The Sitting Ovation – A Study in Slow Criticism
Brit Barton

The artist and writer will present a published collection of eight collaborative texts that engage with art criticism in varying experimental genres. Coinciding with the publication release, The Sitting Ovation Sessions will take place with a sequence of collaborative events.

The Sitting Ovation is a collection of eight texts that engage with contemporary art criticism through structural and experimental examinations. The year-long project was conceived to evaluate the relationship of certainty and doubt, both for the art critic and the artist as the self-critic.

Subjective interpretations of art writing or making were created through epistolary, speculative, and argumentative meditations that form brief treatises and ongoing reconciliations. The print publication—a limited edition work of three hundred copies—is the result of collaborative efforts of the artists and writers: Brit Barton, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Katharina Hausladen, Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov, Mira Mann, and Angharad Williams, with design concept by Razi Hedström.

Coinciding with the publication’s release at the Swiss Art Awards, The Sitting Ovation Sessions will feature a series of discussions, readings, and re-stagings on June 17, 18, and 19th at 2 p.m. One complimentary copy of the edition is available for each member of the program audience. An additional ten copies of the edition are available without reservation every morning at 10 a.m.

Further instructions and information will be available during public hours at the front desk.

Brit Barton, in collaboration with Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Katharina Hausladen, Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov, Mira Mann, and Angharad Williams. Design by Razi Hedström.

Tuesday, June 17
Sitting Ovation Sessions 14:00
Angharad Williams and Brit Barton
“In Conversation”
◔ 60 min / in English

Wednesday, June 18
Sitting Ovation Sessions 14:00
Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov,
Katharina Hausladen, and Brit Barton
“Criticism As Fact And Fiction”
◔ 60 min / in English

Thursday, June 19
Sitting Ovation Sessions 14:00
Dorota Gawęda / Eglė Kulbokaitė
and Mira Mann
“Language As Material:
Reading and Performance”
◔ 60 min / in English