norman's fashion label, Mother of Pearl, will bring out a range of clothing based on their paintings, and in December their joint exhibition, Decorating the Chora, will open at Vigo.
His television series "This Is Modern Art” won several awards, including a BAFTA. His book Blimey! From Bohemia to Britpop: The London Artworld from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst was described by Artforum as "the most popular contemporary art book ever" and the Guardian as "hilarious and horrible." In the 1980s he was the resident art critic on BBC2's “The Late Show,” where he introduced a large TV audience in Britain to Jeff Koons, Martin Kippenberger and Damien Hirst. Born in London, Mr. Collings studied painting at the Byam Shaw School of Art and completed a Master’s in fine art at Goldsmiths
RIRKRIT TIRAVANIJA
Rirkrit Tiravanija is an artist who aligns his production with an ethic of social engagement, often inviting viewers to inhabit and activate his work.
Mr. Tiravanija’s early installations, such as pad thai (1990) at the Paula Allen Gallery in New York, rejected traditional art objects altogether and instead took the form of cooking and giving away free food for exhibition visitors. Visitors were encouraged to serve themselves and eat together. Participation and social interaction is key to his work to dissolve the differences between art and life, public and private. For his second solo exhibition in New York, he filled the white rooms with stacks of cultural cast-offs, rendering the space into what seemed like a storage facility, demoting the primacy of the revered art object.
Mr. Tiravanija’s work has been exhibited all over the world including the Drawing Center, New York (2008), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2005); Serpentine Gallery, London (2005); Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2003); Secession, Vienna (2002); Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (2000); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997). He has also participated in the Whitney Biennial (2006) and the 50th Venice Biennale (2003).
Born in Buenos Aires, Mr. Tiravanija was raised in Thailand, Ethiopia and Canada. He studied at the Ontario College of Art and Banff Center School of Fine Arts and then the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Whitney Independent Studies Program in New York.
MODERATOR:
CHARLES GUARINO
Charles Guarino has worked at Artforum Magazine since 1984, and has been acting as publisher for the last 20 years. Prior to that, he was the founding member of Philadelphia’s Bricolage Theater, a group making performance art whose work was performed throughout the United States and Europe with the support of The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts, and fellowships from The Pew Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts.
