Vera Frenkel: Body MissingFrom Theft to Virtuality: Considerations of the Meaning of Absence

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Marc Augé Ecole Normale desHautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.Author of Non-Places Introduction to anAnthropology of Supermodernity 1992.Professor Sigrid Schade University ofBremen and Hochschule für Gestaltungud Kunst Zürich. Author of Kunst alsBeute (Art as Loot) 2000.

Speakers:

Dot Tuer, Ontario College of Art and Design,Elizabeth Legge, University of Toronto,Ryczard Kluczszinksi, University of Poznan, Poland,Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds,

Vera Frenkel

Marc AugéSigrid Schade

Ryczard KluczszinksiElizabeth LeggeGriselda PollockDot Tuer

Irit Rogoff

A two day conference organised by the AHRB Centre for Cultural Analysis,Theory and History,University of Leeds and the ICA with support from the Canadian High Commision and theBritish Academy to mark the exhibition in the Freud Museum of Body Missing by Vera Frenkel,Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Leeds, 2003-4.

21 - 22 March 2003,Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1

AHRB CentreCATH, Old Mining Building, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UKTel:+44 (0)113 343-1629 CentreCATH@leeds.ac.uk http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/

CanadianHigh Commission

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BritishAcademy

Vera Frenkel, Body Missing: six channel video-photo-web installation (detail station five) Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna, 2001 - 2.