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Lecture Els van der Plas ”On Beauty and Other Unfinished Things” at conference in Norway


On 14 February and 15 the conference Are there foreigners in Art, organised by the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design and Du store verden!/DSV was held in Oslo, Norway. Els van der Plas, director of the Prince Claus Fund gave a lecture ”On Beauty and Other Unfinished Things” at the conference.

The Conference Are there Foreigners in Art? is moderated by Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Download the speech ”On Beauty and Other Unfinished Things”

Other speakers at the conference were:
Dr. Augustus Casely-Hayford Former Executive Director of Arts Strategy at the Arts Council England, previously director of inIVA and Director of Africa 05, the UK’s biggest ever celebration of African culture;
David Elliott Curator, writer, broadcaster and museum director;
Salah Hassan Chair of the Department of History of Art and professor of African and African Diaspora art history and visual culture at Cornell University;
Koyo Kouoh born in Cameroon and has become an established art administrator and curator;
Shaheen Merali currently the Head of the Department of Exhibition, Film and New Media of the House of World Cultures (HKW) in Berlin;
Oscar Pripp Researcher at Uppsala University in Sweden in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology;
Octavio Zaya Art critic and independent curator.